300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks (Book & CD)

would buy again, bought used great deal.

Oh my goodness! I am so excited about this book! I have NEVER paper pieced before, I'm not even an experienced quilter, but this book will allow even me, to make a quilt that looks like a pro made it! I just finished my very first paper-pieced square, and it looks great! The directions were clear and easy to follow and included pictures throughout the directions. The first 36 blocks are letters and numbers and are 3" in size. The remaining 264 blocks are 4" in size (you put 4 of these together to create an 8" finished square) and include flowers, flags, ducks, firetrucks, houses, tea cups, geometrics and much, much more. There is a great full color gallery of each and every square, nicely layed out and numbered. Best of all? It includes a CD-Rom for your computer that absolutely ROCKS! It downloads all of the blocks into your computer giving you the ability to increase or decrease their size and print them out directly onto the foundation paper. I made block #182 because it looked simple, only 6 pieces, for my first try. You actually end up making 4 of these for the finished square and I decided to just hand trace them. After I made sure I really could paper piece, I downloaded the CD, and I can tell you, printing them out sure beats hand copying them, especially if you're paper piecing an entire quilt!!! If you buy this book, I recommend 2 things: 1-make sure you have a '6" Add-A-Quarter Ruler' (recommended in supplies list on page 7). I could see how paper piecing without it would be a pain in the patooty. 2-I highly recommend this foundation paper I got at Joanne's. This paper fed right through my finicky printer with no hassles, yet was very transparent. The name of the paper is "Fun-dation" and it's made by HCTW. If you're interested in paper-piecing, this is a GREAT book, even for a beginner!

Wonderful book with 300 patterns. They are all for 4' blocks, but the included CD shows you how to enlarge the patterns and print. You just have to play around with it to figure it out. Once I found the section, under Foundation, I believe, it had an automatic enlarger.

The seller indicated this was a used item, but it appears new. A bonus is that the included CD was only supposed to install on Win 98 to Win 8, but installed and ran fine on Win 10.

This is my second paper piecing book by Carol Doak. Each came with a dvd of patterns to print & I love them. Directions are very clear & tips to help make a great block are included. I will say that I had a close moment when I could not open the discs & they did not say I could run it with Windows 10 to boot. Older DVD’s but I did get them on to my Pc & had no trouble printing as many as I want. Great books for the beginner as well as intermediate sewers. With the price. I recommend these books.

I specialize in using foundation paper piecing, and love everything from the simplest to the most complex. I love that this came with very simple designs and layout examples of how the blocks look like together. Sometimes you need a visual because it differs from what you see in your head. I highly recommend this, especially with the convenience of having a CD rather than scanning the pages.

This is a wonderful collection of paper piece designs. Some are more intricate than others. They are designed as 4 inch blocks which can be used as borders, or put together to make larger blocks or even just enlarged. My only criticism is that there are no illustrations as to other ways the blocks could be placed . For example if I put this block in a group of four, what would the pattern look like. There are computer programs that do this, but I a newer quilter and don't have one. I will have to print them out and put them together to see what they would look like. The book does come with a disk that you can put into you computer so that you have the patterns ready to print.

I purchased this book because I had just started paper piecing and wanted to expand the designs I had at my fingertips. I found an excellent variety of designs and have completed several of them, piecing them together into a beautiful (if I do say so myself) scrappy sampler quilt. The software included on the CD is old, but I was still able to install it on my Windows 7 system. I don't know whether it would work on a newer system. However, the CD is not absolutely required, as you can trace or photocopy the designs right out of the book. One bonus of the software, though, is that you can print out the designs at varying sizes.As a new paper-piecer I was able to easily use the designs in the book to produce complex and advanced-looking quilt blocks with ease. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in paper piecing at any level.

I bought this book some time ago and have been using some of the patterns from it. I also bought the Carol Doakes paper to print out from the disc. I run Windows 7 and initially had to contact the parent company for a suitable driver to download - it was easy and no problems! The new versions of the book/disc might now be up to date.

When I ordered this book I didn't register that the blocks were paper-pieced. I am delighted with the book though, a good one to learn paper-piecing from, and most of the blocks can be adapted to use as ordinary patchwork blocks. Good for all levels of quilter.

A must have. Excellent for those new to piecing or the experienced. Very clear instructions to download patterns on the computer. The book is lovely showing all the patterns giving good ideas on colour.

This book is a must, there are tones of wonderful designs, if you were afraid to try paper piecing dont be. Carol explains how it is done easly and with dicture diagrams for us (not so bright people).

Value for money. Used time and time again