Moda's Go Big Pattern Book

Moda/United Notions has printed a new booklet with patterns for big blocks. Go Big For Your Home is a Baker's Dozen of 32-inch blocks. "Big chunky pieces let the fabric do the work for you."

I like that the cover quilt is made from my Union Blues collection of reproduction fabrics.

You get paterns for 13 large blocks, which would make good crib quilts or wall hangings as one big block, or full-sized quilts in multiples.

There's a tradition of using large blocks.

Particularly in mid-19th-century applique

And for complicated pieced blocks

Textile Museum of Canada such as feathered stars. http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=12281&row=373

From Stella Rubin's online store
But sometimes simple blocks show design genius.

Four-block strip quilt by Loretta Pettway, Gee's Bend, Alabama

If you are thinking big, look for this book.