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Visual Guide to Free-Motion Quilting Feathers: Professional Quality Results on Your Home Machine Kindle Edition

by Natalia Bonner (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
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Put a feather in your quilting cap Take the fear out of quilting feathers! Explore 68 modern feather designs with step-by-step guidance from award-winning quilter Natalia Bonner. Quilt stunning feathers on a variety of blocks and borders with this beginner-friendly, visual guide. Unlike traditional feather quilting, which relies on exactness and precision, Natalia’s ideas will help you break away from perfection and find creativity in your quilting practice. Use your home sewing machine or a longarm to free-motion feathers with confidence, adding a truly elegant finish to today’s modern quilts. • 68 modern feather designs! Beginner-friendly techniques from best-selling author Natalia Bonner • Kick your feather fears to the curb with an easy-to-use guide for domestic and longarm quilters • Finish blocks and borders with unique feather motifs to complement today’s modern quilts
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    March 1, 2017
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Natalia Bonner knows a thing or two about free-motion quilting, already having two best-sellers behind her. In this book she provides clear step-by-step instructions for feather free-motion quilting for both domestic and longarm quilters. Today's contemporary quilts are often finished with modern free-motion techniques instead of traditional techniques. This book provides 68 block and border designs. Starting with single feather techniques, the book moves on to more complicated designs. Clear line drawings show how to stitch three types of feather. Then each of the 68 designs are shown with line drawings on top of a quilt and directional arrows. Superb book – I can't fault it and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to master feathers. ― yarnsandfabrics.co.uk

Quilted feathers have been around for a long time and although you may not think of them as a modern pattern, this book sets out to show you how they can be. By adding different elements, such as extra curls, creating unusual shapes and incorporating patterns such as pebbles into the mix, the feather design takes on a very different look. The book is jam-packed with photos, outline drawings and information on how to achieve a good result. There is also a helpful section at the beginning on technical matters such as threads, batting, and machine settings, and the author passes on lots of tips she has learned through her experience. This is a useful reference book for anyone wanting to progress with their quilting and give their quilts extra impact. ― Down Under Quilts

Put a feather in your quilting cap with an easy-to-use guide for both domestic and long-arm quilters and combine traditional techniques with up-to-date quilting styles―choose from 68 modern designs by this best-selling author. ― Sew Magazine

About the Author

Natalia Whiting Bonner has enjoyed piecing quilt tops for more than twenty years. In 2007, she quit her job as a dental assistant and became a longarm quilter. She has won numerous awards and is a best-selling author.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MS1KGFP
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stash Books (March 1, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 58051 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 443 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings

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Natalia Whiting Bonner has enjoyed piecing quilt tops for more than twenty years. She learned how to quilt on her conventional home machine. She felt good about it, but decided that if she really wanted to take her quilting to the next level, she needed to invest in a longarm machine. In 2007, when she was pregnant with her daughter, she got the crazy idea to quit her job as a dental assistant and become a longarm quilter. Without really knowing what a longarm machine was, she spent a day at a longarm dealer’s shop and walked out after purchasing a Gammill machine. Natalia’s passion for quilting and being creative has grown each day since.

Whether it’s working on an intense show quilt or a simple baby quilt, Natalia has become a real quilting addict. She teaches at quilt guilds and shows, including Road to California and QuiltCon East, and has filmed TV shows with Nancy Zieman and Jodie Davis. She has won numerous awards for her work and has been featured on Moda Bake Shop, in Quiltmaker Magazine and American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, and in books such as Fresh Fabric Treats, Modern Blocks and Sweet Celebrations with the Moda Bake Shop Chefs, Modern Quilts From the Blogging Universe. Natalia is the author of Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting, Next Steps in Machine Quilting and Visual Guide to Free-Motion Quilting Feathers co-author of Modern One-Block Quilts & Cabin Fever:20 Modern Log Cabin Quilts.

Natalia is a Gammill Quilt Artist and online quilting teacher.

