Publisher's Synopsis
A companion volume to our bestselling Japanese Quilt Blocks,this book focuses on using the traditional Japanese neutral and taupecolours which are so much a part of the Japanese aesthetic and are sopopular today. As in the first book, the author shows the readerhow to design quilts using styles and colours to create beautiful,Japanese-style quilts. The book covers materials, colour andpatterns and then moves on to equipment and techniques such as piecingby machine, part-sewn seams, half squares and corner squares, appliquemethods and finishing - embroidery and embellishments as well asjoining blocks and finally assembling. The book is very differentfrom the first volume in that it uses a completely different range ofcolours and provides the reader with 125 new patterns.
