A practical guide to combining Japanese fabrics and traditional Oriental style with fast, super-easy techniques. Each of the ten quilts is made up in two different colorways for maximum inspiration, and shown both as hand and machine quilted designs. As an added bonus, there are five simple-to-make home-style projects for using up leftover quilt blocks. Japanese patchwork style is incredibly versatile, and the finished projects will work well in both the most modern interiors as well as rustic cottages.
Quilting Eastward This is a striking quilting book, which can add some interest and diversity to your quilting projects. It is certainly not a project for beginners. Measurements are given in inches and metric and there is information on Japanese motifs and their meanings, so one could try to match non-Japanese fabrics to other ones available, such as finding more obtainable ones that also have a sunflower or print with ivy on them. You would not necessarily have to use Japanese fabrics. Tips are given on how…
Beautiful book rich in color and culture I have just one problem with Japanese fabrics and Eastern-inspired printed cottons: I don’t want to cut them! But if I should ever conquer this happy neurosis, Susan Briscoe’s latest book – Japanese Quilt Inspirations – will be my guidebook when I get out of Quilter’s Rehab.First off, Briscoe explains what is meant by “Japanese fabrics”. And she knows of what she speaks, having lived in Japan and published several Sashiko books and collections of Japanese quilt blocks. Her…