• Just start stitching! Practice free-motion quilting with 24 easy-to-achieve projects • You'll make simple quilts, embellish kitchen towels and clothes, personalize a messenger bag, and so much more • All projects are freehand and require no marking Ready, set, sew! Learn the basics, gather your supplies, pick a project, and start stitching. With a refreshingly new approach to free-motion stitching, First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting encourages you to make something beautiful while improving your free-motion quilting skills. You'll find 24 projects and quilts that are light on assembly so you can spend most of your time stitching. A handy troubleshooting guide ensures success every step of the way.

First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Cameli, Christina

Crafts & Hobbies

C&T Publishing / Stash Books

Improve your free-motion quilting as you sketch new designs―one simple shape at a time. Christina Cameli, best-selling author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting, returns with the perfect companion book to help you quilt unique patterns, using your home machine or longarm. A member of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, Christina infuses her fresh aesthetic and passion for teaching quilters new skills into 80+ innovative free-motion designs. Working from a set of nine simple shapes, such as circles, wavy lines, and loops, she walks you through the basic elements via easy-to-doodle illustrations. Take the design power to your needle as you stitch Christina's favorite continuous-line quilting patterns, ranging from straightforward to striking. If you can doodle, you can do it!

Step-by-Step Free-Motion Quilting: Turn 9 Simple Shapes into 80+ Distinctive Designs • Best-selling author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting

A quick path to a bold quilt design, wedges are versatile and captivating―a must-have shape in the modern quilter's toolbox. Expertly piece this trendy and versatile shape without complicated math or drafting. Sew up 10 distinctive quilts, each with full-size patterns, plus get tips on how to accurately cut and sew wedges. Best-selling author Christina Cameli's wedge quilt patterns are so unique, you'll want to make them all!

Wedge Quilt Workshop: Step-by-Step Tutorials 10 Stunning Projects

Add playful texture to your projects with free-motion quilting that begs to be touched! Gain the confidence to quilt like an artist with best-selling author Christina Cameli's tactile approach to quilting. Try your hand at organic and geometric textures, with step-by-step lessons to 65 designs and 10 variations! Find yourself invigorated to finish projects on your home sewing machine or longarm, whether you're a confident beginner or seasoned pro. Bring out the best in your piecing with free-motion quilting that begs to be touched Think texturally! Improve your quilt's overall impact with a step-by-step guide to quilted texture Perfect to use on home sewing machines and longarms, for advanced beginners and beyond.

Step-by-Step Texture Quilting: 65 New Free-Motion & Walking-Foot Designs

Confidently quilt multiple motifs Start free-motion combination quilting and take your projects to the next level with bestselling author Christina Cameli. Perfect for quilters who are comfortable with allover and repeated designs, this comprehensive guide will build upon these simple skills so that quilters have the confidence to combine designs the way professional quilters do. Learn essential skills like echoing, building up, following along, managing tight spots, moving around the piece, and so much more. Practice important allover designs (spirals, wavy meandering, branching, designs, paisleys, and pebbles) then start your combination journey with both simple and fancy motifs. Try your hand at these 30+ combined designs, and then move to create your very own custom designs and compositions. * Combine simple and allover quilting designs that take quilts to the next level * Build quilt skills with 30+ combined designs * Learn to create infinite unique compositions

Free-Motion Combinations: Unlimited Quilting Designs

C&T Publishing