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    One-Block Wonders of the World: New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts
    One-Block Wonders of the World: New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts
    One-Block Wonders of the World: New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts
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    One-Block Wonders of the World: New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts

    By Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes

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    Transform a single fabric print with marvelous piecing magic! Best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes share stunning One-Block Wonder quilts, with contributions from the popular Facebook design community. Learn how to choose the right 60° ruler, how to pick the most useful fabric, and how to choose the best starting strip size for your fabric. See what others have done—from the beginning fabric to the ending project—and courageously cut into that beautiful yardage! Sew simple pieced hexagon blocks with no Y-seams, and get addicted to the thrill of arranging and rearranging them on your design wall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781617455193
    One-Block Wonders of the World: New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts
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    Maxine Rosenthal

    Maxine Rosenthal has been making kaleidoscope quilts since 1988. The amazing variety of patterns that different fabrics produce has kept her sewing and quilting ever since. She resides in Woodbury, Minnesota. Her website is sites.google.com/site/maxinerosenthal/home.

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      One-Block Wonders of the World - Maxine Rosenthal

      exactly that!

      This book began as a Facebook page—the One Block Wonder Quilt Forum. Making a One-Block Wonder is a process, a technique that is open to interpretation and application. A One-Block Wonder is not made from a pattern; that is its beauty and its frustration. It is about living in the mystery. That mystery is what keeps quilters coming back again and again.

      The focus of this book is to offer design help, to show you what others have done (the beginning fabric and the ending project), and to empower you to cut into that beautiful fabric that has been sitting in the closet.

      We’ll show you many before and after photos, because one of the most asked questions on the online forum is, Will you show the original fabric? (We include the fabric manufacturer’s information, too, if available.) It is amazing what is produced from each fabric. Often we would never have guessed that a certain fabric would produce such a quilt.

      People have taken the basic concepts of a One-Block Wonder, played with them, and invented their own ideas. This book is about sharing those ideas with you. This book, then, is about your creations with the One-Block Wonder technique. You have so many more ideas than we alone could possibly have. This book is a tribute to everyone who has added to the One-Block Wonder experience.

      The original book, One-Block Wonders (by C&T Publishing), included hexagons and octagons. This book will focus only on hexagons, since that is what most people are using. We give you as much information about each quilt as the artist could supply, but some completion dates are not known, nor are all the details about the fabrics.

      A hexagon is a six-sided object. A One-Block Wonder block is a hexagon composed of six identical equilateral triangles that form a kaleidoscopic image. The hexagons are then put on the design wall with no space between them and moved around and around until a pleasing design is created. With just a few borders, a quilt is complete. One fabric, one quilt. The basic construction is simple—no Y-seams—but for most people, the challenge is in the design.

      SUPPLIES

      You will need just a few basic supplies—a rotary cutter and mat, a ruler, flower-head pins, a sewing machine, and a design wall.

      The Differences in 60° Rulers

      The 60° line on a rectangular ruler is enough to cut all the triangles, but you might find it easier to use a 60° triangle ruler. There are several 60° rulers available, and there seem to be two styles—one that has a point and one that does not have a point. There is a difference between the two.

      MAXINE SAYS:

      When I started making One-Block Wonders, there was one 60° triangle ruler style available. The ruler had a point at the end, and measuring down the center of the triangle began right at that tip. Now there is another style of 60° ruler, one without a tip. Measuring down the center begins at that cut-off edge, which is ¼˝ away from what would have been the point. When you lay each ruler with the 3¾˝ line along the bottom of a 3¾˝ strip of fabric, you have two different triangle sizes. In reality you have a triangle and a trapezoid. That means that a triangle cut with the 3¾˝ line on the ruler with the point is not the same as a triangle cut with the 3¾˝ line of the ruler without the point. For the triangles to be the same size, you would have to place the ruler without the point on the 3½˝ line, because the missing tip is ¼˝.

      When you place both rulers on the 3¾˝ mark, the triangle cut from the ruler without the point will be wider. Move the ruler without the point to the 3½˝ mark.

      Design Wall

      A design wall is not a necessity. It is helpful, however, because working on the floor, a bed, or a table distorts the perspective, color, and size of the blocks, which in turn makes it harder to design.

      MAXINE SAYS:

      I covered an entire wall with a sheet of insulation and covered that with cotton batting. Cotton fabric tends to stick to this batting, so I need only push blocks to the wall and they stick, making it easy to move the blocks around as I design. I can also push a pin straight into the insulation without damaging the wall.

      LINDA SAYS:

      Because I have the space, I covered an entire wall with felt, using pushpins to hold it in place. It seems to grip almost any fabric I use. Hint: If you have an open window next to your wall, don’t leave it open on a windy day!

      Pins

      For cutting, we like to use flower-head pins for pinning the

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