Books by Leah Day

Ready to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day? This quilting style is perfect for beginning quilters using a home machine. Expand your skills with seven quilt projects ranging from easy bed quilts to a stunning wholecloth baby quilt.No longarm machine? No problem! With Explore Walking Foot Quilitng with Leah Day, you'll learn a new approach to using your home sewing machine and its walking foot with absolute ease.Inside you'll find:- Tailored advice on auditioning and choosing the right design for your quilt- Instructions for 30 different walking foot quilting designs- Seven detailed patterns for quilts, including one show-stopping wholecloth quilt pattern - Leah's tips and troubleshooting tricks for quilters of all skill levelsMahcine Quilting Teacher of the Year, Leah Day, walks you step by step through the process of mastering walking foot quilting on your home machine.Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day will help you:- Take your machine quilting up a notch, without the challenges of free motion quilting- Easily decide when to mark quilting designs or confidently skip that step- Get to the root of pesky problems like skipping stitches and thread breaks that pop up when machine quilting- Handle any quilt - even large size quilts - with ease- Piece, baste, machine stitch, and bind quilts with confidenceIn Chapter 1, you'll learn all the basics to walking foot quilting including how set up your sewing machine and select the right needles and thread for successful machine quilting.There's a lot of layers that go into a quilt like preparing fabric, piecing, and basting which can effect your quilting experience. Learn three methods for auditioning quilt designs so you know where your favorite designs will work best on the quilt.Speaking of designs, we'll explore 30 quilting designs that work great for walking foot quilting. Each design is stitched into a quilt square so you can see the stitches clearly and read the instructions to understand how to quilt them in a variety of quilting styles.Your exploration of walking foot quilting would not be complete without several fun quilt projects to piece and quilt. Leah Day's book contains seven beautiful quilt patterns, including a specially designed walking foot wholecloth quilt. Two Quilt-As-You-Go quilt patterns are also included because quilting block by block will be much easier on your home machine.While walking foot quilting is the easiest form of machine quilting, you still may run into issues along the way. We cover troubleshooting with pictures of what can really happen if your machine isn't threaded correctly or you're using materials it just doesn't like.We'll round out our exploration of walking foot quilting with finishing techniques. Learn how to connect blocks together quilt-as-you-go style and how to bind both straight edge and curved edge quilts easily.No matter your skill level or opinion about walking foot quilting, you really need to give this style of quilting a try. There is an amazing variety of textures and quilting designs ready for you to quilt so let's begin our machine quilting adventure and explore walking foot quilting together.Leah Day's mission is to empower and encourage quilters of all skill levels to piece and quilt their own quilts. Since 2009 she has shared free designs, quilting tutorials, and articles on quilting on the Free Motion Quilting Project (www.FreeMotionProject.com) that have insired quilters from around the world. Leah has written many books on quilting that include How to Piece Perfect Quilts and 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs. For more information visit www.LeahDay.com

This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. While making that quilt, she found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This is Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series pushed her to become a better woman, wife, mother, and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be and how she wanted to feel.Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists, and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous art quilts will find limitless inspiration inside this book.By focusing on these powerful images through the many months, sometimes multiple years, it took to create each quilt, Leah found the wisdom and courage to change her life, her habits and even her thoughts.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir that shows how you too can embrace courage and cultivate gratitude. Leah openly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream. A story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother embracing her creativity and releasing it to the world.This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun.Are you ready to release YOUR light?~ LARGE PRINT EDITION ~

This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. While making that quilt, she found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This is Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series pushed her to become a better woman, wife, mother, and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be and how she wanted to feel. Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists, and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous art quilts will find limitless inspiration inside this book.By focusing on these powerful images through the many months, sometimes multiple years, it took to create each quilt, Leah found the wisdom and courage to change her life, her habits and even her thoughts.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir that shows how you too can embrace courage and cultivate gratitude. Leah openly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream. A story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother embracing her creativity and releasing it to the world.This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun.Are you ready to release YOUR light?

When Grandma disappears without a trace, Mally Spencer doesn't know what to think and certainly didn't expect to find her within a magical quilt.A chance discovery in Grandma's sewing room catapults Mally into the world of Quilst, where everything is made of fabric and stuffed animals can come to life. Is this where Grandma has been the whole time?Mally sets off to search, but is quickly caught by the powerful Queen of Quilst. In order to free herself, Mally must overcome her worst fears and learn how to stitch herself free. She'll have to become more than just a kid playing make-believe.She'll have to become a Maker. Mally the Maker is the first installment of a delightful quilting fantasy series created by Leah Day for quilters of all ages. Growing up in a small town in North Carolina, Leah mastered sewing, crochet, and knitting as a young girl and hopes to inspire a new generation of kids to pick up needles, thread, fabric and yarn and learn how to make beautiful things.Learn more about Mally the Maker and find fun projects to create from the book at MallytheMaker.com