Acquire new skills and create stunning star blocks!
- 12 projects using traditional and modern star blocks
- Learn new skills by using piecing and paper piecing techniques
- Apply contemporary elements to traditional and modern stars
- Both beginners and experienced quilters will acquire new skills and create stunning star blocks
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced quilter, with the 12 different star patterns inside Inspired Star Block Quilts, you'll learn how to form both traditional and modern stars with contemporary settings like negative space. Enjoy learning a new and easily doable method and incorporating these elements into your future quilt projects!
Inside this book, you'll find quilting basics from terminology and batting to piecing shortcuts and binding, plus 12 projects, step-by-step instructions, and templates. Make beautiful quilts like Oh My Stars!, In Honor, and Stars of the Show.
Author, designer, and quilting expert Sandy Berg knows that finding time to quilt can be a challenge. With an understanding of work/life balance challenges, she created a book with doable projects that don't require much time and can help quilters achieve grand results in those precious few pockets of time that can be found in a day. "I understand how hard it is to have a full-time job but still try to pursue a creative endeavor such as quilting," Berg says. "With my patterns I try to give you projects that are creative, useful, but most of all, very doable."
Inspired Star Block Quilts is a reflection of Sandy's passion as a Quilts of Valor volunteer. The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing quilts. With the star-like patterns presented in Sandy's book, her quilts are not only excellent projects to hone your skills, they can also be repurposed for Quilts of Valor donations! Her own Salute to Service quilt, which has been shared widely as a suggested Quilts of Valor project, is available to re-create in this book.
Sandy is passionate about providing people with fun and practical designs to spark their own creativity: "I want my patterns to be practical as well as fun to do," she says. "I hope that quilters will find something that captures their imagination and allows them to create something meaningful while expressing their own creativity."
"Sandy's array of star quilts offers several patterns perfect for Quilts of Valor."
—Marianne Fons, QOVF Board Member Emeritus
With a passion from an early age for anything creative, Sandy Berg found a creative home with quilting. She discovered quilting in the mid-1990s and has been designing and making quilts ever since. She is a retired computer specialist having worked in various aspects of the computer industry since the late 1960s. Sandy understands how hard it is to have a full-time job and still try to pursue a creative endeavor such as quilting. Her patterns are projects that are creative, useful, but most of all, very doable.
