Quilting by Design
155 Free-Motion Designs in 10 Elegant Suites
Published on 1. March 2015
132 pages
978-1-60705-994-3 (ISBN)
Description
Unlock your quilting potential with 155 free-motion patterns to fit every space in your quilt. Use the designs as they are or learn how to use computer graphics technology from master quilter Jessica Schick to resize, print, and apply designs - plus, receive expert tips to stabilize your projects before you quilt. Mix and match elements from 10 design suites. The 30 basic quilting motifs come in standard machine quilting and embroidery formats; all designs are available in the book and as PDFs from the download link. Print the designs any size you want, customize the designs, or use the motifs with your computer-guided quilting or embroidery machines. Add elegance and sophistication to your projects with this step-by-step guide!
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02/2015
C & T Publishing
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By Jessica Schick
Content
- Front Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- COPYRIGHT NOTE
- Planning Your Quilting
- Breaking Up Is Easy to Do
- Putting Together the Pieces
- Triangles
- Wedges, Arrays, and Circular Patterns
- Conquering Wholecloth
- Divide and Conquer
- Customizing Design Patterns
- PREVIEWING QUILT PATTERNS ON YOUR QUILT TOP
- Computer Graphic Design Programs
- MEET RASTER AND VECTOR
- FILE FORMATS
- Resizing a Pattern
- GETTING STARTED
- OPENING THE PATTERN FILE
- SELECTING THE OBJECT
- RESIZING THE DESIGN ELEMENT
- Creating Pantographs
- Designing a Wholecloth Quilt
- More Editing Options
- Finishing Up
- GROUP THE ELEMENTS
- CHECK THE PATTERNS FOR SCALE
- Printing Your Pattern
- PRINTING ON PAPER
- PRINTING ON STABILIZER
- PRINTING ON FREEZER PAPER
- HOW TO PRINT
- Manually Dividing a Pattern for Printi
- Using the Design Patterns
- Tracing Designs onto the Quilt Top
- MARKING TOOLS
- LIGHTBOX
- TAPE
- QUILTING, PART ONE:Hand Quilting and Domestic, Midarm, and Longarm Machines
- STABILIZING THE QUILT
- QUILTING
- QUILTING, PART TWO:Computerized Longarmand Embroidery Machines
- SOFTWARE
- PREPARATION
- USING AN EMBROIDERY MACHINE TO QUILT
- Design Suite of Patterns
- Artwork Files for Modifying and Printing
- Computer-Assisted Quilting Formats
- Embroidery Formats
- Design Suites
- SUITE 1: Baroque Florals and Angels
- SUITE 2: Olive Leaves
- SUITE 3: Shaggy Leaves
- SUITE 4: Spades
- SUITE 5: Fleur-de-Lis
- SUITE 6: Imperial Leaf
- SUITE 7: Byzantine Arches
- SUITE 8: Simply Loopy Leaves
- SUITE 9: Poppy Feathers
- SUITE 10: Ornamental Leaves Scroll
- Appendix
- Making Design Patterns and Variations
- Progression of Line to Design
- Progression of a Simple Motif
- Progression of Pantographs (Repeating Patterns)
- AN IMPORTANT DETAIL
- WALKING THROUGH THE REPEAT DESIGN
- ADDING VARIATION
- CREATING TESSELLATIONS
- PANTOGRAPHS THAT WORK
- Resources
- About the Author
- Legal Page
- Back Cover
