40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks: 12-Inch Designs [Paperback]

Carol Doak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002

The bestselling author of eight books on paper piecing is back with a color-splashed collection of big, beautiful, bold blocks! Carol Doak reveals her best color tricks for creating dramatic designs that will inspire you to be daring with fabric and color. Another extraordinary quilting adventure with Carol--all made easy with paper piecing!

• Includes 40 all-new 12" blocks, plus eight projects ranging from wall quilts to bed quilts--start small or dream big

• Includes Carol’s foolproof secrets for blending fabrics, colors, and values to make every quilt block sparkle and pop

• Flawless blocks are guaranteed every time with Carol’s super-smart cutting charts

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Hometown: Windham, New Hampshire

As a bestselling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer, and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has greatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade. Her accomplishments include authoring over a dozen books and designing quilts that have appeared on the covers of nearly every quilting magazine in the U.S., including Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine and McCall’s Quilting.

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564773949
• ISBN-13: 978-1564773944
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #874,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a best-selling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has geatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade, both in the U.S. and internationally. Her accomplishments include a sizable collection of popular books - Easy Machine Paper Piecing, Easy Paper-Pieced Keepsake Quilts, Easy Mix & Match Machine Paper Piecing, Show Me How to Paper Piece, Easy Reversible Vests, Easy Paper-Pieced Miniature Quilts, Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!), Easy Stash Quilts, 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars, Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilt, 40 Bright and Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks, 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks, Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars and her recent release, Mariner's Compass Stars, is receiving rave reviews . Carol also recently released an updated version of her best-selling Easy Reversible Vests and 50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks. With over one million books in print, it is no secret that Carol has raised the popularity of paper piecing, her trademark technique, to heights never before seen in the world of quiltmaking.

Carol's Carol Doak Foundation Paper and Carol Doak's Keepsake Frame Cards are very popular items for paper piecers around the world.

An impressive range of her beautiful blue-ribbon quilts have been featured in several books, such as Great American Quilts 1990 and The Quilt Encyclopedia and on the cover's of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Quilt World, Quilting Today, Ladies' Circle Patchwork and McCall's Quilting.

Carol's lighthearted approach and ability to teach have earned her high marks and positive comments from workshop participants worldwide and at national shows such as the Houston International Quilt Festival and the American Quilter's Society Show. If you have ever taken a class from Carol, you know that her enthusiasm for quiltmaking is infectious. Carol has a gift of sharing her inspiring ideas with her students in such a positive and unique way. Carol travels to teach extensively through the United States including Alaska and Hawaii and as far away as England and Australia.

In April 1999, Carol was awarded the 8th Honors Award from the Eastcoast Quilters Alliance in recognition of her outstanding influence in the field of quilting. In September 1999, her book, Easy Machine Paper Piecing, was named by Quilter's Newsletter Magazine as one of the 30 most influential books in the past 30 years. She was also nominated as one of 24 All-American Quilters in 2004 and 2005 Professional Quilter of the year.

Carol's history in the quiltmaking is nothing short of remarkable, and the future of quiltmaking will benefit from her generous knowledge, enthusiasm, and most of all from her love of quilts.

Carol lives in New Hampshire, where she claims the cold winters give her plenty of reason to stockpile a fabric stash for insulation purposes!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eight projects cover wall to bed quilts, small and large, August 8, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks: 12-Inch Designs (Paperback)

Carol Doak's outstanding 40 Bright & Bold Paperpieced Blocks provides twelve inch designs in block style to be used as quilt foundations and inspirations. Eight projects cover wall to bed quilts, small and large. Blocks are gorgeous and provide fine examples of color-coordinated piecing.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, Inspiring Book, April 14, 2005

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Software-savvy Quilter (Nashville,TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks: 12-Inch Designs (Paperback)

Just flipping through this colorful book will make you yearn to start gathering fabric and start sewing. Each block is shown individually in vibrant color and arranged in "mini quilt" that shows how the block looks arranged in a grouping of 4 joined blocks. The facing page gives you the foundation layout for the block. Of course, copying the layout page also gives you a place to use crayons to play with color before committing to a fabric selection. Each block includes a cutting list with sizes and dimensions clearly outlined. The book starts with advice about selecting colors and gives illustrated step by step instructions on how to paper-piece. The book ends with photos of 8 completed quilts with fabric and cutting charts. Whether you need patterns or inspiration this book will motivate you!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 40 Bright and Bold Paperpieced Blocks, November 27, 2008

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Conway Fan (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks: 12-Inch Designs (Paperback)

I think this was the first Carol Doak book we bought. My hubby and I have both used it and the first time I used it I had never paper pieced before and she made it so easy that I got hooked on this piecing method. She tells you how to precut fabric so you do not waste fabric. She gives very detailed information and instructions, I think a beginner quilter with "just the basic" knowledge of quilting could use Carols method. The pictures a very well done also.