Description
Simply Half Yards is a collection of sixteen quilts built entirely around the half yard cut, the generous size you reach for when a fat quarter is not quite enough. It's Sew Emma organized the book as a gentle skill-builder: the quilts move from simple one-block designs through sashed settings and multi-block layouts to bold single-feature quilts. The range runs from calm and traditional to fresh and modern, so there is a quilt to suit most any palette or fabric pull. Every project is sized to make the most of half yard bundles and coordinated prints.
What the Book Includes
This is the printed pattern book, not a kit or a finished quilt. Inside are sixteen quilt patterns with cutting and assembly instructions, full-color photography, and clear diagrams, in a lay-flat spiral binding that stays open at your machine. Fabric, batting, backing, and binding are not included.
The Quilts
The book includes sixteen quilts, grouped by construction:
- One Block Quilts: Comet, Gather, Mirage, Roses
- Add Sashing Quilts: Gardenia, Legacy, Origami, Woodland
- Multiple Block Quilts: Cottage, Medley, Reflection, Starry Night
- One Big Block Quilts: Celebration, Constellation, Peaceful, Starburst
Finished sizes vary by quilt and are listed in the book.
What You'll Need
These are conventional patchwork quilts, rotary-cut and machine-pieced. They are designed for half yard cuts, so a half yard bundle or a set of coordinating half yards is the natural starting point, and the book lists exact requirements for each quilt. A rotary cutter, mat, and ruler handle the cutting. Backing, batting, and binding are chosen to suit the quilt you make.
Perfect For
- Quilters with half yard bundles looking for patterns sized to use them
- Anyone who wants to build skills from simple blocks up to bigger, bolder quilts
- Fans of It's Sew Emma's clean, approachable patchwork
- Stash sewers who like working from coordinated half yard cuts
Why You'll Love This Book
Half yard cuts sit in a sweet spot: big enough to give you room to work, small enough to collect a whole palette in one shopping trip. With sixteen quilts in one book, a single half yard bundle can become any number of finished tops, from a quick one-block throw to a showpiece big-block quilt.
The four-part structure also gives the book somewhere to grow with you, so the same familiar half yard format carries you from a first simple quilt to more involved ones as your confidence builds.
Product Details
- Brand: It's Sew Emma
- Item #: ISE-951
- Category: Quilt Pattern Book
- Skill Level: Intermediate (projects build from simple one-block quilts to more complex multi-block designs)
- Technique: Conventional Patchwork
- Number of Quilts: 16
- Designed For: Half yard cuts
- Finished Sizes: Vary by quilt; listed in the book
- Pages: 101, full color
- Binding: Spiral Bound, soft cover (lay-flat)
- Format: Printed Pattern Book
- Made in the United States
Specifications
| Brand | It's Sew Emma |
| Craft | Quilting |
| Product Type | Book |
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