Joanie’s first book is packed with beautifully machine-quilted projects for you to create for your home. Every step of the process is included to take the guesswork out so you can just enjoy making these delightful items.
Features include patterns for 20-plus elegant home décor projects, full-size quilting designs, step-by-step instructions, color photos and helpful illustrations. A sequential quilting plan will guide you through each design. Easy finishing techniques help you complete every project
This 144-page soft-cover edition features a pullout section with full-size quilting designs, finishing techniques and Joanie’s tips that make each step easy. With all this and additional ideas offered for how to use these deigns in your patchwork projects, this book is a resource for you to come back to again and again.
Do you have quilt tops waiting to be quilted, but don’t know how to proceed? Are you frustrated because manufactured stencils don’t fit your projects? Do you lack the confidence to make creative decisions that will make your quilts unique? Well, worry no more, with this book you have all the answers you need.
From the comfort of your home, working at you own pace, you are invited to step into Joanie’s studio for private lessons. Learn from a nationally known teacher and award-winning quilter. Using simple tools and skills from the art world, discover new sources of designs, adapt stencils to fit your needs and learn to recognize which designs work best. You will become skilled at making perfectly fitting designs for any project and learn how to use your stencils to develop coordinating designs for blocks and multi-sized borders and a variety of marking processes.
This 128-page spiral bound, hardcover text, the first book in the new Quilters Workshop Series, includes practice exercises, a project and a gallery of beautifully quilted items, plus a CD of original quilting designs for you to print out on your home computer.
Coming September 2008!!!
Joanie is back with the second, 128 page spiral bound edition in the Quilter’s Workshop Series. This time readers follow seven simple steps to build a foundation for understanding machine quilting. Each step offers a concept which is explained in understandable terms, supported by photos of beautifully quilted items or illustrations that demonstrate the process.
With this informative text, you will learn to understand free-motion quilting and the importance of navigating the design. You will plan a travel guide for each design to discover the benefits of the mind-body connection. Learn how to categorize designs and apply concepts for stitching each group. Joanie’s new design distinctions of Continuous Object Designs and Continuous Outline Designs are introduced! The essential tools for the journey are also covered, as well as stitching background fillers, grids, free-form fillers and stippling.
The book is written to appeal to quilters of all experience levels, using any quilting machine, frame or long arm. Each step actively involves you in the learning process and enhances your leisure time by replacing your questions with confidence and knowledge.
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