Easy Machine Quilting: 12 Step-By-Step Lessons from the Pros Plus a Dozen Projects to Machine Quilt (Rodale Quilt Book) [Hardcover]

Jane Townswick (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1996 | Series: Rodale Quilt Book

Turn mountains of quilt tops into beautiful, finished projects-- faster than ever before! Twelve step-by-step lessons and companion projects from nine of today's top experts show you how to have fun with machine quilting.

Discover the secrets to smooth stipple quilting and fluid free-motion quilting ... and create flowing feathered cables and delicate background stitches.

Create perfectly smooth machine-guided curves and razor-sharp points ... and do exquisite machine quilting on beautiful wearables, bed quilts, and wall quilts-- the very first time you try!

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"How wonderful to have these experts 'at your side' while perfecting the craft of machine quilting. There is a tip here for everyone."--Lynette Jensen, Author, Quilt and Fabric Designer, and founder of Thimbleberries, Inc.

"You'll find answers for everything you want to know about machine quilting. It's like having private quilting lessons in your own home!"--Liz Porter, Author and Co-Host of Sew Many Quilts

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Easy Machine Quilting

Turn mountains of quilt tops into beautiful, finished projects-- faster than ever before! Twelve step-by-step lessons and companion projects from nine of today's top experts show you how to have fun with machine quilting.

Discover the secrets to smooth stipple quilting and fluid free-motion quilting ... and create flowing feathered cables and delicate background stitches.

Create perfectly smooth machine-guided curves and razor-sharp points ... and do exquisite machine quilting on beautiful wearables, bed quilts, and wall quilts-- the very first time you try!

"How wonderful to have these experts 'at your side' while perfecting the craft of machine quilting. There is a tip here for everyone."--Lynette Jensen, Author, Quilt and Fabric Designer, and founder of Thimbleberries, Inc.

"You'll find answers for everything you want to know about machine quilting. It's like having private quilting lessons in your own home!"--Liz Porter, Author and Co-Host of Sew Many Quilts

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Rivercross Pub (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875967086
• ISBN-13: 978-0875967080
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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121 of 124 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Machine Quilting, August 5, 2000

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Jill Scrimshaw (Waikanae New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Machine Quilting (Paperback)

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

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful and encouraging., March 8, 2003

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Diane Yaghoobian (Stowe, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Machine Quilting (Paperback)

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.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid teaching book, July 22, 2003

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Georgina "tville" (san francisco, ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Machine Quilting (Paperback)

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.