Originally Posted by
auntpiggylpn
There is a paper pieced pattern for these "bookshelf books". My small quilt group did a block exchange using the pattern and all the quilts turned out great. Some of us wrote the names of books on a light colored piece of fabric that was pieced into the spine. We tried to personalize it using the receivers "likes".
Here is one free pattern:
http://www.blockcentral.com/qb-pattern-bookshelf2.shtml
This is the pattern we used called Book Block for the Library Shelf (it's about the 9th pattern down):
http://www.winnowing.com/patterns.html
Hope you find something you like. You should have a lot of fun with this! We sure did.