Need help with creating modern quilt blocks?

Need some ideas to make your next quilt look more up to date?

Explore modern quilting with designer Tula Pink and her book Tula Pink’s City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks.  Ms Pink’s designs incorporate a pallet of color using crosses, rectangles, squares, stripes, and triangles.  There is a great section titled Haiku, the blocks are a study of color and shapes.  I like this book for the unusual color combinations, a ton of ideas for random combination that work together.  The book includes three different methods for putting your newly created blocks together.  I highly recommend this book especially for those of us who suffer from the jitters anytime we think of creating with new color combinations or out of the box designs.  

A few favorite examples:

 Cool stuff.  

The Bag Making Bible

If you are thinking of venturing into making your own designer bags The Bag Making Bible is well worth checking into.  The book covers every element of asembling a fabric bag.  It has great sections on closures of various types and instruction on several kinds of pockets.  With each chapter a project is included. The book was first published in the U.K. and some terns were not translated into American English, for example the book refers to zip instead of zipper. I also found a few grammar errors, page 9 has "If you want a job doing well you have to do it yourself."  Oops. Nonetheless, I thought the book had great projects and is packed with useful tips.  I appreciated the tips on types of presser feet to purchase to make the bag making process easier.  I am all over easier.