Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond: The Complete Step-by-Step Visual Guide To Successful Machine Quilting (Landauer) With 12 Projects, 150 Photos, & Full-Size Patterns In A Lay-Flat Spiral Binding

Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond: The Complete Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Successful Machine Quilting (Landauer) with 12 Projects, 150 Photos, & Full-Size Patterns in a Lay-Flat Spiral Binding

Book DescriptionEnjoy the confidence of knowing basic stitches with one-on-one machine-quilting lessons to help you make a quilt from beginning to end! In Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond, teacher and master machine quilter Lynn Witzenburg guides you through the basic steps of quilting on a home sewing machine-from equipment and supplies and preparation to free-form curves, continuous line designs, border tips, and more. Complete 12 step-by-step projects and feel the satisfaction of saying, ? made this!?ne-on-one machine-quilting lessons to help you make a quilt from beginning to end! 12 projects with original quilting designs and full-size patterns Over 200 color photos and illustrations to take you through each step One-on-one machine-quilting lessons from teacher and machine quilter Lynn Witzenburg Handy lay-flat spiral binding so you can have the book open right next to your sewing machine while you learn Step-by-step instructions on the basics, from preparation and practice doodling to free-motion and marked-background quilting Tips & techniques including free-motion stitching, machine-guided stitching, and feather-stitching, adapting designs to fill spaces, and troubleshootingIn Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond, teacher and master machine quilter Lynn Witzenburg guides you through the basic steps of quilting on a home sewing machine-from equipment and supplies, preparation, practice doodling through marked grids, free-form curves, continuous-line designs, and border tips to more advanced techniques and tricks to enhance your quilting projects.With Lynn as your guide, you'll master trapunto, have fun with free-form feathers and learn about bobbin quilting. The troubleshooting tips in each section guarantee stress-free quilting, and the convenient hidden spiral binding allows your book to lay flat while you learn.The features in Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond include: Over 150 full-color photos More than 90 full-color illustrations and diagrams 12 projects ranging from wall hangings to full-size quilts Close-up, step-by-step photography Troubleshooting tips throughout the book Techniques, such as bobbin quilting, trapunto, and free-form feathers, addressed in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-do format Basic quilting and equipment preparation Border designs and how to make them fit any quilt Original quilting designsAfter following the step-by-step photography and instructions in Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond, and with a little practice, you'll be saying, "I made this quilt from beginning to end!""Lynn's class was my first exposure to machine quilting. It was informative and fun! Her instructions were concise, but not overwhelming. She made us feel like we could do it. Now I machine quilt all my own quilts and love the finished product."-Cathy StrutzenbergReviewThe machine as a labor saving device is never so perfectly illustrated as the advent of the sewing machine and the making of a quilt. A hardcover, hidden-spiral bound, 'user friendly' instruction manual, Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond by quilting expert Lynn Witzenburg offers the novice machine stitch quilter with a complete, step-by-step, visually illustrated guide to successfully creating quilts with the assistance of a sewing machine. As fun as it is informative, Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond includes twelve do-it-yourself projects complete with full-size patterns, as well as favorite and original quilting designs that even the most novice of needlecrafters can employ to good effect. Such issues as choosing a stencil design, working with quilting paper, adapting motifs to fill spaces, making border designs fit, even the creation of 'feathers' in round, square, triangular, and free form. From the needed equipment and supplies, preparing to machine quilt, to free-motion stitching techniques, and so much more, Machine Quilting: The Basics & Beyond will prove to be an invaluable reference an