The Shogun

 Dear Readers,

So this is second quilt for Jennifer's step-children.  This is for a young man who loves Japanese things.  So I went through my stash and found these fabrics I bought in Japan in the 1990's.  

This is the first time I have used a panel for a center.  Since it was long and narrow I made some of the vertical strips wider and I put 9 patches on the sides and 4 patches on the horizontal.  I fussy cut up a piece of fabric that had a bunch of Japanese symbols on it and used those for the outside border.  I found the Japanese origami crane pattern on line and downloaded it and paper pieced the cranes.  

I pulled the black piece and it was not big enough so I found a long piece of maroon that I cut off of the last cowbell quilt and used it.  It made it just the right size, but I decided to put the white in for fun.  

Welcome Joey to the family,

Sew on,

Terry

TIllustrator

Dear Readers,

In the Spring my former niece, Jennifer, remarried a man with two children.  So since I have made all the other nieces and nephews quilts I decided to make those two children a quilt. 

So in the Spring, I signed up to take a class from Dorinda Evans at the June MQA meeting on using the Stripology rulers to make a pattern by Gudrun Erla out of her Stripology Mixology 3 book called Kimberly.  BTW Gudrun names most of her patterns with girls name.  

I chose to make this one out of various Tula Pink fabrics as Tula is at her core an illustrator.  So I found out Julie, the new step-daughter, loves to draw and do crafts.  So I thought Tula's fabrics would make the best quilt for her.  For the background I found a wide back in Tennessee that I thought look like doodles.  I thought that would be perfect for a girl who likes to draw.  

It should arrive New York tomorrow.  I hope that she will love it.  Welcome to the family Julie!

Sew on,

Terry