Quilt Your Own Adventure: Modern Quilt Blocks and Layouts to Help You Design Your Own Quilt With Confidence

by Amanda Carye, Paige Tate & Co. (Produced by)

Overview

A choose-your-own-style quilt book featuring 30 quilt blocks, 7 quilt top layout formulas, and all the math done for you so you can focus on creating your own design!

In this design-it-yourself quilt book, the quilter is in the driver’s seat, empowering you to decide what size, layout, and combinations of blocks you want to use to create your own one-of-a-kind quilt. Unlike a traditional book of quilt patterns, this book does not prescribe a design. Instead, Quilt Your Own Adventure gives you a range of block options that all work together so that you can pick and choose and mix and match those blocks to create your own unique design. The book encourages and supports you, the quilter, as you explore designing your own pattern, providing all the tedious legwork (a.k.a. the math) so that you can focus on creating a final design that is all your own. In addition there will also be a suite of pre-designed patterns as inspiration for anyone who prefers a little extra structure to start.

Quilt Your Own Adventure includes:
• 30 modern quilt block designs
• 7 quilt top layout formulas
• 7 patterns that you can follow or use to help inspire your own design
• All the math & worksheets you need to get started
• Instructions that are easy to follow for beginners and advanced beginners

Whether you're a beginning quilter or an experienced maker looking for a fun, new challenge, Quilt Your Own Adventure will give you the confidence to create beautiful, modern quilts that are uniquely your own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950968756
Publisher:	Blue Star Press
Publication date:	04/11/2023
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	365,527
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Amanda is the quilter, designer, and writer behind Broadcloth Studio as well as the co-host of the Quilt Buzz podcast. A New Englander who now calls New York home, Amanda has been quilting since middle school and sewing since forever. In 2017 she founded Broadcloth Studio as a collection of bold and modern quilt patterns. She received her BA and MBA from Dartmouth College.

Beyond her sewing machine, Amanda is most likely to be found with her nose in a book, playing the viola, or out on the hiking trail.

Editorial Reviews

"Quilt Your Own Adventure: Modern Quilt Blocks and Layouts by Amanda Carye is not your average quilt block book. Amanda provides readers with the creative freedom and confidence to think outside of the block (pun intended), and design and make their own, one-of-a-kind quilt top compositions. The clear, step-by-step instructions and quilt math all worked out makes this the perfect book for those that are feeling adventurous and thinking of dipping their toes into quilt design, and for seasoned quilters and designers that want to put something unique effortlessly."
—Wendy Chow, founder of The Weekend Quilter and author of Urban Quilting


“Beginners and advanced quilters alike will love this versatile book, which helps you pick and mix a wide variety of modern blocks to make a quilt that’s unique to you. Amanda has dutifully provided all the tricky math formulas, so you don’t need to worry about getting out your calculator… simply focus on creating a stunning quilt to treasure.”
—Lorna Slessor, Editor of Love Patchwork & Quilting


"This is a great resource for quilters of all skill levels and for libraries that support a community of innovative artists."
—Library Journal


We believe that quilters of all skill levels will find inspiration in the pages of Quilt Your Own Adventure. We wholeheartedly recommend adding Quilt Your Own Adventure to your collection.
—Modish Quilter

From the Publisher

04/01/2023

Quilter, designer, and cohost of the Quilt Buzz podcast, Carye draws upon the corporate concepts of ideation and brainstorming to help quilters of all levels create their own designs. Photographs illustrate highly modern quilts—solid colors and lots of negative space. The quilts are based on simple, eight-inch blocks with large pieces and bold designs. Thirty blocks are presented with suggestions about which play well together, but the author leaves the choice up to readers. To demonstrate variety, multiples of one simple block are shown in several arrangements. The layouts for combining the blocks include bull's-eye patterns, stripes, log cabin designs, and the traditional sampler. The author suggests that readers view the book as a coach or quirky sidekick that is there to encourage them to design a product that is truly their own. If readers want to replicate the book's designs, however, there are plenty of detailed instructions to follow. There are also handy charts that calculate the yardage needed for each project. VERDICT This is a great resource for quilters of all skill levels and for libraries that support a community of innovative artists.—Debbie Bogenschutz

Library Journal