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by Barbara Brackman
A one-stop-shop for quilt pattern identification and inspiration, this fabulous book should be in every quilters' library!
Barbara Brackman’s classic quilters' resource, the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, is fully modernized and updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full colour for the first time in this third edition! All of the 4,000+ pieced quilt block patterns found in this book are illustrated with both a line drawing and sample colour suggestions to ensure that you will never run out of inspiration! Quilters, quilt historians, and textile enthusiasts will love the detailed information on pattern names and publication sources included with each block pattern.
The book is easy to use in a multitude of ways: look up block designs by name to find a perfectly themed pattern, search by layout and construction information to find the name of the pattern in a historic quilt, or just browse the pages until your next quilting project catches your eye!
Preface to the Third Edition, A Note from Electric Quilt, Introduction, Key for Locating Patterns
Pattern Category 1: One Patch Triangles, Rectangles, Diamonds, Four-Sided Figures, Five-Sided Figures, Hexagons, Six-Sided Figures, Odd Shapes, Curves, Three-Dimensional Pieces
Pattern Category 2: Non-Square Blocks Triangular Blocks, Rectangular Blocks, Diamond-Shaped Blocks, Hexagonal Blocks, Uneven Six-Sided Blocks, Eight-Sided Blocks, Blocks with More than Eight Sides, Wedding Ring Types
Pattern Category 3: Multi-Patch Four-Sided Shape as a Piece, Five-Sided Shape as a Piece, Six-Sided Shape as a Piece (Even Sides), Six-Sided Shape as a Piece (Odd Sides), Eight-Sided Shape as a Piece, Curved Pieces, Three-Dimensional Pieces
Pattern Category 4: Strip Quilts
Pattern Category 5: Realistic Empty Baskets, Baskets with Appliquéd Contents, Baskets Full of Triangles (and Squares), Baskets Full of Diamonds and Other Shapes, Vases and Miscellaneous Containers, Flowers, Trees with Triangles for Leaves, Trees with Squares and Rectangles for Leaves, Trees with Diamonds and Other Shapes for Leaves, Leaves, Houses and Other Architecture, Airplanes, Boats, Butterflies and Other Insects, Birds, Cats and Other Felines, Other Animals, People, Miscellaneous Subject Matter, Letters
Pattern Category 6: Two and Three Blocks One Block is a Checkerboard Grid, Neither Block is a Checkerboard Grid, Three Blocks
Pattern Category 7: Sash and Block Plain Blocks with Pieced Sashing, Pieced Blocks with Pieced Sashing
Pattern Category 8: Four Patch Squares and Rectangles Only, Sixteen Squares, Thirty-Six Squares, Sixty-Four Squares, Blocks with a Square in Each Patch, Like Lattice, Diamond in Four Patch, Block is a Star, Like Block Island Puzzle, With Pinwheels, Like Hour Glass, Like English Ivy, Like Dutchman's Puzzle, Miscellaneous Pinwheel Types, Miscellaneous Sawtooth Types, Like Attic Window, Like Flying Geese, Asymmetrical Four Patch, Unequal Four Patch, Miscellaneous Four Patch, Like Drunkard's Path, Four Patch with Curves
Pattern Category 9: Equal Nine Patch Block is Squares and/or Rectangles, Like 54-40 or Fight, Like Ohio Star, Like Shoo Fly, Like Eccentric Star or The Spool, Like Double Hour Glass, Like Hour Glass, Like Santa Fe, Like Rolling Stone, Asymmetrical Blocks, Miscellaneous Equal Nine Patch Blocks, Nine Patch Blocks with Curves
Pattern Category 10: Unequal Nine Patch with Small Center Square Twenty-Five Squares, Patches are Squares and Rectangles, Like Duck and Ducklings, Blocks with Unpieced Bars, Other Types of Blocks, Blocks with Curves
