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In A Fine Line by Melody Crust and Heather Waldron Tewell, offers expert guidance to creating the quilting design that is appropriate to your skill level in hand or machine quilting and the style of your quilt top be it traditional or contemporary.

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A Fine Line
Techniques and Inspirations for Creating the Quilting Design

Author: Melody Crust and Heather Waldron Tewell
Pages: 149
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 1/2"
Publisher: The Quilt Digest Press
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4N0455
Weight: 1.9 lbs.

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A Fine Line will help you quilt any design with confidence. With expert guidance on hand and machine quilting techniques, you will soon stitch any design with ease—a simple crosshatch, graceful curves, complex shapes, and even delicate feathers.

About the Authors

A lifelong fascination with fabric and color led Melody Crust to a career in quiltmaking. An award-winning quilter, she has exhibited her quilts in major national shows. She has also juried and curated regional and national exhibitions. A seasoned teacher, she has led workshops on all aspects of quilt making for beginning and advanced quilters alike. Melody quilts as comfortably by hand as by machine, and her classes on creating the quilting design have encouraged hundreds of quilters to quilt their unfinished tops. Melody's quilts and writing have been featured in books as well as in several specialty magazines including Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Art/Quilt Magazine, Patchwork Quilts, and Fiber Arts International. Melody and her husband photographer Charles Crust live in Kent, Washington

Creativity and mastery of technique have been the foundation for Heather Waldron Tewell's success as a quilt artist. Her quilts have been juried into such prestigious shows as Quilt National 2001 ( Athens,Ohio) and VISIONS (San Diego, California) and have won national awards. Heather has taught workshops in hand quilting and appliqué throughout western Washington and in British Columbia and has developed a unique class to help students understand how to apply principles of art to their hand- or machine- quilting designs. Heather's articles on quilt-making topics have appeared in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Art/Quilt Magazine,American Quilter, Quilt World, and Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts. Her quilts have been featured in several books. Heather lives with her family in Anacortes, Washington.

 

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Table of Contents

Preface
vii
In Review
58
Acknowledgements
ix
Let's Play Quilt: Wild Rose
59
Chapter One: BEGINNING
1
Chapter Five: PLANNING THE DESIGN
63
Creating the Quilting
2
Highlighting the Quilting
64
Comparing Hand and Machine Quilting
2
Possibilities for Design Placement
65
Training the Eye to See Quilting Designs
3
Borders
73
Sources of Inspiration
5
Evaluate the Quilt Top
76
In Review
7
Repetition as a Design Tool
84
Chapter Two: GOALS OF QUILTING
9
Combination of Design Motifs
89
Preliminaries
10
In Review
89
A Question of Style
11
Let's Play Quilt: Red Hot
90
General Goals of the Quilting
16
Chapter Six: BATTING, BACKING, AND THREAD
93
In Review
24
Batting
94
Let's Play Quilt: American Pie
25
Backing
101
Chapter Three: EXPLORING A SIMPLE LINE
29
Thread
103
Visibility
30
In Review
110
Character
36
Let's Play Quilt: Blue Jeans
111
Length
40
Chapter Seven: MARKING AND BASTING
115
Direction
43
Marking
116
Scale
43
Ways to Approach Marking
118
In Review
45
Techniques for Not Marking
119
Let's Play Quilt: Lemonade
46
Basting
123
Chapter Four: ADDING SHAPE TO THE MIX
49
Let's Play Quilt: Peppermint
128
Simple Shapes
50
Chapter Eight: BINDINGS, LABELS, AND SLEEVES
133
Multiple Shapes
52
Bindings
134
Complex Shapes
53
Labels: Plain and Fancy
140
Shapes and Filler Patterns
53
Sleeves
143
Proportion
55
In Review
144
Placement
56
Let's Play Quilt: Lollipop
145
Shapes by Hand or Machine
56
Bibliography
149

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Quilt and Tear on a Roll
Quilt and Tear
on a Roll

Use to trace designs for quilting or paper piecing
Preview Overlay
Quilter's Vinyl
Quilter's Vinyl

by C&T Publishing
Quilting Designs,
Appliqué Overlays, Crafts
Preview, Overlay
Preview Paper
CLEAR
Quilter's Preview Paper
by Quilter's Touch
use with quilting lines & appliqué
 
