Lerlene Nevaril has the solution to the challenge of making repeat-block quilts more interesting. By changing patches in beloved traditional blocks, you’ll discover variations that blend beautifully with the original. Find the best of both worlds by giving an innovative new spin to conventional designs with Hidden Blocks.
• 13 imaginative quilt settings based on Lerlene’s Hidden Block technique
• 55 Blocks - 45 variations on 10 favorite traditional quilt blocks such as Carpenter’s Wheel, Friendship Star, and Bear’s Paw
• Learn how to design your own variations for quilts that are uniquely yours
• Includes suggestions for quilt “back art”
• Plus a gallery of dozens of colorful quilts
Reviews
Review By: Morna McEver Golletz, The Professional Quilter - January 1, 2003
This simple concept for creating variation in traditional repeated block quilts yields innovative results.
Review By: Liz Schwartz, Quilts with style - April 1, 2003
...by starting with a traditional block and altering the placement of colors and position of patches within the block, a myriad of potential quilts emerges.
Review British Patchwork & Quilting - May 1, 2003
...she has beautifully illustrated the technique.
Review By: Janet Jo Smith, Quilters Newsletter Magazine - May 1, 2003
Simple but clever, that's the idea behind the design technique developed by Lerlene to use traditional blocks in a new way...This is an approach any once can use, even the beginner, to make stunning original design quilts.
Review By: Anita Murphy, The Journal of the International Quilt Assn. - June 1, 2003
What a lovely technique to design your own variation for quilts that become uniquely yours. The plain blocks on your quilts will soon be anything but plain!...It's fun, easy, and very exciting.
Review The Bookwatch - February 1, 2003
...tells how to locate new designs in the block quilt style~ making repeat-block quilts more interesting. Change patches in traditional blocks and you have new variations which are appealing and exciting.
Review British Patchwork & Quilting - May 1, 2003
...she has beautifully illustrated the technique.
Review Quiltemagasinet - March 1, 2003
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