Award-winning quilt artist David Taylor is known for the beautiful quilting on his applique quilts, which he quilts using a push-through quilting machine. David quilts on an HQ Sweet Sixteen, but these techniques are also meant for home sewing machines.

His Secrets Revealed

David’s precision techniques and thread choices add dimension and texture to his hand-appliqued pictorial quilts. Learn his secrets for using quilting to bring your pictorial quilts to life.

Running Tiem: 35 Minutes

Ricky’s DVD covers everything once the quilt top is complete, including innovative marking techniques, creating your own quilting designs, managing the quilt, machine trapunto, bobbin quilting and trapunto plus two heirloom binding made completely by machine. The filming is very close-up and shown from Ricky’s viewpoint making it excellent for self-teaching. We have seen the preview and were really impressed – it’s the closest you’ll probably ever get to a real cowboy in your living room!

If you are captivated by the gracious curves of a flowing feather and looking for innovative feather spine designs, then this DVD is for YOU!

This third volume of feather motifs explores the feather spine as a new focus for design work. Whether you make traditional quilts or contemporary quilts, there are feather spine designs to enhance your feather work and add interest and detail to your quilting. This DVD explores feather spine designs suitable for isolated feathers as well as feathers used in continuous borders. In later chapters, the spines are used to define feather shapes such as feathered hearts and feathered wreathes. No matter how you are using feathers in your quilts, these spine designs will transform your feathers into works of art!

Run Time 2 hours 7 minutes

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

This colourful DVD explores numerous feather border and feathered frame designs.

Run Time 3 hours 29 min

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

If you’ve been intrigued by the graceful curves of vines or the intricate designs of leaves and wish to stitch them yourself, then this DVD is for you! With designs applicable to traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and art quilts, this DVD is a step-by-step tutorial on the free motion stitching of a wide variety of vines as well as garlands of flowers and leaves. You will then learn how to add more interest to your vines and leaves through hyperquilting, or overquilting your stitched motifs with a high contrast decorative thread. Bring the garden of your fantasies to life with your sewing machine as you master these free motion designs and techniques!

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

If you are captivated by the delicate veins of leaves or the curvaceous line of a meandering vine and are looking for ways to add texture and interest to your quilts, then this DVD is for you! This second volume of vine and leaf motifs takes off where Volume 1 ended! We’ll begin by learning new vine and leaf motifs to add to your design repertoire, but that’s only the beginning! We’ll blast off into the exciting world of free motion machine embroidery, and you’ll see just how easy it is to use your free motion skills to add another layer of interest and texture to your quilts! Using your new skills of hyperquilting, free motion embroidery, and free motion machine quilting, your quilted botanical motifs will add new dimension and intrigue to your quilts!

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

Are you bored with stippling and searching for new design ideas?

If you’re intrigued by the wonderful variety of textures created by intricate quilting designs, or if you just LOVE quilting and are on the lookout for novel background fill designs, then this instructional DVD is for you! With designs applicable to traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and art quilts, Patsy explains and then demonstrates how to stitch 29 different designs and gives you the tools to create even more spin-off designs!

The tutorial ends with a detailed instruction on how to build your own Plexiglas extension table for your short-arm, mid-arm, or long-arm machine…think of the money you’ll save over buying a frame system! With designs suitable for traditional quilts, contemporary quilts, and art quilts, what machine quilter wouldn’t benefit from a tutorial like this?!

Skill level: Intermediate & Advanced

Please note there are 2 DVD's in Volume 3 with a total playing time of over 4 hours.

If you enjoy free motion quilting and are looking for luscious and innovative quilting designs to enhance and showcase your quilt tops, then this 2-disc set of DVDs is for YOU!

Learn the skills to add pizzazz and beauty to your quilts as Patsy explains and then demonstrates how to stitch more than 35 different quilting designs and gives you the tools to create even more spin-off designs! After that, learn Patsy’s secrets to quilting a large quilt on a home domestic sewing machine, as well as her system for deciding which quilting designs will work on any given quilt. You’ll be exploding with new ideas and free motion quilting skills once you’ve studied this 2-disc set, so get ready to blast off with Patsy into the exciting world of free motion quilting!

Total Play Time – 4 hours, 4 minutes

Click here to visit Patsy Thompson's site where you can see a clip of the DVD.