Foundation Pieced Nature Quilts

Paper-pieced projects to sew all year long Quilt your way through the calendar with Mary Hertel's cute and oh-so-easy paper-pieced blocks! Assemble 24 blocks, with a pair of pretty paper-pieced designs for every month of the year. Seasonal motifs like snowmen, gnomes, butterflies, and turkeys impress, along with some adorable dressed-up dogs and cats. Each paper-pieced 8” square block is scrap-friendly and worthy to be the centerpiece of 7 fun projects from mini quilts to hand towels and a baby bib. Sew seasonal gifts and holiday home decor that's anything but ordinary—even mixing and matching the blocks with project ideas from Mary's previous books to multiply your creativity! Paper-piece 24 blocks! Stitch 2 seasonal designs for each month of the calendar Mix-and-match themes in 7 creative projects—mini quilts, hand towels, a pillow, baby quilt, and baby bib Easy, cute, and fun paper-piecing that will delight Mary Hertel's fans

Yes -- you can make a wonderful work of art -- and you don't have to be an experienced paper piecer to do it! Learn to push the easy technique of paper piecing in new directions with 12 lovely seasonal quilts.

Discover 27 truly lovely blocks featuring flowers, leaves, and spritely creatures of the garden such as squirrels and robins. You'll also find seven delightful quilt patterns that showcase these versatile blocks. Develop your skills with paper piecing, machine applique, and free-motion machine quilting Celebrate nature's abundance with color-splashed projects for spring, summer, winter, and fall View a fabulous photo gallery brimming with even more ideas for these extraordinary blocks

Presents step-by-step instruction for creating floral quilts using the foundation piecing method.

More than 28,000 quilters have sewn along with the Splendid Sampler community online. Now Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson return with 100 all-new block patterns to inspire quilters all over the world, all over again! Choose blocks designed by Pat and Jane plus superstar quilters Lissa Alexander, Carrie Nelson, Jenny Doan, Susan Ache, Betsy Chutchian, and many more. Blocks made with patchwork, applique, embroidery, and paper piecing provide plenty of opportunities to try new techniques. You'll discover fun ideas for arranging your blocks in a gallery of sampler quilts. Share your progress online and experience the joys of quilting with this "Splendid" community of quilters!