Shape by Shape

Since learning how to quilt from her husband's grandfather, Angela Walters has been in love with the art of quilting. Today she quilts professionally, teaches, and gives trunk shows. Her work has been published in several books and magazines. Angela lives in Kansas City, Missouri. www.quiltingismytherapy.com

December 2014Angela Walters is a prolific writer on free-motion embroidery and her books are always worth amention being well explained, illustrated and executed. In her latest book, she looks specificallyat the machine embroidery of quilted shapes. Here there are squares, triangles, circles,diamonds, hexagons, negative space and borders and they are all great designs, ready tocombat ‘quilter’s amnesia’ for those times where you look at a shape and cannot think of thebest way to quilt it.The author provides clear and simple instructions which are useful in enabling some complexpatterns to be broken down into lines and stages. Now, if only she could teach me how to sewas exquisitely as she does, I’d be laughing!

• Contents Index of Quilting Designs Introduction Section 1: Quilt Blocks Squares (and Rectangles) Square #1 Square #2 Square #3 Square #4 Square #5 Square #6 Square #7 Square #8 Square #9 Square #10 Triangles Triangle #1 Triangle #2 Triangle #3 Triangle #4 Triangle #5 Triangle #6 Triangle #7 Triangle #8 Triangle #9 Triangle #10 Circles Circle #1 Circle #2 Circle #3 Circle #4 Circle #5 Circle #6 Circle #7 Circle #8 Circle #9 Circle #10 Diamonds Diamond #1 Diamond #2 Diamond #3 Diamond #4 Diamond #5 Diamond #6 Diamond #7 Diamond #8 Diamond #9 Diamond #10 Hexagon Hexagon #1 Hexagon #2 Hexagon #3 Hexagon #4 Hexagon #5 Hexagon #6 Hexagon #7 Hexagon #8 Hexagon #9 Hexagon #10 Section 2: Negative Space Signature Design Peapods Offset Squares Swirl Chain Links Negative Space #6 Wavy Wavy Jumbled Lines Back-and-Forth Lines Improv Quilting Section 3: Borders Herringbone Brackets Triangles Half Brackets Serpentine Line Wavy Variation Wild Feathers Arches Square Chain Dot-to-Dot Borders About the Author