Tired of buying beginner books that are intimidating or books that are full of designs but with no advice for how and when to use them? Solved! With just eight easy designs, author Kathleen Riggins will inspire you to create fantastic custom quilting from simple shapes.

First learn the basic designs and follow Riggins' handy pro tips for where and when to use each one. 

Practise them to get a feel for how each one is special. Then play with scale, introduce new angles and fill areas, and master easy gridwork to see how each design can be adapted to fill all sorts of negative space or use as allover designs.

Finally, explore methods for effectively combining them to create overall plans for knock-out custom quilting. From 8 to Great!