Quilting With Style: Principles for Great Pattern Design

by Gwen Marston, Joe Cunningham

Suggests quilting patterns based on straight lines, circles, fans, cables, and feathers, and offers advice on making templates and marking patterns

Genres: Quilting, Crafts, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quilting need not be "perfect" or overly designed. Just as "Liberated Quiltmaking" by Gwen Marston details a piecing style that allows freedom from overly precise cutting and sewing, this book illustrates a more relaxed method of designing and executing the by hand quilting stitch.Examples: "scratching" the design as you go with the needle (doesn't hurt the fabric, you don't press hard) and then immediately quilting in the impression left. Cables and feathers drawn freehand and 'irregular' but fit the space you need. There are lots of pictures of finished projects that illustrate just how beautifully this method completes a quilt. Joe Cunnningham and Gwen Marston teamed to create this wonderful reference book for quilters who want to learn to 'relax' a bit from stultified precision.

[Lindi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best quilting book ever. The authors give good design principles and offer some patterns then encourage the reader to make their own quilts, questioning the current craze, whether traditional or arty, the whole while. They reminded me that what I love about quilting is the process and caused me to ask if that is that served by buying into the whole speed-quilting phenomenom. You should not have to buy a lot of equipment to make a good quilt. Look at the Gee's Bend quilts.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quilting with Style: Principles for Great [Quilting] Pattern Design by Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham, American Quilter’s Society, 1993.
The book's content includes identifying quilt styles, choosing quilting designs, drawing up designs and making templates. It covers various styles: straight line, circle, fan, cable, feather, and individual designs. Quilting with Style explains how to enhance your quilt with the quilting and make your work more individual and personal.

[Susan Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource for choosing and designing quilting patterns.

[Candy · Rating 5 out of 5]

It seems this should be a classic in the quilt-book world.
I learned about the actual quilting, not the piecing, which was pretty much all I saw before reading this book. Now I see more depth and detail when I look at a quilt. It was beneficial to read this before our local quilt show. My oh my, I sure do admire those quilters!

[Kristin Shields · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely beautiful quilting in this book. Well worth it, if you can find it. This book is out of print though.