Book excerpt: The ultimate no-math reference for quilters with cutting instructions at your fingertips, plus exploded construction schematics to make sewing easier. Now in an easy-to-use reference guide size, this updated block tool includes 110 authentic blocks from America’s first mail-order pattern company, the Ladies’ Art Company. Each block has instructions for five sizes, design details, construction diagrams, inspiration blocks, and even a project! The projects will be a breeze with helpful design hints specific to each block, including pairing them with plain alternate blocks, creating secondary patterns, and using precuts. Make the blocks your own with line drawings ready to fill in with your own colors, plus values-only blocks to spur your creativity, then fly through construction with easy rotary-cutting charts, yardage requirements, diagonal measurements, and more.