Pattern Category 11: Unequal Nine Patch with Large Center Square Blocks with Unpieced Corners, Blocks with Squares and Rectangles in Corners, Like Puss in the Corner, Like Sawtooth or Lone Star, Other Types of Blocks, Blocks with Curved Seams, Feathered Stars
Pattern Category 12: One Patch - Square
Pattern Category 13: Four X Four X with No Curves, Four X with Curves
Pattern Category 14: Square in a Square Blocks with Unpieced Corners, Blocks with Unpieced Center Square, Center Square Pieced of Squares and Rectangles, Like Jewel, Like Royal Star Quilt, Like Mosaic #1, Like Corn and Beans, Blocks with Curves, Like Colonial Bow Tie, Like World Without End, Like the Radio Windmill, Like Log Cabin, Like Spool, Like the Wishing Ring, Like Pineapple, Like Shadow Box, Like Windows and Doors, Like Virginia Snowball, Like Pincushion
Pattern Category 15: Maltese Cross Like Starry Night or Kaleidoscope, Like Four Petals, Like Spider Web, Miscellaneous Maltese Cross
Pattern Category 16: Nine X Like Double Cross, Like Boy's Nonsense, Like Aunt Eliza's Star, Like an X, Like T Square, Like Tallahassee Quilt Block, Like The Priscilla, Like Maltese Cross, Like Double Z, Like Garden Maze, Like Dogtooth Violet, Like Mother's Choice, Like Cobblestones, Like Domino, Like Flowering Snowball, Like Idaho, Miscellaneous Nine X Blocks
Pattern Category 17: Two-Patch Patterns Equal Diagonal Division. Unequal Diagonal Division, Horizontal or Vertical Division
Pattern Category 18: Three-Patch Patterns Horizontal or Vertical Division, Diagonal Division, Off-Center Diagonal Construction, Like Amber Waves
Pattern Category 19: Fans Single Fans with a Smooth Edge, Single Fans with Scalloped Edges, Single Fans with Other Edges, Single Fans Like Harvest Sun, Double Fans, Miscellaneous Fans, Sets of Fans
Pattern Category 20: Wheels Center Circle with Spokes, Center Circle with Spirals, Center Circle with Four Identical Radiating Petals, Center Circle with Six Identical Radiating Petals, Center Circle with Eight Identical Radiating Petals, Center Circle with More than Eight Petals, Miscellaneous Center Circle Blocks, Curved Seams Meet in Center, Intersecting Curved Lines, Intersecting Straight Lines, Square in Center, Hexagon or Octagon in Center, Like Dresden Plate, Odd Curved Shape in Center
Pattern Category 21: Five- and Six-Pointed Star Blocks Five-Pointed Stars, Six-Pointed Stars
Pattern Category 22: Eight-Pointed or 45° Diamond Stars Single Stars, Star Off Center, Center Star is Made Up of Odd Pieces, Star Made Up of Many Diamonds, Star Surrounded by Parts of Other Stars, Star Inside Another Star, Star Surrounded by Other Shapes, Stars with Points Oriented Up and Down
Pattern Category 23: Other Stars Multiple Stars,Star has Eight Equal/Wide Points, Wide Points Oriented Up and Down, Wide Points Oriented Left and Right, Odd Eight-Pointed Stars, Long Diamonds. Points are Triangles or Other Shapes
Pattern Category 24: Whole-Top Designs
Pattern Category 25: Miscellaneous With Diamonds, With Curves, With Six-Sided Pieces, Asymmetrical or Off-Center Blocks, With Octagonal Shapes, Interlocking Horizontals and Verticals, Intersecting Lines in the Center, Square in the Center, Truly Miscellaneous
References, Block Contributors, Alphabetical Index of Pattern Names
Barbara Brackman is a quilt historian and author from Lawrence, Kansas. She’s been fascinated by quilt patterns for forty years and could not rest until she’d indexed more than 4,000 pieced patterns for her Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. She was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame of Marion, Indiana in 2001 and is a founding member of the American Quilt Study Group.
Barbara writes regularly about quilt history and patterns on her blog Material Culture found at barbarabrackman.blogspot.com.
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