Foreword to the Enlarged Edition

When this book first appeared, I was aware that there were probably many quilt patterns and names that I had not included. Since then, I have continued to research and collect patchwork patterns, and, for this new edition, I have added an Appendix containing 139 new patterns. Some of these are variations of patterns that appeared originally. In these cases, the version appearing in the original edition is considered Variation 1, even though it is not labeled as such, and the new pattern is Variation 2. (For patterns that already had several variations in the original book, the numbering continues where it left off.) A separate index for the Appendix is included.

Even now, I know that my research is far from complete. The variety of patchwork patterns and their names seems almost infinite and I am sure that there are many more blocks waiting to be discovered.