The last couple of quilting books I purchased were by Edyta Sitar. I saw her on "The Quilt Show" with Alex Anderson and Ricky Timms and fell in love with her quilts. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! But she uses a lot of 1.5" squares/strips. She has lots of kits, books, calendars out. Gorgeous works! "Reason To Make Quilts" is the name (I think) of the book I so enjoyed reading that I sent it home with my daughter to read.