All-New Twenty To Make: One-Patch Quilts

Description

20 stunning, quick-and-easy one-patch quilt designs with full-size templates included.

Calling all quilters looking for ready-to-trace templates and contemporary one-patch quilting inspiration! This gorgeous book, from quilting guru and best-selling author Carolyn Forster, contains 20 different patchwork shapes, from triangles and diamonds, to tumblers, clamshells and apple cores, each made up into an attractive one-patch design. The designs are perfect for working on-the-go, and for each of the 20 shapes you get:

• A full-size template, ready to trace off and use
• Piecing instructions to help you put together your one-patch designs with ease
• Layout variations to inspire you to use each shape in numerous ways
• Clear photographic visuals showcasing Carolyn’s chosen layout and fabric.

A complete quilting primer makes this book accessible for beginners, with advice on scaling the templates up and down, and both hand and machine sewing. Also included is a complete one-patch quilt project, with full making-up instructions and sumptuous photography, created using a selection of the one-patch blocks, and easy to adapt.

This book is an expanded hardback edition of 20 to Stitch: One-Patch Quilts (9781782213765), 2017.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 4
Tools and materials 6
Using the templates 8
Cutting the patches 9
Stitching the patches 10
Completing a quilt 12

The projects 14
Square 16, Half-square triangle 18, Quarter-square triangle 20, Rectangle triangle 22, Rectangle 24, House or Prism 26, Offset square 29, Tile or Double prism 32, 45° Diamond 34, 60° Diamond 36, Kite 38, Equilateral triangle 40, Tumbler 42, Half-square 44, Half-hexagon 46, Braid 48, Clam shell 50, Hexagon 52, Jewel 54, Apple core 57

The quilt 60
Acknowledgements 64

 

About Carolyn Forster

Carolyn Forster is a best-selling quilting author, with over 150,000 books sold worldwide. She started making quilts when she was a teenager, and her passion for patchwork and quilting led her to study Textiles at Bath Spa University, UK. Since then, she has taught patchwork and quilting both in the UK and the USA and has had her quilts featured in a number of books and magazines, including Today‘s Quilter and French magazine Magic Patch. Carolyn lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK.

www.carolynforster.co.uk
@quiltingonthego