Free-Motion Combinations: Unlimited Quilting Designs

by Christina Cameli

Overview

Confidently quilt multiple motifs

Start free-motion combination quilting and take your projects to the next level with bestselling author Christina Cameli. Perfect for quilters who are comfortable with allover and repeated designs, this comprehensive guide will build upon these simple skills so that quilters have the confidence to combine designs the way professional quilters do. Learn essential skills like echoing, building up, following along, managing tight spots, moving around the piece, and so much more. Practice important allover designs (spirals, wavy meandering, branching, designs, paisleys, and pebbles) then start your combination journey with both simple and fancy motifs. Try your hand at these 30+ combined designs, and then move to create your very own custom designs and compositions.

• Combine simple and allover quilting designs that take quilts to the next level
• Build quilt skills with 30+ combined designs
• Learn to create infinite unique compositions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644031216
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	722,171
File size:	132 MB
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About the Author

Christina Cameli is an enthusiastic quilting teacher and nurse-midwife. After being introduced to quilting by her grandmother, she learned free-motion quilting and over the next decade began teaching classes and writing books. She lives with her children in Portland, Oregon. christinacameli.com

Table of Contents

Menu of Combined Designs 6

Introduction 10

Motif Library 11

Important Allover Designs 25

Essential Skills 31

Simple Combinations 38

Occasional Variations 46

Starry Night 46

Firecracker 48

Alternating Designs 50

Valentines 50

Ponyo 52

Gingko 54

Blends 56

Fern Grove 56

Riverbank 58

Clusters 60

Fairyville 60

Old Town 62

Footpath 64

Showboats 66

Stella 66

Beloved 68

Layers 70

Ascend 70

Wishing 72

Divide and Fill 74

Streams 74

Bazaar 76

Fancy Combinations 77

Splash 78

Midnight Garden 80

Will o' the Wisps 82

Arboretum 84

Spirit 86

Fossils 88

Floral Embrace 90

Bubble Town 92

Circus 94

Heavens 96

Draco 98

Harvest 100

Autumn Wind 102

Maximalist 104

Central Park 106

Kitchen Sink Combo 108

Celebration 110

About the Author 111

Editorial Reviews

10/04/2021

Designer Cameli (Step-by-Step Free-Motion Quilting) offers expert guidance in this enthusiastic guide to free motion quilting. The technique requires practice in manipulating a quilt by hand under a needle to create a design, and, as she focuses primarily on combining designs rather than teaching the basics, the projects here will be best suited to quilters with some familiarity with the method. She leads quilters through a variety of approaches to combining designs whether they’re sitting at a sewing machine or standing at a long-arm machine, and a motif library, including leaves, flowers, pebbles, and spirals, serves as a reference. Her combinations come in two sections: simple (which showcases a swirly “starry night” and leafy “fern grove”) and fancy (with swirly “fossils” and a loud “kitchen sink combo”). Along the way, Cameli offers tips and tricks (consider making one pattern the largest, and have one “filler” motif), and encourages crafters to follow their intuition. Photos and drawings for each combination will leave quilters well-prepared, and her steady encouragement is a plus: “I hope that you will embrace little inconsistencies and imperfections as evidence of your humanity and adventurousness.” Seasoned quilters looking for free-motion inspiration are sure to find it here. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly