Pattern on Pattern: Spectacular Quilts from Traditional Blocks

Ruth B. McDowell

McDowell's freezer-paper piecing method builds pictorial images out of precisely cut, printed fabric — using a fabric's own pattern as part of the picture, not just its color. It's a technically exacting counterpart to Becker's looser fabric-collage approach, foundational among art-quilters even though it rarely appears on general quilting-media lists. For quilters who want pictorial work built with sharp piecing rather than fused raw edges.

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