EXPLORE WALKING FOOT QUILTING WITH LEAH DAY IBD

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Ready to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day? This quilting style is perfect for beginning quilters using a home machine. Expand your skills with seven quilt projects ranging from easy bed quilts to a stunning wholecloth baby quilt.No longarm machine? No problem! With Explore Walking Foot Quilitng with Leah Day, youâÇÖll learn a new approach to using your home sewing machine and its walking foot with absolute ease.Inside youâÇÖll find:- Tailored advice on auditioning and choosing the right design for your quilt- Instructions for 30 different walking foot quilting designs- Seven detailed patterns for quilts, including one show-stopping wholecloth quilt patterná- LeahâÇÖs tips and troubleshooting tricks for quilters of all skill levelsMahcine Quilting Teacher of the Year, Leah Day, walks you step by step through the process of mastering walking foot quilting on your home machine.Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day will help you:- Take your machine quilting up a notch, without the challenges of free motion quilting- Easily decide when to mark quilting designs or confidently skip that step- Get to the root of pesky problems like skipping stitches and thread breaks that pop up when machine quilting- Handle any quilt - even large size quilts - with ease- Piece, baste, machine stitch, and bind quilts with confidenceIn Chapter 1, youâÇÖll learn all the basics to walking foot quilting including how set up your sewing machine and select the right needles and thread for successful machine quilting.ThereâÇÖs a lot of layers that go into a quilt like preparing fabric, piecing, and basting which can effect your quilting experience. Learn three methods for auditioning quilt designs so you know where your favorite designs will work best on the quilt.Speaking of designs, weâÇÖll explore 30 quilting designs that work great for walking foot quilting. Each design is stitched into a quilt square so you can see the stitches clearly and read the instructions to understand how to quilt them in a variety of quilting styles.Your exploration of walking foot quilting would not be complete without several fun quilt projects to piece and quilt. Leah DayâÇÖs book contains seven beautiful quilt patterns, including a specially designed walking foot wholecloth quilt. Two Quilt-As-You-Go quilt patterns are also included because quilting block by block will be much easier on your home machine.While walking foot quilting is the easiest form of machine quilting, you still may run into issues along the way. We cover troubleshooting with pictures of what can really happen if your machine isnâÇÖt threaded correctly or youâÇÖre using materials it just doesnâÇÖt like.WeâÇÖll round out our exploration of walking foot quilting with finishing techniques. Learn how to connect blocks together quilt-as-you-go style and how to bind both straight edge and curved edge quilts easily.No matter your skill level or opinion about walking foot quilting, you really need to give t