Doodle Quilting: Over 120 Continuous-Line Machine-Quilting Designs
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Doodle Quilting - Cheryl Malkowski
introduction
On any given day, most quilters have at least one quilt top that is begging to be quilted. These are not necessarily masterpieces or competition quilts, but quilts for family, friends, or even a local charity. They don’t call for intricate, precise patterns, but some sort of allover design to hold the quilt together. These are my favorites to quilt—quilts that are really all about the fabric; the stitching adds a bonus layer of interest. My theory is that these quilts should have interesting quilting patterns, even if they don’t require them. Patterns draw viewers closer to the quilt and invite them to really explore it.
But what I hear from quilters is, I’m not at all artistic!
or I could never do that!
In my prequilting days as a preschool classroom assistant, I taught representational drawing to a group of four- and five-year-olds. The children were fabulous. By the end of the unit, they were drawing a rose in a vase on a table with a table runner, and it looked like the real thing. These were not genius four- and five-year-olds; it’s just that the thought had never occurred to them that they couldn’t draw. So they just did it. They drew the rose still life by breaking down the picture into understandable shapes and drawing each shape one at a time.
Now, I know that you, my fellow quilters, have, at the very least, the artistic abilities of a young child, but you probably have been telling yourself since you were about nine years old that you can’t draw, because your simple drawings didn’t meet the standards of your sophisticated minds. Now you probably look at a subject or design and decide you can’t draw it, so you don’t even try. But maybe your drawings never advanced after elementary school because nobody ever broke down the simple shapes for you.
The principles that worked for my preschool class will work for quilters looking for designs to put on quilts. Granted, you are going to need to master the actual machine-quilting process, but the hardest part of quilting is deciding where you are going to stitch next. We will discuss that decision in this book as you learn about breaking down simple shapes, traveling shapes, and shapes that stay put—or boomerangs
as I call them. Learning how to draw simple shapes and then putting them together to make a quilting design is the first step toward more interesting quilting, because you have to know how the design behaves and how to draw it before you can quilt it. So let’s get to it!
how to use
THIS BOOK
The goal of this book is to help you gain confidence with the basic shapes that comprise most quilt designs. Knowing the characteristics of individual motifs, how they work, and how they work together is what every quilter needs to know to get beyond stitching in-the-ditch.
To make this easy, I’ve prepared some drawing exercises—well, actually, motifs to trace—so you can get the idea of where you’re going. This book has a special lie-flat binding that will make tracing easier. Turn the book so the pages are in the landscape format. Use Quilter’s Vinyl, available at quilt shops and from C&T Publishing, and a low-odor, fine-point, dry-erase marker. The vinyl can be used over and over with these markers. Dry-erase markers can be found at office supply stores or even the office supply