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Karen McTavish's intuitive quilting insight and her helpful award-winning techniques for wholecloth and trapunto are found in Whitework Quilting. Whatever your personal skill level, this book will change your appreciation of whitework and trapunto quilts forever.

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Whitework Quilting
Creative Techniques For Designing Wholecloth and Adding Trapunto to your Quilts

Author: Karen McTavish
Pages: 192
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: On-Word Bound Books
Cover: Hard
Item Code: 4N3225
Weight: 2.3 lB

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Learn to use architecture to inspire your designs
Design an Heirloom wholecloth
Understand color and shadow trapunto
Add these techniques to enhance your pieced quilts

About the Author

Longarm machine quilting allows Karen to combine her two passions: Wholecloth and Trapunto. Karen specializes in crafting award-winning quilts using techniques which allow machine quilters to replicate traditional "hand quilted" effects. She has been featured on PBS's Quilt Central and HGTV's Simply Quilts. Her work has appeared in Joanne Line's books, Quilts from the Quilt Makers Gift #1 and #2, and numerous national magazines and journals. Karen has been a full-time professional longarm quilter since 1997 - supporting herself and her family through her craft

Karen lives on Lake Superior's North Shore, quilting and teaching from her studio and throughout the country. She has two children, Ally and Storm.

Introduction	8
Architectural Inspiration	11
Supplies, Materials, Tools and Equipment	34
Wholecloth	42
Trapunto	88
Appliqué & Pieced Quilts	150
McTavishing	184
Resources	185
Acknowledgments	189
Glossary	190
Index	191
About the Author	192

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Quilting Design Ideas

Karen McTavish, Expert Longarm Quilter

Ideas very adaptable to Hand or Home Sewing Machines
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Mastering the Art of McTavishing
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The Secrets of Elemental Quilting
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by Karen McTavish
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Quilting for Show
by Karen McTavish
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Whitework Quilting
by Karen McTavish

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Foolproof Machine Quilting byMary Mashuta	Guide to Machine Quilting by Diane Gaudynski	Machine Quilting Solutions Christine Maraccini	Show me how to Plan My Quilting by Kathy Sandbach
Feathers & Grand Flourishes	Infinite Feathers by Anita Shackelford	The Art of Feather Quilting by Judy Allen	Hooked on Feathers by Sally Terry	More Antique Quilting Designs by Roberta Benvin
Filler Stitching	Mindful Meandering by Laura Lee Fritz	Creative Classics 250 Playful Continuous-:Line Quilting Designs by Laura Lee Fritz	Add-a-Line Exteme Quilting Patterns by Jani Donaldson	Add A Line by Janie Donaldson
Quilting Possibilities Freehand Filler Patterns	Pathways to Better Quilting by Sally Terry	Twice Quilted Continous-Line Quilting Designs by Glorianne Cubbage	Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs Volume Two by Mary Covey	Follow-the-Line Quilting Designs by Mary Covey
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Themed Designs	The Best of Shirley Thompson Quilting Patterns by Cheryl Barnes	Around the World Quilting Designs by Joyce Mori	Book Oodles of Doodles by Tonya Bates, Andrea Gibson, Donna Goss, Emily Adams, and Jaime Echt
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