Joy-Lily is a silk painter, dyer, quilt-maker and fabric printer. A former graphic designer, her fiber work has been exhibited in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Hannover Germany and Beijing. Joy-Lily has been teaching quilting and other crafts since 1989, and for 9 years she was artist-in-residence through the California Arts Council in San Francisco, working with elders in textile media. Her instructional articles have been published in Quilters Newsletter, Surface Design Journal and Woman’s Day. She actively teaches fiber arts through adult education and quilt and art guilds. Joy-Lily lives in San Francisco, CA.

Author Joy-Lily helps readers to put the fun back into quilting. Inside, readers will experience a fresh approach to quilting with two simplified, carefree methods:"sew & flip" and "stack, slice & swap," where skills like matching seams and measuring are not important. At the end of construction, each piece is trimmed to a uniform size to facilitate mixing and matching into many quilted projects. While matching seams and other traditional quilting skills are unimportant for success with these instructions, the reader will still learn basic quilting techniques, including strip piecing, curved piecing, foundation piecing, sewing on a bias, piece swapping and more, as they work through the blocks. A getting started section explains which rules are necessary and which are optional.