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Discover how to design and stitch beautiful machine quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine. Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don’t need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta’s classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt. • Learn to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want • Add style to your machine quilting with heavy-weight threads and your machine’s built-in decorative stitches • Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs • Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs
Tired of being afraid of working with striped fabrics? Let Mary Mashuta show you how wonderful stripes can be for adding pizzazz to your quilts. Often ignored by quilters, the use of stripes will add dramatic movement and visual excitement to any quilt. This lively book explores how to find, choose, purchase, design, and accurately piece together striped fabrics for fabulous results. The author guides you through the book, step-by-step, to help you become proficient at using striped fabrics in your own quilts. Stripes demand attention and represent the "stars" in the quilt. If you find that you never buy stripes, or buy thembut don't know how to use them - then you need this book. Join those that buy all they can get their hands on and enjoy using them in your quilts.
There is no one right answer to a quilt-making colour dilemma, according to teacher/designer Mary Mashuta. Mashuta seeks to demonstrate that instead there are many right answers. These six quilt projects - based on simple, traditional-style blocks - seek to show readers how to stretch their artistic ability and build their colour confidence.
Explains how to transfer pigment from fresh flowers directly onto specially treated muslin; includes instructions for eight projects and advice on starting a variety of others.
Calling all feed sack fans, vintage fabric lovers, and reproduction fabric enthusiasts! Mary presents exciting ideas for having fun with the cotton candy colors and quilt designs of the “near past,” while also uncovering new directions for today’s quiltmakers. 7 irresistible quilt projects based on traditional designs. Tips on finding, collecting, and using feed sacks, vintage fabrics, and today’s popular reproductions. A gallery of quilts from Mary and friends, including replicas of vintage quilts and new versions inspired by the originals. Learn about quilts and fabrics of the “near past,” from the 1920s to the 1970s.
C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work
Contains over 700 how-to illustrations for backing quilts, embellishment, paper piecing, machine quilting, and using templates and stencils
From simple to simply adorable, this collection of 16 all-time favorite quilt designs from the Possibilities team of Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith will melt anyone's heart! Here are both pieced and appliqued quilt designs to fit every taste-from folksy country style to fresh and contemporary. Projects include quilts, wall-hangings, pillows, and quilt labels, and are suitable for beginners as well as experienced quilters. Plus, they come complete with full-size patterns and complete directions. Note: The printing quality in this copy may vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated due to printing on demand by a high-quality printer on uncoated paper. The inform...
Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.
Learn to create a wide array of designs for walking-foot quilting no matter what your skill level. Take your machine’s walking foot for a walk on the wild side and move beyond basic stitch-in-the-ditch quilting! In her follow-up to bestselling Foolproof Machine Quilting, award-winning author Mary Mashuta teaches you how to quilt attractive lines, curves, and geometric shapes with a walking foot. The book includes a multitude of designs, each adapted for walking-foot quilting and marked with clock icons to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish it. This visual guide provides an inspirational gallery of 30 finished quilts and is enhanced by detailed photos of successfully quilted blocks, center panels, sashing, borders, and corners. • Includes clock icons for each design to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish • Custom designs to fit every block, border, and corner—with no marking and no math • Ideas for using commercial quilting templates, paper cuttings, and traditional sashiko-style designs • Decorative stitches, hand quilting, and embellishments are used to enhance piecing