A Fresh Approach to Fresh Quilting! Clean lines, bold colours, contemporary designs--quilting has gone modern! And this book is the ultimate guide for creating modern quilts at home, all on a standard sewing machine. From the start, award-winning quilter and teacher Catherine Redford guides you through every stage of planning, constructing, and finishing a quilt. Learn a multitude of crisp walking foot designs, including straight lines, matchstick, grids, serpentine, spirals, and more. Explore more than a dozen techniques and patterns for free-motion designs. You'll find inspiration in the gorgeous quilt gallery, while the simple projects provide the perfect canvases for fun and useful quilting practice. And as you go, you can take notes on the roomy, workbook-style pages to make this book your own perfect personalized resource for Modern Machine Quilting. AUTHOR: Catherine Redford is an award-winning quilter, quilting teacher, and speaker. She has appeared on Quilting Arts TV, is a regular contributor to Modern Patchwork magazine, and is the author of two Modern Machine Quilting QATV workshop DVDs. Catherine and her husband live in Naperville, IL and their four children are all married and providing grandchildren at a good rate. Follow her quilting adventures at her website, catherineredford.com. SELLING POINTS: ? No long arm needed! This is the book for quilters who want to finish their own quilts from start to finish on a home machine. ? Includes multitudes of ways to quilt using the walking foot--straight lines matchstick, grids, serpentine, plaid, altered stitches organic curves combinations, spirals and more. ? Free-motion instructions include more than a dozen techniques and designs and doodle patterns for quilters to make their own. ? Inspirational gallery of gorgeous quilt projects with unique stitch patterns and includes complete foot use and feed dog information.
