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Quilt Guild: What's your favorite quilt book(s)? [1]

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Date: 2024-06-30  

This is my first diary for the quilt group, and I’m more of a lurker here, so forgive me if this topic has been covered recently. I figured I’d start with a review of the quilt book that I’ve used the most, “One of a Kind Quilts” by Judy Hopkins.

It has a series of block pieces that can be mixed and matched, so that I can cut my scraps into these blocks and eventually use them. I have also made several very different wall hangings from them:

The variety of blocks that can be made is really a plus. There are likely other such systems, and I’d love it if quilters would post them in the comments! The book also has both “recipes” and easy to follow pages with the combinations clearly laid out. It’s almost as simple as a nine-patch, and yet feels like the quilts are one of a kind, as the title suggests.

And since I’ve gotten back into quilting this summer, aware that with arthritis, I can’t do much but also having gotten a donation of wonderful fabric bits from 3 people, I’ve been using these pieces again for some lap quilts that I hope to donate. I’m quite unorganized, so many (most?) of my quilts remain just tops. (I am hoping to push myself to get the donation quilts actually done.) But the other thing about a quilting “system” is that you can play with ideas and still have the ability to use the pieces on something else if it doesn’t work out.

Kitten quilt

Sea turtle quilt (partly laid out)

This is me just putting together a bunch of the blocks I’ve been collecting:

This is working with some other blocks (cats and chickens) and the various scrap blocks (Speckles is “helping”):

And this is one I’m gonna give to a friend (batik fabric given to me by another friend):

So you see this pattern technique has a LOT of variety! I hope you enjoyed this, and will post in comments the name of your favorite quilt book or books.

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