Margaret Rolfe Knihy

Create a menagerie of quilted critters with exciting foundation-pieced block designs by Margaret Rolfe! Piece a panda, generate a giraffe, render a rhinoceros--or sew up dozens of other birds and animal designs, including a lion, flamingo, toucan, hippo, koala, parrot, and elephant. Stitch even the smallest pieces of your blocks with ease and accuracy when you use Margaret's fast and fun foundation-piecing technique. Simply trace a design onto the foundation, add oversized pieces of fabric, and sew on the straight lines with your machine! Combine any number of 4" x 4" blocks to make small or large theme quilts, or piece your blocks into clothing and other projects. Complete instructions, patterns for four quilts, and a special ark block are included.

Create dazzling scrap quilts with dozens of block designs based on one simple shape--the rectangle. Two stars of the quilting world share their expert tips for turning a so-so scrap quilt into a smashing success. Choose from 15 patterns based on simple one-patch designs--no tricky measurements or stretchy bias edges Explore three key elements that add up to winning scrap quilts--the value, color, and style of printed fabrics Learn how to scatter and blend your collection of fabrics for a perfect balance of variation and repetition--not too boring, not too chaotic Includes 45 of the many different options for designing with rectangles