Tumbling Blocks : New Quilts from an Old Favorite

by Smith, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781574327892
• ISBN10: 1574327895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Collector Books

Summary

The annual contest sponsored by the Museum of the American Quilter's Society encourages quiltmakers to develop innovative quilts from traditional patterns. *The 18 winners and finalists share their creative ideas and thoughts while designing and constructing their unique quilts. *Tips, techniques, and full-size patterns will enable quilters of all skill levels to plan and make their own Tumbling Blocks quilts. *Patterns for different variations of blocks are given, such as foundation-pieced tropical flowers, tilted, square-within-a-square, and interlocking.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(1)
The Contest	7	(1)
Winners and Finalists	8	(79)
Twist of Fate	10	(4)
Barbara Oliver Hartman
Butterfly Houses	14	(8)
D. Nadine Ruggles
Tumbling Texas Two Step	22	(4)
Cindy Vough
Quilter's Block	26	(4)
Nancy Cluts
Glass Magic Blocks	30	(4)
Shelly Stokes
The Day Our Stars Tumbled	34	(4)
Kathleen Andrews
Spin-Offs	38	(4)
Arleen Boyd
Blocks World	42	(4)
Lorrie Faith Cranor
United We Stand	46	(4)
Patricia C. Dowling
Everlasting Life	50	(4)
Yuki Fushiki
Block Party	54	(4)
Patricia Klem
Unwinding	58	(4)
Nancy Lambert
Stumbling Blocks	62	(4)
Barbara Schneider
Earth Shattering	66	(4)
Lucy Silliman
Tumbling Blocks	70	(4)
Janet Jo Smith
Let Freedom Ring	74	(4)
Jody Sogn
Cats and Mice	78	(4)
Carolyn F. Tesar
Stumbling Blocks	82	(5)
S. Cathryn Zeleny
Techniques and Essays
Creating distorted blocks	12	(4)
Metamorphic design	16	(8)
Undulating spiky borders	24	(4)
Drafting tilted blocks	28	(4)
Glass Magic technique	32	(4)
Easy beginner's block	36	(16)
Translated designs	52	(4)
Free-form blocks	56	(1)
Free-form variation	57	(3)
Large one-of-a-kind patterns	60	(4)
Computer design	64	(1)
Making composite fabric	64	(8)
Kindergarten design	72	(4)
Painless paper piecing	76	(9)
Changing horizons	85
Patterns
Tropical Flower Foundations	19	(10)
Tilted Block Patterns	29	(8)
Beginner's Block Pattern	37	(4)
Spin-Offs Block	41	(4)
Square-Within-a-Square Block Pattern	45	(4)
Swirling Distress Quilting Pattern	49	(4)
Everlasting Life Block Pattern	53	(8)
Modified Tumbling Block pattern	61	(8)
Interlocking Block Pattern	69	(7)
Let Freedom Ring Foundation Patterns	76	(10)
Stumbling Blocks Pattern	86	(1)
More Tumbling Blocks Patterns	87	(7)
The Museum	94