336 Ten-Minute Quilt Blocks: To Foundation-Piece, Quick-Piece, Nosew Applique, Stamp, Stencil, Paint & Embellish [Hardcover]

Holly Schmidt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

Easy, fast, and fun to do! These 336 quilt blocks, adapted especially for the beginner, all use the simplest techniques--and many don't even require sewing. Start with a foundation piece, and layer on as many details as you'd like. Choose from dozens of patterns--flowers, trees, hearts, diamonds, boats, animals, and more. Bonus: a mini gallery of project ideas! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806917792
• ISBN-13: 978-0806917795
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,089,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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112 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It has great pictures and ideas but., March 19, 1999

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This review is from: 336 Ten-Minute Quilt Blocks: To Foundation-Piece, Quick-Piece, Nosew Applique, Stamp, Stencil, Paint & Embellish (Hardcover)

This book gives you great ideas. But quilters are a busy bunch of people. It would have been a much better book if the author would have included some patterns. Majority of the ladies in my quilting club look for a pattern and have a terrible time making their own patterns. If I would have known it didn't contain patterns I wouldn't have purchased it. But I did so thru a book club. I design and make personable quilts and have been in the business for quite some time.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 128 Pages of Eye Strain, July 4, 2003

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Serene (Marina, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 336 Ten-Minute Quilt Blocks: To Foundation-Piece, Quick-Piece, Nosew Applique, Stamp, Stencil, Paint & Embellish (Hardcover)

I purchased this book, sight unseen, because I am a collector of quilt block books. I love reviewing the books and planning my next project, this book, claiming to have '336' quilt blocks seemed to be ideal. Well, I was wrong. Dead Wrong.

The layout of this book is TERRIBLE. It features six eye-poppingly colorful blocks per page which most of which are not pieced, but are merely DRAWN. There are illustrations which claim to be patterns but there are no actual measurements included. Sure, this looks good....But...The reader is left wondering how to put it all together.

I think it is disingenuous NOT to show completed pieced blocks in a quilt block book or measurements. I probably will try to put a couple of the "Tree" blocks together, but I think it will be challenging.

Recommended: No. A good 'idea' book, but not for careful piecers, and certainly NOT easy to complete in 10 minutes!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad, But..., January 17, 2007

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This review is from: 336 Ten-Minute Quilt Blocks: To Foundation-Piece, Quick-Piece, Nosew Applique, Stamp, Stencil, Paint & Embellish (Hardcover)

The layout of this book is not standard to other quilt books- pattern and instructions together. It does have some good ideas and cute patterns; however, directions are given at the very beginning, then followed by the patterns leaving the reader to guess what category it falls under. ie: The paper-piecing patterns are shown 3 to a page (small); but the reader must return to the beginning to discover they must enlarge the piece to achieve a particular block size and how to construct it. I reviewed the book first from the library, and I am contemplating purchasing a used book if the price is right from Amazon. I would not recommend this for a beginning quilter.