5,500 Quilt Block Designs [antikvár]

I clipped my very first quilt pattern in 1958from McCall's Needlework and Crafts magazine. It was called Lone Star, a five point star set in a pieced circle. I made one block and decided I'd never live long enough to complete a quilt by hand. Nevertheless, quilts continued to catch my eye and I clipped many more patterns. I didn't really start to quilt though until the early 1970s, when I read Barbara Johannah's book, Quick Quilting. That book made it begin to seem that it might not take a lifetime to make a quilt after all.The first quilt I completed was an Ohio Star I made for my brother-in-law. It took only about two weeks to finish. After that, I was hooked. Every quilt pattern I came across was added to my collection, as well as every picture of one. By 1980, I had stacks of magazines everywhere. And I could never remember which magazine it was that contained the pattern I needed. So I began removing the patterns from magazines, organizing them by the number of squares in a block, and filing each type by name in alphabetical order.Thefile boxes proliferated, but so did the new magazines I bought. I just wasn't gaining on the problem.As I became more proficient at quilting, I realized I didn't need the entire pattern, just a sketch of it. That was the basis for 7,007 Patchwork Patterns, but those sketches were all hand drawn and it seemed like an awful lot of time-consuming work to draw pictures of every new pattern I happened upon. As I collected and filed them, I also became aware that some patterns went by more than one name, sometimes as many as five or ten.Then came the computer. Once I found a decent drawing program, it was child's play to draw the patterns and save them to disk. I got rid of tons of paper. The end result is the book you now hold in your hands.The patterns are drawn on a grid showing the number of squares to the block. The most basic and most common pattern is the nine patch, a block that is 3 squares by 3 squares. Patterns progress from there to blocks that are 6 squares by