Free-Motion Quilting Workbook: Angela Walters Shows You How!

by Angela Walters

Overview

If you can sketch it, you can stitch it! The master of free-motion quilting teaches you everything you need to know in this hands-on workbook! • The master of free-motion quilting, Angela Walters, teaches you everything you need to know • Just doodle and have fun! Not your typical how-to manual - this guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter! • Practice sketching in a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders, and negative space If you can sketch it, you can stitch it. Inside this interactive workbook, professional quilter, Angela Walters, shows you how to plan and practice free-motion quilting. Guided by her expert tips and suggestions, your creative juices will flow as you doodle designs of entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. The workbook pages have plenty of line-art shapes and inspiring photographs to help get you started. There's also a bonus section of graph paper to plan your own quilt designs. So, go ahead, start sketching!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607058175
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	02/04/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	72
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Angela Walters is a machine quilter and author who loves teaching others to use quilting to bring out the best in their quilt tops. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, and she is the author of several books. She lives in Kansas City, MO. quiltingismytherapy.com

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader

Chapter 1:  Introduction

            How Does Sketching a Design Help?

            But . . .

            How to Use This Workbook

Chapter 2: What’s in a Plan

            Stuck?

            Ready??

Chapter 3: Blocks

            A Few Guidelines

            Ready to Sketch?

Chapter 4: Borders

            Border Management

            Ready to Sketch?

Chapter 5: Negative Space

            Pick Quilting Designs that Add Movement

            Use the Quilting to Extend the Piecing into the Negative Space

            Try Using Basic Quilting Designs in New and Unexpected Ways

            Ready to Sketch?

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Quilting Designs 

About the Author

Graph Paper

Editorial Reviews

A great new book. It's full of great ideas and loads of graph paper for doodling quilting designs.

Creative Gypsy

Free-Motion Quilting Workbook is a logical extension of Free-Motion Quilting With Angela Walters. In this book you are free to just doodle and have fun. This guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter. Plan your quilting by sketching a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders and negative space. To aid in your planning and sketching, the book features pages of graph paper. As you work through the book you will find yourself filling the pages with ideas and drawings of quilting designs.

The Applique Society Newsletter

This is a slim book (about half the pages are graph paper for sketching and planning) but despite its short length, it is a great book to assist in tackling free-motion stitching if you are not confident.I always enjoy Angela Walters's books because they take you through patterns and methods of stitching that offer sensible advice about how to improve your stitching skill set. This book is great for that. It looks at how sketching your pattern before machine stitching can help you map out what an entire quilt can look like (without leaving it to chance) and improve the quality of that stitching. She explores different ways of looking at a quilt in order to create different design areas and layouts so that you can choose which will suit your sewing style and the required pattern. Looking at blocks as a way of repeating pattern, using contrast to highlight portions of a quilt and breaking down a quilt pattern into its component pieces are all explored, and helpfully followed with pages for sketching to see how you have responded to each section.Patterns for borders (with suggestions of the best suited stitching for this area), using negative space to add movement or extend and connect the piecing in a quilt are explored, as are the extension of basic quilting designs into something new and exciting. All this culminates in examples of 27 free-motion quilting designs and then you are left to your own devices to take this advice and put it into practice on the book's worksheets.Although this is a short book, it is a hands-on approach to developing stitching ideas and planning out your approach to free-motion stitching more thoroughly. In this area, Angela Walters shows great expertise.

Workshop on the Web

This guided sketchbook, by the master of free-motion quilting, will teach you everything you need to know. Angela's methods will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will make you a better quilter. Just doodle and have fun creating entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. There are plenty of line-art shapes and photographs to inspire you. As an added bonus, there is a section of graph paper to get you started.

Quilter's Digest

Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters' Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Amanda's simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.

Quiltmaker Magazine

Make no mistake, this slim book is small in pages but it’s brimming with tips and ideas for free-motion quilting from machine quilting superstar Angela Walters. Angela describes her book as a "guided sketchbook, not a how-to book;" she hopes to get your creative juices flowing and encourages you to train your brain by sketching. This exercise will help you plan and solve issues before you commit stitches to your quilt. Angela is such a sketching advocate that pages of graph paper are included in the book as well! Angela includes drawings, diagrams, and photos of her own work both as illustration and inspiration. She focuses on different areas of a quilt – blocks, borders, negative space – with ideas, examples, and tips for quilting each one. With Angela’s gentle manner and encouragement, if you can sketch it, you can quilt it.

