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If you love hand quilting and are intrigued by the lure of machine quilting then A Modern Mix by Anita Shackelford can show you how to try both in the same quilt. Mix and match quilting motifs and quilting techniques as each enhances the other with the quilting projects that provide plenty of opportunity to try this delightful melding of techniques.

 

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A Modern Mix
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Author: Anita Shackelford
Pages: 111
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
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Weight: 1.1 lbs

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Hand or Machine Quilting? Try both in the same quilt!

  • Love hand quilting? Intrigued by the lure of machine quilting? Combine the time-honored beauty of fine hand quilting with the modern convenience of machine stitching. This famed hand quilter can show you how!
  • Mix and match quilting motifs and quilting techniques as each enhances the other.
  • Quilting projects—from small to large and from simple to complex—provide plenty of opportunity to try out this delightful melding of techniques.

 

About the Author

Anita Shackelford has been a quiltmaker since 1967 and began teaching in 1980. She is an internationally recognized teacher and lecturer who loves combining appliqué and fine hand quilting to create new quilts in nineteenth-century style. She also enjoys using her sewing machine for many parts of the creative process and has recently added longarm quilting to the mix.

Anita has been featured on several television programs, including American Quilter, Kaye's Quilting Friends, Linda's Electric Quilters, and Simply Quilts. Her work and antique quilts from her collection have been featured in several gallery and museum exhibits.

Her quilts have been exhibited in shows across the United States, in Australia, and Japan, winning many awards including twelve Best of Show and many for workmanship. Two of her quilts have received the Mary Krickbaum Award for best hand quilting at National Quilting Association shows. Her quilts have been published in many magazines and books.

Anita is the author of Three Dimensional Appliqué and Embroidery Embellishment: Techniques For Today's Album Quilt; Anita Shackelford: Surface Textures, Appliqué with Folded Cutwork; Coxcomb Variations; and Infinite Feathers, all published by American Quilter's Society.

Books and quilting tools marketed under her own business name, Thimble Works, include Ohio Collection, Pennsylvania Plain & Fancy, RucheMark ruching guides, Berries, Grapes & Tendrils, and the Infinite Feathers Design Template.

Anita travels extensively, teaching and lecturing for shops, guilds and quilting conferences. She is a quilt judge, certified by NQA and qualified to judge Masterpiece quilts. She has been involved in judging shows at local, regional and national levels, and serves as program coordinator and faculty member of NQA's Quilt Judging Seminar.

 

Table of Contents

 
Introduction 6
Planning the Quilt: A Good Mix 8
Preparing the Quilt Top 22
Layering and Basting the Quilt 22
Background Patterns 24
Echo 24
Grid 26
Diamond Grid 27
Three-quarter Grid 28
Hanging Diamonds 28
Spiral 29
Clamshells 30
Free-form 31
Meander 31
Quilting by the Fabric Print 33
Machine Quilting for the Timid 33
Border Designs 36
Straight Lines 36
Ribbon 36
Cable 39
Star and Cable 40
Diamond and Cable 40
Swag and Tassel 41
Grid 41
Picket Fence 43
Vine 45
Wave 46
Special Techniques 49
Trapunto 49
Stipple Quilting 52
Computer-Controlled Designs 54
Show-Quality Quilting 57
Projects 60
Wholecloth Pillow 61
Hunter's Square 64
Christmas Star Table Runner 79
Gingerbread Men 82
Feathered Star 87
Arizona Sunflower 95
My Heart to Yours 99
Tropical Breezes 105
Bibliography 109
Resources 110
About the Author 111

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My Heart to Yours

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