Basic instructions in a concise format to learn the art of traditional hand quilting.

Six projects for hand quilters

Charlotte Warr Andersen

Create Beautiful Machine Quilting with Almost No Marking

• Sew these 24 graceful machine-quilting designs with ease on your home sewing machine, with almost no marking!
• An elegant alternative to stippling or meandering for all-over quilting, or give your quilt the look of Sashiko without the slow hand sewing
• Many designs can build into more intricate patterns by simply adding more lines
• Scalable patterns are easy to enlarge or reduce to fit even odd-shaped spaces
• Every design includes easy-to-follow instructions and stitched sample; some include full-page pattern

Whether you want to quilt a simple overall pattern or a show-stopping design for a competition, you'll love the elegance of these continuous-line designs. Stitching them is so easy: just sew one line of stitching at a time. Stitch some designs with feed dogs up, others with them down. Designs include cross-hatching, triangles, stars, clamshells, jigsaw puzzles, and many more.

Make Your Quilts Look Like Antiques with Authentic Period Quilting Designs

• Over 300 historically accurate quilting designs, organized into four time periods to make it easy to find the right designs for your quilt
• Essential reference guide for anyone interested in vintage and antique quilts
• Designs for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced
• Use for hand or machine quilting

You've created a beautiful quilt top in the style of your favorite era. But how do you quilt it? This huge collection of historic quilting designs has the answer. With hundreds of designs gathered from old quilts, patterns, books, magazines, and other original sources, you'll find the perfect quilting design to make your quilt look like it was created generations ago.

Susan Briscoe

400 tips, techniques and trade secrets for making quilts

Book Description

An indispensable compendium of technical know-how and troubleshooting tips.

Discover all the tips and special techniques you need to make that special quilting project – plus the trade secrets that will make it stand out from the rest. Step-by-step diagrams and instructions guide you through every step of making a quilt, whether you are new to thecraft or wish to take your patchworking and quilting skills to a higher level. All the most popular techniques are explained in detail, with a host of troubleshooting ideas that show how to put them into practice.

Book Contents

Prelims, Introduction, About This Book, Choosing Equipment, Choosing and Preparing Fabrics, Colour Confidence, Understanding Quilt Patterns (and Designing Your Own), Cutting, Patchwork Techniques, Appliqué and Embellishment Techniques, Choosing Batting and Basting the Quilt, Quilting Designs and Techniques, Binding the Quilt, Exhibition Tips, Resources, Index and Credits

About The Author
Susan Briscoe is a textile designer, author and teacher, specializing in sashiko and Japanese textile design. After graduating in visual art and design, Susan worked as an English teacher in Japan, where she also studied the tea ceremony, traditional textiles, and kimono design and tailoring. Susan has created design kits for Japanese patchwork fabrics, published textile projects in books and magazines, and demonstrates her work at quilt and textile shows.

Barbara Chainey

20 hand-drawn block & border patterns with a shared theme of hearts, ribbons and curls mixed with traditional style feathers.

Ann Hazelwood

A compendium of quilting tips and tricks worth its weight in gold!

Please note this item is Post Card size and not as large as suggested by the image in Newsletter 48.

Lynda Smith

Practical patterns for everyday quilting. Dozens of delightful designs, from whimsical to elegant, from gracefully curved to geometric

Mary Mashuta

Learn to use your walking foot; paper-cut patterns for no marking, no maths, simple stitching for stunning results.

Anita Shackelford

Learn how to successfully incorporate hand and machine quilting in the same quilt to add visual interest to your projects..

Love hand quilting? Intrigued by the lure of machine quilting? Combine the time-honoured beauty of fine hand quilting wit the modern convenience of machine stitching.

Quilting projects - from small to large and simple to complex - provide plenty of opportunity to try out this delightful melding of techinques.

Janie Donaldson

Filled with fancy, fun, fantastically up to date continuous line quilting patterns. A wealth of colour coded patterns grouped for complexity.

112 quilting patterns are suitable for all kinds of quilting - hand, machine, quilting frames and longarm machines.

Placement style chapter illustrated how secondary designs are formed. 34 stacked, offset, interlocking and reversed row examples illustrate the unlimited possibilities.

Laura Lee Fritz

Beyond Stippling! Creative continuous line quilting designs for both hand and machine quilting. 132 original designs. Use as allover designs, on borders, or combine designs to create your own new styles.

Designs are easy to reduce or enlarge to fit your quilt.

Kathy Sandbach

Design before you piece, a fun no-mark approach to building the machine quilting into your project from the very start for eye-catching results.

Pam Clarke

Machine and frame quilting. Choose any of the dozens of patterns from the featured sampler quilt and use her new "design with lines" technique, perfect for domestic sewing or longarm quilting machines.

