505 Quilt Blocks: Plus 36 Beautiful Projects to Make

by Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

Presents detailed instructions for creating over 500 traditional and contemporary quilt blocks, with tips on adapting them for use as wardrobe items, fashion accessories, home decor, and other items. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696216531
• ISBN13: 9780696216534
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great quilt book

I love this book! I make quilts for dollhouses, and this book has hundreds of designs that can be used to make miniature quilts. Just choose your favorite, add a border and binding, and there you have it. Of course you can also use the designs for big quilts, clothing, tote bags and other items.

A Good Addition to the Quilt Library

This shouldn't be your only quilting book, and it probably shouldn't be your first quilting book, but it is a very handy addition to a quilter's bookshelf. Like all Better Homes and Gardens books, it is well designed and beautifully photographed, very accurate, and practical. There are more pictorial quilts (both pieced and applique) than there are traditional.

Amazing ideas

I am not highly experienced or a complete amateur at quilting blocks, so I speak from that amount of knowledge. This book is filled with amazing ideas. I have more quilting books than I care to admit but this will be the one I use over and over. It gives ideas for just about any quilt block you could want, flowers, sports, alphabet, months of the year, shoes to flat tops. No quilters library should be without this book. You can't go wrong.

Good Ideas, but not for the beginner

This book has a lot of wonderful blocks, but there lacks the directions to be easy to use for a beginner. All the patterns are on the same page as the picture with basic construction directions. There is 2 patterns to a page. There are a lot of both pieced and appliquéd designs. All the patterns are for 4 inch blocks. They can easily be enlarged, but the smaller designs allow for smaller projects, something that can be hard to find. I love the book, but beginners beware.

What an awesome book!

This book was so amazing! It had about every quilt block you could think of. Granted it's not for the inexperienced. Not many instructions for the piecing. But if you have done much peicing, you can figure it out. Highly recommended book!