250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs: For Hand, Machine & Long-Arm Quilters [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Laura Lee Fritz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2009

An Indispensable Resource for Every Quilter. Add beauty, texture, and special meaning to your projects with Laura Lee Fritz's wonderful collection of continuous-line quilting designs. Every quiltmaker needs this book in their library. Skillfully drafted and endlessly varied, the wealth of stitching patterns in 250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs ought to satisfy many quilters looking for interesting motifs to enliven a project. Author Laura Lee Fritz lays the groundwork for planning out the pattern on the quilt top and transferring designs, then devotes virtually the entire book to the designs themselves. Her extensive repertoire of motifs is divided into seven categories that include animals, domestic objects, botanicals, and abstracts. From a simple geometric to a detailed creature to an intricate scene, these designs should please quilters of various skill levels. 250 designs include home and garden, sewing notions, nature, sports themes, birds, animals, and fish. Appropriate for both hand and machine quilting. Note: The printing quality in this copy may vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated due to printing on demand by a high-quality printer on uncoated paper. The information presented in this version is the same as the most recent printed edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Skillfully drafted and endlessly varied, the wealth of stitching patterns in 250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs ought to satisfy many quilters looking for interesting motifs to enliven a project. Author Laura Lee Fritz lays brief but good groundwork for planning out the pattern on the quilt top and transferring designs, then devotes virtually the entire book to the designs themselves. Her extensive repertoire of motifs is divided into seven categories that include animals, domestic objects, botanicals, and abstracts. From a simple geometric to a detailed creature to an intricate scene, these designs should please quilters of various skill levels. --Amy Handy

From Library Journal

Continuous line images, when quilted as dark lines on a light fabric or in white thread on a dark fabric, can create a striking effect especially on quilted garments. Here, Lee give the quilter some 250 free-hand quilting designs, along with a gallery of finished pieces illustrating how the designs might be used effectively. The designs are grouped into broad subject areas like birds, flowers, animals, and textures and feature clean lines that are simple for the nonartist to follow. One can see these designs being used by other needleworkers, especially in embroidery pieces. Incidentally, the "long-arm quilter" referred to in the subtitle is a special quilting machine. Recommended for public libraries.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing; illustrated edition edition (August 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571201718
• ISBN-13: 978-1571201713
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I love to play with fabric, been my curse since I was a bitty thing. The world just amazes me with its graphic wonders, and it is only right to put such wonder into lines and into our crafts. Not only do I use these images from my books in quilting, but in applique, painting, weaving, and others even use them for woodworking. What else would YOU do with them?
So about me, I live by the bay in Marin County California with cashmere goats, bluetick hounddogs, sheep and redwood trees. I teach quilting several days a week at Napa Valley College (free to you if you can get there) and am an active member of the Rotary Club. I give to the community, auctioneer, quilt for a living daily, spin yarn, teach, and give to the community some more.
Not too shabby for a kid who was raised in Berkeley and left home at 15. See, there's hope for all of us.

Customer Reviews

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78 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended by the Accidental Quilter, December 14, 2001

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Mary Z. Cox (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs: For Hand, Machine & Long-Arm Quilters (Paperback)

Thank you Laura Lee Fritz!
My husband ordered me a Handiquilter for Christmas, which depends
on the stitcher having some motor control in tracing continuous quilting patterns. I have very little practice in drawing, so when I saw this book of continuous line drawings, I bought it immediately. I would have bought this book for all the drawings of Pelicans if for no other reason.
Laura gives great instruction on how to set up an overall pattern, by choosing a focus design, then filling the background
with complimentary patterns. She also offers tips on the density of background stitching so that it does not become jumbled.
The book is presented clearly, and the continous line patterns are numerous. These are nice, solid, nature insprired patterns that I forsee using more than once. (I hate it when the designs are so cutesy that you never use them.)
I am already using this book to train my hands and eyes. I've tried sketching some of the leaf patterns onto a quilt border, and I trace around the continous designs with my finger to get the feel of them.
If you are already an accomplished machine quilter and have substantial art background, you won't need this book. But it is perfect for me in helping me in my quest for nicely designed machine quilting.
:)

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific inspiration for machine quilters, July 25, 2002

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R. Forrest "science teacher" (Randolph, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs: For Hand, Machine & Long-Arm Quilters (Paperback)

This book is completely unique in the world of quilting designs. All are intended for use with a sewing machine, although it need not be a longarm quilting machine. I did fine with several of them on a regular Bernina. I am sick to death of precise, cutesy feathers and hearts. This book was like a fresh breeze coming through, letting me see machine quilting in a whole new way. Not only have I used the designs, I have been able to invent some of my own using inspiration from this book. Most of all, it loosened me up. Straight, perfect lines are NOT always best. These naturalistic, freeform designs were just what I needed. AND the book is so [inexpensive], how can you go wrong?

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very satisfied, March 17, 2004

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This review is from: 250 Continuous-Line Quilting Designs: For Hand, Machine & Long-Arm Quilters (Paperback)

Yes, the book does provide you with 250 continuous line designs; however, I couldn't find more than a few that I would even consider using. The patterns are very child-like and may be appropriate if one was quilting for a baby or child. The book is nicely segmented by area (bird, animals etc.) Very few instructions, only the basics. For me, it wasn't worth the price and had I had the chance to see it before purchasing, it would not be in my library. A good choice if you want a way to quilt outlines of animals, plants, and birds.