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Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting Kindle Edition

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

For the love of longarm

Build your confidence and master more skills with easy-to-follow instructions for how to use a longarm machine. Gina gives you detailed direction for planning and executing designs, as well as tips on marking and thread selection. With 40 original quilting designs included, there's something here for both traditional and modern quilters at all skill levels.

• Essential guide for those who want to advance their knowledge
• Tips, tricks, and a treasure trove of inspiration for all longarm users
• Patterns and other valuable information apply to both midarm and domestic machines
Due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download

Editorial Reviews

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Gina shares valuable information that any machine quilter can use, such as finding inspiration for quilting patterns, planning and executing designs successfully, and blocking and binding a quilt. She demonstrates how to modify traditional feathers and fillers, use rulers and grid work, and choose the best thread for your quilt. Priceless tips are given throughout each chapter. These instructions can apply to those working on domestic sewing machines as well as longarms and midarms. Gina also includes forty original quilting designs that will provide inspiration for quilting your next project and beyond.

Machine Quilting Unlimited

Both practical and artistic in her approach, Gina takes you on a longarm journey from design inspiration all the way to binding and blocking. Included are 40 of Gina's original quilting patterns, useful for any quilters. Illustrated with stunning quilt photos and good diagrams.
American Quilter

This may, on first appraisal, seem like a niche market publication as so few of us have the luxury of a longarm quilting frame let alone space to put one, but on closer study the book contains numerous tips, including exercises for capturing inspiration and quilt interpretation, which are all relevant to scaled-down home quilting on your standard sewing machine. A very interesting read even though I don't own a longarm quilting frame.

-- Jennifer Trollope ―
Fabrications Quilting For You

Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting by Gina Perkes is a guide to machine quilting that will help you hone your longarm quilting skills. Whether you are practicing longarm quilting to use on your own quilts or to do as a home business, Perkes' tips, teaching, and advice are sure to help you improve your style and technique. With 40 original designs and pages of helpful information on techniques and tools, this book is the go-to guide for any longarm quilter.
favequilts.com

You got your longarm, now what? Many books offer lots of quilting designs. Gina Perkes does that, too, but she actually helps you get to the stages where you can use the designs. She starts with step-by-step instructions from finding design inspiration and selecting the appropriate design all the way to blocking and binding the quilt. I loved all the tips throughout the book, eg printing a large color photo of your quilt to sketch designs on it, how to build a lightbox, how to use clear tablecloth vinyl to draft border designs, and how to add additional measurements to the leaders to help maintain a square quilt. Since longarm quilters are thread lovers, Gina includes a chapter on choosing and using thread, including troubleshooting. In addition to quilting designs shown throughout the text, she includes 40 original quilting designs. If you are new to your longarm, or more experienced, I think this is a great reference.
The Professional Quilter Magazine

A long-arm quilting machine is a big investment, and a very different way of quilting compared to using a domestic machine. Gina Perkes' book is a guide to getting the best out of a longarm and features a great array of tips and techniques for the novice longarm quilter. In addition to chapters on getting started, freehand techniques, fillers, and block and border designs, marking and more, there is a lovely set of about forty quilting designs which could be useful to all quilters, whether using longarm, midarm or ordinary sewing machines, or even for hand quilters. These designs really are gorgeous and make this book a very good buy. ―
Popular Patchwork Magazine

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008AYKMGA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ C&T Publishing (February 1, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 15135 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 132 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

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Customers find the book provides great information and tips for quilters of all skill levels. They appreciate the good reference material and overview of the entire process. The designs are nice and help spark imagination. Readers praise the writing quality as nice and crisp, with good images. Overall, they describe the book as an excellent overview of longarm quilting.

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19 customers mention "Information quality"19 positive0 negative

Customers find the book offers great information and tips for quilters of all skill levels. It provides an excellent overview of the entire process, with many facts that they had not known. The book is easy to understand and begins with information beginners want to know. It's a great resource for great designs and ideas, and features tips and practical exercises for those starting in the craft.

