This book really does contain 1,000 blocks for making patchwork quilts. Many are familiar old favourites; others are not so well known.
All are shown as diagrams, with a key to outline the constituent parts and measurements. Templates allow you to make a block of any size to suit your requirements. Tips to help you estimate fabric requirements are also included. There are hints for enlarging and reducing patterns, for working out how to add seam allowances to any element, square or not, and examples of combined blocks that make secondary patterns when they are put together with other blocks.
The book is divided into sections according to type of block: four-patch, five-patch, seven-patch, nine-patch, one-piece patterns, strips, curves, baskets, pictorial blocks, and even an alphabet or two. In addition, patterns include many of the star designs that depend on sharp points, to copy for use in foundation piecing.
