DeLoa's Longarm Quilting Books
All books are $22 plus $3 shipping/handling
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Today's quilt fabrics have a multitude of flowers so it only seems natural to quilt them with flowers. I have devised a simple way to make flowers by combining different center designs with different petal designs. All the designs are simple and easy for even the beginners. I will show you how to use them in borders, wreaths, corners and different arrangements. I also show you several different leaf border designs including holly and ghinko leaves. You will expand your freemotion repertoire with this book.
This is a companion to my Quilt Me a Garden workshop. To schedule a workshop, just call me. All my workshops are affordable and fun. We can also provide machines.
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| If you are looking for an answer for the ultimate question of "What do I quilt in this block" then this book is for you. I will show you how to use continuous curve and add loops, teardrops, feathers, stencils, curls,wiggles and squiggles. This will give you lots of ideas for your blocks. There are also 40 blocks in the back each done 3 different ways to add to your ideas. You will start to look forward to those sampler quilts so that you can "play" with your designs.
This books is used as a companion to my block party workshop, which i teach internationally and would to love to teach your group. To schedule a workshop just contact me, I do my best to make all my classes and workshops affordable as well as fun, machines are also provided call me for information.
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... When I first started to machine quilt I tried to quilt a pantograph design into a border. I quilted the top border of the quilt, then the middle, and then the bottom border. I unpinned and turned the quilt to stitch the side borders. I positioned the pantograph design and stitched. With my inexperience, all the corners were off. The design was not matching and all the fabric was bunched in the corners. I promptly took all the stitching out and vowed it would never happen again .....
In this book, I want to warn you of pitfalls and give hints on how to make your border designs fabulous.
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| Are you chicken to do feathers. If so, an adventure through "DeLoa's Basics of Feathering" will make you a fearless featherer.I start with the very basics of the free motion feather and help you avoid the pitfalls that every beginner makes. Then I show how to adapt it into crosses, swags, wreaths,triangles and several different borders. You will learn the different connectors to join one feather to another for your own designing. For those of you who have requested,there is a step by step Mardi Gras chicken at the end.
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