Quilting Advice and Inspiration
Posted by Alice Mace Nakanishi on Oct 19th 2016
Before you start quilting those unfinished quilt tops, check out The Quilting Manual —the all-in-one guidebook that brings together free-motion, machine-, and hand-quilting techniques and designs from sixteen highly regarded quilters and authors.
This comprehensive overview of quilting includes sixteen chapters of suggestions and advice for each phase of quilting, with such topics as quilting basics, thread and fabric, choosing quilting designs, tools, tension and hand placement, quilting negative space, troubleshooting, hand quilting, and more. Then you’ll see page after page of more than 100 quilting designs, ranging from uncomplicated to intricate, for motifs, borders, and allover quilting.
Whether you want to add a new quilted motif or border or to experiment with an allover quilting design, you’re sure to find something in this collection from Alex Anderson, Natalia Bonner, Christina Cameli, Laura Lee Fritz, Geta Grama, Jenny Carr Kinney, Don Linn, Cheryl Malkowski, Christine Maraccini, Gina Perkes, Sylvia Pippen, Kathy Sandbach, Jessica Schick, Sheila Sinclair Snyder, Hari Walner, and Angela Walters.
