Follow-The-Line Quilting Designs: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders [Box set] [Paperback]

Mary Covey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2004

Finally, you have exactly what you need to "quilt as desired"! This resource is packed with a variety of beautiful continuous-line designs that simplify quilting by machine. It contains 16 pages plus 20 shrinkwrapped design sheets, 8 1/2" X 33", and 40 shrinkwrapped design sheets, 8 1/2" X 11", Staple-bound (book), box w/magnetic closure (design sheets). Full-size designs, in 20 coordinating sets, make it a cinch to start using these quilting patterns right away. Patterns are perfect for use with home sewing machines or long-arm machines - or even for quilting by hand. Pattern groups make it easy to match designs for blocks, setting triangles, and borders. Border pattern sheets fold out to 11" X 25" and include designs from 4" to 7" wide, including motifs for turning border corners.

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About the Author

Three-time author Mary Covey's award-winning quilt designs have been featured in Miniature Quilts and Quilting Today magazines. She is the owner of The Good Life, a quilt-pattern company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company (December 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564775852
• ISBN-13: 978-1564775856
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well designed!, December 27, 2005

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Debra Muldoon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Follow-The-Line Quilting Designs: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders (Paperback)

I have had a short-arm home quilting system with a laser and pantograph shelf for only about 6 months now, so am a beginner at machine quilting. I find Mary's designs very easy to follow, and very well planned. Start and center lines are indicated on the papers, as well as lines for aligning the pattern to the border. She also includes numbers for learning the flow of the pattern. Best of all, her design sheets show you how to get around the corner of your quilted border! The designs range from all purpose scrolls and feathers to leaves and garden flowers, as well as more whimsical designs such as dogs and stars/moons. She includes sub-designs for corner squares and quilt blocks as well. I have several machine quilting books but but find myself relying almost exclusively on these designs! I am hoping the author creates another pattern packet soon!

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, April 1, 2006

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Diana Young "Diana" (Warrnambool, Vic, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Follow-The-Line Quilting Designs: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders (Paperback)

This book of quilting designs is actually a 'pocket' which contains the designs on separate sheets which open out into large sheets. As they're not bound in, patterns are very easy to photocopy for use to stitch through etc. This is the best book of quilting designs I have seen and I highly recommend it.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Treasure of Designs, October 5, 2006

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N. Hubbard "cross 2 cross" (Walla Walla, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Follow-The-Line Quilting Designs: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders (Paperback)

In so many quilting directions the instructions say "quilt as desired." Okay....but what if you don't know how to quilt as desired? What if you don't know what you desire to quilt? Sometimes they state how the model has been quilted, but what if you don't feel confident enough to do that? Well....Mary M. Covey has given quilters patterns to "Quilt as Desired." Quilting designs, borders, and corners....oh my! Go ahead, quilters of all ranges...quilt as desired using "Follow-the-line" and know that your quilts will be desired.