End your quilting backtracking woes with Gina Perkes

Enjoy learning something new! Thanks to Gina Perkes, here’s a stitching technique that will end your backtracking woes.

You can read more from Gina on backtracking at the AQS Blog here

Constantine Quilts stocks 3 books from Gina – Mastering the art of Longarm Quilting, Tips for Longarm Quilting and The Guide to Grids.

Mastering the Art of Longarm Quilting: by Gina Perkes

This essential guide to using a longarm machine includes easy-to-follow instructions to get you well on the way to mastery! In addition to marking tips and thread selection, you’ll also find detailed direction on planning and executing designs. Plus, the gallery section provides a treasure trove of inspiration! Featuring 40 original quilting designs, there’s something for both traditional and modern quilters at all skill levels.
Price: $36- plus postage

Tips for Longarm Quilting
Longarm quilting comes with its own set of challenges and abilities. Execute your quilting ambitions with the tips and tricks you’ll get from Tips for Longarm Quilting by Gina Perkes. Quilting is a time-consuming business. Take Gina’s advice on how to ease the stress on your body as you practice your craft. Get tips on how to keep your longarm at the peak of perfection. Give your workspace a mini-makeover with Gina’s cleaning tidbits to keep the thread on your quilt instead of on the floor. Learn what Gina’s vision of “design success” is and apply it to your own projects.
Price: $31.60 plus postage

The Guide to Grids

Expert quilter, Gina Perkes, shows off the beauty of gridwork in her new book. Use the grid intersections as visual guides to improve free-motion skills. Discover how to create elaborate designs quickly and easily using grids as guides for even placement. Learn how to execute beautiful crosshatching designs without backtracking. Explore free-motion ruler techniques using any style of machine.

Visual guides to enhance free-motion quilting skills — Review by The Needlecraft Shelf

The Guide to Grids comes from an expert quilter who specializes in using grid intersections as visual guides to enhance free-motion quilting skills. Here she shows fellow quilters how to create lovely quilting designs that can apply to any type of machine, pairing step-by-step color photos with patterns and designs that require no backtracking or special familiarity with grid usage. Quilters who want to make the most of quilting grids will find this a winning approach. (Posted on 1/18/17)

Price: $37 plus postage

Until next time…

Happy quilting
Tracey

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End your quilting backtracking woes with Gina Perkes

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