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Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah DayReady to go on a machine quilting adventure? It's time to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day Specifically designed for quilting on a home machine, this style of quilting uses a walking foot to evenly guide the layers of your quilt to produce beautiful quilting stitches. 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

Ready to go on a machine quilting adventure? It's time to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day Specifically designed for quilting on a home machine, this style of quilting uses a walking foot to evenly guide the layers of your quilt to produce beautiful quilting stitches.

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 levels

Mahcine 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 confidence

In 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



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Day Style Designs
Published: 11/01/2017
ISBN: 9780997901146
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.41d
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★★★★★ 4
Good overview of the leading Agentic Framework. Will become outdated quickly.
Format: Paperback
3.5 Stars rounded up. Not a bad place to start if you need to get up to speed fast with Claude Code, understand its vast feature set, how it works under the hood, best practices, and the various agent primitives and how to get the most out of them. Agentic frameworks (Claude Code in particular) are quickly becoming table stakes for anyone working in tech, so it's best to start now. I appreciated the author's ability to flesh out areas where Anthropic's documentation is lacking in depth and nuance, and for some not already working with Claude in their own repos, the fact that he provides "toy" repos where one can experiment with the tools without fear of consequence. Where the book falls short is that most of the stuff in here is already covered pretty well already in Anthropic's docs, or even better so in their free "Skilljar" courses. What's more, some areas are given a bit of a shallow treatment, while others are a bit better done. So it's a bit inconsistent in that sense. Also, I can see how this book will quickly lose its currency in a few months at the pace things are going. Ultimately, for me, the price of this book was a bit rich for my liking given the criticisms above. Still, I feel like I got valuable info that rounded up what I already knew from working with this agentic framework. Recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2026
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Brahmananda Reddy
Chelsea, US
★★★★★ 5
Practical AI Engineering Beyond Prompts — One of the Better Books on Agentic Coding
Format: Paperback
This book is not another “AI coding hype” book. A lot of books talk about agents at a very high level. This one actually explains how things work when you try to use them inside real development workflows. That was the biggest difference for me. What I liked most was the focus on context engineering, memory, MCP, hooks, subagents, and workflow orchestration instead of just “prompt better.” The author spends time explaining why long-running agent systems fail, how context grows over time, and why most AI coding setups become messy without structure. The examples also feel practical — The HookHub project, Next.js setup, GitHub workflows, Claude memory files, and MCP integrations make it easier to connect theory with actual implementation. From my retail domain experience perspective, I could immediately connect this to forecasting and pricing workflows. For example: * agents helping analysts generate specs before model development * automated code review for promo forecasting pipelines * isolated subagents for pricing, promotions, assortment * persistent memory for business rules across teams * MCP integrations to pull context from internal systems safely The section around context isolation and subagents especially stood out because that is very similar to how enterprise forecasting teams already operate in reality. Different teams own different decision spaces. One thing I appreciated: the author does not oversell AI. There is a strong focus on constraints, context pollution, hallucinations, performance degradation, and workflow reliability. That makes the book feel grounded instead of marketing-heavy. This is not for complete beginners though. If someone has never worked with Git, APIs, coding agents, or LLM workflows, parts of the book may feel overwhelming early on. The author clearly says this is not beginner-level content. Overall, probably one of the more practical books I have read recently on agentic coding systems. Good for: * software engineers * AI engineers * enterprise architecture teams * technical product teams * analytics leaders trying to operationalize AI development workflows Especially useful if your organization is trying to move from “AI demos” into actual production workflows.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026
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Dallas, US
★★★★★ 5
A Good Reality Check on How AI Agents Actually Work in Enterprise Systems
Format: Paperback