Christine Maraccini

Techniques for fast and simple to award-winning designs. Learn how to take your cue from the quilt to discover the best designs to enhance your quilt.

Alex Anderson

Machine quilting is a snap when Alex shows you how!

• 7 exercises and 7 projects teach you everything from easy straight-line quilting to stippling to more complex motifs.
• Create lovely traditional quilts using the full-size quilting patterns.
• Alex makes it easy with expert tips and techniques on everything from workspace set up to perfecting the quilting stitch.

"I wanted to create a book that would give quilters the basic skills they needed to 'take the plunge', along with exercises and quilts to practice them on. But also - and perhaps more importantly - I wanted to offer encouragement. If I can do this, so can you!

So, if you're new to machine quilting, or if you've tried it before but were somewhat less than thrilled with the experience, this book is for you."

    - Alex Anderson

Pages: 55
Format: Softback
Publisher: C&T Publishing

Sue Patten

Three dozen traditional pieced blocks with full-sized worksheets that help identify the areas that need quilting. Choose from four filler categories: flames, feathers, spheres or swirls.

Full-size patterns for blocks and borders.

Full-size designs in 20 coordinating sets make it easy to start stitching straight away!

Trace, transfer and sew - for gorgeaous desings with no guesswork

Cheryl Barnes

160 full-size patterns in a variety of styles for today’s quilts. Over 50 illustrations show multiple repeats of elements in patterns, stitching sequences and placement diagrams. Colourful icons help to select patterns by theme such as traditional or folk art.

Harriet Hargrave Comprehensive guide to hand-quilting effects using your sewing machine. This brand new edition of the machine quilting classic belongs on every quilter's bookshelf.

Helen Squire

115 unique patterns to trace, scan or photocopy. 36 placement diagrams showing unique block, border, corner design possibilities plus 20 secondary designs. Helen also covers framing ideas, traditional patterns, continuous line, scrolls, grids plus hints and tips

Linda V Taylor. How to use ANY longarm m/c. Techniques, patterns & pantographs

Janie Donaldson

This continuation of outstanding patterns is a worthy sequel to Janie's first book, Add-a-Line. Hand quilters, domestic and longarm machine quilters will enjoy the beauty and scope of these 50 new continuous-line quilting designs.

Added in June 2005

Sue Nickels

Covers all aspects of machine quilting. Includes a trace and practise section to allow you to perfect stippling, crosshatching and more.

Added in June 2005

Linda Potter

Learn Linda’s Needle Magic technique, a fast and easy technique to make any quilt sparkle with gorgeous hand quilting, appliqué and beading. Includes four projects and instructional gallery featuring perle cotton quilting, embroidered appliqué and intricate-looking beading.

Added in June 2005

Marti Michell

Marti has continually strived for ideas and techniques that make patchwork and quilting easier and more enjoyable. In her new book, Machine Quilting in Sections, she explains her idea of “low-carb quilting”, which aims to reduce the bulk of a quilt as much as posssible and so make it easier to machine quilt (the picture left shows a quilt produced in sections by this method).

Added in June 2005

Was £11.95 now down to £6.95

Kathy Sandbach

60 ready-to-use designs, 6 projects, fun, no-mark approach. Learn how to decide what to quilt and where to quilt it - and have fun in the process!

Barbara Chainey

Classic style quilting designs for blocks and borders

Combine embroidery, quilting and richly symbolic decorative patterns to create beautiful, original designs. Flowers, leaves, fruit, birds & hearts embellished with lines, curves, scallops and circles. The quilted outlines accentuate the designs.

Alex Anderson. How to choose or create the best quilt designs for your quilt. 5 classic quilt projects and full-size ready-to-trace quilting patterns.

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Maurine Noble. Ideal for beginners looking to learn how to machine quilt. 16 exercises to complete plus charts for selecting needles, thread and wadding.

Nancy Brenan Daniel. Techniques for learning non-stress positioning of the hands for maximum efficiency and painless hand quilting,

Step-by-step full colour instructional photos using rayon and metallic decorative threads

Diane Gaudynski. Tips and techniques from a master machine quilter

Inspired by the appliqué work of the Tentmakers of Cairo, Barbara Chainey has produced a second, A2 spiral-bound, 20 page book of designs for quilting and appliqué. Full-size designs for blocks, borders and corners are included that can be enlarged or reduced as required.

Barbara Chainey. Quilting & applique patterns inspired by trad'l textiles from the street of the tentmakers inCairo

Barbara Chainey. A miscellany of trad'l style quilting patterns

Barbara Chainey.

20 floral block patterns for applique and quilting

Barbara Chainey.

21 quilting patterns inspired by the boldness and simplicity of traditional designs for 15" square blocks.

Janie Donaldson. Over 50 quilting designs from simple single line to skill-enhanced multiple colour coded patterns. For short or longarm quilting machines plus trad'l m/c & hand quilting.