Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch

Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch, written in 1991, is now out of print. You won't find it at stores, but you can still get copies directly from me. Instead of writing an updated version, I have written a new book on just the Woodpile block, Sizzling Quilts from a Simple Block Later I might write a book on the strip-pieced Flying Geese or Garden Path. Who knows?

Here's a summary of what's in  Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch:

• Basics (Using cutting tools, sewing, designing your quilt top, quilting, binding.)
• Easy beginner quilts
• Two-Tone Blocks (10 pages of arrangements suitable to Log Cabin, Woodpile, and other diagonally divided blocks.)
• Log Cabin plus Woodpile, a strip-pieced Log Cabin look-alike.
• Squares and Triangles (Use the Strip-pieced Triangles technique to make blocks; includes Garden Path quilt, below.)
• Sawtooth Chains
• Flying Geese (see below)

Two-Tone Blocks

This is a sample of the many pages of creative ways to arrange Log Cabin, Woodpile, or any other blocks with a diagonal split.

 
 
Color photos give more quilt arrangements for Two-Tone blocks. For example, here is a Nifty Nine-Patch quilt made of strip-pieced triangles and squares.

 
My personal favorite Two-Tone block is Garden Path. This wonderful block resembles Drunkard's Path but is much easier to piece since there aren't any curves.

 
New!
I recently wrote a 32-page booklet on Garden Path, published March, 2001. Check it out at the Garden Path page.
 
 

The most famous Two-Tone block is Log Cabin. This book includes some Log Cabin projects, then I introduce the Woodpile block as a strip-pieced substitute. Woodpile is new to most people and has many creative possibilities, so I decided to write a whole book on it. This site has information on the Woodpile block and the new book, Sizzling Quilts from a Simple Block. Here is one example of a Woodpile quilt:

The Chapter on Strip-pieced Flying Geese is a challenging one. I have a very unusual way to make this block! I don't have room here to explain it, but here are "Before" and "After" photos from the book for you to think about.

The Flying Geese block may end up in a book by itself later too, but I haven't started writing one. If you are especially interested in this block, ask me for a free handout on a small Wild Goose Chase project when you order Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch.

To order Scrap Quilts Using Fast Patch:

This book was printed back when books were fat because printing was cheaper. You get 200  pages plus 16 pages of color. List price is $19.95, but while my supply lasts, you can get them at a $7 discount. Please send $13, plus $3 postage to...

Anita Hallock
740 North 21st
Springfield, OR 97477

Free goodies!

• Your choice of one of these special booklets. (If you want both booklets, please send an extra $3. Still a bargain!)
• 24-page supplement with ideas and charts for Woodpile quilts.
• 32-page supplement with ideas on Garden Path blocks.
• An update on the Two-Square method for strip-piecing triangles (check it out here on my web page, Triangle Techniques).
• A fun 8-1/2" x 11" poster warning, "No Bare Feet Allowed" (below).

This was designed especially for people whose friends step on pins and needles. (If you make people take shoes off at the door, you are ineligible for this gift.)
 

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