Fat-Quarter Quickies
Kathy Brown has written a series of quilt books suitable for beginners. This one is focused on fat quarters, and how to cut them efficiently into useful units for maximum fabric usage. It was written with Kathy'sCreative Grids Fat Quarter Cutterin mind, but the ruler itself is not an essential component and is not really mentioned after the early pages. These are simple projects, but are lovely designs featuring some quick shortcuts for easy piecing. The instructions are fairly brief but are perfectly adequate for all 11 projects packed into only 48 pages. The projects range from table runners to some quite large bed quilts, but the larger quilts do require quite a lot of background fabric yardage rather than only using fat quarters. My favourite designs are "Smorgasbord;", "Sail; Away" and "Caribbean; Cooler" - the latter would also work well as a charm square project. --Popular Patchwork, March 2014