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    Inspired Free-Motion Quilting: 90 Antique Designs Reinterpreted for Today’s Quilter
    Inspired Free-Motion Quilting: 90 Antique Designs Reinterpreted for Today’s Quilter
    Inspired Free-Motion Quilting: 90 Antique Designs Reinterpreted for Today’s Quilter
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    Inspired Free-Motion Quilting: 90 Antique Designs Reinterpreted for Today’s Quilter

    By Bill Volckening and Amanda Leins

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    Borrow from history for your next quilt with ninety free-motion quilting designs reinterpreted from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quilts. Honor the elegance of the past with collector Bill Volckening and quilter Mandy Leins, who modernizes motifs such as the orange peel, feathers, and quatrefoil into continuous-lines designs that are perfect for all of today's quilts. Plus, learn tips for marking, combining motifs, and quilting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781617456503
    Inspired Free-Motion Quilting: 90 Antique Designs Reinterpreted for Today’s Quilter
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    Bill Volckening

    Bill Volckening is an avid quilt collector who studied at Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts and New York University. Quilts from his collection have appeared in publications and exhibits worldwide. He lives in Portland, Oregon. billvolckening.com

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      Book preview

      Inspired Free-Motion Quilting - Bill Volckening

      Introduction

      What do you get when you team an award-winning longarm quilter with a collector who has nearly 500 quilts spanning four centuries? A book full of free-motion quilting designs inspired by classic antique textiles.

      Coauthors Mandy Leins and Bill Volckening live 3,000 miles apart, but they see each other virtually every day on Facebook. They chat about everything from thrift store finds to the edge finishing details of early quilts. Both of them see old quilts as a rich source of inspiration. Sometimes they send each other links to auctions and quilts for sale.

      Have you ever seen this pattern before? asks Mandy, sending a link to a recent eBay auction. Not sure, says Bill, but it looks like a variant on the Chimney Sweep or Album Patch, with the darks and lights in different places. A few minutes later, Mandy produces several repeat block patterns she created with secondary designs, all from the one inspiration block. Talk about learning things from old quilts!

      Mandy’s education in classical archaeology gives her a broad view of antiquities when studying old quilts. Bill has plenty of old quilts to study. The inspiration quilts they chose are simply spectacular.

      For this book, they focused on a select group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quilts. They saw potential for free-motion quilting designs in many places, but the early quilts have some of the most whimsical, original designs.

      The oldest ones in the book were made in the period of 1790 to 1810 in New England. They are sturdy quilts made of home-loomed, hand-dyed wools with hand-quilted botanical motifs and feathers filled with grids, diamonds, and diagonal parallel lines. Made entirely by hand of available materials, they are earthy but very elegant.

      Candlewick Counterpane, cotton, unknown maker, eastern United States, c. 1825, 83˝ × 86˝

      (For quilting designs, see Candlewick Counterpane.)

      The book includes designs from embroidery, found in a stunning 1820’s candlewick counterpane; stuffed work or trapunto present in a pair of quilts with large willow trees in the center; and quilting designs seen in an early geometric pieced quilt from Rhode Island. There are also designs from appliqué quilts, such as the stellar 1850’s Album with Lyre Quilt from West Virginia. These quilts represent the very best of the early patchwork and quilting traditions in America.

      With the exception of one very special quilt, Mandy created drawings for the free-motion patterns from photos. The one exception was an unusual nineteenth-century appliqué quilt Bill found in Portland while vintage shopping.

      Four Block Appliqué Quilt, cottons, unknown maker, Eastern United States, found in Oregon, c. 1850, 73˝ × 73˝

      (For quilting designs, see Four Block Appliqué Quilt.)

      It was a rescue quilt in poor condition and was dirt-cheap, but there was something great about it. Bill bought the quilt and sent it to Mandy as a study piece for the book. He thought it would be beneficial if she experienced at least one quilt in the cloth while creating the drawings for this book.

      Mandy thought it was very interesting. At first glance, she hadn’t seen a design like that before.

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