40 Bright & Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks by Carol Doak

Make a spectacular statement in your quilts with this collection of big, beautiful, bold blocks! Bestselling author Carol Doak reveals her best color tricks for creating brilliant, dramatic designs which will inspire you to be daring with your fabric and color choices.

Choose from 40 all-new 12" blocks, plus eight projects ranging from wall quilts to bed quilts; start small or dream big! Make your blocks sparkle and pop with Carol's foolproof secrets for blending fabrics, colors, and values. Skip the guesswork with Carol's super-smart cutting charts—flawless blocks are guaranteed every time.

Get ready for an extraordinary quilting adventure, all made easy with paper piecing!
128 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", full color, softcover, ISBN 1-56477-394-9

50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars (w/ bonus CD-ROM) by Carol Doak

With the simplicity and accuracy of paper piecing, quilters of any skill level can create these beautiful, elaborate-looking Star blocks in a snap! Carol Doak, bestselling author of six books on paper piecing, is back with 50 original paper-pieced Star blocks, each divided into four easy-to-sew sections.

Step-by-step instructions for 50 paper-pieced Star blocks that finish to 12"
Ideas for mixing and matching block sections for fascinating original designs and intriguing secondary patterns

Inspiration for using blocks in a variety of projects, plus tips on enlarging and reducing patterns to personalize designs

About the Author: Hometown: Windham, NH -- Carol Doak's accomplishments include a sizeable collection of popular books-including the best-selling Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!) and Easy Paper-Pieced Miniatures--and an impressive range of beautiful blue-ribbon quilts that have appeared on the covers of every major quilting magazine in the US. Her books have sold more than 500,000 copies to date.