Doodle Quilting Over 120 Continuous-Line Machine-Quilting Designs [Paperback]

Let Cheryl teach you how to draw with your sewing machine in this beginner???s guide to free-motion, continuous-line quilting. We all know that it is hard to know where to quilt next, so she focuses on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you want to go. Gain confidence in your artistic ability by mastering your doodling skills. Drawing exercises and tips for transferring your designs from paper to fabric are also included.Don't leave your unquilted tops abandoned in a closet! Simple shapes, repeated across your quilt and perhaps combined with other easy designs, can be effortlessly quilted and bring interest and beauty to basic and functional quilts. Cheryl shows how to practice these continuous-line patterns on paper to improve your confidence, and provides over 120 quilting designs with suggestions on how and where they can best be utilized.You'll never be stuck for a quilting motif again with this terrific reference book. The designs are all printed clearly and Cheryl encourages you to place vinyl over the pages and trace and trace until you are confident to transfer to the machine.Cheryl Malkowsi makes it easy to free-motion quilt by mastering your doodling skills! In her beginner???s guide to continuous-line quilting designs, learn how to select the right shapes to get where you need to go; sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next. Squiggles, swirls, flowers, feathers???learn which are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt. Gain confidence in your ability to draw basic shapes, then learn how to put them together into over a hundred all-over quilting designs. Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring designs from paper to fabric.Cheryl Malkowski spends time in her studio creating quilts for books, fabric manufacturers, and her own pattern company. She teaches quilt classes, designs fabric, and this is her fifth book with C&T. Cheryl lives in Roseburg, Oregon