http://www.binichic.com/2012/02/weaving-the-waves/
I then happened across an earlier post:
http://www.binichic.com/2010/12/japanese-indigo/
about Sri Threads and again full of beautiful photographs.
Then this morning I was reading Julie Fukuda's great blog and found she has been lauded in the Japan Times. What a star, I do hope I get to meet up with Julie when I'm in Japan (if she can find time).
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120218a1.html
And so a happy time was spent in wonderful cyberspace.
I did finish my Japanese Circles and Squares quilt during FNSI and so here it is:
In Susan Briscoe's workshop she taught us how to add applique circles to the squares pattern. I found that, with the fabrics I'd used, the circles didn't show very well and so decided to sashiko a circles design instead. The pattern of interlocking circles is called Seven Treasures, Shippō 七宝 This was just stitched on the quilt top after I found using the sashiko as a quilting stitch was unsuccessful. I thought I would then machine quilt "in the ditch" but this would have cut through the hand stitching (I should have worked the sashiko and machine quilting in reverse order!) and so I decided to tie the quilt. Anyway, I am happy with the finished quilt and it is a perfect size (I didn't add a border to Susan's original design) to sit over my lap and keep me toasty without swamping me.
I hope you had a good FNSI (chocolate honeycomb flapjack was my treat of choice for the evening).
i just love your sashiko circles on the quilt. and that link 'weaving the waves'...magnificent. i just love seeing the threads on the loom preparing for pattern. thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWell done! The quilt is BEAUTIFIL!
ReplyDeleteA slip of the fingers in the last comment. The word should of course have been BEAUTIFUL!
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