Beginner?€?s Guide to Free-Motion Quilting: 50+ Visual Tutorials to Get You Started?€? Professional-Quality Results on Your Home Machine

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Photo tutorials show stitching in action for 50+ free-motion quilting designs to create modern quilts with classic style! Popular blogger and designer, Natalia Bonner, illustrates her instructions with detailed photos that make it easier to get beautiful results on your home sewing machine. Learn how to quilt all-over, as filler, on borders, and on individual blocks?using loops and swirls, feathers and flames, flowers and vines, pebbles and more! Includes tips for choosing batting and thread, layering and basting, starting and stopping, and prepping your machine are included. After you?ve practiced, show off your new skills with six geometric quilt projects.;Front Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Focus on Quilting; Machine Quilting Basics; Sidebar: Thread Tension; Sidebar: Straight-Line Quilting; Allover Quilting; Background Fillers; Borders and Sashings; Custom Quilted Blocks; Quilting on Appliqué; Section 2: Six Quilt Projects to Make; Amazed; Sidebar: Appliqué Method; Round and Round; Orange Slices; Twisted Up; Daisy Drop; Happy Dots; Binding; Section 3: Quilting Patterns; Resources; About the Author; eLegal Page; Back Cover Front Cover Table of Contents Introduction Section 1: Focus on Quilting Machine Quilting Basics Sidebar: Thread Tension Sidebar: Straight-Line Quilting Allover Quilting Background Fillers Borders and Sashings Custom Quilted Blocks Quilting on Appliqué Section 2: Six Quilt Projects to Make Amazed Sidebar: Appliqué Method Round and Round Orange Slices Twisted Up Daisy Drop Happy Dots Binding Section 3: Quilting Patterns Resources About the Author eLegal Page Back Cover