Download or read book Lighthouse Designs for Quilters written by Pat Aho and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Maine lighthouses inspired the quilt block designs in this collection, mostly done in hand applique. The author includes interesting short histories of the lights along with her always lucid, simple directions and diagrams for making the blocks. She also includes a variety of attractive nautical-related quilting patterns for the final stitching, and provides directions for ways to use the quilt blocks on smaller projects as alternatives to combining them into a quilt.