Introduction<br >Making a quilt can be an exhilarating experience--whether you are<br >making a quilt which is your own unique design or one which was in-<br >spired by a quilt which you saw in a book or at a quilt exhibit. Either<br >way， to translate your design into a reality， you must answer the follow-<br >ing questions:<br > What templates do I need to make?<br > How much fabric do I need to buy?<br > Many books on quilt making are frustrating to use for they assume<br >that the reader knows the answers to these questions.<br > In our previous books， The Patchwork Quilt Design & Coloring Book<br >and Patchworking， we provided detailed instructions on how to deter-<br >mine what templates you need and the necessary yardage to buy. But<br >these instructions only covered the quilt designs included in our books.<br >The response to our techniques was strong， enthusiastic， and our read-<br >ers requested more.<br > So because yardage calculation is a tedious and time-consuming task，<br >we decided to compile a comprehensive yardage chart book which will<br >enable quilt makers who are using square， rectangular or triangular tem-<br >plates to easily look up the required yardage for templates ranging in<br >size from as small as ] inch to as large as 25 inches， in 1/2-irlch incre-<br >ments.<br > All the charts in this book were generated from an Atari home com-<br >puter program which was written for us by Anthony J. Capato. Using<br >this program， you can determine the yardage requirements for square，<br >rectangular or triangular templates of any size. If you have an Atari com-<br >puter with a disk drive and would like to have a copy of this program，<br >simply send s check for $15.00 to Dekotek， Inc， P.O. Box 1863， Grand<br >Central Station， New York， NY 10017.<br >