Making Connections A Free-Motion Quilting Workbook by Dorie Hruska for C&T Publishing

Learn from Dorie Hruska, an award-winning longarm machine quilter, to quilt with fewer starts and stops. Streamline your free-motion quilting with this workbook full of exercises to build your skills. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations for each design suite will show you how to adapt the quilting design for blocks, borders, sashing, and allover quilting, while the landscape-style format lies flat by your sewing machine. Combine 12 free-motion motifs for limitless possibilities, including curves, curls, leaves, spikes, waves, and loops. Fill in four-grid blocks, triangles, borders, and more with these deceptively simple designs. 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.