40 Bright & Bold Paper-pieced Blocks: 12 Inch Designs from Carol Doak

by Carol Doak

The bestselling author of eight books on paper piecing is back with a color-splashed collection of big, beautiful, bold blocks! Carol Doak reveals her best color tricks for creating dramatic designs that will inspire you to be daring with fabric and color. Another extraordinary quilting adventure with Carol--all made easy with paper piecing! • Includes 40 all-new 12" blocks, plus eight projects ranging from wall quilts to bed quilts--start small or dream big • Includes Carol’s foolproof secrets for blending fabrics, colors, and values to make every quilt block sparkle and pop • Flawless blocks are guaranteed every time with Carol’s super-smart cutting charts

Genres: Quilting, Reference

127 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the designs of Carol Doak's star blocks but was disappointed with these 12" blocks. There are only 2 that I might use. The book has good information on calculating the amount of fabric needed for a strip or for a quilt. It would also be good to study how to produce paper pieced patterns.

[Anne Hawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful book people who love foundation pieced quilts. I originally got it from the library, but liked it so well, I ordered it. The arrangement and color choices of the quilts illustrated are really beautiful and they really are exceptional. Carol Doak is known for her paper piecing books and this one is a real winner. The only thing that could make it better would be a CD to copy blocks into any size rather than to have to graph them.

[Kristal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Carol included instructions for inexperienced quilters, patterns, and color example of each block and pictures of sample quilts and variations. I good book if you are interested in learning paper piecing and you want star-inspired quilt blocks. Paper piecing is great for creating exact points; thus the star-type blocks.

[Kristel · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good intro to paper-piecing. There are some really nice blocks in this book, but I find many of them too busy to want a full quilt of them.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

I missed the point of the book. Some formulaic patterns for those who lack the imagination.