Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts [Paperback]

Carol Doak (Author)

Book Description

Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts
Carol Doak

This clever combination of two favorite quilting subjects--baby quilts and paper piecing--will inspire you to start stitching today! Bestselling author and renowned "Queen of Paper Piecing" Carol Doak shares a dozen new quilt designs that feature beloved childhood themes. Perfect for newborns, toddlers, or a special someone who's young at heart.

· A dozen new designs feature beloved childhood themes for girls and boys, from teddy bears and ducks to trains and pinwheels

· Carol Doak's seamless paper-piecing instructions will show you how to make each patchwork block with ease--even if you've never paper pieced before

· Carol's super-smart cutting charts reveal how to cut oversized fabric pieces to the right size every time

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Hometown: Salem, N.H.

Carol Doak has authored nearly a dozen popular titles, including the bestselling Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!). Her beautiful blue-ribbon quilts have appeared on the covers of every major quilting magazine in the United States. Carol's books have sold more than 750,000 copies to date.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company (April 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564773302
• ISBN-13: 978-1564773302
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #958,178 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

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than baby quilts!, May 9, 2001

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"rathrbqltg" (South Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts (Paperback)

These are small quilts and would be appropriate for wallhangings or quilts for children, not just babies. The designs are not simply baby themes. While there are trains and bears and ducks, there are also flowers and hot air balloons and a farm scene. In other words, pretty quilts! For the pieces to be used in paperpiecing, Carol has included a cutting chart (YES!!!) so that pieces can be pre-cut, and are ready to pick up and stitch to the paper. That's my favorite part of this new book. Published by That Patchwork Place, it is of their usual good quality with clear pictures and good instructions. Super nice book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 3, 2008

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Serene (Marina, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts (Paperback)

This book is by renowned paper piecer Carol Doak. Her work and CD block collections are usually pretty great. I admit, though, I was disappointed in this book. Most of the projects were too fussy for my taste and too adult. The block which is supposed to be a duck... Looks like a swan. The block which has teddy bears doesn't look so hot either. About the only quilt I liked was the hot air balloon... But I'm not running out to make it either.

Overall, this was an average book, but nothing really excited me.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea maker, July 16, 2002

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This review is from: Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts (Paperback)

I didnt' think the quilts in this book were very "baby" like at all. I didn't like the colors chosen for practically all the quilts, however, that is easy to change. The paper piecing is very fun, fast and easy to work with though. I did get a few ideas from this book but I don't think I will be making any of these quilts for any babies.