180 Doodle Quilting Designs

When you're done piecing a quilt, do you often wonder how to finish it with free-motion quilting? Discover how to fill setting triangles, blocks, and borders with a variety of traditional and modern quilting designs, divided into chapters by style: Lines and Squiggles, Curves and Pebbles, Swirls and Feathers, and Just for Fun. This is a must-have book and lifelong reference for any quilter's library. Gain confidence as you follow the arrows and see how to fill a confined space with continuous-line quilting motifs that are adaptable to blocks, triangles, and borders Discover which designs will work best before you sew by practicing your quilting; trace the designs with your finger or on tracing paper Whether you use a long-arm or home sewing machine, you'll enjoy quilting the wide variety of designs

Learn to draw...with your sewing machine! In this beginner's guide to free-motion, continuous-line quilting designs, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go...because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next! You'll gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you'll learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over quilting designs. • See how easy it can be to create interesting quilting designs by mastering your doodling skills • From squiggles and swirls to flowers and feathers, learn which shapes are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt • Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring your designs from paper to fabric

A compilation of 365 free-motion quilting designs from the Free Motion Quilting Project blog, this new edition of a wildly popular book contains a treasury of ideas and inspiration. From blocks to sashing to borders, find hundreds of filler designs perfect for every area of your quilt. Feeling confused by free-motion quilting? Get back on track with Leah's quick tips on everything from machine settings to preparing your quilt top and backing for quilting. - New spiral binding so you can keep it open hands-free while you quilt - Challenge yourself to memorize--not mark--a new design every day for a year - Break out of your stippling rut! High-quality photos of each meticulously stitched design - Largest collection of free-motion designs ever published

When you're done piecing your quilt, do you wonder how to finish it with free-motion quilting? Discover how to fill setting triangles, squares, and borders with a variety of beautiful traditional and modern quilting designs: Lines and Squiggles, Curves and Pebbles, Swirls and Feathers, and Just for Fun. This is a powerful technique book and lifelong reference for any quilter's library. Gain confidence as you follow the arrows and see, step by step, how to fill a confined space with a continuous-line quilting motif Practice your quilting and discover which designs will work best before you sew by tracing the designs with your finger or on tracing paper Whether you use a long-arm or home sewing machine, you'll enjoy quilting the wide variety of designs

Doodle quilting has taken the quilt world by storm - and now there are 180 more doodle designs for you to enjoy! In this sequel to the best-selling book 180 Doodle Quilting Designs, you'll learn to trace a doodle and then draw it freehand. By the time you start free-motion quilting, your eyes, hands, and muscles recognize the design, and all these parts work together to create the doodles in thread. Design sets for quilt blocks, borders, and corners include lines, waves, squiggles, loops, curves, pebbles, swirls, curls, feathers, flowers, and fun whimsical motifs. With an introductory section to set up quilters for success, there's never been a better time to discover this fun way to machine quilt.

Give your quilts the fancy finish they deserve with more than 60 lively continuous-line quilting designs from quilting pro Sheila Sinclair Snyder. Learn to stitch free-form spirals, feathers, flowers, bubbles, leaves, cables, and much more. Sheila shows you how to combine individual motifs into fluid designs for quilting blocks, borders, sashing, and all over the quilt. All designs work equally well on home sewing machines, mid-arm, and long-arm quilting machines, or for hand quilting. Try each motif in three versions: simple, more involved, and fabulously over the top! Also included is a bonus quilt project that¿s perfect for practicing new quilting designs.

Feathers, pinwheels, flowers, birds, and other eye-catching designs abound in this treasury of more than 100 quilting patterns. Clear, complete directions and numerous diagrams guide even beginners through every step.

Get star-struck with Toby Lischko's Kaleidostars. With clear and concise directions, confidently tackle any one of the projects and learn how Toby took the Kaleidoscope block and diamond shapes to create the one-of-a-kind Kaleidostars. This book features an extensive fabric selection guide to make your projects uniquely your own. Each quilt is a blend of symmetrical and high-contrast fabrics, making each of these pieces stand out in a crowd.