Free-Motion Mastery in a Month: A Block a Day to Machine Quilting Success

Free-Motion Mastery in a Month will help you build machine-quilting skills and confidence with simple daily exercises, even when you cant be at a sewing machine. Through a graduated series of movement, tracing, sketching and quilting exercises youll build skill upon skill, pattern upon pattern, as you embed the muscle memory and eye-hand coordination to quilt comfortably and confidently. Quilt a block a day, join the pre-quilted blocks and your quilt is finishedincluding the quilting! Whether you quilt at a domestic sewing machine or a longarm, Free-Motion Mastery in a Month will build your free-motion quilting skills now and give you the tools to easily learn new quilting patterns any time, anywhere. RaNaes 25 years experience as a piano teacher inspired this simple, effective system. This second edition adds 28 new pages that make Free-Motion Mastery in a Month even better! It includes: Access to Quilting Yoga videos: This series of easy whole-body movements helps you get into the rhythm, speed and flow of quilting even more quickly. (They're free - see page 42 for how to get them.) Expanded Quilting Guides and Improved Tracing Sheets: Over 15 new pages of detailed instructions for quilting all the patterns on updated Tracing Sheets. (Quilting Guides begin on page 111.) Fast Track: An accelerated path through the most important lessons and patterns will get you quilting in as little as one day! (Youll find the guide on page 43.) What Do I Quilt Where? A new section about choosing designs and placing them on a quilt. (See page 98.) For Longarm Machines: Three different ways to set up a frame-mounted longarm machine for FMM30. (See pages 30 & 31.) Improved Assembly Instructions: These now include how to assemble points more accurately and how to change color in a joining strip. (See Assembling the Quilt, page 100.) Pre-Binding Borders: Bind your quilt much easier and faster by putting bindings on the borders before you attach them to your quilt. (See Pre-Binding Borders, page 104.) More information about thread (page 90), marking your quilt (page 119), cutting joining strips (page 31), and much more.