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!
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You too can read this book and feel like a quilting bee! I love this book because Carol Doak explains every stupid little detail you need to know in order not to screw up big time with quilts. It's not easy to sew all those little pieces together and have them come out symetrical. If you wack off the excess with a rotary cutter, (which seems pretty fun at the time), the block is the wrong size. Carol has a gentle and humorous voice and this book must be written at about the third grade level because even I understand it. I like the black and white shaded diagrams because it's easier to keep your colors straight if you use different color combinations for the same quilt. Best of all, there are simple projects in this book that are beautiful and truly suitable for a beginner. I made a variation of the simple stars quilt for my Mom for Christmas and she loves me again. My daughter has been whining for one of her own ever since she saw Grandma's. I ironed on wonderful antique photos of four generations of mothers and daughters in the star centers--which made the quilt an instant family hit. As a result, Mom loves me second best of all the kids again, although she probably still loves my brother the best because he bought her the weed wacker she wanted for Christmas and she always liked him better anyway.
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To put it simply, prior to this book (and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting"), I could barely reattach a shirt button. I don't know what made me think I could hand stitch a quilt, but I just jumped into it. 6 weeks later, I had a beautiful, hand made lap quilt as a present for my mother. This book shows the necessary techniques, provides pearls of wisdom and offers projects from start to finish, all with a nice touch of humor.
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I couldn't even sew, but I made my first quilt!,
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I have never learned to sew. Well, not really. I have hemmed my pants and reattached my buttons, but that was my entire sewing repertoire before I got a wild idea to start quilting. I bought three different books, all of which were helpful in their own ways, but this book made it possible to start and complete my own project. It has everything from quilting vocabulary musts and the necessary tools to stitching techniques. I can't say enough good things about it!
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center patchwork section, following block designs, piecing sequence, basic quiltmaking techniques, light blue triangle, plastic template material, unit from step, hand piecing, patchwork blocks, machine piecing, machine quilting, five patch, seam allowances, setting triangles, beginner projects, bias edges, fabric grain, strip piecing, quilt top, machine baste, quilting process, quilting designs, pink print, patchwork design, quilting thread Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simple Stars, Block Pieces, Name of Block, New Hampshire, Project Information, Quilting Suggestion, Sawtooth Star, Cutting Setting Pieces Cut, Ellen Peters, Finished Border Width, Patchwork Grid, Star Bright, Step One, Flower Pot, Glance Finished Quilt Size, Quilt Top Assembly, Step Two, Finished Corner Squares, Kwik Klip, Sandpaper Marking Board, Step Four, Step Three New!
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"Quilters really don't speak a foreign language, but you are likely to read or hear terms that are unfamiliar." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
center patchwork section, following block designs, piecing sequence, basic quiltmaking techniques, light blue triangle, plastic template material, unit from step, hand piecing, patchwork blocks, machine piecing, machine quilting, five patch, seam allowances, setting triangles, beginner projects, bias edges, fabric grain, strip piecing, quilt top, machine baste, quilting process, quilting designs, pink print, patchwork design, quilting thread Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simple Stars, Block Pieces, Name of Block, New Hampshire, Project Information, Quilting Suggestion, Sawtooth Star, Cutting Setting Pieces Cut, Ellen Peters, Finished Border Width, Patchwork Grid, Star Bright, Step One, Flower Pot, Glance Finished Quilt Size, Quilt Top Assembly, Step Two, Finished Corner Squares, Kwik Klip, Sandpaper Marking Board, Step Four, Step Three New!
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- Easy Machine Paper Piecing by Carol Doak in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Joy of Quilting by Joan Hanson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Patchwork Quilts: Traditional or Modern - Over 25 Full-Size Patterns Rated for the Beginner or Expert by Consumer Guide in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Country Medallion Sampler (Sampler Series) by Carol Doak in Back Matter
- Heirloom Machine Quilting: A Comprehensive Guide to Hand-Quilted Effects Using Your Sewing Machine by Harriet Hargrave in Back Matter
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- 40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks: 12-Inch Designs by Carol Doak in Back Matter
- More Quilts from the Quilt Maker's Gift by Joanne Larsen Line in Back Matter
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