The Quilting Bible: The Complete Photo Guide to Machine Quilting (Expanded Edition)

Loaded with helpful hints, unique projects, and inspiring ideas, the expanded edition of The Quilting Bible is a valuable resource for today's quilter. The Quilting Bible is both a technique book and a project book, featuring over 1000 color photos. It covers all the techniques that beginning and intermediate quilters need, such as quick cutting and piecing methods and both machine-guided and free-motion quilting. It also contains 40 complete projects including traditional and contemporary full-sized quilts as well as garments and home decor accessories.

This expanded edition adds 64 pages of embellished quilts featuring such popular techniques as decorative threads, beads, embroidery, and applique. More than ever, The Quilting Bible is the foundation resource for traditional machine quilting.

40 step-by-step projects with photos!

• Block-pieced wall hangings, lap quilts, and bed quilts
• Pillows, placemats, and table runners
• Twin-size sampler quilt with nine related projects
• Quilted garments and fashion accessories
• Quilts embellished with beadwork, ribbon embroidery, appliques, and decorative stitching

Features all you need to know about quilting by machine:

• Quilting terms and what they mean
• Choosing the right tools and supplies
• Arranging your work space
• Calculations and diagrams for designing your own quilts
• Selecting fabrics and battings
• Rotary cutting
• Quick piecing methods
• Blocks sewn from squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, and curves
• Creative sashings, borders, and bindings
• Marking, layering, and basting
• Techniques for machine-guided and free-motion quilting
• How to hang a quilt
• Proper cleaning and storing methods

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