Guide to Machine Quilting,
by Diane Gaudynski
If you’re serious about machine quilting, you owe it to yourself to get your hands on this book—yesterday! Diane Gaudynski is my machine quilting guru. Her work is fabulous, and her book is a must have.
First, she’ll take you through the basics, like required equipment and supplies, battings, backing fabrics, marking, basting, machine guided quilting, and free motion quilting. Then it’s on to the really good stuff, like continuous curves, feathers, echo quilting, grids and stippling. Diane’s advice on stippling is really thorough and oh, so helpful. FAQ sections answer all those tough questions quilters of all skill levels have. She also shares her methods for finishing her quilts after quilting, including squaring, blocking, and binding. This book is an all around great reference for machine quilting.
Go quilt! Your work gets better every day!
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[...] I just got this book from Amazon yesterday, and I read it cover to cover last night. What a great addition to my machine quilting library! This eagerly awaited “sequel†to her first book, Guide to Machine Quilting, is in a special new smaller format with a wire-o binding, perfect for keeping next to your machine while you quilt. And you’ll want to, with all the neat new techniques for background textures and freeform feathers Diane explains in pinpoint detail. Super full-color photography throughout means you can see exactly what the stitches should look like every step of the way. [...]
[...] So you can see I’m on the edge here, and the edge is one of those places where control becomes more difficult. There are many different things you can try to get a better grip on your quilt, like girpper gloves, machine quilting hoops and even quilting mice! I use a hand cream, Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream, to be exact. Love the stuff. I think I need to call my investment guy and tell him to buy stock in Neutrogena, I buy that much of it. Diane Gaudynski shared this tip in her first book Guide to Machine Quilting, and I haven’t used gloves since! I was always having to take the gloves off to clip threads and restart the quilting line, rethread the machine, etc., since I couldn’t grab threads and control thread snips with the gloves on. Painful! The hand cream doesn’t come between my hands and precision tasks, doesn’t leave a residue on the quilt, and is a bit tacky on my hands so I can control the quilt better. I keep it next to the machine and reapply as soon as I can feel my hands slipping on the fabric. [...]