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Infinite Feathers Quilting Designs

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Infinite Feathers: Quilting Designs by award winning quilting expert Anita Shackelford offers over 100 feather designs in various popular quilting sizes. Color photographs help demonstrate how to apply the simple yet beautiful patterns. Step-by-step instructions guide the aspiring quilter in exactly what to do, and the black-and-white patterns shapes that take up full pages are easy to copy and put to practical use. An excellent resource for enthusiastic quilters who want to add that special extra touch, Infinite Feathers is very user friendly for even the most novice quilter, and offers a wealth of imaginative design ideas that the more experienced quilter will find as invaluable as they are stimulating.

There are so many feathered patterns in this book and directions on how to take the basic designs and make your own feathered patterns. Really good instructions too.

Great book, prices here outrageous. BOOK NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT. GO TO AUTHORS SITE OR AQS SITE. IT ALSO HAS A TEMPLATE ETC. CD ETC

I got what I was looking for it was very detailed and helpful for the price and easy to understand.

Even though this book is aimed more at the hand quilter, it is very useful for getting inspired for machine quilting.

If you want to learn how to do feathers, Anita Shackelford's Infinite Feathers Quilting Designs will show you how in a concise no-nonsense manner. She covers all the variations, including rosettes, wreathes, lyres, paisleys and more. There is even a section of more complex motifs such as rose buds, pine trees, and butterflies. Shackelford explains the various ways of drafting, marking, and transferring the quilting designs, plus she offers tips for fitting patterns to accommodate different parts of the quilt top.

You might want to know that more than half of this book is devoted strictly to the actual black and white patterns. There is also an 11 page gallery, and while the quilts are beautiful, the photography in several makes it very difficult to perceive the feathered quilting. Still, a very nice book for instruction and inspiration.

I am a new machine quilter and love the look of feathers. The clear instructions and tips have been very helpful. Since I am just starting to learn how to machine quilt I would have liked to have had a little help in what direction to quilt the designs provided. Small arrows on the patterns would be great. I am very pleased with my progress so far following the steps Shackelford outlines and know I will keep this reference book close at hand for a long time to come.

Study & you will quickly see that Feathers are THE MOST common quilting motif, next to the grid-line quilting. If you don't agree, then know that they are certainly up in the top 5! Feathers are so versatile and beautiful, formed in the image of bird plumage or if you will, in the shape of a teardrop - both of which are found throughout the entire history of quilting.
Feathers are used for filling space, in your blocks, setting triangles or sashings. You can quilt them in borders-long straight strips, make them undulate & twist, round or oval, place a half, quarter or heart shaped feather motif in your block, in a corner or just draw one on the label you sew onto the back of your quilt for a beautiful continuation of the effect.
No matter where or how you twist, turn, stretch or shrink your feather motifs, once you have perfected this teardrop shape, the possibilites are endless. Try it-you won't be disappointed!

While I hope to own this book someday(when the price comes down a bit)I want those who can just buy it without money concerns to know this. *From a quilter who studies quilting history non-stop, is the local guild librarian & webmaster.Owns a personal quilt related library of over 2,000 magazines & books. I like to pass on tips that will stay with you, not just be good for one or two times. Feathers are here to stay. They have endured the test of time, design and have held fast. You cannot go wrong with this-or any other well written instruction book on how to draw/design feather quilting motifs.