A few of us will be starting to work on Chuck Nohara’s book 2001 New Patchwork Patterns. She was a Japanese lady. My book has both Japanese and English. The book is out of print. My copy says 1998, so it’s an older book. I have just fallen in love with all her patterns. I regularly check on the used book sites. The only way I connected with this one was the ISBN number. It’s 4-529-03114-4. If you search for this book add the name of the book and the ISBN. The sites that I use are
www.Abebooks.com ,
www.thriftbooks.com ,
www.betterworldbooks.com ,
www.bookfinder.com , and lastly
www.alibris.com. If you have this book count yourself lucky. The out of print books available are crazy pricey.
The blocks don’t come with instructions and are 3”. I find it’s easiest to take a picture of the block with my cellphone, save it, edit it, resize it and print it out. But there are a bunch of resizing programs. A lot of the blocks I’ve seen on the internet are 6”. I don’t see well so I’m making mine 9”. 9 1/2” unfinished. I would recommend choosing a block size that you want. I think for the pieced blocks I will resize the block and cut it out using the pieces for templates. Also your color preference and fabric choices. Many of the blocks look to have retro style. Pinterest has a huge collection of the Chuck Nohara blocks. I see whole pages pinned. Also the magazine Quiltmania has 20 free blocks, they are 9 1/2” and are called “The Tuesday Flowers”.
I’ve chosen 5 blocks to start with. When done with my quilt I plan on about a queen size quilt. I’m not fond of the retro style. I use almost all batiks, they have the clean crisp colors that I want.
please join us. Do as many blocks as you want and yes we want to see pictures.