Quilt Block Genius
Become a Quilt Block Genius!
- 300 pieced quilt blocks with variations creating a grand total of 1001 blocks
- Full-color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions to make 300 quilt blocks
- 3 new grid sizes, for a total of 7 grid sizes to make blocks for a quilt of your own design
- New smaller blocks for mini quilts, plus new quilt settings and new sampler quilt patterns
- Create your own block with a new technique from author Sue Voegtlin
- User-friendly charts with no math required provide measurements to help you resize or design any grid-based block
The math is done for you in this beautiful collection of classic and contemporary quilt blocks. A go-to reference for quilters of all abilities, you'll discover new blocks to mix and match—and create your next keepsake quilt!
From Sue Voegtlin, the author of the wildly popular Block Genius, comes this expanded and revised edition, Quilt Block Genius. This edition contains 100 new blocks and 3 new grid sizes, new smaller blocks for miniature quilts, new quilt settings, new sampler quilt patterns, and even a "create your own block" technique!
Featuring 300 pieced quilt blocks that can be made into 1,001 blocks, "Good to Know" tips and techniques, exploded assembly diagrams, and clearly photographed step-by-step techniques, plus helpful suggestions to create even more blocks with easy math in a user-friendly chart format—with this book, you'll become a Quilt Block Genius, too!
Author, sewist, photographer, and editor Sue Voegtlin wrote, sewed, photographed, and "did the math" for you in Block Genius, which has been used as a beginner quilting teaching book. Quilt Block Genius continues that process of creating different sized blocks for countless possibilities!
"You will refer to it again and again!"
—Penny Haren, Author of Log Cabin Quilts and the Pieced Appliqué book series
From the Back Cover
The math is done for you
in this beautiful collection of classic and contemporary quilt blocks. A go-to reference for quilters of all abilities, discover new blocks to mix and match and to create your next keepsake quilt!
Inside QUILT BLOCK GENIUS
- New edition features 100 new blocks and 3 new grid sizes
- Full-color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions to make 300 quilt blocks in 1,001 sizes
- Choose from 7 grid sizes to make blocks for a quilt of your own design
- Measurements to help you resize or design any grid-based block
- "Good to Know" tips and techniques and exploded assembly diagrams
- Clearly photographed step-by-step techniques
Quilt Block Genius is a must-have for every quilter! Sue explains the basic concept of the grid method and how all pieced blocks can be broken down into easily created units. Her helpful tips are an added bonus. This should be a requirement for every beginning quilting class and a go-to book in every quilter's sewing room. You will refer to it again and again!
—Penny Haren, Author of Log Cabin Quilts and Pieced Applique book series
About the Author
Sue Voegtlin has been Landauer's photographer since 2008 as well as having designed several popular patterns for Landauer quit books. She is an avid outdoorswoman and outdoors photographer. Sue has been sewing for decades beginning with garments and now is an avid quilter. Her photography is featured in several of Landauer's award-winning books.
- Page Count: 208
- Size: 8 x 0.6 x 9.9 inches
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