Designs with Lines Book and Stencil Kits
Designs with Lines is Linda's Electric Quilters' own signature longarm quilting design program — a system of instruction books paired with matching quilting stencils that teach freehand design vocabulary while providing the physical marking tools to use those designs immediately. The Book and Stencil Kits bundle everything together. The wider stencil catalog lives in the Stencil Company guide, and companion design instruction in the Pam Clarke design books guide.
Available Kit Titles
- 9 Patch Book and Stencil Kit — the foundational nine-patch grid design with its stencil; a cornerstone of structured freehand quilting
- Circle Book and Stencil Kit — circular design elements and their stencil; covers arc construction, full circles, and flowing circular fills
- Clamshell Book and Stencil Kit — the beloved clamshell pattern with its precision stencil for consistent, professional results
- Curvy Square Book and Stencil Kit — the curvy square variation on geometric grid design
Designs with Lines Quilting Sketchbook
The standalone Designs with Lines Quilting Sketchbook — free motion quilting for the home machine, mid-arm, and longarm machine. A comprehensive design vocabulary reference and workbook for quilters at any level who want to develop their freehand design fluency systematically. This is the book that ties the entire Designs with Lines system together.
The Book and Stencil Advantage
Most quilters own either the instruction or the marking tool — rarely both in a designed pair. The Book and Stencil Kits ensure the design taught in the book is immediately produceable with the included stencil, creating a direct learning-to-execution loop that accelerates skill development.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does the stencil-then-freehand progression work?
The stencil marks the design's skeleton on the first quilts — stitch the marked lines until the shape lives in muscle memory, then mark less each project until the stencil retires. It's training wheels engineered off: structure first, fluency after.
Which kit should a structured-quilting beginner start with?
The 9 Patch — grid-based designs teach spacing discipline and travel paths that every other structured design builds on, and the nine-patch grid maps directly onto the most common quilt block. Circles and clamshells reward that foundation.
Do these designs work on domestic machines?
Yes — the Sketchbook explicitly covers home machine, mid-arm, and longarm execution, and stencil-marked designs are machine-agnostic: the marked line doesn't care what moves the needle. Domestic quilters simply work in smaller basted sections.
