Christina Cameli from A Few Scraps and CT Publishing was gracious enough to send me a book and let me do a review of her newest book called Step by Step Free-Motion Quilting. I absolutely loved her design on the cover and that is what got me looking into this book further.
Christina shows you 9 simple shapes and how to turn them into over 80 wonderful designs. This book is well worth the money! As you can see I stitched this design on a traditional table runner, but these designs would be wonderful on modern quilts as well. I will have another blog post next week with designs on modern quilts.
I really like how Christina draws out the basic steps for you, then explains it in words and finally shows how the allover would look. This is a clean, simple, easy to follow book for anyone whether you are a beginner, intermediate or have been free-motion quilting for years like me! Some simple designs but also some more challenging. So if you are looking for some new fun designs go check out her book. She also has another book out called First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting. You can find information on her blog-see link above. These designs would work equally well on a long arm or on your sewing machine.
So here are some more wonderful designs I stitched out that I want to share with you just to wet your appetite for more! One thing to remember is when doing all overs like these is to echo your way out if you get stuck in a corner or find a little bare space that needs a little more stitching.
I also want to mention that Christina has several video tutorials on free-motion designs on her blog. Linking up with several of the linky parties this week.
I dug this WIP out of the box yesterday and worked on it. This was started about 4 years ago at a retreat and I only had about 9 of the blocks done and put it away. So yesterday I put them on the design wall and little by little got several more blocks together. They really are simple and quick to do, I just needed the desire to get this out and try to finish it up! I still want another column and row of blocks, then some borders. Hopefully it will be a flimsy soon.
So glad you reviewed this book! I have been hearing so many good things about it. You have just sent me over the edge. . . to Amazon I go to purchase :) One can never have too many books with quilting designs ;) All of your quilting examples look fabulous!
ReplyDeleteOh my, that WIP is awesome!! Those pops of yellow are perfect!
That looks great! I bought Christina's Craftsy class the other day...also inspired from what I saw of the book. Watched it the other day and felt very inspired...really nice designs. Just need to finish some quilts to try them out.
ReplyDeleteOh love what you did, I think I might just have to check that book out. Thanks for the review!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a great book judging by your beautiful table runners Vicki! How neat!
ReplyDeleteI won the book in a giveaway me loves it so much I bought her first one. It is great seeing the designs on a real project. Beautiful quilting, as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review. Your work is lovely. I must buy the book.
ReplyDeleteThese look great! I'll have to check out the book! I for sure need all the free motion help I can get!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review, will look for this one. Love your quilting and colors on those D9Ps. Visiting from Let's Bee Social.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing about Christina's book. I just made a quilt from one of her patterns, but wasn't brave enough to do some of the suggested quilting. Her books would probably help me. And your tip about using echo quilting to back out of a spot will already help me. Your quilting is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to be asked to review this book! Thanks for sharing.
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