Jacquie Gering is a prolific speaker and quilt teacher and a recognized leader in the modern quilting movement. She uses quilting as a medium to express her commitment to anti-violence and the issues of poverty and diversity. She loves being a part of the larger quilting community and is passionate about recruiting new quilters from diverse backgrounds. Visit her website at jacquiegering.com.
If you feel more comfortable using a walking foot than free motion
quilting, this book may be the inspiration you need to tackle your
first large quilt. Following on from her first book WALK, this is
Jacquie Gering’s second book about quilting with a walking foot and
in it she expands on the designs that can be achieved, using this
technique. In the first chapter she reminds her readers of the
fundamental processes and techniques that are important in order to
achieve quality results when stitching with a walking foot. These
are covered in more detail in book one WALK but are still
sufficient in this book for anyone with some basic experience of
machine quilting. As you work your way through the designs in the
book you will cover and practice what Jacquie terms THE BIG SIX;
Following a marked line, Echoing straight and curved seams,
Pointto-point lines with pivoting, Quilting in reverse, Echo
quilting with straight and angled turns and finally Arcs, S-curves
and free form curves. Most of the designs are based on a grid which
is marked onto the quilt top using a series of dots. The grids get
more complicated and the designs more intricate as you work your
way through the book but using the diagrams for each pattern this
can be achieved without too much difficulty. The designs are then
quilted on top of the grids using continuous straight lines and
curves. Jacquie Gering styles herself as a modern quilter and her
designs lend themselves to being worked across the whole top of a
quilt, but they can just as successfully be scaled down and used on
individual quilt blocks. In the last chapter of the book entitled
QUILT AS DESIRED, Jacquie gives advice about which type of design
to choose to enhance and finish a quilt, depending on the style of
the individual quilt and of course the expertise of the quilter.
This book shows there is more to quilting with a walking foot than
merely quilting in the ditch, but as Jacquie says practice is
imperative to the success of any technique. It is called a walking
foot for a reason, take your time, enjoy, and savour every stitch
and Walk, don’t run
*The Quilters’ Guild*
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