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