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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

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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 lb
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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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