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Foolproof Machine Quilting Kindle Edition

by Mary Mashuta (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
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Discover how to design and stitch beautiful machine quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine.

Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don’t need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta’s classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt.

• Learn to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want

• Add style to your machine quilting with heavy-weight threads and your machine’s built-in decorative stitches

• Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs

• Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs
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Mary Mashuta is an award-winning quilter who has taught techniques of quilting for more than twenty years. The author of several books on the subject, she lives in Berkeley, CA.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004GCK7G0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ C&T Publishing (November 5, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 20242 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Chorister
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration! with one caveat for the Kindle version
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2011
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This book has many wonderful ideas, practical tips, and detailed instructions. I'm an intermediate quilter who has been frustrated with free motion quilting, so this book was particularly welcome. I had quite a few "why didn't I already think of that!" moments. The written instructions are very clear with many picture examples (of what it ought to look like,) and multiple pictures for multiple steps.

The Kindle version has one flaw, so be aware: the pictures and captions do not always divide properly. You can be looking at a photo with only the caption for the previous photo showing. Once you learn to look on the following page for the appropriate caption, it gets less frustrating.

Great ideas for avoiding having to mark the quilts and good direction for using the techniques to make up patterns of one's own.
20 people found this helpful
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Karen W.
4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual and nice book
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014
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This book will teach you a new way to do the final quilting on your things. It is really a good one for beginners, because it very clearly teaches one how to do nice quilting, if you are not sure how to do it and are intimated by the fancy stuff in other books.
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Juliet A. Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars machine quilting so easy
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2012
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this is a great book , with easy to follow instructions that take the mystery out of top quilting, the ideas for templates are so simple but so effective

I have just finished a quilt using this book, and I will be finishing many more UFO,s using the patterns and instructions from this excellent book,it makes machine quilting easy peasy

many thanks to mary mashuta
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JoyNoel
5.0 out of 5 stars Love the ideas in the book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2012
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Pros: she teaches you how to make your own design templates! She also gives you ideas for making the quilting easier. The up close photos are wonderful and she breaks down how many templates it actually took to make the look in a given block. She also gives hints on less than perfect blocks. She talks about different weights of thread/color and how it changes the look.

Cons: the full quilt pictures are so small that some of the quilting completely disappears. She doesn't show how she was able to maneuver the quilt in the actual harp space of her machine.

I plan to try her template techniques with both the walking foot and free motion quilting. For me, this was a how did she get that look with minimal effort and extra added expense book.

For the under $15 including shipping I paid for this book, it was well worth it for the PHOTOS and template making directions alone!
9 people found this helpful
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ShopperLady
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a good choice for Kindle
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2012
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In a hurry to get started learning to quilt with a walking foot, I downloaded this book onto my Kindle. Not a good idea. Many of the pictures of quilting examples just do not show up well in black and white and the pictures are also small. I'm sorry I didn't order the book and wait for it to arrive in the mail. Good information and tips though.
4 people found this helpful
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Sally B
5.0 out of 5 stars Quilting with the walking foot
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2013
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This book was recommended by a friend and I'm so glad to have it. Had tried doing some quilting with my walking foot and this gave me so much more information on how to proceed. It is well written with lots of information on various threads to enhance the design.
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Zen Elder
4.0 out of 5 stars Foolproof Machine Quilting
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2018
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Foolproof Machine Quilting: This book has some helpful information for those who quilt printed material with a walking foot. The other books I've gotten tend to be about machine quilting on solid colors, which means you can do denser quilting. I like to sew more traditional log cabin quilts, which have darker prints and smaller strips that can get kind of busy with a lot of stitching on top. There's a balance between doing all the interesting stitches you can and not overwhelming the quilt. Not as many ideas as I'd hoped for, but worth buying used.
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Judy
5.0 out of 5 stars Machine Quilting
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2012
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Since I have an old sewing machine and cannot afford to have my work quilted by a professional, this book spoke directly to me.
The author has so many designs that you can do with your own machine. I cannot even free motion quilt as my plate does not drop down to allow me to do free motion.
If a person has the above or just wants to do their own work on their quilt then this is the book for your collection. There are so many ideas in this book and the stitches she uses will add a fantastic dimension to your quilt.
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R Lor
4.0 out of 5 stars ouvrage à avoir pour celles qui n'ont pas de compétence en free motion quilting et qui veulent terminer un ouvrage à la machine
Reviewed in France on July 19, 2017
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je me forme en solo sur le patch et ses différentes techniques. cet ouvrage explique de façon claire (évidemment il faut comprendre l'anglais, mais pour les personnes qui écoutent les vidéos en anglais sur le sujet , c'est compréhensible) comment utiliser le pied à double entrainement (walking foot) pour faire autre chose que des lignes droites et ainsi quilter sans avoir la technique du free motion quilting. l'auteur donne des astuces pour mieux travailler.elle présente des quilts finis avec cette technique et c'est vraiment pas mal. je pense que mes tops vont sortir du placard et pouvoir ainsi être terminés! donc c'est motivant pour les patcheuse débutantes ( qui ne veulent pas forcément quilter à la main) mais aussi de niveau intermédiaire qui veulent s'essayer à la machine. pour celles qui maitrisent le free motion quilting, elles n'apprendront rien ou pas grand chose sauf si elles veulent titiller leur curiosité.
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Lacemaker
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book. Full of simple ideas to copy and
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2015
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Wonderful book. Full of simple ideas to copy and, better still, to build on. Yes, the fabrics in the photos are 'old fashioned' for people's tastes today (though I'm old enough to like them still!), and some patterns do hide the stitch work, but the work is still to be admired and does teach the techniques that I wanted to learn.
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Kerry Lopes Kerry Lopes
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything a beginner and intermediate quilter needs. Short and sweet.
Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2013
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I bought this item because I had never quilted before and needed a book that would give me easy, concise instructions on how to begin. It did that and then went on to describe different types of quilts which was good review for the more intermediate quilter. Does not bore with a lot of superfluous information.
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Patricia Dion Pageau
4.0 out of 5 stars Machine Quilting
Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2013
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After reading this book one is compelled to just go and try the information. But beware...practice does make perfect!! Keep the seem ripper close. With Ms. Mashuta there is hope for the home quilters.
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Mrs. Valerie Shepley
5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate about quilting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2010
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This is a smashing book which simplifies machine quilting to the level of a beginner but the results are worthy of an expert.
A really good buy if you want to improve your quilting.
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