Quilting Curves : An Innovative Technique for Machine-Piecing Curves with Incredible Ease - Softcover

Pignatelli, Vikki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0844242497 ISBN 13: 9780844242491

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2001

Synopsis

Award-winning quiltmaker Vikki Pignatelli introduces a revolutionary method of quiltmaking that takes the time, trouble, and frustration out of making a perfect quilt. Her easy techniques in Quilting Curves ensure that your designs come together quickly, with beautiful, graceful results--even for beginners. Ideal for machine quilters, Pignatelli shows you how to make wonderful, flowing curves and perfect star points without the tricky needle turn or precise piecing techniques that traditional quiltmaking involves. She demonstrates how to use a variation on her method for creating three-dimensional effects. A chapter on creativity provides you with the tools to start creating quilts of your own design.

• Fast, fun, and easy quilt tops that would take weeks to piece using conventional methods come together in hours
• Trouble-free­­ quilts appear to be intricately pieced but are easy to topstitch by machine
• Eight complete patterns help you master the technique before moving on to create quilts of your own design

About this title

About the Author

Vikki Pignatelli is an award winning quilter, quilt designer, and instructor. Her work has appeared in several leading quiltmaking magazines, including Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Pignatelli lives in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

Reviews

As every quilter knows, it is much more difficult to piece together curved shapes than traditional straight-edged squares, triangles, and rectangles. When she began quilting, Pignatelli, originally a fine artist, wanted to create the flowing, curved lines that had come to her so easily as a painter but found it almost impossible when using traditional methods. After much experimentation, she came up with a method to create curves using freezer paper for templates and then blind-stitching fabric patches to a stabilizer foundation. Here she explains her method in full, using nine illustrative step-by-step patterns as learning tools. Once the curved-piecing technique is mastered, she introduces the reader to padded and sculptured applique and free-motion quilting using multiple threads. Recommended for academic textile collections and large public libraries.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844242497
• ISBN 13: 9780844242491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160