Learn to Quilt

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 Table of Contents 
Introduction 
Tools and Materials Needed for Quilting 
Dressmaker pins 
Thread 
Scissors/fabric cutter 
Fabric Markers 
Iron and sewing machine 
Quilting Terminology 
Wadding and batting for stuffing 
Patchwork Fabric 
Choosing the right Fabric Tones, Shades, and Colors 
Preparing the Fabric 
Printed fabrics 
Remember – 
Using the Color Wheel 
Different Sizes of Quilts 
Borders and sashing 
Backing and Binding for the Quilt 
Cutting and Piecing the Fabric 
Using Paper Templates 
Machine Sewn Patchwork 
Chain Piecing 
How to Make a Pattern 
Eccentric Star Pattern 
Cat’s Cradle 
Different Well-Known Templates 
Log Cabin 
Flying Geese 
Ohio Star 
Shoo Fly 
4 Patch Traditional American Quilt 
9 Patch 
5 Patch 
7 Patch 
Tumbling blocks 
Road to Heaven 
Windmill 
Hopscotch 
Double Pinwheel 
Crockett Cabin 
Spool and Bobbin 
Flock of Geese 
Crosses and Losses 
Flower Basket 
9 Patch Blocks 
Darting Birds 
Puss in the Corner 
Different stitches used for Stitching 
Stippling stitch 
In the ditch Stitching 
Assembling the Quilt 
Conclusion 
Author Bio 
Publisher 

Introduction 

I just finished Barbara Michael’s rather horrifying book – stitches in time, where an antiques shopkeeper gets hold of a traditional wedding quilt, in which evil has been stitched with every stitch. This black magic is added to the wedding quilt by a helpless 17-year-old beautiful slave whose rather monstrous and spoiled, self-centered mistress intends to sell her off after her own wedding and then orders her to make her wedding quilt. 

And evil is prayed into every stitch, every patch, every inch of the quilt cursing the mistress and her husband with death and destruction. 
And that took me to the idea of writing a book on quilting. Quilting has long been a tradition in many places where things of beauty were made by a group of women gathering together and gossiping in their leisure time while they made something useful for their families. 

In the East, traditionally was embroidery work done by the elderly women sitting in the sun, and stitching the clothes of their granddaughters. When one of my aunts got married, she wore a heavy veil of which every inch had been stitched lovingly by her friends every afternoon. That veil is, of course, 45 years old now, and a priceless heirloom. This was a traditional practice in many parts of the world, but also there was an age old practice of piecing together scrap patches of fabric and then sewing them by hand edge to edge to create decorative designs and patterns. 

Do not confuse patchwork with quilting. These are 2 different art forms often done together. Patchwork has gone back millenniums, in ancient Egypt, Asia, Africa, and Europe, when pieces of cloth which had been so long around that you really could not be bothered to repair the garment were gathered together and made into something useful for the house.

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O autorovi

  John Davidson

Born and raised in Wyoming and Canada on Ranches. Studied at Utah State University and taught drafting at Bridgerland Applied Technology College for 20 years. Own and run several businesses, an architectural design business, a web design business and a Sawmill business. Married to Karla for over 30 years and have 4 great kids and 3 grandkids, with more on the way, living in Mendon, Utah.

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