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Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs, Vol. 2: Full-Size Patterns for Blocks and Borders

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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!

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.

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.

As a quilting newbie, I bought Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs Volume Two hoping it might help me get started with machine quilting. While this packet of full-size quilt designs does come with a booklet offering an introductory guide to quilting, I needed something more basic still. Fortunately, the author recommends an in-depth guide for beginners like me (Maurine Noble's Machine Quilting Made Easy!). Once I've absorbed the information there, I look forward to experimenting with Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs. And if there's a volume three, I'd suggest the publishers include small-scale versions of the designs in the booklet so users can preview them without having to shuffle through the loose-leaf pattern sheets.

What a great concept for do it yourself quilt finishers. These patterns are the perfect way to top off your quilting projects whether you are a machine, hand, or long arm machine quilter. The patterns can be custom sized by enlarging or reducing them to fit your own quilt's size blocks and borders. This product offers a variety of patterns and it is especially helpful that the patterns show numbered lines and arrows to get you sewing in the proper continuous line.

The designs in this collection are so easy to follow.
Direction for sewing are clearly shown and the designs are truely wonderful. Many of my quilts have had extra quilting added since the purchase of this book.

After seeing all of the wonderful patterns included, I couldn't WAIT to run to my sewing machine and get started! These patterns gave me ideas for existing quilts that I wanted to finish, and also ideas for new quilts to make!

Tons of fun!

Follow-the-line-quilting Designs Volume Two: Full-size Patterns for Blocks And Borders is a quick way to get started on your quilting. The full-sized pattern allows you to "try it out" by laying it on your quilt for fit, but it also can be "resized" (by eye or copier) to fit your space. I found her diagrams with numbers to be extremely helpful. Once I finger-traced a few times, I was all set. Clipping the template where I could see it allowed me to visually track. (I do free motion quilting and use her patterns as a starting point.) I especially liked her block and corner motifs which accompany each border. Finally, by meandering her border designs, you can create an "all-over" design. This is a great resource. My only "complaint" is that I wish the box were a bit larger, as once the templates are unfolded, they do not fit back into the box.

Mary M. Covey's FOLLOW-THE-LINE QUILTING DESIGNS V. 3: FULL-SIZE PATTERNS FOR BLOCKS AND BORDERS is not so much a book as a box of patterns for tracing, transferring and stitching, presented in full size for easy use. Twenty new pattern groups including designs for blocks, borders and setting triangles and can be used on a regular home sewing machine or by hand alike - as well as on a long-arm quilting machine for professionals. An outstanding, flexible guide.

Between the instructional booklet and all the patterns for quilting a quilt, you will have all the information you need to complete your quilt in FOLLOW-THE-LINE QUILTING DESIGNS. The booklet that comes with the patterns explains how the quilt designs are laid out and defines the markings found on each pattern.

As any quilter knows, sizing patterns are not the easiest thing to do but Ms. Covey has provided areas where you can lengthen or shorten a pattern with ease. If that is not the option you want to take, you can use her suggested Quilter's Assistant Proportional Scale and then make photocopies to the size you want.

Marking - which way to go. There are pens, pencils, tape, chalk or even a no-mark method. Read over the options and choose the one that works for the quilt you are doing. Don't forget the 3 B's of finishing ---- backing, batting and basting. The pages devoted to these will make this an easy job. And finally, will you quilt by hand, machine or long-arm? The suggestions given here will make this part of finishing the quilt easier too.

The patterns come in a plasticized package. There are 19 designs from a farm to baby to geometric designs to name a few. You should be able to find one to fit the theme of your quilt. They come in corners, blocks and borders so every place you need a pattern, you will have one that is made for that area and since the designs are all in continuous-line motifs, you will not have to stop until you are finished! Happy Quilting.