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Foolproof Machine Quilting by Mary Mashuta will let you enjoy creating beautiful machine quilting with your home sewing machine with No Free-Motion Required! Design and stitch beautiful machine quilting the easy way, learning to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want.

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Foolproof Machine Quilting
Learn to use Walking Foot
Use Paper-Cut Patterns for No Marking, No Math
Simple Stitching for Stunning Results

Author: Mary Mashuta
Pages: 63
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
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Create Beautiful Machine Quilting

With Your Home Sewing Machine No Free-Motion Required!

  • Design and stitch beautiful machine quilting the easy way, with the walking foot on your home sewing machine.
  • Learn to combine the right needles, threads and batting to create exactly the look you want.
  • Add style to your machine quilting with heavyweight threads and your machine's built-in decorative stitches.
  • Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs.
  • Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs.

Mary Mashuta About the Author

Mary Mashuta began quilting in the early 1970s and has been teaching quiltmaking internationally since 1985. Her quilts and garments have been in numerous national shows.

Mary began as a hand quilter, but she switched to machine quilting with the walking foot in the 1990s. She prides herself on creating interesting quilting designs with the walking foot and has discovered how to use heavier threads on the top of the machine. Because she never moved on to free-motion quilting, she has been able to help numerous other quilters who are "drop the feed dog" challenged to discover that they can quilt their own quilts with interesting designs without ever doing free-motion quilting.

Mary has two degrees in home economics. This is her sixth book for C&T. She has also written numerous magazine articles. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her sister and fellow quilter, Roberta Horton.

Table of Contents

 
Introduction 4
Chapter 1: Why the Walking Foot for Quilting? 5
Chapter 2: What Can You and Your Machine Do? 7
Chapter 3: Selecting a Project and Supplies 10
Chapter 4: Preparing the Quilt Top 16
Chapter 5: Creating Your Own Quilting Designs 19
Chapter 6: Let's Quilt! 26
Chapter 7: Bordering Your Quilt 47
Resources 62
Index 62
About the Author 63

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C-Shell CD Case
C-Shell

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Fluff & Stuff DVD
Fluff & Stuff

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Grand Finale DVD

by Ricky Tims
Hand Quilting
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Hand Quilting
featuring Andrea Perejda
DVD
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Hand Quilting

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& Speciality Techniques
Clipart on CD
Flower Doodles
Flower Doodles

by Design Originals
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Clipart on CD
Swirls, Doodles, & Dots
Swirls, Doodles & Dots

by Design Originals
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Stencils for Quilting Ideas

Over 45 Designs
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Perfect Hand Quilting Without Pain

by Liuxin Newman
Machine Quilting

Mastering the Art of McTavishing
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD
Machine Quilting
Secrets of Elemental Quilting
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting

Plus Trapunto Tips and Tricks
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD
Machine Quilting
Quilting For Show
Quilting for Show
by Karen McTavish
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Quilting with Home Sewing Machines
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Bold and Beautiful
Bold and Beautiful
Artful Quilts from Just One Fabric
by Judi Dains

cover Foolproof Machine Quilting
Foolproof Machine Quilting

by Mary Mashuta

Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy
Free-Motion Quilting
Made Easy
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Gaudynski's Machine
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by Diane Gaudynsk

Heirloom Machine Quilting
Heirloom Machine Quilting
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by Harriet Hargrave

Joanie's Quilting Elements
Joanie's Quilting Elements

by Joanie Zeier Poole
Machine Quilting Made Easy
Machine Quilting Made Easy
by Maurine Noble
Machine Quilting Solutions
Machine Quilting Solutions
Christine Maraccini
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A Modern Mix

by Anita Shackelford
A Modern  Mix0
A Modern Mix

by Anita Shackelford
One Line at a TIme
One Line at a Time

by Charlotte Warr Anderson
Show Me How to Machine Quilt, A Fun, No-mark Approach
Show Me How to
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A Fun, No-Mark Approach

by Kathy Sandbach
Stitching to Dye in Quilt Art
Stitching to Dye in Quilt Art
Color, Texture and Distortion

by C June Barnes
Out of Print
Quick Look Guide to Choosing BattingQuick Look Guide to Fabric and Quilts
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Caring for Fabric & Quilts
Out of Print
Show Me How to Create Quitling Designs
Show Me How to
Create Quilting Designs
by Kathy Sandbach

Quilting: Decorative by Sewing Machine

 

Bold and Beautiful
Bold and Beautiful
Artful Quilts from Just One Fabric
by Judi Dains

Machine Quilting with Decorative Threads
Machine Quilting with Decorative Threads

by Maurine Noble and Elizabeth Hendricks

Whitework Quilting
by Karen McTavish
Out of Print
Creative Machine Stitching
Creative Machine Stitching
by Patricia Nelson

Quilt-as-You-Go using Home Sewing Machine

Beautiful Quilts as You Go
Beautiful Quilts as You Go

Technique & Designs
by Keryn Emmerson

Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious
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by Gudrun Erla

 

Machine Quilting in Sections
Machine Quilting in Sections

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Reversible Quilts
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Reversible Quilts
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Two-for-One Foundation Piecing

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Volume 6
Quilting Designs
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Continuous Line Designs
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Quilting Designs
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Quilt & Tear
Quilt and Tear
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Helen's Copy & Use Quilting Patterns
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Create with Helen Squire

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Book only

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Quilt and Tear
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Beautiful Quilts as You Go
Beautiful Quilts as You Go

Technique & Designs
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Guide to Machine Quilting
Guide to Machine Quilting

by Diane Gaudynski
  Heirloom Quilted Nursery
Heirloom Quilted Nursery
by Florence Riesen
Machine Quilting Solutions
Machine Quilting Solutions
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Whitework

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Heirloom Quilted Nursery
Heirloom Quilted Nursery
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M indful Meandering
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Follow-the-Line
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Pathways to
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Quilting Inside the Lines
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Twice Quilted
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The Best of Shirley Thompson Quilting Patterns

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Around the World
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by Joyce Mori
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Oodles of Doodles
Oodles of Doodles

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Quilting Designs From the Past
Quilting Designs from the Past

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by Jenny Carr Kinney
Cover: Quilt This
Quilt This!
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Kaleidoscope of Threads
Kaleidoscope of Threads
Pattern
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Pepper Cory Quilting Patterns Collections
Pepper Cory Quilting Pattern Collection
by Pepper Cory
Wholecloth Linen Quilts Patterns and Designs
Wholecloth Linen Quilts Patterns & Designs
by Cindy Needham
Clipart on CD
Flower Doodles
Flower Doodles

by Design Originals
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Clipart on CD
Swirls, Doodles, & Dots
Swirls, Doodles & Dots

by Design Originals
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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

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Includes DVD
Bk w/ DVD
Quilting For Show
Quilting for Show
by Karen McTavish
Includes DVD

Whitework Quilting
by Karen McTavish

Sashiko

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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
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Sensational Sashiko
Sensational Sashiko
Japanese Applique and Quilting by Machine

by Sharon Pederson

Sashiko Style
Sashiko Style
translated by
Yoko Ishiguro
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The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook
The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook
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