Connie Ewbank is a teacher and designer at Butterfly Stitches in Denham Springs, Louisiana, USA. She has been creating and sewing quilts for 50 years.

• * 12 captivating design techniques allow you to choose your style, add your colors, and create the perfect quilt to keep or give as a gift * Add fun to your quilts with these kid friendly designs. Choose whimsical fabrics and watch everyone's face light up when they see the very special quilts you made just for them * Step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, and clear drawings guide you through each block technique. General instructions cover tips and secrets to cutting, piecing and finishing the quilt like a pro

Make quilts for kids from a gift for a newborn to toddlers. These designs can be made in a day. The sampler quilt is a beginner's project using many of the blocks in the book in one design. You could just as easily keep repeating certain blocks or add more blocks that you know to vary the design. Baby Blocks is an even simpler beginner's quilt, Bugs is similar and Baby Bricks is simple enough and very effective. Here's My Heart is classed as beginner's but with its two-blocks plus borders, I thought that this on was moving up to an intermediate skill level. Both this, Nine-Patch and Critters use triangles. Chevron is another I thought would be better classed as intermediate. It is probably my favourite quilt in the book, but also seems aimed at a much older teenager, if not adult. Check This,  and Let's Go are two more beginner's quilts. Call of the Wild is based on strip blocks alternating with squares. Around The Block is also an effective way of using up strips. The instructions are clear, with great photos of the finished quilts and step-by-step line drawings of construction. Great ideas, adaptable designs and lots of fun.