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The information and easy designs in Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy by Eva A. Larkin will provide you with a method that produces consistent, good-looking results. It puts you, the quilter, back in control. Also included is a troubleshooting guide that provides answers to common problems that come up while free-motion quilting.

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Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy
186 Designs from 8 Simple Shapes

Author: Eva A. Larkin
Pages: 96
Page size: 8.5" W X 11" H
Publisher: Martingale and Patchwork Place
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Turn simple lines into fabulous designs! Start with basic loops, ovals, diamonds, triangles and other familiar shapes and pair them in unique combinations to create dozens of block-based designs.

Step-by-step instructions, practice exercises and loads of hints and tips make it easy to achieve great results. Now you can create your own quilting designs—they don't have to be complicated or intricate to be effective!

See delightful designs take shape!

Author Eva A. LarkinAbout the Author

Eva Larkin started quilting in 1999 while living in Australia. It wasn't until she moved back to the States in 2002, that she took her first free-motion quilting class. For the next several years she bought whatever books she could find on the subject and took any additional classes she could find. In 2003 she started working in a quilt store and soon found herself teaching classes on free-motion quilting. Her quilting on store samples was noticed and a small quilting business slowly emerged. It was during her time as a professional quilter that she started to develop and teach free-motion quilting designs that could be successfully quilted on a domestic sewing machine, which she used in her business instead of a long-arm quilting machine. Her goal was to develop designs that the everyday quilter, like herself, could consistently quilt without spending a lot of time practicing and marking the quilt.

She truly believes that everyone who wants to can free-motion quilt and achieve good results. Eva continues to dream up new designs for free-motion quilting in addition to teaching and quilting professionally.

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Introduction 7
Getting Started 8
Free-Motion Quilting Basics 9
Putting It All Together - Exercises 16
From Simple Shapes to Stunning Designs 20
Oval 23
Loop 23
Lopsided Figure Eight 24
Tulip 24
Heart 25
Triangle 25
Diamond 26
Flower 26
Lopsided Figure Eight with a Twist 27
Heart with a Loop 28
Diamond with a Loop 29
Diamond with a Loop and a Twist 29
Doubled Designs 30
Mix and Match Designs 35
What and Where to Quilt 74
Gallery 85
Troubleshooting 94
About the Author 96

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