Create Your Family Quilt: Using State Blocks and Symbols

by Barbara Brackman

Celebrate your family heritage by making a quilt to represent the places you've lived and loved, the land your ancestors worked, or the states you've visited. Quilt expert Barbara Brackman helps you create your own personal story using pieced blocks, appliqued borders, and your home computer! Over 700 traditional pieced blocks on CD-Rom represent the 50 U.S. states and Canada; New applique designs portray state birds and flowers; 10 full-color quilts offer inspiration for your own heritage quilt project; The accompanying Windows CD-Rom lets you design your own unique family quilt. Use the easy point-and-click menu to look up states by clicking on a map; select pieced and appliqued blocks; choose your quilt size; lay out your quilt with pieced blocks in the center and appliqued birds, flowers, and leaves around the borders; choose fabrics and color your quilt on screen; print a full-sized pattern; and print a colored picture of the whole quilt.

Genres: Quilting

166 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

About the author

Barbara is a free-lance writer, historian and museum curator with seven published books on quilts and numerous museum catalogs to her credit.