Get your money's worth from your sewing machine by using the decorative stitches that came with it. Karen shows how to find multiple uses for a single stitch, how to combine stitches and how to best use threads and stabilizers. The 11 projects are intended to serve as practice for getting to know what your machine can do and to see how to use each project's stitches in ways unique to your own artistic vision. Stitches are cleverly grouped into forms such as flowers, leaves, stems bushes, ferns, grids, shapes and fillers. Mixing and matching stitches, thread weights, and items from these groups gives the reader unlimited options for spicing up their quilts. Written for any type of sewing machine. 96 pages