Alissa Haight Carlton

I am pleased I bought this book.

There are chapters on the basics including double fold French binding which is the tidiest way to bind quilts in my opinion.

The 12 blocks are well photographed and are made using cool modern fabrics. The instructions are very clear and I think a beginner could follow them.

What I don't like is that in a couple of patterns using applique, the pieces have been zigzag stitched on using a sewing machine. I think applique looks nicer hand stitched.

The Modern Quilting Bee: Block Party by Alissa Haight Carlton and Kristen Lejnieks came out of a virtual quilting bee that Carlton and Lerjnieks co-hosted. They chose 10 other women to join them each month in making a block each month, assigned each month to a different member.
The Modern Quilting Bee is written to help other quilters form virtual bees online, instructions for forming the groups, and how to help them run smoothly. Since quilting bees have a long history with quilters, online show more groups are now the easiest form of the bees now. Carlton and Lejnieks have written the book, so that if you don’t have a bee, you can still make quilts for yourself.
The blocks in the book are listed by month, as each member chooses for their month. The blocks, that are written with instructions, include the Wonky Log Cabin, the Quartered Log Cabin, the Wonky Nine-Patch block, the String X block, the Wonky Roman Stripe block, the Modern Dresden Plate block, the Polka Dot block, the Uneven Coins block, the Hexagon block, the Wonky Stripe block and the Confetti block.
This book is great if you want to quilt with a group of friends, but it also contains twelve free-form quilt patterns that look like they would be a lot of fun to make!
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mehhhhh.... nice to look through, but there wasn't a ton in here that i really want to make, ever. strip quilts and improv piecing aren't really my bag!

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