Visual Guide to Free-Motion Quilting Feathers: 68 Modern Designs - Professional Quality Results on Your Home Machine - Softcover

Bonner, Natalia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617455067 ISBN 13: 9781617455063

Publisher: C&T Publishing / Stash Books, 2017

Synopsis

Take the fear out of quilting feathers! Explore 68 modern feather designs with award-winning quilter Natalia Bonner. Traditional feather quilting relies on precision, but Natalia's expert guidance will help you break away from perfection to free-motion feathers with confidence. Using your home sewing machine or longarm, you'll quilt creative motifs on blocks and borders. Learn beginner-friendly techniques with this easy-to-use, visual guide and add a truly elegant finish to your modern quilt.

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About the Author

Natalia Whiting Bonner has enjoyed piecing quilt tops for more than twenty years. In 2007, she quit her job as a dental assistant and became a longarm quilter. She has won numerous awards and is a best-selling author.

Review

Natalia Bonner knows a thing or two about free-motion quilting, already having two best-sellers behind her. In this book she provides clear step-by-step instructions for feather free-motion quilting for both domestic and longarm quilters. Today's contemporary quilts are often finished with modern free-motion techniques instead of traditional techniques. This book provides 68 block and border designs. Starting with single feather techniques, the book moves on to more complicated designs. Clear line drawings show how to stitch three types of feather. Then each of the 68 designs are shown with line drawings on top of a quilt and directional arrows. Superb book – I can't fault it and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to master feathers. (yarnsandfabrics.co.uk, 4/30/2017)

Quilted feathers have been around for a long time and although you may not think of them as a modern pattern, this book sets out to show you how they can be. By adding different elements, such as extra curls, creating unusual shapes and incorporating patterns such as pebbles into the mix, the feather design takes on a very different look. The book is jam-packed with photos, outline drawings and information on how to achieve a good result. There is also a helpful section at the beginning on technical matters such as threads, batting, and machine settings, and the author passes on lots of tips she has learned through her experience. This is a useful reference book for anyone wanting to progress with their quilting and give their quilts extra impact. (Down Under Quilts, 179)

Put a feather in your quilting cap with an easy-to-use guide for both domestic and long-arm quilters and combine traditional techniques with up-to-date quilting styles―choose from 68 modern designs by this best-selling author. (Sew Magazine, August 2017)

Edition details

• Publisher: C&T Publishing / Stash Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1617455067
• ISBN 13: 9781617455063
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144