Customer Reviews

Asian Elegance: Quilting with Japanese Fabrics and More (That Patchwork Place)

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I love Kitty Pippen's first book, Quilting with Japanese Fabrics. This book is nice, but I don't think it covers a lot of new territory. If you can buy both her books, great, but if you can only buy one, I'd recommend the other one over this.

Kitty Pippen broke new ground with her first book, Quilting with Japanese Fabrics, and I consider it a "must have book" for anyone with more than a passing interest in Japanese fabrics. Ms. Pippen and her daughter, Sylvia, have pushed the boundaries further with this book, Asian Elegance, which incorporates polynesian and Japanese fabrics, design elements and ideas. Well done Pippens!

Since her first book, many of the Japanese fabrics that were so readily available are rare. Many traditional Japanese fabric makers are no longer manufacturing, or have modernized or moved to other countries. The quilts in the new book reflect some of these changes. Fabrics are more contemporary, embrace polynesian elements, and generally are available at most quilt and fabric stores or from resources listed in the book. All in all, this is a book to inspire, and grow your ideas. The elements of graceful design are timeless. It's worth the investment.

This is a beautiful book - even if you don't make the quilts as presented here, they inspire you to bring simplicity and calmness to your quilting designs. The directions are logical and easy to follow and the pictures speak volumes! Give it a try!

The book is everything I had hoped for and more. Wonderful patterns w/clear and concise instructions are very important and this book has both. I would strongly recommend this selection for beginning to advanced quilters; there is something for all skill levels in this book .... even art quilters will enjoy this one!

This book has nice quilts pictured, but many are repeated or similar to those in Kitty's book "Quilting with Japanese Fabrics". There are several added appliqued quilts. It's a great stand-alone book, but if you already have the above mentioned book you might not need this one.

I found this book less rich (too basic) than I had hoped for. Not overly inspiring, but OK. This book emphasizes Hawaii rather than Asia. I prefer the book by Kitty Pippen.

Beautiful condition as promised. Gorgeous book with fabulous ideas and illustrations! Anyone interested in fabric or quilting would love this book!

Deb

Also a great book along with Quilting with Japanese Fabrics which I purchased at the same time. I will get a great deal of pleasure from the many ideas in the book. It's a pity I didnt realise that is was in american dollars and not australian but nevertheless it was a great purchase.
Thank you and keep me informed of any other great quilting books to buy.
Thank you very much once again.