501 Quilt Blocks

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Better Homes and Gardens®
501
QUILT
BLOCKS
A Treasury of Patterns for Patchwork Appliqué
If you love variety and are an inveterate collector, this is the book for you. Better Homes and Gardens® 501 QUILT BLOCKS is a treasure trove of block patterns, each shown in full color and accompanied by a full-size pattern, with 40 wonderful projects that show you how to use them. To sample just a few of these inspiring projects, see
¦ The Baltimore Album Wall Quilt (page 7). A showpiece of appliqué skills.
¦ The Magic Carpet Quilt (page 14). A dark print background for 144 four-inch blocks creates a magical effect.
¦ The Very Victorian Wall Hanging (page 20). Buttons, laces, tatting, handkerchiefs, and buckles along with Liberty fabric pieces in four-inch spool blocks make a unique decoration.
¦ The Welcome Springtime Mantle/Shelf Quilt (page 23). Just a few quilt blocks bring the freshness of a new season to your home.
¦ Ranch Dressing (page 28). Go Western-style and have... Tovább

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Better Homes and Gardens®
501
QUILT
BLOCKS
A Treasury of Patterns for Patchwork Appliqué
If you love variety and are an inveterate collector, this is the book for you. Better Homes and Gardens® 501 QUILT BLOCKS is a treasure trove of block patterns, each shown in full color and accompanied by a full-size pattern, with 40 wonderful projects that show you how to use them. To sample just a few of these inspiring projects, see
¦ The Baltimore Album Wall Quilt (page 7). A showpiece of appliqué skills.
¦ The Magic Carpet Quilt (page 14). A dark print background for 144 four-inch blocks creates a magical effect.
¦ The Very Victorian Wall Hanging (page 20). Buttons, laces, tatting, handkerchiefs, and buckles along with Liberty fabric pieces in four-inch spool blocks make a unique decoration.
¦ The Welcome Springtime Mantle/Shelf Quilt (page 23). Just a few quilt blocks bring the freshness of a new season to your home.
¦ Ranch Dressing (page 28). Go Western-style and have fun with quilt-block apparel.
¦ Kitchen Ware (page 37). From hotpads to tea cozies, the well-dressed kitchen wears four-inch quilt blocks in your colors.
¦ Pieceful Christmas (page 47). Designed to inspire your own Christmas piecing, Christmas quilt blocks are as much fun to make as to receive.


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With complete, step-by-step instructions from cutting to construction and finishing, and tips and techniques to ease your way, this book shows you why it's fun and worthwhile to make four-inch quilt blocks and make each one different. You'll find many options, too: projects using one block, two blocks or two hundred blocks. Of course, you may know exactly what you want to do with your quilt blocks, but if you need inspiration, you'll find it among these projects.
Beginning on page 53 you'll find fiill-size patterns for the blocks—501 of them, grouped by theme, from Alphabets and Baskets to Trees and Leaves, together with instructions for making each block. And, beginning on page 305, the Tips and Techniques section will refresh your memory if you haven't used a specific technique for a while, or never learned it.
Quilters Lynette Chiles and Joan Lewis, from Flower Mound, Texas, share a quilt-pattern business and love of miniatures, collecting things, and variety. They'll show you why and how to make these wonderful quilt blocks so you'll be inspired to do it— and have years of fun as a result. Vissza