A continuous-line design is exactly what it sounds like: a quilt design that starts at a point and wanders along, around, and across until the finishing point to create a quilted picture. Laura Lee Fritz's designs include home and garden, sewing notions, flora and fauna, domestic and woodland animals, under the sea, sports themes, and textures.
The contents page lists all the designs, making it easy to look for something specific, whether it's peas and cherry tomatoes or maple leaves and wild orchids, a cat leaping or a running hound, clouds or leaves. Some of my favourites are the feeding pelican, flying blackbird, wading egret, cat preening, hen, Scotty dog, moose, and the whales. The texture designs include concentric teardrops, endless mums, random Baptist fan, split circles and split triangles.
The first chapter in the book, "What You Can Do with These Designs", briefly covers planning the quilting design, sizing the designs, negative space, hints for repeated images, transitional quilting lines, transferring the designs, and tools to make your quilting life easier.
This is followed by the quilting designs, presented as easy-to-trace line drawings, arranged thematically in chapters. Many of these are presented at the size you'll probably want to use them, but they'll also enlarge or reduce well clearly on a photocopier (all the designs can be photocopied for personal use).
Interspersed among them are 8 pages of sample quilts and wearables (mostly by the author, though why it was felt necessary to label all those she made is a mystery, why not simply label and give the creator of those few which aren't?).
If you wish to expand your quilting repertoire into non-traditional, realistic designs, Continuous-Line Quilting Designs is an excellent place to start. If you want an idea of how to simply an image so it works as a quilting design in order to trace quilting designs from your own photographs, you should also have a look at these designs.
Continuous-Line Quilting Designs is published by C&T Publishing and can be bought directly from their website or the other big on-line bookstores. ISBN 1-57120-171-8.
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