A collection of quilt blocks made from the easiest shapes in the world - a square and a rectangle. Using her simple NO-FAIL@ rotary cutting and piecing techniques, Nancy Johnson-Srebro provides an array of brand-new block patterns that co-ordinate with her original Block Magic designs or work on their own. Here are 50 blocks in four different sizes featuring people and pets, holidays, toys, home and garden, nautical themes, and even a moon rocket. Nancy's QUILT MAP@ concept provides infinite ideas for mixing, matching and embellishing blocks to create a variety of gorgeous quilts. She also gives scores of easy hints and tested tips that should make sewing the blocks easier.
Grandma Garrison was Nancy's mentor while she made her first quilt in 1972. Gram asked her to cut a 6-inch square template from paper and pin it on some fabric. Using regular scissors, quite dull, Nancy cut around the paper template. After cutting about two dozen squares, she noticed some of the squares were not the same size. Nancy called Gram and said, "My blocks don't seem to be the same size." Gram replied, "Are you cutting any of the paper template off when you cut around it?" Nancy replied, "No, only once in a while!" That was Nancy's first lesson in accuracy and it has stuck with her all these years. Today her hallmark is accuracy, and she stresses it with students and attributes the wide recognition of her work to its continued emphasis.
She has written several best-selling books, including Featherweight 221: The Perfect Portable, and Rotary Magic. Nancy also refined how to work with squares and rectangles in her other best-selling books Block Magic; Block Magic, Too!; and Stars by Magic. Recently she was granted a U.S. patent for her innovative technique used for making Eight-Point Stars from squares and rectangles.
Nancy has been a spokesperson and consultant for Omnigrid, a division of Prym Consumer USA, Inc., for over eighteen years.
Her hobbies include reading mysteries, traveling to see children and grandchildren, working in her flower gardens (they keep expanding), and making baby quilts for charity. In recent years she has donated over 600 quilts to brighten the lives of needy children and parents. Nancy lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Frank.
You can learn more about Nancy at www.nancyjohnsonsrebro.com.
