Improv Paper Piecing Book by Amy Friend

Love to create repeating blocks in your quilts but tired of the same patterns? Step away from the ordinary and try your hand at a new technique-based approach to improvisation. Gorgeous photographs illustrate 10 beautiful projects unique approach to creating one-of-a-kind blocks with guided exercises that explore scale, symmetry and alternate gridwork. Then, with Amy's help, you'll have the opportunity to design your own patterns. You really can have a dash of the unexpected through improv with the precision of paper piecing and still create those secondary patterns we all love in quilts made using traditional blocks. With a modern spin, Improv Paper Piecing gracefully guides the reader, step-by-step, through improvisationally designing your own paper piecing patterns to strategically setting the grid -- so that the end result is a masterful, unique quilt of repeated blocks. If you're looking for a fun and exciting challenge, the part is here. Step over and stitch outside the box. 144 pages, Paperback, by Amy Friend; Author of the Blog 'During Quiet Time,' Published by Lucky Spool Media (Taunton Press).