Add pizzazz to your quilt by planning the machine quilting before you assemble the top-includes thirty quilting designs. Design machine quilting that enhances your piecing and appliquePlan how you're going to quilt your next top before you put the top together, and you'll end up with a finished quilt that really sings! Kathy shows you how to choose fabrics and threads to highlight your quilting, leave areas open for fancy quilting, echo design motifs from your fabrics, and use trapunto and other special effects. You'll even learn how stitching in the ditch can enhance the look you want. This quilting reference offers:- A guide to building the machine quilting into your project from the very start, for eye-catching results- Six complete quilt projects and more than thirty quilting designs- Easy quilting motifs, including leaves, flowers, cars, animals, and much more