"We have yet to meet a crafter that doesn't experience sheer, unbridled joy seeing neat little petals bloom at their fingertips from unassuming strips of paper. Now imagine the joy you'd feel creating petals so breathtaking they were--dare we say--better than the real deal. That's what you'll experience working through the 32 projects in A Beginner's Guide to Quilling Paper Flowers. Author Motoko Maggie Nakatani is a veritable wizard with quilling strips, and you will be too under her meticulous tutelage." Featured in Crafts-Beautiful magazine & PaperCrafter magazine "The perfect combination of instruction guide and how-to manual, A Beginner's Guide to Quilling Paper Flowers: Beautiful Japanese-Style Paper Art is an ideal introduction to Japanese style paper art. Exceptionally well illustrated, organized, and presented" Midwest Book Review "Founding member of the Japan Quilling Guild and all-around paper expert Motoko Maggie Nakatani takes readers through an instructional textbook on the art of quilled flower-making. From roses to wisterias and more, A Beginner's Guide to Quilling Paper Flowers details the history of the craft and how the meditative art form can be used in daily life." Author Brian Francis for CBC Radio