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    Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder
    Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder
    Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder
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    Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder

    By Sheila Sinclair Snyder

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    Give your quilts the fancy finish they deserve with more than 60 lively continuous-line quilting designs from quilting pro Sheila Sinclair Snyder. Learn to stitch free-form spirals, feathers, flowers, bubbles, leaves, cables, and much more. Sheila shows you how to combine individual motifs into fluid designs for quilting blocks, borders, sashing, and all over the quilt. All designs work equally well on home sewing machines, mid-arm, and long-arm quilting machines, or for hand quilting. Try each motif in three versions: simple, more involved, and fabulously over the top! Includes bonus quilt project that’s perfect for practicing new quilting designs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781607057833
    Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting: Go from Simple to Sensational with Sheila Sinclair Snyder
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    Sheila Sinclair Snyder

    A native Minnesotan, Sheila Sinclair Snyder first learned to quilt from her grandmother, who was a quilter and seamstress. Sheila travels extensively to lecture and teach workshops on longarm quilting. She lives in Oregon.

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      Get Addicted to Free-Motion Quilting - Sheila Sinclair Snyder

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      Introduction

      Free-motion quilting can be accomplished many ways: using a home sewing machine or a shortarm, midarm, or longarm quilting machine. I feel lucky to have a longarm machine that I am as comfortable with as if it were an extension of me. It was a different story when I started in 1999. But it doesn’t take long to learn something new when you immerse yourself in it full-time. Now, I feel like I can quilt much better than I can draw, and that’s directly correlated to how much I do of each.

      I’ve chosen my most original and unique designs for this book. Many of them have evolved over the years from the original few designs I learned when I began quilting. Every design starts as a simple pattern. As I develop some expertise with it, I will begin to think about how it can be embellished and modified to suit other quilts.

      Most designs can also be used in a variety of scales, such as a medium-to-large allover design or a small-to-micro background fill. I also imagine how some part of it might be used as a border or sashing. The combination may or may not be used on the same quilt, but having so many options for using a design that I already know builds the repertoire I have at my disposal.

      Quilt designs have a progression and evolution—each design starts with a basic rendition, then it is modified once or twice to create more complicated designs, and, finally, border and sashing techniques are added. I tend to think about the progression as a series of levels:

      1. Interested

      2. Involved

      3. Addicted!

      Addicted!—Ha-ha! That’s me all right! It’s not a gradual development. It’s full speed ahead. I like to push myself and my students to the next level. So throughout the book, look for the progressions and the added sashing and border designs. I hope you’ll find some fun new inspirations.

      Interested

      Involved

      Addicted!

      The Process

      Supplies

      Quilters have stuff! We are drawn to checking out any new gadget that comes along. Who could deny the advancements that technology and innovation have brought to the industry? So bring it on, all you manufacturers, inventors, and distributors. We’ll test it, use it, collect it, and look forward to the next new thing.

      As a longarm quilter I have an arsenal of tools that are must-haves for me. Space is number one on the list—I need lots of space for my longarm machine. And for those of you who quilt on midarm or home machines, you also need space, especially surface space, so your quilts don’t drag off the quilting table. We all need storage space for batting, quilt

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