Heirloom Machine Quilting: A Comprehensive Guide to Hand-Quilted Effects Using Your Sewing Machine

If you like to quilt your own quilts and have them look antique this book is good

I was pleasantly surprised by the spiral binding. The book explains the process of heirloom quilting with ease. The designs in the back were a lovely surprise.

Even if we use a sewing machine to piece the quilt we are left with the daunting task of hand quilting the layers together. There is a solution to this problem and the book "Heirloom Machine Quilting" contains the guidance you need. Using easy to understand instructions it covers every tiny step you need to take from setting up your machine to the final binding.Learning to machine quilt is not an overnight process. You can learn some basic techniques like stitching "in the ditch" quickly enough and you will find the detailed instructions on this simple procedure to be invaluable. But the true challenge and joy of machine quilting comes when you learn "free motion quilting". So many possibilities are open to you when you can follow your favorite stencil patterns or even create your own freestyle movements to fill in an area. The first key to making "free motion quilting" work is to set up your machine correctly with help from the book. Then you are ready to practice, practice, practice. Be sure to read all the tips provided and try the exercises that Hargrave suggests.The book includes several beautiful full page pictures showing how a variety of quilts have been machine quilted. You will be amazed how machine quilting can give the look of the original handwork. Don't let the beauty and detail of these quilts scare you away. You can have a wonderful time machine quilting on a far simpler level. Just keep on quilting and perhaps some day you will be ready to take on a quilt much like the ones pictured.

This book not only tells about machine quilting, it describes and tells about other aspects of quilting...binding, lining and batting (good info!), basting and etc. I really like the designs too. I learned a lot about batting from this book. I'm a beginner so I believe beginners would get a lot of use out this book also.

This book covers everything from what tools and accessories are needed, how to choose the batting for the quilt, to how to accomplish simple to elaborate machine quilting. Beginners through advanced quilters will appreciate the straightforward manner in which this is written. It is a well-organized compilation which takes the quilt maker step by step through the machine quilting process. This book is a must for anyone who is interested in machine quilting.