Customer Reviews

60 Machine Quilting Patterns (Dover Quilting)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
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A useful book. I'm glad I bought it. BUT... inspite of the great format; the patterns were less imaginative than I'd hoped. Particularly disappointing to me was the preponderance of feathers--most of them involve a lot of double stitched seams. I'd hoped for more diversity of single line designs. Many of the designs also involved several stops and starts; exactly what machine quilters are hoping to avoid.

Well worth buying. Patterns are placed on one side of the page to allow for easy tracing/copying to template plastic. It has the majority of the most common designs along with some originals. A great book for beginners and those who make their own templates!

These patterns are very precise and will copy easily to adjust for different size quilting areas. This book should be in every machine quilters library. The price is very economical for the number of patterns shown. The variety is very good. Hopefully others will offer more books like this at reasonable prices that the general public can afford.

I am so pleased with this book. It is more than I had anticipated. It includes medallion patterns as well as borders and all over patterns such as clam shell. Instructions show where to start and how to continue. I believe it is a must for machine quilters.

The patterns are printed on one side of the page with the other side blank, for easier tracing or copying.

Yes the quilting designs are tradtional but they are not pretty
and they are very hard to do. (Harder than this beginner could manage at least :-( Instead I would recommend their other book, Amish Machine Quilting Patterns, which is just superb but is not a complete replacement for this one.

The best thing in both books is the intro of how to package, hold and transfer the designs. Great ideas here. What is particularly special about this one though is that it is very good in giving you projects on building your skills. These sections could be invaluable (they helped me with my regular sewing) and should not be skipped. (The Amish book does not have the same skill builder section. )

So this book is a mixed bag and had the designs been prettier I would have scored it higher particularly because of the skills section, but I consider the beauty aspect rather important. This is rather subjective so look at this book and see what you need more. For the price it's a great tutorial.

This book has a lovely collection of qulting designs including floral, geometric, feather and naive quilting patterns. There is a detailed picture of the direction to sew each design and useful information for beginning to machine quilt.

Exactly what I have been looking for ....continuous line designs for machine quilting. The designs are varied, and the instructions are very clearly presented for the most novice of machine quilters.

I've been making quilts--or rather quilt tops--for years. This affordable book gave me the info I needed to plunge into machine quilting. I just did my first design tonight and am very pleased with the results. There are probably books with more patterns and nicer patterns out there, but if you are just beginning, this book will tell you what you need to know and give you some patterns to start with at an unbeatable price. You can then experiment with this little volume and invest in more expensive books when you have "gotten the hang of it" and know which types of patterns you want more of. My appetite has been whetted.

i can agree with some of the other reviewers that these are not necessarily the most stunning machine quilting patterns available (for stunning, try joyce mori's books, the newest of which includes continuous line designs).

however, there is a nice balance of traditional, contemporary, and cutesy patterns, and the bonus of directional arrows for some of the patterns so that the quilter doesn't have to waste time tracing the correct pathway. these patterns may not be useful for an heirloom quilt, but they will be a great convenience for baby and childrens' quilts which are expected to disintegrate eventually. some are shown in one or two combinations and directions to demonstrate how they could be changed.

any beginner who works her way through these designs will definitely be ready for any machine quilting she wants. more experienced quilters will be able to find useful patterns and ideas.

Don't pass up this little gem of a book. For just a couple of dollars you too can learn to machine quilt...and not just straight lines! This book will be part of my quilting library for years to come.