Margaret Rolfe Boeken

Create a menagerie of quilted critters with exciting foundation-pieced block designs by Margaret Rolfe! Piece a panda, generate a giraffe, render a rhinoceros--or sew up dozens of other birds and animal designs, including a lion, flamingo, toucan, hippo, koala, parrot, and elephant. Stitch even the smallest pieces of your blocks with ease and accuracy when you use Margaret's fast and fun foundation-piecing technique. Simply trace a design onto the foundation, add oversized pieces of fabric, and sew on the straight lines with your machine! Combine any number of 4" x 4" blocks to make small or large theme quilts, or piece your blocks into clothing and other projects. Complete instructions, patterns for four quilts, and a special ark block are included.

Create dazzling scrap quilts with dozens of block designs based on one simple shape--the rectangle. Two stars of the quilting world share their expert tips for turning a so-so scrap quilt into a smashing success. Choose from 15 patterns based on simple one-patch designs--no tricky measurements or stretchy bias edges Explore three key elements that add up to winning scrap quilts--the value, color, and style of printed fabrics Learn how to scatter and blend your collection of fabrics for a perfect balance of variation and repetition--not too boring, not too chaotic Includes 45 of the many different options for designing with rectangles

It's so easy to make a wonderful quilt full of realistic feathered and furry creatures. Now you can cut and piece your favorite North American birds and animals with lifelike accuracy. There's no guesswork when you follow these four basic rules for creating block units. Step-by-step piecing order diagrams will guide you all the way!