Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting: How to Add Texture, Design, and Style to Your Quilts

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting is a must have book providing invaluable information on finishing a quilt including an overview on working with long arm, mid arm, and domestic machines. While long arms and mid arms are less prevalent in quilting homes, shops throughout the country make them available for rental and knowing the ins and outs of using them lets you make the best use of your time. Learn about threading, color selection, and ruler work. This free-motion quilt book will make you as excited to finish your quilts as you were when you started it. With beautiful hand doodling, easy-to-follow, full-color step-outs, and even a gallery of Sherilyn's personal quilt collection, it's a wealth of instruction and inspiration.

• Free motion quilting refers to the technique of stitching through the layers of a quilt on a sewing machine with the feed dogs disengaged. With the feed dogs disengaged, the quilter is free to move the material around and stitch designs in the fabric. (See book cover photos)
• Quilters can take their quilts to a professional quilter to finish the quilt with a programmed long-arm design, but free-motion offers the freedom and customization of making your own quilt exactly how you envision it. You can stitch around design elements and motifs to echo or enhance each block; you can swirl and doodle randomly; you can follow specific design lines or even "write" words. Overall, the finished project becomes a truly custom piece.
• Section on tools and supplies, including batting, needles, thread, backing, ruler basics, and guidance on machine basics.
• Features a dozen sampler blocks, each with a unique design that can be combined in multiple ways.
• The author is a Gammill quilt artist and will pull marketing support from this machine company along with her 26.1K followers on Instagram.
• Book includes step-by-step instruction and a full-color photo gallery of Sherilyn's own personal quilt collection.
• This is Sherilyn Mortensen's second book with FCP. Her first book Quilting Through the Year: 16 Quilt Designs for Every Season which has sold 4100 copies since 2021.
• Includes QR codes that connect to how-to videos.