Quilting makes the quilt. I couldn’t agree more. It’s also my favorite machine quilting book in my library.

As we begin our new blog series on machine quilting, you may be wondering how I learned to quilt by machine. I am mostly self-taught and learned a great deal by reading books written by machine quilting experts. This post will give you a reading list to get you started.

Fearless Design for Every Quilter, by Lorraine Torrence and Jean B. Mills (C&T Publishing 2009), is like a class in a book.  In fact, the book is based on a design class that Lorraine has taught since 1997.  Meeting for three hours once a month, students in this nine-month-long workshop learn design elements and principles [...]

I’ve been wanting to add a book review section to my blog and now, finally, I have! Here is The Quilter’s Directory of Embellishment by Sally Holman, C&T Publishing 2006.