Quilting Patterns is a very useful book. Although a reprint, it still offers quilters clear instructions and many quilting patterns to explore.

Nonfiction | Adult
Quilting Patterns: 110 Ready-to-Use Machine Quilting Designs, by Linda Macho (1984, 2019)
This little handbook is a useful resource for machine or hand quilters who want to step up their game, and are willing to invest time in making their own templates for a beautiful design. This book was originally published in 1984 under the title Quilting Patterns: 110 Full-Size Ready-to-Use Designs and Complete Instructions. Dover Publications has re-released the entire thing without any changes (except to the title) or updates. Modern quilters are rather cranky that there hasn’t been any updating; I rather enjoyed exploring these classic designs and techniques, and thinking about how I might try to use them. Macho includes filler designs, quilting designs, and border designs, and you can mix and match them up within a large quilt. I’ve included an image of one page so you get a sense of what is in this 80-odd page booklet.
Image of page of quilting patterns
There is an introductory section that explains how to sandwich a quilt in preparation for quilting (the stitching of the quilt through all three layers – top, batting, and backing), the use of hoops and frames, and how to transfer a design using chalk/powder, dressmaker carbon, templates, etc. But the bulk of the book is devoted to showing the reader dozens of patterns, from feathers and ropes to hatching and flowers, even birds! She includes some of her own designs, giving readers plenty to choose from, ranging from traditional to quite modern-looking, to my inexperienced eye at least. As I’m in the middle of a quilting project right now, these are particularly interesting, though I’m at a loss to understand how to use most of them with a domestic machine – it looks to me like you’d be stopping and starting all the time. Perhaps a handquilter will find this most useful, despite the updated title. But at just $12 Canadian, it offers lot of bang for your buck for beginning quilters like me. My thanks to Dover Publications for the temporary digital reading copy provided through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
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Quilting Patterns is a good book to get some ideas and instructions for quilting. There are some classic patterns. This is a reprint.

This is a practical book on quilting patterns, the first small section covers information about machine, hand, transfers and equipment. The rest of the book is taken up with 110 motifs to be combined or used as all over patterns for quilts. I would class this book for people who have some experience in quilting, whilst the motifs are really lovely, they are just motifs, there are no directional arrows on the best way of sewing them, or how to make them into overall designs on your quilt. Neither is there any information on incorporating the motifs to bring out structure and design of the quilt.
Certainly for an experience quilter the designs are beautiful and very useful

This is a nice little book with simple instructions on how to either machine or hand quilt items from full sized quilts to wall hangings or small decorative items. The basic equipment required along with simple instructions means anyone can grasp the fundamentals of this art which adds extra texture and pattern to any patchwork project.

As it this book is a reprint from early in the 1980s the advances in sewing machine technology play no part in the descriptions herein. If you haven't gone down the computerised route this is a good buy.

I was able to read a copy of this book thanks to NetGalley and the publishers in exchange for an unbiased review and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys patchwork buts needs a little help when it comes to the finishing of their work.

Quilting Patterns: 110 Ready-to-Use Machine Quilting Designs is a reprint of a 1984 volume by Linda Macho. Re-released 18 Dec 2019 by Dover, it's 80 pages and available in paperback format.

This is a basic no frills pattern book with 110 unit patterns (note: I did not count them). They are not arranged thematically (nor is there an index) but they are full sized templates. There are small circular, square, and freeform units as well as larger linear repeats for borders or binding areas. There is a short introductory chapter with basic instructions for transferring and quilting the designs. This is aimed at hand quilting, there is no information on machine or long-arm quilting included in the book. The book does also include an abbreviated bibliography. I believe the 'machine quilting' in the book's title refers to using a sewing machine to make a perforated pattern to transfer the design to the quilt surface to be hand quilted in frame or in hand.

I remember this book along with Ruby McKim's iconic Dover quilt pattern volume very well as I was learning to quilt. Dover has always filled a need for preserving and presenting these classics of fibre arts and history to a new generation of readers. This is *not* a graphically stunning book, nor is it modern. It -is- authentic to the time and still valuable in my opinion. The only color photography or illustration in the book is found on the covers.

Four stars for this, as a classic, and still relevant, source of quilting patterns.

Five everlasting stars for Dover, they are a treasure worth preserving and supporting.

This book is full of designs and patterns you can use for machine quilting. No frills that is exactly what it is. The patterns are timeless and could be adapted, and the information at the beginning is OK. I believe this is a reprinted book.