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George-y
5.0 out of 5 stars 58 excellent feather designs
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2017
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This book does an excellent job of providing step-by-step instructions (with pictures for each step) for what is described as "68 Modern [feather] Designs". From what I gleaned, "modern" means less than a perfect feather...variations in the stitching prove that a person, not a machine, did the quilting. If that is the case, than my machine quilting is VERY modern at times.

I must admit that my free-motion feathers often look a bit more like globs than feathers and I was hoping that this book was going to help me better understand how to form the best looking feather but it did not. There are really just three pages devoted to feather constructions (single feather, bump back feather, and curly feather). Basically, those instruction were stitch the spine (no mention of curvature), go back to the bottom and stitch feathers up the right side start at the bottom again and stitch feathers on the left side. (Maybe that is part of the "modern"...you are supposed to wing it (pun intended) and figure out what feather YOU stitch that looks good to you.)

The book has 143 pages. One thing I don't like about the book is strictly a failure on the publisher's part and that is the print font used throughout the step-by-step instructions in the book is very small. As if that wasn't bad enough, there are "tips" that not only have small font but they are a gray instead of black so they are even harder to see! Stashbooks...get a grip!

Overall, I think this book is an excellent reference for ways in which to use free-motion feathers on your home machine and is well worth the purchase.
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Sue B
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure trove of ideas!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2018
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I’ve been wanting to explore some new quilting designs to add to my quilts and have been doing a lot of studying and practicing on how to quilt feathers. This new book by Natalie Bonner is a treasure trove of ideas for taking the 3 basic feather designs: the single, the bump back and the curl and applying it 68 different ways. The first 14 or so pages of the book covers the three basic feather types, how to stitch them and then talks briefly about marking, needles, thread and tension, batting, layering and basting. The rest of the books 119 pages is devoted to diagrams for using those feather types in single block designs and borders. The single block designs covers using them in diamond layouts, stretched centers, pod, binary, quadrant, flower, medallion, flirty, square, straight line, triangles and flying geese. The 11 border designs cover large and small borders and like the 57 single block designs each design is illustrated with large, clear photographed examples and illustrations and easy to read and follow written directions. If you want to add feathers to your free motion quilting tool box then you definitely want to add this book to your personal library.
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Chris O'Brien
4.0 out of 5 stars For beginner to intermediate quilters
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2017
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Great step by step process diagrams which would be easy to develop new skills from, but I was hoping for some more challenging feathered quilting designs too.
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Nancy F - Statesville, NC
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021
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I am a newcomer to an updated sewing machine and book explains what I need to start using the FMQ aspects of the machine.
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Angelina M.
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful introduction to feathers
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018
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This book is a wonderful introduction to feathers. The styles are fun and modern. The illustrations are clear and understandable, so it's very beginner friendly. This book has helped me step up my long arm quilting game. As an instructor, I'm always happy to recommend Natalia's books to my students. I know they will feel inspired by her work and no nonsense approach to quilting.
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Virginia J. Owensby
5.0 out of 5 stars Visual guide to free music toon quilting feathers
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019
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I am new to FMQ and I am hooked on feathers which can be difficult for a newbie. I love this book it has helped me a lot. I have found several good quilting feathers books and this one is in my top 5 favorites. Get it it will help.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2021
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lots to learn
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janschro
5.0 out of 5 stars Good examples of feathers.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2019
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Like this book. Has a lot of ways to add feather to my quilting
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R Lor
5.0 out of 5 stars Bon ouvrage
Reviewed in France on April 12, 2021
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Très bonne aide pour apprendre à quilter. L'auteur illustre bien la façon de procéder pour aboutir au résultat. Reste ensuite à pratiquer pour arriver à la maîtrise.
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JoJo53
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2017
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This is a great addition to my quilting books.
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shoshana
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2018
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perfect
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Emanuela Jeske
5.0 out of 5 stars Lot to learn inside this book!!
Reviewed in Germany on April 12, 2018
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If you love to quilt feathers but you want to expand it, this is a perfekt book!!!! Easy to follow instructions, lots of feathers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Visual guide t free-motion quilting feathers
Reviewed in Brazil on March 30, 2017
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Excelente conteudo. Recomendavel a todos quilters tanto iniciantes como aqueles que já tem experiencias. É ótimo também para ter idéias.
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