International Quilt Festival: Quilt Scene

Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters offers approachable quilting designs that are perfect for modern quilters, but also are interesting and inspiring to traditional and art quilters as well. Practice and polish those skills with Angela's newest release Free-Motion Quilting Workbook.

American Quilt Retailer

This is a slim book (about half the pages are graph paper for sketching and planning) but despite its short length, it is a great book to assist in tackling free-motion stitching if you are not confident. I always enjoy Angela Walters’s books because they take you through patterns and methods of stitching that offer sensible advice about how to improve your stitching skill set. This book is great for that. It looks at how sketching your pattern before machine stitching can help you map out what an entire quilt can look like (without leaving it to chance) and improve the quality of that stitching. She explores different ways of looking at a quilt in order to create different design areas and layouts so that you can choose which will suit your sewing style and the required pattern. Looking at blocks as a way of repeating pattern, using contrast to highlight portions of a quilt and breaking down a quilt pattern into its component pieces are all explored, and helpfully followed with pages for sketching to see how you have responded to each section. Patterns for borders (with suggestions of the best suited stitching for this area), using negative space to add movement or extend and connect the piecing in a quilt are explored, as are the extension of basic quilting designs into something new and exciting. All this culminates in examples of 27 free-motion quilting designs and then you are left to your own devices to take this advice and put it into practice on the book’s worksheets. Although this is a short book, it is a hands-on approach to developing stitching ideas and planning out your approach to free-motion stitching more thoroughly. In this area, Angela Walters shows great expertise.

September 2014 Workshop on the Web

Free-Motion Quilting Workbook is a logical extension of Free-Motion Quilting With Angela Walters. In this book you are free to just doodle and have fun. This guided sketchbook will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will ultimately make you a better quilter. Plan your quilting by sketching a variety of different shapes to represent the different sections of a quilt, including blocks, borders and negative space. To aid in your planning and sketching, the book features pages of graph paper. As you work through the book you will find yourself filling the pages with ideas and drawings of quilting designs.

July/August 2014 The Applique Society Newsletter

Quilty Playbook – Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters’ Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Angela’s simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.

November/December 2014 Quiltmaker Magazine

Make no mistake, this slim book is small in pages but it’s brimming with tips and ideas for free-motion quilting from machine quilting superstar Angela Walters. Angela describes her book as a "guided sketchbook, not a how-to book;" she hopes to get your creative juices flowing and encourages you to train your brain by sketching. This exercise will help you plan and solve issues before you commit stitches to your quilt. Angela is such a sketching advocate that pages of graph paper are included in the book as well! Angela includes drawings, diagrams, and photos of her own work both as illustration and inspiration. She focuses on different areas of a quilt – blocks, borders, negative space – with ideas, examples, and tips for quilting each one. With Angela’s gentle manner and encouragement, if you can sketch it, you can quilt it.

Winter 2014/2015 International Quilt Festival: Quilt Scene

Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters offers approachable quilting designs that are perfect for modern quilters, but also are interesting and inspiring to traditional and art quilters as well. Practice and polish those skills with Angela's newest release Free-Motion Quilting Workbook.

May 2014 American Quilt Retailer

Unleash your creative side with Angela Walters' Free-Motion Quilting Workbook. Amanda's simple lessons show you how easy and fun it can be to plan your own free-motion quilting designs. Practice, doodle and sketch your ideas on the handy graph paper provided in the back of the workbook.

September/October 2014 Quiltmaker Magazine

This guided sketchbook, by the master of free-motion quilting, will teach you everything you need to know. Angela's methods will train your brain to understand how designs flow and will make you a better quilter. Just doodle and have fun creating entire quilts, individual blocks, borders, and even negative space. There are plenty of line-art shapes and photographs to inspire you. As an added bonus, there is a section of graph paper to get you started.

6/1/14 Quilter's Digest

Make no mistake, this slim book is small in pages but it’s brimming with tips and ideas for free-motion quilting from machine quilting superstar Angela Walters. Angela describes her book as a "guided sketchbook, not a how-to book;" she hopes to get your creative juices flowing and encourages you to train your brain by sketching. This exercise will help you plan and solve issues before you commit stitches to your quilt. Angela is such a sketching advocate that pages of graph paper are included in the book as well! Angela includes drawings, diagrams, and photos of her own work both as illustration and inspiration. She focuses on different areas of a quilt – blocks, borders, negative space – with ideas, examples, and tips for quilting each one. With Angela’s gentle manner and encouragement, if you can sketch it, you can quilt it.

Winter 2014/2015 International Quilt Festival Quilt Scene Magazine