JAPANESE PATCHWORK QUILTING PATTERNS (TUTTLE)

This book brings a fresh eye to classic patchwork patterns to inspire quilters, infusing a cherished American craft with an exquisite Japanese sense of color, detail, and design. Shizuko Kuroha shares her intricate hand-quilting techniques and a design sense that has been refined over her 40-year career as a celebrated author and teacher, with step-by-step illustrations walk quilters through her intricate hand-piecework process. The book includes 19 sampler blocks used to make hundreds of different combinations for all kinds of quilting projects plus a handy pull-out pattern sheet at the back to take the hard work out of drawing the pieces used to build these blocks.