Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting

A long-arm quilting machine is a big investment, and a very different way of quilting compared to using a domestic machine. Gina Perkes' book is a guide to getting the best out of a longarm and features a great array of tips and techniques for the novice longarm quilter. In addition to chapters on getting started, freehand techniques, fillers, and block and border designs, marking and more, there is a lovely set of about forty quilting designs which could be useful to all quilters, whether using longarm, midarm or ordinary sewing machines, or even for hand quilters. These designs really are gorgeous and make this book a very good buy.

A long-arm quilting machine is a big investment, and a very different way of quilting compared to using a domestic machine. Gina Perkes' book is a guide to getting the best out of a longarm and features a great array of tips and techniques for the novice longarm quilter. In addition to chapters on getting started, freehand techniques, fillers, and block and border designs, marking and more, there is a lovely set of about forty quilting designs which could be useful to all quilters, whether using longarm, midarm or ordinary sewing machines, or even for hand quilters. These designs really are gorgeous and make this book a very good buy.

This may, on first appraisal, seem like a niche market publication as so few of us have the luxury of a longarm quilting frame let alone the space to put one, but on closer study the book contains numerous tips, including exercises for capturing inspiration and quilt interpretation, which are all relevant to scaled-down home quilting on your standard sweing machine. A very interesting read even though I don't own a longarm quilting frame either!