Making Connections

Streamline your free-motion quilting with this workbook full of exercises to build your skills. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations for each design suite show how to adapt the quilting design for blocks, borders, sashing and allover quilting. Practice each design with a pencil on the included practice pages before stitching by machine, then put your skills to the test on a gorgeous pieced sampler project. These creative continuous-line quilting designs can be used on both longarm and domestic machines.

Combine 12 free-motion motifs for limitless possibilities, including curves, curls, leaves, spikes, waves and loops. Practice each design with a pencil on the practice pages that are included in the book before stitching by machine, then put your skills to the test on a gorgeous pieced sampler project. These designs can be used on both longarm and domestic machines.-- "Today's Quilter, 31", Now, if you really want to exercise your mental and physical muscles, try out this book. As Dorie explains in her introduction, 'Time is a precious thing. You can spend your time stitching individual motifs in each are of a quilt, stopping and cutting your threads after each design, or you can save time by connecting the designs--stitching them from one side of the quilt all the way to the other side, with just one start and stop.' This book hosts a collections of custom quilting designs for fewer starts and stops using a grid of cross-hatched lines. Dorie explains how to follow a clock-wise direction with a repeating progression of lines and fillers. Clear illustrations show how to set up the designs across a sample to learn the design process before trying it out on your quilt. For more intricate designs, the illustrations are colour-coded to show the first, second or further passes. A simple quilt pattern is included for a 50" x 50" quilting using 8" blocks and a pieced border. For each block and section, several versions of designs are shown using the techniques learned in the book. By combining the motifs, there are limitless possibilities.-- "The Canadian Quilter, Winter 2017"

Dorie Hruska is an award-winning longarm quilter, teacher and author. Dorie's quilts have been exhibited nationally and she has won numerous ribbons at both local and national quilt shows. Her work has been featured in a wall calendar and in other authors' books. Dorie lives in Highlandville, Missouri with her husband and children. www.forever-quilting.com