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Easy Machine Quilting

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This book is full of ideas for machine quilting and is divided up into 2 sections. It is a collection of quilting lessons written by some of the foremost machine quilters in America. The first section tells you about the basics of machine quilting, and then has various excersizes to help you practise each technique. .The second half of the book contains quilts from the authors with details on types of quilting, and where to find the information in the book to refresh your memory on the technique. A wonderful book with lots of hints to help you with your quilting

I am still working my way through this book, which is broken into segments by method with various authors according to her specialty. I have gained a lot of confidence, still working on the lessons, but the illustrations and instructions are very clear and the applications via quilts in the back, are inspirational to keep at it. The one drawback: each method is taught as using a 14" square for your practice piece. I'm getting a lot of unrelated practice pieces; hate to waste them. A future edition might take into account making a constructive use for these squares as some sort of sampler quilt.

This book will give you allot of ideas and more importantly a method to build those skills. It has the edge over Hargrave's book in that it is a solid tutorial; her's really is an advanced book. That said it is colourful and bright but the pages are rather busy with all these little 'notes'. Each section is done by the 'expert' of that type of quilting and in some cases can stand alone as there is a small box at the bottom giving getting started hints "Let's get started" :-)
It follows in the beginning the same format, chapter for chapter, of the Hargrave book, the difference being this is more aimed for quilters brushing up on their work (re-learning) or beginners.
A solid way to learn how to machine quilt and what's needed, batting choices included.

If you are not able to learn machine quilting by taking a class or learning by watching someone else, this book is the next best thing. There are a LOT of clear pictures and easy descriptions of the techniques. I keep it right beside my machine.

I'm a person who likes to learn things pretty much 'on my own'.
To that end, the book is/was VERY helpful, and I will keep it as a reference.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised with the projects (I hadn't realized that there were projects). They are explained understandably and in detail.
I highly recommend it.

I bought this book at the same time as I purchased Guide to Machine Quilting. It is well done but less informative as the Guide to Machine Quilting which I refer to quite frequently.

I loved this book. It was recommended by a friend of mine who has been quilting for years. The book goes step by step into making different kinds of quilts and even gives little projects to help you learn to quilt. This is a perfect beginner book.

My mother borrowed this book and still has it. She refers to it regularly. I finally had to buy another copy for myself.
The directions are very easy to follow and the pictures are clear.
Each chapter is a different technique taught by an expert.
Just reading through it gets you excited about trying some of the projects.

I used this book for my first lessons in quilting. It gave great tips and was very easy to follow.

I bought this book when I first became serious about making quilts - the book was beautiful to look at but I thought that the projects and techniques for free motion quilting were too far ahead of me, so I set it aside.

Out of sight is out of mind and recently I "found" it, again - like buried treasure in my book closet. I opened it again with fresh eyes and found it quite inspirational. Lessons and hints and projects from so many quilting experts - wonderful methods and motifs and ideas.

I think now that if I had started doing the exercises back when I bought the book and treated it like a class, I might be a lot more adept by now at quilting my quilts. Instead, I pretty much learned everything the hard way. (Not that there's anything wrong with that - but how much simpler to benefit from someone else's experience and skill when you first start building your own.) The exercises follow a natural progression and if I had just done them, even the most difficult looking designs would have been possible for me to follow by the time I got to them.

One side note - there are hundreds of quilt books and magazines - some in virtually every room of this house, but this book contains the only quilt that my husband has ever seen and said, "I want you to make that one!" (Autumn Trellis) And while I'd say that it isn't a beginner's project, it isn't out of the realm of possibility any more, either.

I learned a lot while reading the book a second time and have already been able to put some of it into practice. I will keep this one around for a long time.