Drafting & Design Simplified

Declare your independence and find out how to draft and design your own quilts! A dream team of quiltmaking experts shares the latest and greatest techniques. There's no need to be a whiz at numbers! With clear, step-by-step directions and more than 350 photos and illustrations, you'll quickly learn the tricks, from resizing blocks to creating an original - and wonderful - quilt design.

Discover how to:

• Put design principles to work for you
• Take inspiration from photos or pictures to design original pictorial quilts
• Make your computer your favorite quilt design tool
• Create perfect circles, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, apple cores, clamshells, and kites
• Play with an image, adding, repeating, stretching, skewing, or curving it for a whole new look
• Draft dozens of patterns such as Stars, Mariner's Compass, Pineapples, Curved Flying Geese, Fans, Orange Peel, and many more.

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• 20 Top Tips for Drafting & Design
• Tools of the Trade
• Pieced Blocks in Any Size
• Stretching Blocks
• Wonderful One Patch Quilts
• Appliqueing the Big Picture
• Success in the Balance
• Design Your Own Block
• Creating on the Computer
• Stars for Stellar Quilts
• A Roundup of Circle Patterns
• Starting from a Circle
• Your Very Own Mariner's Compass
• Flying Geese in Free-Form Flight
• Drarfting Pineapples
• A House Portrait to Quilt
• Tips for Cutting, Piecing & Applique
• Handy Reference Charts
• Drafting & Design Glossary
• About the Writers
• Acknowlecgments
• Resources
• Index