Free-Motion Quilting Workbook

Angela Walters Shows You How!

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Stash Books

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8.0" x 10.0"

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9781607058168

Angela Walters ––

If you can sketch it, you can stitch it! The master of free-motion quilting teaches you everything you need to know in this hands-on workbook!

• The master of free-motion quilting, Angela Walters, teaches you everything you need to know
• Just doodle and have fun! Not your typical how-to manual - this guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter!
• Practice sketching in a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders, and negative space

If you can sketch it, you can stitch it. Inside this interactive workbook, professional quilter, Angela Walters, shows you how to plan and practice free-motion quilting. Guided by her expert tips and suggestions, your creative juices will flow as you doodle designs of entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. The workbook pages have plenty of line-art shapes and inspiring photographs to help get you started. There’s also a bonus section of graph paper to plan your own quilt designs. So, go ahead, start sketching!

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5
Unleash Your Creative Side

Posted by Quiltmaker Magazine, Sept/Oct 14 on Jul 13th 2021

Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters' Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Amanda's simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.
5
Sensible advice

Posted by Workshop on the Web September 2014 on Jul 13th 2021

This is a slim book (about half the pages are graph paper for sketching and planning) but despite its short length, it is a great book to assist in tackling free-motion stitching if you are not confident. I always enjoy Angela Walters’s books because they take you through patterns and methods of stitching that offer sensible advice about how to improve your stitching skill set. This book is great for that. It looks at how sketching your pattern before machine stitching can help you map out what an entire quilt can look like (without leaving it to chance) and improve the quality of that stitching. She explores different ways of looking at a quilt in order to create different design areas and layouts so that you can choose which will suit your sewing style and the required pattern. Looking at blocks as a way of repeating pattern, using contrast to highlight portions of a quilt and breaking down a quilt pattern into its component pieces are all explored, and helpfully followed with pages for sketching to see how you have responded to each section. Patterns for borders (with suggestions of the best suited stitching for this area), using negative space to add movement or extend and connect the piecing in a quilt are explored, as are the extension of basic quilting designs into something new and exciting. All this culminates in examples of 27 free-motion quilting designs and then you are left to your own devices to take this advice and put it into practice on the book’s worksheets. Although this is a short book, it is a hands-on approach to developing stitching ideas and planning out your approach to free-motion stitching more thoroughly. In this area, Angela Walters shows great expertise.
5
Unleash Your Creative Side

Posted by Quiltmaker Magazine, Sept/Oct 14 on Jul 10th 2015

Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters' Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Amanda's simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.
4
Free motion quilting

Posted by Unknown on Nov 25th 2014

I like the book and I can get many ideas for my next quilt without scratching my head on what to do.
4
Free motion quilting

Posted by Unknown on Nov 25th 2014

I like the book and I can get many ideas for my next quilt without scratching my head on what to do.
5
I am not a doodler, this book really helps.

Posted by Cheri Barker on Oct 9th 2014

Somewhere in school, my teachers convinced me I couldn't draw, so I stopped doodling, I guess I became afraid of the criticism. So doing free motion quilting, practicing a design before I stitched it, hasn't come easily for me. Angela has broken down how to do the different patterns so you can focus on just one thing, making it easier for non doodlers. She has great sections for you to practice just one thing, then pages to start exploring and opening up to the wonder of possibilities. The sketch pages have grids, so if you need a guideline for your pebbles for example you have one. A great resource to get me out of my straight line rut!