Machine Quilting Solutions: Techniques for Fast & Simple to Award-Winning Designs [Paperback]

Christine Maraccini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Quilting your projects is just as much fun as piecing them when you know how to decode your quilts!

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About the Author

Christine Maraccini has machine quilted over 1,500 quilts utilizing her own designs and freehand artistry. She has won numerous awards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571203923
• ISBN-13: 978-1571203922
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast & Simple and Insightful!, July 16, 2007

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Jean Robinson (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Machine Quilting Solutions: Techniques for Fast & Simple to Award-Winning Designs (Paperback)

I really appreciated the insight into machine quilting provided by Christine
Maraccini. She explains how to look at a quilt to determine what quilting
"spaces" are present and then shows three different ways to quilt each quilt.
Her categories of "Dragger", "Heirloom", and "Showstopper" all have detailed
instructions on how to do the quilting designs she selected. This is one of
the two books I recommend for folks starting out with machine quilting. It
is equally suited for longarm and sit-and-quilt folks. Well worth the
money!

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars happy surprise, January 27, 2008

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hillcountrygirl "hillcountrygirl" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machine Quilting Solutions: Techniques for Fast & Simple to Award-Winning Designs (Paperback)

This book is a supreme example of the old adage "don't judge a book by it's cover." I found the cover quilt extremely boring to the point I couldn't imagine why in the world the book had so many good reviews. When I got the book I didn't even like the quilting design on the cover. I didn't like and wouldn't make any of the quilts in the book, either. They were way too basic for me. However, forget all that! The bland quilts in the book were just a quick way for the author to show her quilting designs, and I get it! The free-flowing designs are wonderful, and doable by all! There is no marking involved, no stencils, nothing to stop you! I suspect long-armers have known how to do designs like this for many years, but they just haven't been available to domestic machine quilters. I am grateful that I bought this book, and I think both beginning, intermediate, and advanced domestic machine quilters will love it.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definate answer for "How do I quilt it?", July 27, 2007

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Ada "quiltsintexas" (TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Machine Quilting Solutions: Techniques for Fast & Simple to Award-Winning Designs (Paperback)

This book will definately give you the free motion skills and ideas for quilting your quilt. The 3 degrees of quilting the same quilt in the book were an eye opener for me. It seemed simple enough when I read it...one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments, but it goes beyond the ideas and teaches the very basic artistic technique you need to truly do free motion quilting. The book is well laid out clear, concise and enjoyable to read and best of all - it urges your imagination to soar!