Walk 2.0: More Machine Quilting with Your Walking Foot

In this practical, design-driven guide, bestselling author and international instructor Jacquie Gering shows how a walking foot can be used not just for basic stitching, but for creating quilts that look custom, deliberate, and fully resolved.

Building on the success of her first book Walk, Gering expands the vocabulary of walking-foot quilting with a large set of new patterns and a more advanced framework for choosing and applying them.

Drawing directly from feedback and survey responses from her students, she addresses real decision-making challenges—most notably how to select the right quilting design for a finished quilt. By showing the same quilt top stitched in multiple ways, she gives readers a rare, side-by-side understanding of how design choices impact the final result.

This full-color book is packed with design approaches that move beyond standard straight-line quilting, including point-to-point systems, sashiko-inspired stitching, and repeated concentric shapes that build texture and rhythm across the surface. These techniques allow quilters to achieve the visual richness of custom quilting 

Gering, a recognized leader in the modern quilting movement, brings a teaching style grounded in clarity and real-world use. Her focus is not just on how to stitch a pattern, but on how quilting can unify a design—adding structure, emphasizing piecing, and transforming a quilt from finished to fully realized. 

For quilters who prefer the precision of a walking foot—or who want an alternative to free-motion quilting—Walk 2.0 offers a distinct creative path. It’s a book about control, design, and intention: how to use a familiar tool to achieve results that feel considered, cohesive, and uniquely your own.