Japanese-inspired textiles and fabrics are now more popular than ever - but their large-scale motifs can be challenging to use in quilts. This book shows the best ways to do it.
Free & Eazy Circles: Magic Ballz & Other Foundation Follies
Stack, slice, and stitch whimsical, free-form circle quilts. Jan Mullen has been making quilts since 1991, and publishing her own patterns for a decade. A sought-after teacher and designer, Jan travels the world to share her unique style and techniques.
Needles & Notions: Paper-Pieced Patterns With a Sewing-Room Theme
Create paper-pieced quilts for yourself or a favorite stitching pal and showcase a subject you both love--sewing! Delightful pictorial sewing-room blocks in both 4" and 6" sizes are provided, along with a larger block depicting a traditional Sunbonnet Sue busy at work on her latest quilt. Turn blocks into small wall quilts with multiple borders, or make a sewing room sampler quilt using all 13 block designs.
Not about quilts in the classic sense this book is about making "quilts" or geometric quilt-like decorative patterns similar to tile mosaics, using origami (Japanese paperfolding) techniques. Tomoko Fuse is the reigning master of modular origami designs, in which multiple sheets of paper are folded into identical or similar shapes. These are then linked into larger objects, often three dimensional, but in this case, 2 dimensional mosaics. Some modular origami experience is recommended, plus a large supply of origami paper! But the results are spectacular! A must-have for any modular origami fan.
