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"The results featured in this book provide a bewitching star for every state … excellent instructions and diagrams." -- The Quilting Quarterly

… loaded with useful tips on paper piecing and how to affect the look of the designs. -- --Art You Wear, Spring 2001

About the Author

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 United States, including Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and McCall's Quilting.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: That Patchwork Place; PAP/CDR edition (April 10, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1564772713
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564772718
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.8 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsYour Stars Will Be Fabulous!
By Vicky on July 1, 2000
Format: Paperback
I just finished watching the video CD to 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars and wanted to tell everyone how fabulous it was! It is included in the book and was one of the reasons I purchased the book. I am really excited about getting started on piecing some of the stars and combining parts of different stars to make new stars. The tips Carol shares will make working on them effortless, with the end product looking beautiful and perfect. I have done paper piecing, but will enjoy it so much more now. Carol is a delightful person and a wonderful teacher! The book itself offers step-by-step instructions and the accompanying video CD helps you through the whole process with tips to make piecing accurate. (I will view this video CD over and over again!) Carol specifies what sizes to cut of the fabrics for each block. With Carol's suggestions, she opens up the creativity of your mind as the possibilities are endless. The book is filled with many, many color pictures of the stars, which inspire me as I look at them over and over again. So, I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about beginning quilting or has years of experience. Thanks Carol for sharing your expertise and creativity with us!
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4.0 out of 5 starsWarning - lots and lots of pieces
By A Customer on February 21, 2001
Format: Paperback
The blocks are stunning. The directions are clear. The blocks are very, very time consumming, since they mostly have about 60 + pieces. This was my first paper piecing project and the technique was fun. It does not however produce 100 percent accuracy at first because it takes just as much skill to sew exactly on a line as it does to sew a perfect quarter inch seam. Piecers should know that the authors method of pre-cutting pieces, sewing to a foundation, and then cutting to size, wastes huge amount of fabric since she always gives you a half inch or more to spare on all sides and is very time consuming. After piecing four blocks, I was very pleased with the results but couldn't bring myself to do anymore. I was extremely disappointed that the cd didn't have files to print out of the patterns. The tight binding makes photocopies difficult and I ended up spending a lot of time re-drafting the pattern in Electric Quilt. I understand you can buy some software with the patterns, but didn't think it was worth the extra money.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSomewhat disappointing
By Lucinda Welenc on December 16, 2003
Format: Paperback
Don't get me wrong -- the designs are GREAT! I plan to incorporate several in my next quilt. But I am MOST disappointed that the CD doesn't include the patterns themselves so that they could be printed out from my own computer. My local quilt shops made such a big deal out of the fact that a CD was included in the high price, I (and they) thought that the CD would be patterns, not an instruction video. Now I find out that to get printable patterns, you have to buy an *additional* CD. Not a good way to do business, Ms. Doak -- it's called "bait and switch".
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood Book, but
By Marilyn Smith on August 19, 2005
Format: Paperback
Really nice book, the CD that comes is very informative. The book is laid out nice, the only trouble i had with the book was to get the cd that has the pattern layouts to put on the computer, I had to go to another source listed in the book. It would have been nice to know that an additional CD was needed to use with the book, so the patterns to piece could be printed out on the computer's printer.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMake Stars The Easy Way With Paper Piecing
By Sharon Darling on February 5, 2001
Format: Paperback
Here are some excerpts from my review of this book. You can see the complete review on the Quilter's Review website, as well as a review of Quilt-Pro's Foundation Factory software that includes all the patterns from this book.
"If you've ever tried to do stars but had trouble with the points, you may have heard that paper piecing yields perfect stars with perfect points. Now all you have to do is figure out how to paper piece. And of course, find the patterns.
"You're in luck! Carol Doak has compiled a collection of 50 fabulous star patterns, all paper-pieced, and complete with excellent instructions. This diverse collection starts with the basic LeMoyne Star and adds lines, flowers, leaves and background detail....
"Cutting the fabric to fit is one of the things that make paper piecing so frustrating for beginners. To get the fabric piece large enough to fit the pattern, it seems as though you have to waste lots of fabric. With Carol's chart, you can cut the minimum amount of fabric and the pieces still fit....
"If you don't know how to paper piece or would like to find some tips to make it easier, Carol includes complete step-by-step instructions for her method. But the best part of the book is the video CD that is included. You can watch Carol do a Delaware star as she explains each step.
"When I finished watching the video, I wondered how I could have ever thought paper piecing was difficult!"
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5.0 out of 5 starsReccommend by the accidental quilter
By Mary Z. Cox on August 6, 2000
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Stars are hard--especially the ones that are made from diamonds. Carol Doak uses paper-piece to create beautiful stars in this book as well as provides a CD to explain her techniques. If you want to piece beautiful and accurate stars--this is the book for you. The color plates are vivid, and she includes the paper-piece formats for each star.
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5.0 out of 5 stars50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars deserves 5 stars!
By BDuBord on July 13, 2004
Format: Paperback
I love all of my quilt books but this is the one I use the most. The designs are so versatile and cover the entire range from simple to intricate. I learned the paper-piecing technique by watching the CD. I found it much easier to understand the process by watching the video than reading the book. I recently needed a refresher and was so pleased to have the CD to watch again.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Bok was as advertised, slightly used, price was right

Published 17 days ago by carol hanks
5.0 out of 5 starsLove this book

Love this book. The stars are stunning. The only bad thing about the book is that with 50 stars to choose from it will be hard to choose the ones I want in the first quilt!

Published 28 days ago by sharon murray
5.0 out of 5 starsNot for me

Not helpful to my quilting, but the stars are beautiful and if you use this quilting technique you would probably like the book.

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Second time I bought this - must have loaned out the other copy and someone kept it... worth the second price... would buy it again if needed. Read more

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great book with numerous verities of stars

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This is amazing. You can make so many different stars with this endless possibilities. One of the best books I have received. Going to have a lot of fun with this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars

This book has 50 beautiful star patterns with endless possibilities for additional blocks by mixing and matching. Read more

Published 3 months ago by GranMary
3.0 out of 5 starsWarning: requires additional expenditure to be useful.

One star for the fact that the included CD doesn't have the designs available for printing, but you can BUY a companion CD that does have the patterns for printing. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Kelly D.

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