Machine Quilting with Style: From Walking-Foot Wonders to Free-Motion Favorites

by Christa Watson

Quilt along with Christa using walking-foot or free-motion techniques to create fabulous quilts--from start to finish--on your home sewing machine. Award-winning quilter Christa Watson shows you how with 8 different walking-foot designs and 10 free-motion quilting motifs, plus 12 inventive patterns to put all the quilting techniques to use!
Go beyond quilting in the ditch--quilt parallel lines, radiating lines, and shattered lines as you turn straight stitches into walking-foot wonders that wow! Love the look of free-motion quilting but not sure where to begin? Start with simple stipples and expand your repertoire to include wandering waves, boxes, pebbles, loops, and many more. Discover Christa's top tips for machine-quilting success and learn to use quilting designs to enhance each part of the quilt, whether you're making a baby quilt, wall quilt, or throw.Video

Genres: Quilting, Sewing, Reference, Crafts

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 11, 2015

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book on machine quilting. lots of examples and the instructions are very clear

[Verylazydaisy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most perfect guide for any new quilter who wants to learn how to quilt their own quilts. Christa Watson takes you step by step through the process, with easy to follow instructions and encouragement. She hits all the important points that I've stressed to my own students and I found myself nodding in agreement while reading her tips and helpful hints. I will be recommending this book to everyone I meet who asks about learning to quilt on a home sewing machine. I love the layout of the book. Each pattern is introduced by first showing a close up, keeping the main focus on the actual quilting process.. Then you turn the page to see the full picture of the quilt. Christa has many quilt patterns in this book that I can't wait to make!

[Frances Dowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a delinquent review--I first read Christa's book last year, soon after it was published. It's a perfect book for beginning machine quilters, and a great book for those of us who are trying to get better.

I recently took out Machine Quilting with Style a few weeks ago when I was in the process of quilting a number of quilts and needed good ideas for good-looking, fairly straightforward quilting designs. I found exactly what I was looking for! I also needed a bit of a refresher course in certain quilting techniques and this book provided amply.

So thanks, Christa, for helping me in my time of quilting need! I highly recommend this book for beginning and advanced beginner machine quilters. Big plus: lots of cute quilt patterns!

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I follow Christa Watson's blog, so I was looking forward to her book and was not disappointed. Half the book is devoted to quilting with a walking foot, and half to free-motion quilting. All of the quilting examples are accompanied by original quilt patterns to make and enjoy. She has also included a nice section on quilting basics, including a really good section on binding a quilt. Highly recommended.

[Noreen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book -- she describes machine quilting in easy, simple terms and gives the reader several very nice projects. I want to do two of the projects already! Best of all, she takes you through to binding your quilt, which many authors leave out.