Standalone EQ Software
The Quiltmaker Collection Vol 4
The Quiltmaker
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Volume 4
Standalone EQ Software

The Quiltmaker Collection
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Add a Line Extreme Quilting Designs
Add-a-Line Exteme Quilting Patterns
by Jani Donaldson
All About Trapunto
All About Trapunto

by Donna Friebertshauser
Fine Line Cover
A Fine Line
Creating the Quilting Design

by Melody Crust &
Heather Waldron Tewell
Add-a-Line Quilting Patterns
Add A Line

by Janie Donaldson
The Art of Feather Quilting
The Art of Feather Quilting
by Judy Allen
Best of Shirley Thompson Quilting Patterns
The Best of Shirley Thompson Quilting Patterns

by Cheryl Barnes
Beautiful Quilts as You Go
Beautiful Quilts as You Go
Technique & Designs by Keryn Emmerson
Creative Classics
Creative Classics
250 Playful Continuous-:Line Quilting Designs
by Laura Lee Fritz
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Oodles of Doodles
Oodles of Doodles

by Tonya Bates, Andrea Gibson, Donna Goss, Emily Adams, and Jaime Echt
Exploring Machine Trapunto, New Dimensions
Exploring Machine Trapunto
New Dimensions

by Hari Walner
follow the line volume two
Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs Volume Two
by Mary Covey
Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs
Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs

by Mary Covey
Guide to Machine Quilting
Guide to Machine Quilting

by Diane Gaudynski
Infinite Feathers
Infinite Feathers
by Anita Shackelford
Kaleidoscope of Threads
Kaleidoscope of Threads
Pattern
by Sue Patten
Machine Quilting Solutions
Machine Quilting Solutions
Christine Maraccini
M indful Meandering
Mindful Meandering
by Laura Lee Fritz
More Antique Quilting Designs
More Antique Quilting Designs
by Roberta Benvin
Pathways to Better Quilting
Pathways to Better Quilting

by Sally Terry
Pepper Cory Quilting Patterns Collections
Pepper Cory Quilting Pattern Collection
by Pepper Cory
quilting dot to dot
Quilting Dot to Dot
by Cheryl Barnes
Quilting Inside the Lines
Quilting Inside the Lines
by Pam Clarke
Quilting Possibilities
Quilting Possibilities Freehand Filler Patterns
by Sue Patten

Show me how to Plan My Quilting

by Kathy Sandbach
Twice Quilted
Twice Quilted Continous-Line Quilting Designs
by Glorianne Cubbage
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Wholecloth Linen Quilts Patterns & Designs
by Cindy Needham
Winning Stitches
Winning Stitches

by Elsie M. Campbel
   

Quilting Designs
by Helen Squire

some with CDs for Mac & PC

 

Helen's Copy & Use Quilting Patterns
Helen's Print and Use Quilting Patterns CD

Helen's Copy & Use Quilting Patterns
Book and/or CD
Create with Helen Squire, Book and CD
Create with Helen Squire

Book and/or CD
Book only

Helen's Mix and Match Quilting Patterns
 

Quilting Design Ideas

Karen McTavish, Expert Longarm Quilter

Ideas very adaptable to Hand or Home Sewing Machines

Bk w/ DVD

Mastering the Art of McTavishing
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD
Bk w/ DVD
Secrets of Elemental Quilting
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting

Plus Trapunto Tips and Tricks
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD
Bk w/ DVD
Quilting For Show
Quilting for Show
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD

Whitework Quilting
by Karen McTavish

Sashiko

(Japanese Stitching Technique & Designs)

Japanese Country Quilting
Japanese Country Quilting
by Karen Kim Matsunaga
Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match
Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match
by Susan Briscoe
sashiko
Sashiko
Japanese Traditional Hand Stitching
by Ai Takeda
Sashiko Style
Sashiko Style
translated by
Yoko Ishiguro

 

Sensational Sashiko
Sensational Sashiko
Japanese Applique and Quilting by Machine

by Sharon Pederson

Out of Print
Show Me How to Create Quitling Designs
Sashiko
Decorative Machine Embroidery
by Mary Parker

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