Blanche Young and Darlene Young Stone introduce the reader to the basics of working with fabric to create strip sets to easily construct magnificent quilts. The streamlined techniques were developed to use the tools available today. The new methods and the variety of quilts will tempt quiltmakers of all abilities.

Make your next quilt come alive with color!

Whether it's a Bostom Commons, Trip Around the World, Nine Patch, or Irish Chain, best-selling author Blanche Young and her daughter Dalene Young Stone show you how to give your favorite traditional quilt a new twist through the creative use of fabric. This delightful book has over 26 projects showing new streamlined construction techniques utilizing the rotary cutter and your sewing machine. The older methods are still valid, but the new techniques presented in this book were developed to use with the tools available to us today.