Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting: What Beginners Should Know Before Starting FMQ + 4 Projects for Beginners to Quilt with Confidence

Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting: What Beginners Should Know Before Starting FMQ + 4 Projects for Beginners to Quilt with Confidence

by Beth Burns
Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting: What Beginners Should Know Before Starting FMQ + 4 Projects for Beginners to Quilt with Confidence

Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting: What Beginners Should Know Before Starting FMQ + 4 Projects for Beginners to Quilt with Confidence

by Beth Burns

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Overview

How to start FMQ and break through the 'stitch-in-the-ditch' barrier, using only your home sewing machine

Are you tired of hand quilting the same patterns over and over again?

Does "drop the feed dogs" paralyze your brain and cramp your fingers?

Do you always feel a lack of control when doing machine quilting?

Are you sick of wasting fabric, thread, and time on traditional quilting?

If your answer is yes, then book is for you.

I, Beth Burns, will teach you the secrets of getting started with FMQ pain-free.

Once you 'get it', you won't go back to other types of quilting.

It's like riding a bicycle, once you learn it, you can do it for the rest of your life.

Inside this you will discover:

  • How to make your first FMQ design in 6 steps
  • A 5-minute 'hack' to come up with your own quilt design and save yourself from 'quilter's block'
  • How to make quilt designs on your home sewing machine
  • The top 5 tips you should know before starting your next quilting project
  • The secret to getting the borders and sashes of your quilts to your liking
  • How to fill in background space with free-motion quilting, even if you're out of ideas
  • A free-motion quilting Christmas special design
  • Here are the answers to some questions you might have about this book:

    Q: I just have a regular sewing machine at home, not one of those fancy long-arm machines. Can I use this book to learn FMQ?

    A: Yes, this book is designed for someone with a regular home sewing machine.

    All patterns are beginner-friendly and can be made at home using your existing sewing machine.

    Q: My ability to decide how to fill quilting space is limited. How do I overcome this?

    A: I too faced the same problem when I first started, there is a key to solving this problem of 'quilter's block', and I reveal it inside this book.

    Q: I have always felt that machine quilting is too hard for me. Is your book beginner-friendly?

    A: As I said before, FMQ is like riding a bicycle or driving a car for the first time. This book ensures that you learn the basics and never fall off of your FMQ bike!

    I encourage and power up the reader to break through the stitch-in-the-ditch barrier.

    A beginner can go from the very first step of popping up the bobbin thread to creating fabulous whole-cloth quilts, using what I reveal inside this book.

    Every day that you delay is another day you are stuck in the pre-free-motion world, left only with a small amount of possibilities of what you can do with your quilts.

    Take action now and let your imagination free.

    Scroll up and add this book to your cart!


    Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9781951035815
    Publisher: Craftmills Publishing LLC
    Publication date: 12/18/2020
    Pages: 150
    Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.32(d)

    Table of Contents

    Introduction iv

    Chapter 1 Features of a Free-Motion Quilting Machine 6

    Chapter 2 Needles and Thread 14

    Chapter 3 Stitching in a Ditch 26

    Chapter 4 Marking and Stencils 41

    Chapter 5 Preparation of Quilting Machine 50

    Chapter 6 Baste Your Quilt 61

    Chapter 7 The First Stitches 70

    Chapter 8 Tension 86

    Chapter 9 Getting Started 96

    Chapter 10 Making Your First Design 104

    Chapter 11 Filler Designs 117

    Chapter 12 How to Make Sashes and Borders 127

    Chapter 13 Free-Motion Quilting Christmas Special 133

    Inspiring Gallery of Finished Quilts 142

    Final Words 147

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