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From the back cover.
In her first book, the the irrepressible Robbi, known for her award-winning art quilts as well as her side-splitting first-person columns in Quilting Arts Magazine, shares her techniques for designing, fusing, and finishing quilts so you, too, can create fiber masterpieces - without an art degree or even knowing how to draw.
The full-color book features many of Robbi's popular quilts and patterns as well as chapters on:
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Fused applique process
(save your machine for the quilting)
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Free-motion quilting techniques
(so comprehensive it could be a separate book)
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Innovative finishing techniques
(to make your quilts wall art, not wallflowers)
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Dyeing your own fabrics
(create a river of colors as unique as you are)
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Also included with the book is a CD with eight patterns of the author's popular quilts.
Soft cover, 116 pages.
Price: $37.90 ($34.45)
Contents:
CHAPTER ONE: BOISTEROUS BEGINNINGS Overview of
• Colors and fabrics
• Fused applique
• Free-motion quilting
• Finishing techniques
CHAPTER TWO: LET'S GET STARTED
• Photographing a subject
• Turning the image into a pattern
• Fusing
CHAPTER THREE: DESIGN YOUR OWN QUILT
• Designing a puzzle quilt
• Designing a still-life quilt
• Designing a quilt from free-motion motifs
• Designing a gear and flower quilt onthe computer
CHAPTER POUR: PREE-MOTION QUILTING
• Setting up your machine and test stitching
• Free-motion quilting motifs
• Free-motion quilting with variegated threads, programmed stitching, and twin needles
• Quilting the "real" quilt
• Basting and fusing
CHAPTER FIVE: I FINISHED IT MY WAY
• Squaring off the quilt
• Making a fused binding
• Making a hanging sleeve
• Creating a label
APPENDIX A: QUILT PATTERNS
APPENDIX B: DYEING TO GET STARTED
APPENDIX C: RECOMMENDED READING
INDEX
SIMPLE GUITAR PATTERN
