Machine Quilting: Block by Block

Are you a beginner quilter, have just completed your first top and feel daunted about how to quilt it? Or have you been quilting for a while yet find the sheer bulk and weight of fitting some quilts in your sewing machine discourages you from quilting them? If so… this is the book for you!

The quilt-as-you-go method became very popular among quilters because of its portability. But for machine quilters, portability isn’t the issue. Weight is. And we often do a better job when machine quilting smaller projects – it is those bed-sized quilts that often lead us to hesitate whether to make the project or not.

This is what Beth Donaldson felt nearly twenty years ago when she decided to try to find a way to machine quilt her projects in a less cumbersome manners. The method she developed and explained in detail in this book makes the process impossibly simple! Best of all, it eliminates the hand finishing required in more traditional quilt-as-you-go methods.

Using twenty-five different pieced blocks suitable for different skill levels, the book begins giving step-by-step instructions on how to assemble and quilt each block. An in-the-ditch quilting suggestion is provided for every block, with diagrams indicating the direction in which to quilt continuously, to avoid having to stop and start all the time.

Once the blocks have been assembled and quilted, the book includes five corner designs and three sashing designs to teach you how to sew your blocks together, quilting the seams as you go. A beautiful color gallery of ten quilts will certainly inspire you, along with the many tips throughout the block aimed at helping you customize your projects.

As if that weren’t enough, the book includes more than two dozen reference charts for batting, borders, sashing, blocks, and yardage. Certainly worth ten times its weight in gold!