All Things Quilting With Alex Anderson by Anderson, Alex -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: A Few Words from Alex Anatomy of a Quilt In the Sewing Room

Sewing Machine

■ Shopping for a New Machine ■ Caring for Your Machine

Your Physical Setup Tools and Notions

Fabric and Color: Choose It and Use It!

Fabric Grain A Few Words about Quality Three Keys to Successful Fabric Selection

■ Color ■ Value ■ Character of Print

Alternative Strategies for Choosing Fabrics

■ Fabulous Focus Fabric (or Favorite Designer) ■ Capture a Style or an Era

Caring for Your Fabric

■ To Prewash … or Not?

Where and How to Store It

Drafting: Have It Your Way

Drafting Blocks Based on Grids Drafting Non-Grid-Based Blocks

■ Drafting an Eight-Pointed Star

Drafting a Hexagon (Hexie)

■ When Hexie Size Doesn’t Matter ■ When Hexie Size Does Matter ■ Subdividing the Hexie

Rev Up Your Rotary Cutter

Safety First Basic Rotary-Cutting Technique Squaring Up the Fabric Cutting Strips Magic Numbers Cutting Squares Cutting Rectangles Cutting Half- and Quarter-Square Triangles

■ Half-Square Triangles ■ Quarter-Square Triangles

Cutting 45° Trapezoids Cutting an Isosceles Triangle in a Square

■ Background Triangles (A) ■ Isosceles Triangles (B)

Cutting Equilateral Triangles Cutting 45° Diamonds Cutting Bias Strips

The Ins and Outs of Piecing

When You Need Templates

■ Adding a Seam Allowance to Drafted Patterns

Machine Piecing

■ Pinning ■ Stitching ■ Pressing Matters ■ “Unsewing” (a.k.a. Seam Ripping)

Machine-Piecing Techniques You’ll Want to Know

■ Strip Piecing ■ Sew-and-Flip Method ■ Secret Star-Point Method ■ Y-Seams ■ Sewing Curves

Paper-Foundation Piecing

■ Sizing Fabric Pieces ■ Creating Patterns ■ Sewing ■ Sewing Units into Blocks

Hand Piecing: English Paper Piecing

■ Cutting the Shapes ■ Piecing the Shapes

All About Appliqué

Preparing for Appliqué

■ Preparing Individual Appliqués (Hand or Machine) ■ Preparing Individual Appliqués (Hand Only) ■ Preparing the Background for Appliqué (Hand or Machine)

Hand-Appliqué Techniques

■ Basic Appliqué Stitch ■ Needle-Turn Appliqué ■ Buttonhole-Stitch (Blanket-Stitch) Appliqué ■ Reverse Appliqué

Machine-Appliqué Techniques

■ Invisible-Stitch Appliqué ■ Customizing Stitches ■ Raw-Edge Appliqué with Buttonhole (or Blanket) Stitch

Putting it Together: Settings and Borders

Settings

■ Gallery of Settings

Borders

■ Design Considerations and Proportions ■ Intended Use ■ Squaring Up the Quilt ■ Measuring for Borders ■ Cutting and Grainline ■ Stitching Borders

Border Options

■ Butted Borders ■ Mitered Borders ■ Partial-Seam Borders ■ Borders with Corner Squares ■ Pieced Borders ■ Self-Bordering Quilts ■ Scalloped Borders ■ Appliqué and Quilted Borders

Choosing and Marking Your Quilting Design

Basics of Good Quilting Design Basic Quilting Strategies Other Sources for Quilting Designs Ideas for Creating Your Own Motifs

■ Eight-Section Designs ■ Twelve-Section Designs ■ Soft, Curved Lines

Transferring the Design Straight-Line Quilting Stipple Quilting

Preparing to Quilt

Housekeeping Choosing and Preparing a Batting Choosing and Preparing the Backing

■ Piecing the Backing

Basting

■ Basting for Hand Quilting in a Hoop ■ Basting for Machine Quilting

Ready, Set, … Quilt!

Hand Quilting

■ Placing the Quilt in a Hoop ■ Selecting a Thimble ■ The Quilting (Rocking) Stitch ■ Preparing to Stitch ■ The Quilter’s Knot ■ Thimble on Middle Finger ■ Thimble on Pointer Finger ■ Thimble on Thumb ■ Finishing and Burying the Knot

Machine Quilting

■ Adjusting the Tension ■ Handling Bulk ■ Starting and Stopping ■ Anchoring ■ Machine-Quilting Technique ■ Straight-Line and Simple-Curve Quilting ■ Free-Motion Quilting ■ Stipple Quilting

Practice, Practice, Practice Tying Your Quilt

Finishing Touches

Binding

■ Straight-Grain vs. Bias Binding ■ Figuring Binding Length ■ Double-Fold Binding ■ Preparing the Quilt for Binding ■ Binding with Squared Corners ■ Binding with Mitered Corners ■ Binding a Zigzag Edge ■ Binding a Scalloped Edge

Faced Edge with Hanging Sleeve Folded (Flat) Piping Prairie Points Adding a Hanging Sleeve Making a Label Caring for Your Quilts

Resources About the Author Personal Legal eProduct Marketing

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