A Bouquet of Quilts: Garden-Inspired Projects for the Home

Rating:
Summary: Fresh, contemporary approach to traditional-look quilts
Review: This is a marvellous book of -- unfortunately -- too few patterns. Japanese quiltmakers combine "new" traditional blocks such as baskets and log cabin with vintage-looking fabrics and somehow create really fresh-looking quilts. Cutting directions are a little clunky and pure applique would seem to be a lot simpler than some of the patchwork piecing that's shown. Nonetheless, some smaller versions of the quilts in the book are going to make it to my short list of projects to try.

Rating:
Summary: Fresh, contemporary approach to traditional-look quilts
Review: This is a marvellous book of -- unfortunately -- too few patterns. Japanese quiltmakers combine "new" traditional blocks such as baskets and log cabin with vintage-looking fabrics and somehow create really fresh-looking quilts. Cutting directions are a little clunky and pure applique would seem to be a lot simpler than some of the patchwork piecing that's shown. Nonetheless, some smaller versions of the quilts in the book are going to make it to my short list of projects to try.