"...Gina's book is lovely to look at, inspirational, and has new and interesting tips and designs. I'm glad I bought it...." Read more

"...It has lots of useful information and tips including block & border design, freehand, filler, feathers, marking and rulers to name a few...." Read more

"...learning on my own, I found this book to be an excellent overview of the entire process, with many facts that I hadn't gleaned from other sources...." Read more

"This is the best quilting book I have ever read. Clear, concise and thorough. Gina has thought of everything so you can learn and do it...." Read more

12 customers mention "Design"12 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's designs. They find the patterns clear and detailed, with helpful tips for block, border, freehand, filler, and feather designs. The drawings are crisp and distinct, providing eye-catching visuals. Readers describe the book as the best quilting book they have ever read, providing clear, concise, and thorough information for beginners to advanced quilters.

"...redundant so I'm careful about buying more, but Gina's book is lovely to look at, inspirational, and has new and interesting tips and designs...." Read more

"...It has lots of useful information and tips including block & border design, freehand, filler, feathers, marking and rulers to name a few...." Read more

"...Regardless, the designs are nice and there are some great tips nestled in the writing...." Read more

"This is the best quilting book I have ever read. Clear, concise and thorough. Gina has thought of everything so you can learn and do it...." Read more

6 customers mention "Writing quality"6 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's writing quality. They find it nicely written, crisp, and distinctive. The images are also of good quality.

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Customers appreciate the book's length. They find it provides an excellent overview of longarm quilting.

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2013
    I have many machine quilting books, and they get redundant so I'm careful about buying more, but Gina's book is lovely to look at, inspirational, and has new and interesting tips and designs. I'm glad I bought it. I'm not a long-arm quilter, I quilt with my domestic sewing machine, but this book was still helpful and a great source of inspiration. I'm hoping Gina will do another book on piecing and applique. Her work is so crisp and distinctive.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2012
    This is a great book for beginning, advanced or domestic machine quilters. It has lots of useful information and tips including block & border design, freehand, filler, feathers, marking and rulers to name a few. I was so excited to get my book because I love Gina's work and I would recommend this book.Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting: 40 Original Designs Step-by-Step Instructions Takes You from Novice to Expert
    9 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2012
    As a new longarm quilter learning on my own, I found this book to be an excellent overview of the entire process, with many facts that I hadn't gleaned from other sources. I have been a free motion quilter on a domestic machine for 20 years, so I understand quilting as a line. I will be referring to the more technical information in this book as I progress on the learning curve. This is a must have in your library if you are new to the big machine world.
    15 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015
    The book is beautiful and nicely written. But I was expecting something that was more longarm oriented, that is with photos of the longarm machine at work, etc. I'm considering buying a longarm so thought this would be a great book to see the quilting in action.

    Regardless, the designs are nice and there are some great tips nestled in the writing. But this is for someone who already has a machine and knows how to use it. Maybe that's obvious to others, but not to me. Or you could apply the designs to other types of quilting as well.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2013
    This is the best quilting book I have ever read. Clear, concise and thorough. Gina has thought of everything so you can learn and do it. I put her ideas to work immediately and produced some mightly good quilting. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn quilting from a professional without attending a class. Buy it and read it! Sandi
    2 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2012
    I know Gina Perkes' work (we both live in Arizona) and it can't be beat! Her book is a huge help for Free-Motion quilters such as myself even without owning a "Long-Arm". Don't get discouraged if you are a beginner with "Free-Motion" quilting... it takes practice, practice, practice. I did it.... so can you!
    5 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2013
    I'm a new longarm quilter. Her book is clear, very informative and well written. The designs a well done and I am sure I will be going back to this book over and over.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2013
    I just bought a longarm quilting machine and was looking for a book that would provide good how-to advice for a beginner. While this book has a lot of pretty pictures of quilts and some nice, but complicated designs in the back, I found little helpful advice for someone stepping in front of a longarm for the first time. I would have appreciated more pictures of someone actually using a machine, step-by-step instructions and help, instead of photos of complex work that will take me years of practice to achieve. I would say that 10% of the information in this book was helpful to me as a novice longarm quilter.
    9 people found this helpful
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Top reviews from other countries

  • Patch
    3.0 out of 5 stars long Arm
    Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2018
    It wasn't what expected.
  • L Jackson
    4.0 out of 5 stars A good investment
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2013
    This book gives the new long arm quilter a good base to start from and a platform from which to improve. It is easy to understand and follow and the instructions are detailed without being confusing. The patterns given are great and explanations as how to adapt them are also included. A good investment.
  • JLWozniak
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great explanations with picture and sketches
    Reviewed in Canada on August 28, 2015
    Very well done! Great explanations with picture and sketches, easy to follow.

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