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Show Me How to Machine Quilt: A Fun, No-Mark Approach

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Myth breaker #1
I've been quilting for 26+ years since I was a kid. Back in the 1970's the Quilt SNOBS filled the world with the ridiculous idea that ONLY hand quilting made an authentic quilt. Thanks to the Gene Autry Museum who put on a WONDERFUL show in the mid 90's dedicated to the years of machine quilting ever since the original HAND CRANK machines. American women aren't dumb, they wanted to finish as many quilts as possible with their precious time so they of course chose to USE machines.

Myth breaker #2.. So you spend $45 for a 6 hour class to learn how to machine quilt only to find that the crux is put a brick on the peddle and just keep moving. Yes it is THAT easy.

This book takes you FINALLY past all the myths and has you looking at the patterns and FREE MOTION drawing using the needle. I NEVER stipple my quilts any longer to fill in areas, I picked up a willow leaf pattern from this book that alone was worth the purchase of this book.

The hardest thing about machine quilting is remembering to RELAX, this is a hobby you love so REMEMBER to enjoy yourself with this step of quilting as well!!!!

This book is not one that I would recommend to the beginner. I have been machine quilting for only about a month and this book is the fourth that I have come across. Quite frankly, if it had been the first I would never had started machine quilting in the first place. The quilts that are included are very well done and probrably good projects for a slightly seasoned quilter. Not me. I would recommend "Easy Machine Quilting" by Jane Townswick or "Machine Quilting Made Easy" by Maurine Noble. Both of these books offer a series of baby steps(projects). After completing these I am sure that I will be ready for Show me how...

This is a great book. It contains many continuous line shapes you can follow and has great photo examples. I highly recommend it and will refer to it often. As a total beginner never having quilted anything by machine I recommend you also purchase Diane Gaudynski's Guide to Machine Quilting. Diane's book gave me more confidence to attempt machine quilting and shows more beginner style techniques. Now I can move on to the excellent continuous line sewing taught in Show me how to Machine Quilt.

Thank you Kathy Sandbach! I LOVE your book!!

I couldn't wait to read it all and just picked out patterns and had a go! Liberating, easy to follow and fun! With practise, I can do them all, not to this lady's standard yet, but I'm getting there and improvising with a little 'kiwi' ingenuity along the way...Until I picked up this book, I wasn't a quiltmaker at all, -just a quilt top maker...my how things have changed!

For those of us who aren't artists or doodelers, this gives us great ideas of what to put on all those tops we have made. If you can't picture a design to be put on top of your beautiful square......this helps. It is a great guide to get on with the next step and actually "quilt".

This booklet isn't bad, but it is mostly example projects to go through. After being only magazine size and 64 pages, that leaves little room for tips, instruction of advice. Being generous, its the first 18 pages where there is any info that's useful.

I would recommend looking elsewhere, such as Machine Quilting Made Easy or Easy Machine Quilting.

This is a disappointing book. The one feature that redeems it is the section at the end with lots of ideas for different ways of quilting continuous lines to produce for example rows of stars. The suggestions here would be quick and unfussy to do, not involving any (or maybe a little) marking and measuring. The main part of the book (it's quite short) shows actual quilts with some of their designs. It certainly does not show you how to machine quilt if you have not done much before.

This book inspired me to finally sink those feed dogs and do some free-hand quilting. The results are not perfect, but that's the great thing -- they aren't supposed to be.

Favorite quote: "...if you quilt twelve stars and eleven are perfect and one is crooked, the crooked one looks wrong. But if all twelve stars are slightly crooked then they all look good and the slight imperfections are part of the design."

I thought that the ideas for making stems,leaves, and flowers were eye-opening. After 15 minutes of practice I was making great holly sprigs and garlands. I can hardly wait to try out the seahorse motif.

This is a thin book (64 pages) and it left me looking for more ideas. But now I have the confidence to try those ideas. Thank you, Kathy.

This book took my machine quilting to another level. Her ideas on how to formulate the quilting designs were wonderful. I have taken several classes on machine quilting and was never told about the "U" shape your hands should be in so that you can control your work. I have just completed a quilt using her method and can honestly say it went smoother than any of my other attempts.

I was looking for information to make tedious machine-quilting easier. I kept losing the markings, or it took forever to mark bigger quilts. With just a little practice, I was able to use the techniques in this book to machine quilt a lap size quilt with pleasure! I love this book and will use it for many upcoming projects.