300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks

Oh my goodness! I am so excited about this book! I have NEVER paper pieced before, I'm not even an experienced quilter, but this book will allow even me, to make a quilt that looks like a pro made it! I just finished my very first paper-pieced square, and it looks great! The directions were clear and easy to follow and included pictures throughout the directions. The first 36 blocks are letters and numbers and are 3" in size. The remaining 264 blocks are 4" in size (you put 4 of these together to create an 8" finished square) and include flowers, flags, ducks, firetrucks, houses, tea cups, geometrics and much, much more. There is a great full color gallery of each and every square, nicely layed out and numbered. Best of all? It includes a CD-Rom for your computer that absolutely ROCKS! It downloads all of the blocks into your computer giving you the ability to increase or decrease their size and print them out directly onto the foundation paper. I made block #182 because it looked simple, only 6 pieces, for my first try. You actually end up making 4 of these for the finished square and I decided to just hand trace them. After I made sure I really could paper piece, I downloaded the CD, and I can tell you, printing them out sure beats hand copying them, especially if you're paper piecing an entire quilt!!! If you buy this book, I recommend 2 things: 1-make sure you have a '6" Add-A-Quarter Ruler' (recommended in supplies list on page 7). I could see how paper piecing without it would be a pain in the patooty. 2-I highly recommend this foundation paper I got at Joanne's. This paper fed right through my finicky printer with no hassles, yet was very transparent. The name of the paper is "Fun-dation" and it's made by HCTW. If you're interested in paper-piecing, this is a GREAT book, even for a beginner!

Do you like to paper piece but hate the copying and tracing? Well this book is for you. With over 300 quilt blocks it is a great bargain. Make sure you get the disk with the book if you buy used. You'll get all the info you need to complete some beautiful blocks.

The book exceeding my expectations. It comes with a CD so you can print out the patterns and not have to trace or copy anything.

This is a great resource for quilt blocks. There is a huge variety to choose from and examples are given how to arrange the blocks. They are easy to make and fun to do. The CD-ROM is great too -- no more photocopying!!! Just print the patterns out.

Carol Doak is often called the Queen of paper-piecing, and "300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks" is the most recent reason why. The introductory pages contain a list of tools and supplies, suggestions for choosing fabrics and charts for calculating how much you will need. There are clear instructions - with pictures - on how to paper-piece, and tips on putting the blocks together. The blocks are letters and numbers, houses, hearts, baskets, flowers and flower-pots, trucks and ducks, geometrics and graphics, and many more kinds of things. Besides being in the books, they are on the included CD-Rom disk, so they can be printed in any desired size. And here's a first - the disk is available for either Windows or Mac OS X.