505 Quilt Blocks: Plus 36 Beautiful Projects

by Better Homes and Gardens (Editor)

Presents detailed instructions on how to create more than five hundred different quilt blocks, including both traditional and contemporary designs, with helpful guidelines on how to customize the different blocks and how to adapt them for use as wardrobe items, fashion accessories, home decor, and other beautiful items. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Quilting, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 2003

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Sherri · Rating 2 out of 5]

An o.k. resource that I think it really depends on what you're looking for.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

An entire book of 4 inch blocks. Many of the pieced blocks can be resized and/or paper pieced. I like this book for the appliqués flowers and easy holiday blocks.

This book assumes that you are an experienced quilter. Very little guidance for a beginner. I like that the author pictures projects to use the blocks that are not quilts, thus giving net ideas to use them.

If you don't like either appliqué or paper piecing, this book will likely sit on your bookshelf unused. As mentioned, while some of the pieced blocks can be enlarged, the smallish size encourages paper piecing them instead.

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like this book and made copies of the blocks. The majority of the designs show work that leans toward the country artsy style, which is not mine, nor do want to go that way. The easy instructions are on the same page as the quilt blocks.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Includes directions for a lovely Autumn tote bag with appliqued leaf blocks and also a tennis racquet block.

[Cindy · Rating 2 out of 5]

An okay resource. Not much I actually used.

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