Calling all quilters looking for ready-to-trace templates and contemporary one-patch quilting inspiration! This gorgeous book, from quilting guru and best-selling author Carolyn Forster, contains 20 different patchwork shapes, from triangles and diamonds, to tumblers, clamshells and apple cores, each made up into an attractive one-patch design. The designs are perfect for working on-the-go, and for each of the 20 shapes you get:
A complete quilting primer makes this book accessible for beginners, with advice on scaling the templates up and down, and both hand and machine sewing. Also included is a complete one-patch quilt project, with full making-up instructions and sumptuous photography, created using a selection of the one-patch blocks, and easy to adapt.
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Tools and materials 6
Using the templates 8
Cutting the patches 9
Stitching the patches 10
Completing a quilt 12
The projects 14
Square 16, Half-square triangle 18, Quarter-square triangle 20, Rectangle triangle 22, Rectangle 24, House or Prism 26, Offset square 29, Tile or Double prism 32, 45° Diamond 34, 60° Diamond 36, Kite 38, Equilateral triangle 40, Tumbler 42, Half-square 44, Half-hexagon 46, Braid 48, Clam shell 50, Hexagon 52, Jewel 54, Apple core 57
The quilt 60
Acknowledgements 64
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