Utility Quilting: Simple Solutions for Quick Hand Quilting: Easy, Stress Free Ways to Quickly Hand Quilt Your Quilts (Landauer) - Softcover

Carolyn Forster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935726145 ISBN 13: 9781935726142

Publisher: Design Originals, 2011

Synopsis

Discover a fantastic stress-free technique for creating wonderful looking hand quilted projects!

• The ideal quilting method for contemporary quilters
• Use simple designs, bigger stitches, and thicker threads to hand-quilt quickly and easily
• 12 projects with step-by-step instructions
• Sample designs and stitches

This wonderful book from popular author, teacher, and quilter Carolyn Forster introduces you to utility quilting—an ideal method for modern quilters who want the satisfaction of hand quilting but like to get things done pronto.

Utility quilting holds the quilt sandwich together using simpler, often all-over designs, bigger stitches, and thicker threads, and is perfect for use with today's big, bold fabrics.

This volume includes 12 complete projects with step-by-step instructions.

About this title

About the Author

Carolyn Forster started quilting as a girl, and it has since then become an integral part of her life. She has been a teacher for over 15 years and her quilt projects have been published in a number of books and magazines. Her books, Quilting-on-the-Go, Utility Quilting, and Quilting-on-the-Go Taking It Further, help make patchwork and quilting easy and accessible to quilters of all skill levels. Carolyn and her family live in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. (carolynforster.co.uk)

From the Back Cover

Try your hand at Utility Quilting—whether stitching on big, bold fabrics, quickly finishing charity quilts, learning to hand quilt using straight forward, allover designs or for gaining confidence in your hand quilting skill, try utility quilting—you'll love it.
Carolyn

Utility quilting is the perfect solution for today's modern quilter who wants to quilt by hand in a way that's stress free, satisfying, quick and easy.

Years ago, women needed to finish a quilt quickly, make it durable and get it on the bed. They did this by using bigger stitches, thicker threads and overall designs.

Now, in Utility Quilting, Carolyn makes hand quilting new again by offering you 25 favorite designs, as well as stitches and knots that have stood the test of time. She teaches you the techniques you need to know with large, clear photos and step-by-step how to. She provides you with 10 lovely projects with complete instructions so you can easily complete your own hand-quilted creation.

If you have wanted to try hand quilting, this is the perfect place to start.

• 25 Utility Quilting Designs
• 12 Stitches and Knots, plus how to secure your quilt with buttons and felt shapes
• 4 Binding and Other Edge Finishing Techniques
• 8 Tacking and Basting Ideas
• 10 Quilt Projects
• Tips
• Step-by-step Photographs and Illustrations
• 128 Pages

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935726145
• ISBN 13: 9781935726142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128