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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface by Dierdra McElroy
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Fabric
  • Chapter 2: Batting
  • Chapter 3: Needles
  • Chapter 4: Thread
  • Chapter 5: Thimbles
  • Chapter 6: Frames and Hoops
    • C-Clamp Frames
    • Sawhorse Frames
    • Three-Pole Frames
    • Choosing a Frame
    • Quilting Hoops
    • Installing the Quilt in a Hoop
  • Chapter 7: Markers
  • Chapter 8: Other Helpful Aids
    • Protecting Your Fingers
    • Taking Care of the Quilter's Callus
    • Protecting Your Eyes
    • Aids for Faster Quilting
  • Chapter 9: The Quilting Stitch
    • Threading the Needle
    • Making the Quilter's Knot
    • Beginning the Quilt
    • Making the Stitch
    • How to Stop Quilting
    • Stitches Per Inch
    • Quilter's Workshop
  • Chapter 10: Quilting Techniques
    • Quilting in Straight Lines
    • Quilting Curves
    • Quilting Through Seam Allowances
    • Jumping Lines
    • Quilter's Workshop
  • Chapter 11: Quilting Designs
    • Choosing a Quilting Design
    • Catalog of Quilting Designs:
            Echo-Quilting
            Diagonal Rays
            Double Rays
            Crosshatching
            Double Crosshatching
            Stitch-in-the-Ditch
            Trellis
            Double Trellis
            Stippling
            Clamshell
            Champagne Glass
            Too Much Champagne!
            Outline Quilting
            Feathers
            Trapunto
    • A Quick Start to Creating Your Own Quilting Designs
    • Quilter's Workshop
  • Chapter 12: Taking Care of Handmade Quilts
    • Hand-Washing Quilts
    • Machine-Washing Quilts
    • Ironing Quilts
    • Displaying Quilts
    • Storing Quilts
    • Transporting Quilts
    • Labeling Quilts
    • Quilt Appraisals
  • Questions and Answers
  • Lesson Plan
  • Resources
  • Quilting Designs

Title: That Perfect Stitch: The Secrets of Fine Hand-Quilting
Author/Designer: Roxanne McElroy
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1998
Publisher: The Quilt Digest Press, Chicago, IL
Language: English
Page Count: 138
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0844226521

SUMMARY- This book is a "must have" for any quilter. It has so much basic information about every aspect, even if you are an experienced quilter, you are going to find things in here you did not know or did not consider important. The early chapters in Table of Contents were abbreviated by me for the sake of my sanity, but please trust that they were as broken down into simple understandable chunks as the later chapters. I highly recommend this book.