Free-Motion Quilting Workbook

Angela Walters Shows You How!

Published by Stash Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $17.95

About The Book

If you can sketch it, you can stitch it! The master of free-motion quilting teaches you everything you need to know in this hands-on workbook!

• The master of free-motion quilting, Angela Walters, teaches you everything you need to know
• Just doodle and have fun! Not your typical how-to manual - this guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter!
• Practice sketching in a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders, and negative space

If you can sketch it, you can stitch it. Inside this interactive workbook, professional quilter, Angela Walters, shows you how to plan and practice free-motion quilting. Guided by her expert tips and suggestions, your creative juices will flow as you doodle designs of entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. The workbook pages have plenty of line-art shapes and inspiring photographs to help get you started. There’s also a bonus section of graph paper to plan your own quilt designs. So, go ahead, start sketching!

About The Author

Angela Walters is a machine quilter and author who loves teaching others to use quilting to bring out the best in their quilt tops. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, and she is the author of several books. She lives in Kansas City, MO. quiltingismytherapy.com

Product Details

  • Publisher: Stash Books (May 1, 2014)
  • Length: 80 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781607058168

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Raves and Reviews

This guided sketchbook, by the master of free-motion quilting, will teach you everything you need to know. Angela’s methods will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will make you a better quilter. Just doodle and have fun creating entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. There are plenty of line-art shapes and photographs to inspire you. As an added bonus, there is a section of graph paper to get you started.

– Quilter's Digest

Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters offers approachable quilting designs that are perfect for modern quilters, but also are interesting and inspiring to traditional and art quilters as well. Practice and polish those skills with Angela’s newest release Free-Motion Quilting Workbook.

– American Quilt Retailer

“Free-Motion Quilting Workbook” is a logical extension of “Free-Motion Quilting With Angela Walters.” In this book you are free to just doodle and have fun. This guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter. Plan your quilting by sketching a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders and negative space. To aid in your planning and sketching, the book features pages of graph paper. As you work through the book you will find yourself filling the pages with ideas and drawings of quilting designs.

– The Applique Society Newsletter

A great new book. It's full of great ideas and loads of graph paper for doodling quilting designs.

– Creative Gypsy

Quilty Playbook – Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters’ Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Angela’s simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.

– Quiltmaker Magazine

Make no mistake, this slim book is small in pages but it’s brimming with tips and ideas for free-motion quilting from machine quilting superstar Angela Walters. Angela describes her book as a “guided sketchbook, not a how-to book”; she hopes to get your creative juices flowing and encourages you to train your brain by sketching. This exercise will help you plan and solve issues before you commit stitches to your quilt. Angela is such a sketching advocate that pages of graph paper are included in the book as well!Angela includes drawings, diagrams, and photos of her own work both as illustration and inspiration. She focuses on different areas of a quilt – blocks, borders, negative space – with ideas, examples, and tips for quilting each one. With Angela’s gentle manner and encouragement, if you can sketch it, you can quilt it.

– International Quilt Festival Quilt Scene Magazine

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