Doodle Quilting: Over 120 Continuous-Line Machine-Quilting Designs
Author:Cheryl Malkowski (Author)
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Publication date: 2012-12-16
Edition: 11/15/12
Language: English
Print length: 88 pages
ISBN-10: 1607056364
ISBN-13: 9781607056362
Book Description
Cheryl Malkowsi makes it easy to free-motion quilt by mastering your doodling skills! In her beginner's guide to continuous-line quilting designs, learn how to select the right shapes to get where you need to go; sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next. Squiggles, swirls, flowers, feathers…learn which are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt. Gain confidence in your ability to draw basic shapes, then learn how to put them together into over a hundred all-over quilting designs. Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring designs from paper to fabric.
Review
Don't leave your unquilted tops abandoned in a closet! Simple shapes, repeated across your quilt and perhaps combined with other easy designs, can be effortlessly quilted and bring interest and beauty to basic and functional quilts. Cheryl shows how to practice these continuous-line patterns on paper to improve your confidence, and provides over 120 quilting designs with suggestions on how and where they can best be utilized. ― Machine Quilting Unlimited
You'll never be stuck for a quilting motif again with this terrific reference book. The designs are all printed clearly and Cheryl encourages you to place vinyl over the pages and trace and trace until you are confident to transfer to the machine. ― Australian Quilters Companio.