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Karen McTavish
Longarm machine quilting
allows Karen to combine her two passions: Wholecloth and Trapunto. Karen
specializes in crafting award-winning quilts using techniques which allow
machine quilters to replicate traditional "hand-quilted" effects.
 Karen is an APQS artist and Millennium
quilting machine
expert and APQS representative.
She
has been featured on PBS's Quilt Central, and HGTV's Simply Quilts with
Alex Anderson. Her
work has appeared in Joanne Line’s books, Quilts from the Quilt Makers
Gift #1 and #2, and numerous national magazines and journals.
Karen’s
first book, Quilting for Show, was published in 2002; her second book, Whitework Quilting, is available through select retailers.
She has been a full-time professional longarm quilter since 1997 -
supporting herself and her two children through her craft. Karen lives
on Lake Superior’s North Shore, quilting and teaching from her studio,
throughout the country and in Canada.
Quilting for Show
Karen's new book,
Quilting for Show ~ A Practical
Guide to Successful Competition Quilting
is a completely revised and expanded version of Karen's
originally self-published book of the same title. Here,
the author, along with a collection of the nations’ best
quilters (all 1st place winners), a quilt appraiser and
multiple judges reveal the methods for making a show
quality quilt. From Helen Squire's foreword on changes
of expectations in quilting, to practical techniques on
adding a sleeve, blocking and folding, to instructions
on how to make your machine quilting look like hand
quilting, this book is the guide to successful
competition quilting. The included DVD brings the
specifics into motion adding another layer of
instruction for the reader. Book is
available for pre-order. Books will ship by April 2007.
 The Secrets of
Elemental Quilting ~ Innovative Quilting Designs plus Trapunto Tips &
Tricks
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*.
This book is soft cover, 112 pages, 120 unlimited use compound
elements, and a 60 minute DVD which features 3 trapunto lessons. It
retails for $24.95.
You can
order online or by calling (218) 525-5282.
Mastering
the Art of McTavishing: The Official Guide to Adding this Stitch to
Your Quilts, showcases 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 book includes a detailed 90 minute DVD of Karen teaching
the process, step-by-step, of McTavishing.
Seven how-to chapters, twenty-two quilts, and four garments from
thirty-two contributing quilt artists help illustrate the many ways to
use McTavishing: add the stitch to an open quilt block, use it in a
border, highlight complex appliqué, custom tailor your favorite garment,
make a large over-all design or quilt it tightly packed to emphasize
trapunto - every aspect of how to use McTavishing is compiled in the
book and in the accompanying DVD. The book is softcover, full color, 96
pages,
includes a DVD, and retails for $24.95.
You can
order online or by calling (218) 525-5282.
"Whitework Quilting"
Karen McTavish's book, combines the best of how-to, history and art.
Karen has amassed 60 award-winning quilts and each is displayed on their
own two-page spread.
This book is more than a how-to book; it is a
comprehensive guide to wholecloth quilting. Karen’s insight, from the
first chapter on using architecture to influence design to the last on
incorporating her techniques to a pieced quilt top, clearly explains the
concepts for creating custom heirloom quilts.
This book moves beyond
the typical how-to instructional guide. The photography was done by one
of the counties best quilt photographers. His expertise is evident in the
incredibly detailed pictures of the quilts; some shots allow the reader to
see each quilted stitch. In addition to these studio shots you will see
sumptuous location photography. A select number of quilts were taken to
two wonderfully preserved Victorian mansions; one operating as a B&B and
the other a museum. The quilts were then photographed in natural light,
draped on antique furniture and placed in settings that offer the reader a
glimpse into a long-ago world of wholecloth elegance.
"Whitework Quilting"
comes with a hardcover, 192 pages, and page-marker ribbon. It is full
color throughout and jam-packed with information. It is available from the publisher's Web site.
Karen's Website is
www.designerquilts.com
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