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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Elements of Design
- My So-Called Concepts
- Our Fabrics, Our Palettes
- Templating
- Piece by Piece
- The Puzzle Block Workbook:
- Block 1
- Block 2
- Block 3
- Block 4
- Block 5
- Block 6
- Block Piecing Diagrams
- Block Templates
- Block Diagrams to Photocopy
- About the Author
- Resources
- Index
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Title: Puzzle Quilts: Simple Blocks Complex Fabrics
Editors: Paula Nadelstern
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2005
Publisher: C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA
Language: English
Page Count: 96
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1571203362
SUMMARY- The Table of Contents doesn't really tell you much about this book. I had no idea what a puzzle quilt was, so I'm assuming you don't either. Paula is a genius. No qualifiers, she just is. This book is her attempt to impart a bit of her genius to us. She admits it requires a gigantic horde of visually complicated print fabric and in big enough yardage so that fussy cutting them is feasible - fat quarters won't do. She then uses relatively simple block patterns with see-through templates, and manipulates the fabric designs to create new images that fool the eye into not seeing where one patch ends and another begins. She can take one block pattern and make two blocks that don't look like they have any relation to each other at all just from the visual illusions her cutting choices created. If you are a fan of clever and can afford this madness, then you definitely want this book. Just be aware how deep this particular rabbit hole is before you do. I think it will suck you in and it will be many years before you decide to do something else. There. You've been warned.
The sample Puzzle Quilt that she shows us has 12 blocks and uses 6 different block patterns. The puzzle is to figure out which blocks repeat. Let me give you a hint - you're not going to figure it out without some serious study.
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