The premise of this book is to create exactly two quilt blocks whenever you have enough appropriate fabric to do so, so as to avoid having to do a lot of cutting and piecing all at once. (Two blocks so as to end up with an even number of triangles and not waste any fabric.) Um, ok.
So anyway, she goes on about this strategy for 20 pages or so, and then there is a very nice gallery of quilts, which is the basis for me giving the book a rating higher than 1 star. The gallery shows 20 different scrappy quilt--some of them quite pretty. Some are the same pattern done with different color combinations, which I always find fascinating.
After the gallery, she pictures in black, white, and grey diagrams all the blocks used in the gallery quilts, and follows this with instructions on how to assemble them. The instructions are concise and easy to follow. There are no templates given, but the dimensions of the pieces (all squares, rectangles, and triagles) are listed, along with the number of pieces to cut to make the size quilt shown in the gallery.
Next comes a list of several dozen "potential" quilts the author has dreamed up on her computer, showing different ways to color and assemble the blocks outlined earlier. After this, there is the requisite "basic quiltmaking techniques section, followed by some uncolored block grids you can use to try to figure out what color combinations work for you.
So anyway, she goes on about this strategy for 20 pages or so, and then there is a very nice gallery of quilts, which is the basis for me giving the book a rating higher than 1 star. The gallery shows 20 different scrappy quilt--some of them quite pretty. Some are the same pattern done with different color combinations, which I always find fascinating.
After the gallery, she pictures in black, white, and grey diagrams all the blocks used in the gallery quilts, and follows this with instructions on how to assemble them. The instructions are concise and easy to follow. There are no templates given, but the dimensions of the pieces (all squares, rectangles, and triagles) are listed, along with the number of pieces to cut to make the size quilt shown in the gallery.
Next comes a list of several dozen "potential" quilts the author has dreamed up on her computer, showing different ways to color and assemble the blocks outlined earlier. After this, there is the requisite "basic quiltmaking techniques section, followed by some uncolored block grids you can use to try to figure out what color combinations work for you.
