Pathways To Better Quilting: 5 Shapes for Machine Quilt Patterns

by Sally Terry

Follow the right path for finding your own creative talent and sewing ability. Whether you use a traditional shortarm, midarm or longarm sewing machine, this book shares amazingly simple step-by-step methods of free-hand quilting. See how to interpret and complete the quilt with creative quilting patterns, quickly and easily. Learn the five shapes of the easy-to-accomplish arc; S-curve, straight line, loop and hook, from which all quilting patterns are made. Discover the correct way to complete each stroke. Book contains advice for auditioning patterns, resizing design motifs and transferring patterns. Especially helpful are the suggestions for threads, backing, binding, and batting selections. Also included are dozens of beautiful full-sized, original quilting patterns.

Genres: Quilting

95 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2004

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reorder this book when I get back to quilt stitching to practice the quilting shapes. I entered notes and copied practice sheets in April 2016. The author breaks all free motion quilting down into simple strokes to be executed one, then the next: arcs, S-curve, straight line, loop and C-hook.