Create Beautiful Machine Quilting with Almost No Marking
• Sew these 24 graceful machine-quilting designs with ease on your home sewing machine, with almost no marking!
• An elegant alternative to stippling or meandering for all-over quilting, or give your quilt the look of Sashiko without the slow hand sewing
• Many designs can build into more intricate patterns by simply adding more lines
• Scalable patterns are easy to enlarge or reduce to fit even odd-shaped spaces
• Every design includes easy-to-follow instructions and stitched sample; some include full-page pattern
Whether you want to quilt a simple overall pattern or a show-stopping design for a competition, you'll love the elegance of these continuous-line designs. Stitching them is so easy: just sew one line of stitching at a time. Stitch some designs with feed dogs up, others with them down. Designs include cross-hatching, triangles, stars, clamshells, jigsaw puzzles, and many more.
Review By: Sylvia Rasmussen, sylvias-studio.com - April 1, 2009
"The Introduction in this book promises a no-mark technique for machine quilting. You can create geometric patterning for your quilt sandwich with nary a pen, pencil or chalk to mark your quilt top with hard to remove lines.
Charlotte Warr Anderson has been dazzling quilters with her innovative ideas and designs for decades. Her latest book, One Line at a Time, offers 24 no-marking machine-quilting designs and this author always delivers what she promises.
The author begins with the easiest methods first. She explains how to make better use of your quilting foot, seam guides, rulers and other measuring tools.
'The fewer starts and stops you make when machine quilting, the less work you'll have tidying up the loose thread ends,' Charlotte writes. From there she offers tips on how to make stitching continuous lines much easier.
Completing interrupted lines of machine quilting as one goes around an appliquéd area, for example, challenges all of us. Charlotte illustrates how to achieve this using Quilting Vinyl.
Chapters follow showing how to use cross hatching from plaid sequences and continuous stitching lines to form quilted hexagons, triangles and stars. The chapter illustrating how to quilt clam shells in many variations including, 'Kissing Clams,' fascinate.
Fresh ideas using structured meandering, doodle weaving and machine stippling using her method called, "Inchie ruler tape, ends the book. Oh yes! Did I mention actual pattern templates for all her designs from clamshells to directional, linear plaids are included in this book? Try Charlotte's no mark methods. They may change the way you create machine quilting designs forever."
Review By: Karen Platt, - April 12, 2009
"This inspiring book will free your mind and help you to create exciting machine quilt patterns one line at a time. Start simple and build into complicated patterns no matter what your skill level. Fill in odd spaces - all the patterns can be enlarged or reduced. Learn to stitch straight line and circular line patterns to enhance your quilts and create texture. This 72-page book is a great little resource."
Review Applique Society Newsletter - May 1, 2009
“If you are looking to add texture to your quilt project with some machine quilting you will most certainly want to read this book. Charlotte Warr Anderson developed the no-mark method used in this book some years ago while working on a mostly silk quilt that she did not want to trust to washing to remove her quilt marks. This book is intended for the machine quilter using a home sewing machine, although longarm quilters could adapt the patterns for their use as well. You will find an excellent first chapter covering “Machine Quilting Basics” The patterns include: Crosshatching and Plaids; Equilateral Triangular and Hexagonal patterns; Clamshell-Based patterns; Sinuous Geometric Curved and Structured Meandering to name just a few. Charlotte's patterns are an elegant alternate to stippling or meandering for all-over quilting. The scalable patterns are easy to enlarge or reduce to fit even odd-shaped spaces.”
Review By: Carol Newby, Quilters Newsletter - June 1, 2009
“If you are interested in learning to achieve precise geometric quilting using a home sewing machine this book is for you. Charlotte's method is creative, doesn't require expensive tools or gadgets, and is explained clearly. The 24 graceful designs can be scaled to fit even odd-shaped spaces, and the method requires minimal marking. The designs include old favorites like crosshatches, clamshells, and orange peels, as wells as contemporary designs such as zooids, doodle weaves, and geometric curves.”
Review By: Kit Robinson, Machine Quilting Unlimited - June 1, 2009
“ Learn to machine quilt intricate geometric designs with almost no marking on your quilt! Charlotte Warr Anderson shows you how with easy-to-understand diagrams and instructions in her new book, One Line at a Time. Using your walking foot, ruler tape or simple templates you can make out of inexpensive materials, you can create myriad grids of squares, triangles, or hexagons, curves, pivot point designs and even structured meander patterns. The quilt gallery will inspire quilters from traditional to contemporary, and from home machine quilters to longarmers to try Charlotte's methods and techniques.”
