Customer Reviews

1000 Great Quilt Blocks (That Patchwork Place)

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The size of this book is quite small 5x7. Now think about how small each black and white picture must be when there are 4 to each page. Yep, 2x2 and when your line of vision is seeing 8 (both pages) at the same time, it's difficult to focus on one individual block. I really dislike the black and white pictures. I know adding color would change the look of the block, but they all just seem to blend together without color. There are a few color pictures for directions. I'm not saying I won't use it, but I doubt I'll use it often.

This book is for very experienced quilters only, in my opinion. I didn't see instructions regarding how to sew the various block parts together to make the block. This book might be a good idea to get for picking a block, but then you'd have to go elsewhere for instructions on how much fabric to buy and how to make it into something. I am very disappointed.

1000 Great Quilt Blocks is the quilting book I've been looking for. Yes, it assumes you have some piecing knowledge, however it covers everything from four patch to letters and numbers. In particular I like the swan block and Indian trails block. I really appreciate its (relatively) small size, and the easy manner in which it is laid out. I know I will refer to this one again and again.

At first I really loved this book. It has tons of ideas and blocks that I had never seen anywhere else before. I have a few dozen quilts under my belt, so I'm not exactly a novice, but I'm no expert, either. The problem came when I started trying to make the quilt blocks in this book. The first two I tried had incorrect measurements, but were salvageable. The third one I tried was so distorted that there was no fixing the pattern, and I had to end up re-designing my whole quilt into something totally different. I'm keeping the book for ideas, but I'll be checking elsewhere for measurements.

I would recommend the Around The Block series by Judy Hopkins. So far, all the blocks I've used from her books have been spot on!

I checked this book out from my library and loved it so much that I bought a copy. Has 1000 block patterns AND their deminsions. Does all the work for you. Not too many pictures of whole quilts, mostly a pattern book. Awesome for beginning quilters like me.

This is a wonderful book. A lot of different patterns shown with a pictorial of how to make the block. It can be used as a quide on how to make patterns for blocks that are not in the book. I just love this book.

I LOST MY 1ST ONE. SO I BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE. DON'T THINK YOU ARE GETTING DIRECTIONS OF HOW TO MAKE THE QUILT....THESE ARE JUST PICTURES OF BLOCKS TO CHOOSE FROM.

I had barrowed this book from a friend and liked it so much I bought one for myself and gave one to my sister. It is well worth the money I spent to get it. It will pay for it self in the quilts I will make from the block patterns I get from this book.

Lots of great ideas for both the beginner and the expert. I am starting to give them as gifts to other quilters.

The book was in great condition, Mother In Law Loved it. would buy again from this seller