Most AI books stop at prompts. This one goes deeper into how agent systems actually behave once you try to use them inside large workflows with memory, tools, permissions, automation, and multiple agents working together. That part felt very relevant for healthcare and enterprise environments. The book does a good job explaining why context engineering matters and how poor context handling creates hallucinations, inconsistent outputs, and degraded performance over time. Honestly, that is one of the biggest problems organizations underestimate right now. In healthcare workflows, context matters a lot: * prior interactions * business rules * auditability * escalation logic * safety constraints * tool permissions * workflow boundaries The sections on persistent memory, scoped context, subagents, and structured workflows connected strongly to that reality. I work in enterprise analytics, and while reading this book I kept thinking about use cases like: * pharmacy workflow automation * prior authorization support systems * coding assistants for healthcare engineering teams * AI copilots for operational analytics * agent-based escalation systems * claims and workflow orchestration The MCP chapters were also useful because they explain integration challenges clearly instead of treating tooling as magic. What made this book stand out for me was the balance between implementation and architecture. The author explains: * why long contexts fail * how context poisoning happens * why isolation matters * when parallel agents help * when they actually create more complexity That level of honesty is missing in many AI books right now. Another thing: the examples are not overly academic — The Next.js project setup, GitHub automation, Claude desktop workflows, memory systems, hooks, and subagents make the learning process feel practical and hands-on. One limitation: this book assumes technical background. Someone completely new to coding agents, LLMs, Git, or development workflows may struggle in the first few chapters. But for engineers, AI teams, enterprise architects, and technical leaders trying to understand where agentic coding is actually going, this book is worth reading. Especially for organizations trying to operationalize AI safely instead of just experimenting with chatbots.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026
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Christopher West
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 5
Great book! Practical and for developers that already use AI!
Format: Paperback
I purchased "Agentic Coding" by Claude Code due to my desire for an alternative to generic "Prompt Template" type resources related to AI-based development. This book accomplishes just that. As opposed to merely viewing Claude Code as a "magic box", the author has explained how to utilize it in conjunction with other actual development processes. The authors' emphasis on "context engineering" (i.e., structuring data/information; managing knowledge in a project; guiding an AI agent to produce consistent results vs. producing random/unknown results) represents the strongest component of the book. It should be noted that the book appears to be intended primarily for experienced developers with prior experience in software development and/or familiarity with AI-based development tools. Should you be familiar with Git, the command-line interface, and/or modern development processes, you may find this resource very helpful. Conversely, I did appreciate the fact that there were no novice-oriented descriptions provided throughout the book. The aspect of the book that I found most valuable, however, is the extremely pragmatic nature of the material contained within. The examples illustrated through developing/maintaining CLAUDE.md files; utilizing Claude Code in combination with GitHub Workflows; employing MCP Servers; and creating multi-agent or sub-agent workflows all seemed to reflect a clear focus on "real world usage" rather than theoretical constructs. In addition, each chapter builds upon previous chapters in such a manner as to provide a logical progression through which the reader can easily understand and ultimately implement the concepts learned. I also appreciated that the author included guidance on responsible utilization of the tool(s), as well as maintaining control over what changes are made by the agent. While numerous books regarding AI focus solely on what AI tools can accomplish, this book addresses both how to utilize these tools effectively in a real codebase, as well as responsibility and safety considerations. In summary, this is not a book for individuals completely inexperienced in either programming or generative AI. However, if you are currently experimenting with tools such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Actions, or MCP, this is likely one of the more useful and practical books available on the subject. Recommended for software engineers seeking to transition from simply "prompting an AI" into establishing a repeatable/professional workflow process surrounding agentic coding.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2026
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Paul Pollock
Birmingham, US
★★★★★ 4
⭐⭐⭐⭐ (so far)
Format: Paperback
I'm maybe a third of the way through this and already rethinking how I talk to coding agents. The reframe from "prompt engineering" to "context engineering" sounds like semantics until Marco walks you through why context poisoning, context clash, the Goldilocks zone for system prompts. That chapter alone reorganized something in my head. I keep going back to the line about garbage in, garbage out being the real reason agentic systems underperform. The hands-on stuff lands well too. Building the HookHub project from scratch, wiring up Playwright MCP, watching Claude generate a CLAUDE.md file and then not automatically loading a memory file you just created — that moment where you expect magic and get silence instead? That's the kind of honest teaching I appreciate. It made the "why" behind memory hierarchies click.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2026

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