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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • PART 1: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
    • Design Considerations-
            Reverberant Patterns
            Transparency
    • Fabrics-
            Fabric Selection
            Solids vs Prints
            Calicoes
            Visual Texture, Tactile Texture and Reflectivity
            Iridescent Fabrics and Chambrays
            Wrong Sides
            Furnishing Fabrics
            Fabric Preparation
            Quilting as a Salvage Art
            Fabric Collection
            To Dye or Not to Dye
    • Preplanning
    • Technical Considerations-
            Templates
            Graph-paper Templates
            Piecing
            Sewing Machines
            Angled Seams
            Pressing
            Borders
            Planning a Special Border
            Measuring for Borders
            Butted vs Mitered Corners
            Basting
            Quilting
            Hand Quilting
            Machine Quilting
            Tying
            Quilt-as-you-go
            Machine Quilting with the Regular Presser Foot
            Machine Quilting with an Even-feed Foot
            Free-motion Quilting
            Designing New Quilting Patterns
            Quilting an Angled Grid
            Experimenting with Quilting Patterns on Tracing Paper
            Marking Quilting Lines
            Design Wall
            Bindings
            Smoothing Out the Waves
            Folding Quilts
  • PART 2: THE QUILTS
    • How To Use This Section
    • Maple Leaf
    • Mill Wheel
    • Birds in the Air
    • Fire on the Mountain
    • Four Patch Variation
    • Merry-go-round
    • Clay's Choice
    • Corn and Beans
    • Jacob's Ladder
    • Picnic in the Cherry Orchard
    • Roman Square and Roman Square Pinwheels
    • King's Crown
    • Prairie Queen
    • Snowflake
    • Two Triangles
    • Shoo Fly
    • Windblown Square
    • Monkey Wrench
    • Double T
  • Conclusion

Title: Pattern On Pattern: Spectacular Quilts from Traditional Blocks
Author/Designer: Ruth B McDowell
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1991
Publisher: The Quilt Digest Press, Gualala, CA
Language: English
Page Count: 160
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 091332731X

SUMMARY- This was her first book, and well into what was her traditional blocks phase before she discovered picture piecing. She does something really interesting with a series of traditional blocks, adding a layer of sophistication to each that is a definite plus in visual eye candy. You can pick out what the original traditional block is without a problem, then you have to study it for a moment to realize what she did to add that extra layer and make it more than just another traditional quilt. It's a technique you can apply to other blocks yourself. If you're looking to push boundaries of traditional blocks, this is an excellent tool.