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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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MSRP: $~~27.95~~

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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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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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