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Alex Anderson has created Machine Quilting with Alex Anderson to give quilters the basic skills they need to 'take the plunge', along with exercises and quilts to practice them on. Alex offers encouragement, she says if she can do this, so can you! If you are new to machine quilting this is the book for you.

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Machine Quilting with Alex Anderson
7 Exercises, Projects & Full-Size Quilting Patterns

Author: Alex Anderson
Pages: 55
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: C & T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4N0300
Weight: 0.8 lb

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Machine Quilting is a Snap When Alex Shows You How!

7 exercises and 7 projects teach you everything from easy straight-line quilting to stippling to more complex motifs
Create lovely traditional quilts using the full-size quilting patterns
Alex makes it easy with expert tips and techniques on everything from workspace set up to perfecting the quilting stitch

About the Author

Alex Anderson's love affair with quiltmaking began in 1978, when she completed her Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt as part of her work toward a degree in art at San Francisco State University. Over the years, her focus has rested on understanding fabric relationships and on an intense appreciation for traditional quilting surface design and star quilts.

For eleven years, Alex hosted television's premier quilt show, Simply Quilts, and is spokesperson for Bernina of America. Her quilts have appeared in numerous magazines, often in articles devoted specifically to her work.

Alex has two children and lives in Northern California with her husband,, their cat and the challenges of feeding various forms of wildlife in her backyard.

Table of Contents
Introduction	4
The Equipment	5
Sewing Machine
Needles
Threads
Marking Tools
Gloves and Other Goodies
Batting and Pins for Basting
Preparing the Environment	11
Your Physical Setup
Mental Preparation: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Preparing the Quilt	13
Marking
Basting
Getting Started	16
Adjusting the Tension
Planning a Stitching Strategy
Handling Bulk
Starting and Stopping
Anchoring
Techniques and Practice Exercises	21
Straight-Line Quilting
Simple-Curve Quilting
Free-Motion Quilting
Warm-Up Exercise
Projects
Perfect Practice Placemats	28
Floral Fiesta	31
All Geese a' Flying	34
Scrappy Nine Patch	37
'Round the Twist	41
Straight Furrows	44
Basket in Blue	48
General Instructions	50
Recommended Reading	54
Resources	54
About the Author	55

Instruction Page

Scrappy Nine Patch All Geese A'Flying

Floral Fiesta Perfect Practice Placemats

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