By the Bundle: Turn Precuts into Patchwork with 12 Fat Quarter-Friendly Quilts

by Emma Jean Jensen, Emma Jean Jansen

Do you love collecting fat quarter bundles, but don't know what to do with them, or just leave them looking all beautifully tied up with a ribbon on a shelf in your sewing room? Former quilt-shop owner turned fabric designer, Emma Jean Jansen inspires quilters to create her 12 quilts specifically designed to use these popular precuts. Whether you are using a collection of fat quarters from a single fabric collection, or from a personal collection of inspired favorites, all of Emma's assembly and cutting directions are written specifically to maximize fat quarters to help you finally put these collections to use. Photographed on location in her native Australia, Emma's designs range from beginner-friendly to complex, each appealing to modern and traditional quilters alike. So go ahead...untie that ribbon and break into your favorite bundle!

Genres: Quilting, Nonfiction, Crafts

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 16, 2016

Reviews

[Candy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The photography is beautiful and I LOVE some of these patterns! How do these quilters keep finding new ways to put fabric and color together? The quilt inspired by crystals is so interesting- well, I am thoroughly engrossed in this gorgeous book. Right now I am learning about flying geese and Emma does something amazing with them!!

I read this again because I wanted the full instructions for the Nellie Gray quilt. This quilt has stayed in the top 5 quilts I'd like to make, so if I have all the instructions, maybe it will move up to #1. I have used these elongated diamonds made of flying geese in other quilts since I learned about them from this book.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

By the Bundle by Emma Jean Jansen, Australia, 2016, Lucky Spool Media, read June 2019. She blogs at emmajeanjansen.com.au and lives in Australia. I thought she did a lot of things right in making a quilting book to appeal to the modern quilters. She designs fabric for Ella Blue available from Charles Parson. The photos of her quilts were awesome, taken at different locations in Australia.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great beginner quilts with great instructions. Will have to do Diamond and Squares pattern for fabrics/prints I want to show off. Strips of Tricks is pretty good too.

[Flyingzebras · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adorable quilts! Fun eye candy.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the amazing ideas in this book, it really inspired me to get quilting. I really want to make one of the quilts in it now, it was a rainbow quilt with triangles and it seemed so simple to make that one of these days I am going to make it. I loved all the tips this book had to sewing and different ideas to help with making nice quilts. It also has beautiful photographs and good instructions of how to make the many quilts mentioned. It was a really good book.

[Beth Carroll · Rating 5 out of 5]

I especially liked the quilts raindrops and strips of tricks.