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

Pignatelli, Vikki

ISBN 10: 0844242497 / ISBN 13: 9780844242491

Published by Quilt Digest, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

First Printing. Former owner's small pastedown name and address sticker on the front endpaper. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy. PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in full color photography of quilts and quilt-making techniques with accompanying descriptive captions. "Quilting Curves" introduces a surprisingly simple technique that allows you to create wonderful curved-line designs that sweep gracefully across your quilts. Working entirely by machine, you can stitch beautiful, smooth curves-without the painstaking precision that conventional piecing requires. You can even use the same simple method to create perfect points, with no bulky seams or mismatched tips. In step-by-step photographs, award-winning quilter Vikki Pignatelli demonstrates just how effortlessly designs with tight curves and sharp points come together for an effect that seems to be intricately pieced." 141 pages. GF4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quilting Curves: An Innovative Technique for Machine-Piecing Curves With Incredible Ease
• Publisher: Quilt Digest, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844242497
• ISBN 13: 9780844242491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

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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 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.