Scrap Quilt Sensation by Katharine Guerriere

I really liked this book, which is focused on traditional quilt blocks that are done in a less traditional manner, and also very scrappy. She does a really nice job of describing and demonstrating he approach to design, and her quilts have a consistency between them and are decidedly different from another designers. The author has quilts that are dense in not just scraps but also using batiks rather than solids--which is often one color, different hues but not strictly reading like prints would. She does do a discussion of trying to figure out color, value, and hue, how to think about or deal with prints, and how she thinks about it when in the design phase. For reasons that I cannot quite put my finger on, this style of quilt is one that I both find quite appealing and am not a natural with, so while I first encountered the book by getting it out of the library, I did decide to buy it. It is an older publication, so it was possible to get from a used book seller of your choice for a very modest price.