Pat Ferguson, certified Zentangle teacher and master quilter, merges Zentangle with free motion quilting.
Zen Quilting Workbook shows how to produce unique continuous line designs that are easy to execute.
From developing a design concept, to quilting through layers, to finishing the quilt, Pat guides the reader through each step, insuring successful completion. This valuable book includes Pat’s own original patterns as well as amazing new designs created by her students.
The relaxing Zentangle process turns simple patterns into artistic design. The Zentangle method helps anyone get in touch with life, solve problems, and turn mistakes into positives. This book offers a quilting adventure that stimulates creativity while soothing the soul. Readers will discover the bliss of stress-free quilting as they experience the relaxing, repetitive concepts of Zentangle.

If this is your first free-motion book, you'll find all the traditional basics, like tension, supplies, correct posture, and basic designs.
Even experienced quilters will find something new in the project section. The author turns each practice piece into something functional- a make-up bag, a small tote, a zipper pouch.

The author begins by giving you information about threads, tension, needles and a list of tools that he finds helpful.
He talks about marking and how to baste your quilt sandwich together, such as using pins.
Free-Motion Machine Quilting gives instructions about where to place your hands while quilting.
From here, he starts a quilter using simple designs and working up to more complicated ones.

: Turn 9 Simple Shapes into 80+ Distinctive Designs • Best-selling author of First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting
The author shows you how to turn nine simply-to-draw shapes–circles, loops, spirals, leaves, curving lines, drops, S curves, arcs and grass–into more than 80 different designs appropriate for a full range of quilted projects.