Each block, featuring brown-toned reds (as if washed in sepia) offers a vignette in fabric of U.S. women’s history; each block stands alone but also as a complement within a sampler quilt.

The Anniversary Sampler Quilt: 40 Traditional Blocks, 7 Keepsake Settings Donna Lynn Thomas. C&T, $29.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-61745-455-4 ...

Each square of the Diamond Sampler quilt has a pattern that could be its own full-size quilt. As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of ...

Take the annoyance out of creating quilt blocks that contain triangle shapes. Nancy demonstrates how to make no-hassle ½-square triangles using the speediest, most accurate and no-math ways ...