Wonderful World of Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks: 30 Nature-Inspired Designs and a Beautiful Sampler

Quilters know that paper-piecing produces the most accurate blocks and sharpest points. By adding a lightbox to the set of basic tools featured in this book, Taylor, a quilt pattern designer, goes a step further to ensure good results. Her book’s templates are for creating flowers, birds, bees, butterflies, bugs, and other garden life onto five-inch, paper-pieced quilting blocks. This gorgeous book includes a handy resizing chart that takes having to do math calculations out of the equation when quilters want other sizes ranging from three to 12 inches. A little extra effort is needed to alter the seams when the templates are resized, but this is nicely explained. One block makes a nice wall hanging, but several sampler projects are suggested. The presented options can lead to nearly an endless variety of quilts. The fabric choices in the illustrations sometimes mimic reality; other times, they’re highly imaginative, but that just lets quilters know that they can go in many directions.