East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs small projects both practical and imaginative—and encourages

both practical and imaginative—and encourages us to do the same in our own lives

inspirational photographs set in pastoral New England

Welcome to Kathleen Taylor's latest knitting extravaganza - a sock party in a book

Butterflies

but many lack the foundation necessary to re-create their dream projects

East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs small projects both practical and imaginative—and encouragesImprov quilting, in which quilt designs emerge organically as fabric is cut and stitched, is simple, popular, and fun. In this book, expert quilter Patricia Belyea offers improv instruction and shares her appealing Quilt Manifesto of five simple rules. While providing quilters with a starting point, the fifth rule of the Manifesto, Break any rule you like, opens the door to creative freedom. (However, the solid instructions allow even the rule