Books by Karen McTavish
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The Secrets of Elemental Quilting ~ Innovative Quilting Designs plus Trapunto Tips & Tricks
This new book showcases the author's creative design ideas through multiple element and pattern examples. These patterns will enhance Appliqué and Pieced quilts or can stand alone as a Wholecloth design. Longarmers, domestic machine quilters and hand quilters alike can use these elements (as many times as they like). The book includes a detailed 60 minute DVD of Karen teaching the techniques, step-by-step, of Trapunto, Shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto. |
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This book is organized in 3 main sections to guide the reader in using the elements in their quilting: How to Use Elements which includes Supplies and Getting Started, Patterns which includes Fundamental Feathers, Seashells, Victorian Feathers, Seussian, Primordial and Wholecloth Patterns and Trapunto How-To which includes instruction on Basic Trapunto, Shadow Trapunto and Color Trapunto. The accompanying DVD offers a private lesson with Karen on these 3 Trapunto techniques.
The Secrets of Elemental Quilting offers a peek into the unlimited potential of quilting design. The author shares her secrets for creating complex motifs out of a single, simple design. The book and DVD include 3 trapunto lessons, enabling the reader to enhance any kind of quilt. Quilters who have been asking Karen to teach her trapunto techniques will be delighted with this new book and accompanying DVD.
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Mastering the Art of McTavishing
Karen's new book, Mastering the Art of McTavishing: The Official Guide to Adding
this Stitch to Your Quilts, will showcase the author's signature stitch on Apparel
and Art, Appliqué, Wholecloth, and Pieced quilts. Contributing quilters are
longarmers, domestic machine quilters and hand quilters. The 96-page book includes a
detailed 90-minute DVD of Karen teaching the process, step-by-step, of McTavishing.
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Quilting for Show (Book & DVD)
From one of the most popular teachers in the Longarm industry. Learn how
Karen makes her award-winning quilts and the McTavishing technique. Also
included are a variety of freehanding feather patterns and fillers. Karen
also gathers advice from the best of show winners, talks to show judges,
queries an AQS certified appraiser and teaches you to compete in show.
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