Simple Quilts That Look Like a Million Bucks

I really like this book. It gave good advice for making quilts without having a focus fabric. It also made me think of the color gray in a whole new way. Great book.

this is an excellent quilt book especially if you like more than one type of block in your quilt. It is very interesting and eye catching. We are using the Illinois and Card trick pattern for our raffle quilt for our church. We enjoy looking at the book and have picked out several more patterns. Wonderful quilt book to work with.

As a beginning quilter, I have purchased many books that were highly recommended. This one, I picked up because I was so attracted to the beautiful quilts. What a wonderful surprise to find that the author has such a winning style of writing and her instructions are detailed and easy to follow as well. The book lives up to its title-these quilts are simple and can be constructed fairly quickly using rotary cutting and strip piecing techniques. The designs are strongly graphic in style (no applique or simple squares) with several of the quilts variations on each other so you get a sense of how to make color choices or design your own variation. Half-square triangles are used creatively to form beautiful diagonals and sashing is used imaginatively to form beautiful star designs. The instructions are clear enough that I used this book to make the first quilt ever entirely by myself after having taken a sampler class. I would recommend more of a how-to beginner's book like Doak's "Your First Quilt Book" or "Quilts, Quilts, Quilts" by Nownes for basic information and then use this book to branch out. It's such a pleasure to look at and read that I refer to it again and again. Thank you, Nicole!