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Quick Overview This long-arm quilting book accomplishes what other references only strive for, instructing serious quilters in the manner they learn best, by incorporating a variety of teaching styles. This guide is presented in extensive detail for quilters who prefer precision and planning, and includes 200 colour photos for quilters who visualise projects. This comprehensive guide: explains capabilities and generalities of long-arm machines; demonstrates basic techniques using pantographs and...

* Adapt hand-quilting stencils for unique uses in edge to-edge quilting. * Identify portions of stencils for their use with freehand quilting designs. * Practice quilting by drawing first. * Choosing marking tools. * Quick marking methods for stencils. * Effective ways to use and remove chalk. * Plan freehand quilting to cover the entire quilt top. * Avoid the pitfalls of awkward quilting paths. * Make simple “question mark” feather designs. * Choose background quilting designs that complement...

A guide for quilters who want to get to grips with the art of longarm quilting. Including 40 original quilting designs, it provides readers with directions for ...

Build your confidence and master more skills with easy-to-follow instructions for how to use a longarm machine. Gina gives you detailed direction for planning and executing designs, as well as tips on marking and thread selection. With 40 original quilting designs included, there's something here for both traditional and modern quilters at all skill levels.

2” pins with white pear-shape heads are sharp enough to pierce multiple layers of fabric and long enough to take a deep bite into the quilt sandwich.

8. Tie a loop in your thread and slip it onto the hook on the gauge. With the thread attached, pull slowly and steadily toward the back of your machine. Once the number is steady it will lock and keep the tension measurement on the display. Write that number down for future use. Reset the gauge by pressing the T/Z button and test the tension again. Repeat until you get a consistent result.

Debby Brown is an award-winning quilter who is known for her fun and distinctive quilting style. She is a national longarm quilting instructor who has guided hundreds of quilters in their quest for more knowledge.

* Choose and apply background quilting in appliqué blocks. * Easily create accurate, continuous-line echo quilting. * Use a no-mark technique for effortless cross-hatching. * Use guidelines and reference points to create your own beautiful quilting designs. * Audition and choose the best quilting designs for your quilt. * Use circle and arc templates to quilt accurately. * Suzanne shares some of her best tips for making longarm quilting easy and fun.

* Use templates safely to stitch-in-the-ditch. * Pull up the bobbin thread at the end of a quilting line. * Make a “too-small” quilting stencil work. * Create triangle quilting designs from square stencils. * Adapt hand-quilting stencils for continuous- line machine quilting. * Use templates in conjunction with stencils. * Use a proportional scale to resize paper patterns. * Create your own light box using items in your home. * Keep your quilt square in the frame. * Every quilter needs an...

* Determine equal design repeats for borders with NO MATH!. * Quilt simple flower and leaf designs with travel paths. * Quilt borders with no marking. * Quilt side borders without turning the quilt. * Use craft foam as a template to create foundation lines for freehand quilting. * Use undulating lines for a variety of quilting designs.

* Adapt hand-quilting stencils for unique uses in edge to-edge quilting. * Identify portions of stencils for their use with freehand quilting designs. * Practice quilting by drawing first. * Choosing marking tools. * Quick marking methods for stencils. * Effective ways to use and remove chalk. * Plan freehand quilting to cover the entire quilt top. * Avoid the pitfalls of awkward quilting paths. * Make simple “question mark” feather designs. * Choose background quilting designs that complement...

* Use negative space to the quilt’s advantage. * Interrupt designs with ditch-stitching. * Quilt the most difficult design: straight lines. * Reposition hands to stay in control of rulers. * Use your body to stabilize the quilting machine. * Quilt pantograph motifs evenly across the border. * Use starch to aid in quilting accurately. * Plan symmetrical freehand sashing designs. * Use templates to stitch accurate curves in sashing.

* Choose and apply background quilting in appliqué blocks. * Easily create accurate, continuous-line echo quilting. * Use a no-mark technique for effortless cross-hatching. * Use guidelines and reference points to create your own beautiful quilting designs. * Audition and choose the best quilting designs for your quilt. * Use circle and arc templates to quilt accurately. * Plan symmetrical freehand sashing designs. * Use templates to stitch accurate curves in sashing.

* Place and hold circle rulers safely while quilting. * Create Baptist Fan designs with circle rulers. * Quilt continuous curve designs in four-patch, nine-patch and multiple-patch designs. * Use guidelines on circle rulers to achieve different arcs. * Create foundation lines for wavy vines and feather wreaths.

* Draw your own design. * Convert your drawings to continuous line quilting designs. * Draw cherries, dragonflies, snowmen, daisies and rosebuds. * Plan a travel path between designs. * Use designs for borders, sashes or overall designs. * Use four different techniques to transfer your design to fabric.

* Choose a Groovy Board to suit your quilt design. * Work with single or multiple boards. * Prepare your quilt top for edge-to-edge quilting (avoiding the dreaded flipped edges). * Advance the quilt while keeping the second pass perfectly aligned. * Quilt smoothly and accurately. * Use partial Groovy Board designs to finish the bottom edge of the quilt.

* Choose a pantograph to fit your quilt. * Prepare your quilt top for edge-to-edge quilting (avoiding the dreaded flipped edges). * Advance the quilt while keeping the second pass perfectly aligned. * Quilt smoothly and accurately. * Use partial pantographs to finish the bottom edge of the quilt.

* Set up your machine and frame for ruler work. * Use the 3-point pressure technique to maintain control. * Combine rulers and templates with marking the quilt top for accuracy. * Use rulers safely for stitch-in-the-ditch, crosshatching,. * Use straight rulers to create curved quilting lines.

* Applique and trapunto at the same time. * Prepare batting shapes. * Use your quilting machine to create four appliqué edge finishes: blanket-stitch, circular, stars, squiggles. * Accentuate printed designs on fabric with trapunto. * Different types of threads. * How to choose the correct needle for your thread. * How to adjust both bobbin and top thread tension.