It started as White - 2

 This is another quilt that I made of my hand dyed stash.  Sorry the picture is missing the fabrics on the two sides.  The center squares were made with Sujatas technique of freehand cutting.  The dyed fabrics have retained their bright colors.

 I wish I could remember how I made that green batik.  I know that I had a lot of fun making these.  It helped that the classes had everything prepared and all the dyes and materials there for you to use.

This is the backing fabric of a cotton childrens yukata.  I think I bought the fabric at a craft fair at the JCC in Hawaii for $25.  Its getting harder to find this type of fabric for a reasonable price. I quilted the quilt from the back and followed the outline of the flowers and leaves.  It was a very nice quilting pattern since it started on one end to the other.

It started as White

 What do you do with all those beautify hand dyed fabric that you have on your fabric shelves.  All of these fabrics started out as white and were dyed in different classes.  I think they came from classes I took with Ellen Oppenheimer, Lynn Koolish, Jan Meyers Newbery.  I did not take enough notes during those classes.  I recognize batik, low emersion dying, acid dyes, procion dyes, stamping, shibori, ???

Do you see the blue shark?  There is a turtle in the design of the shark.  The brown fabric uses wooden chops dipped in wax.

This is a backing of cotton yukata of yellow butterflies.

I quilted the butterflies from the back.  This is how the quilting looks from the front.  Overall, I am very happy to finally use some of these precious fabrics.  

Nani Iro

This quilt was made from fabric remnants that I purchased at Kaimuki Dry Goods.  I think there were 4 remnant packets. The packets were different sizes 9x18, 18x22, 9x44 and different prices between 7 to 10 dollars. Sorry, the picture does not include the whole quilt.  There is another border of red and cream on the right side that couldn't fit in.

The middle fabrics of yellow purple blue and aqua did not have the designer name or fabric line. It is actually bubbles that look like they were made by a shibori technique of tying pebbles in fabric before dyeing the fabric. The fabric retained the shibori crinkly effect. 

The surrounding fabric named the designer as Naomi Ito from the fabric line by Nani Iro.  At first I thought it was the same person because the names were so similar.  The fabric was very soft and I think it is considered a cotton gauze.  They printed the Made in Japan so far into the selvage that it was a waste not to use it.  I used the improv techniques I learned from Sujata Shah to make the hourglass and triangles.

This is the backing fabric of a woven stripe.  I really liked the way the weave of the purple and gold looks.  You can see how I quilted around the bubbles in the middle motif.  The triangles and surrounding strips were just quilted in the ditch.  I think the size came out to about 50 x 60.

Blues

 This is a 75 x 75 bed quilt made with a roll of 40 Kona cotton blue 2.5 strips and blue and white scraps that I have been saving for a long time.  I found the roll of strips at Calico Cat quilt shop in Kaimuki. The strips were sewn end to end starting from the Darks to the lights. The scraps were cut into 4.5 x 8.  They were sorted by lights to dark.  10 lights at the top down to 10 rows with a total of 100 scraps with the darks on the bottom. 

The dark strips were paired with the lightest scraps.  The lightest strips were paired with the darkest scraps.  The block is a simple pattern with the strips sewn on both sides.  Then the blocks were placed verticle to horizontal.  I have seen this pattern in older quilts and it is a very pleasing.  Some quilts have put borders around the blocks, but this one has no border.  I did have to buy 1 yard of the light blue fabric to complete the last blocks.  I think I bought enough to make the binding.  Since this was made for Hawaii, I did not put in a batting.  The backing fabric is a japanese blue with white dots.  The quilting was done stitch in a ditch with dark blue aurifil thread.  Most of the scraps were cut from a pack of fat quarters of Indigo.  There are also some kasuri, woven ikat, batik and boro scraps.  This was given to my Dad.

Woven 28

 This is a picture of woven 28.  It is made with Kaffe Fassett shot cottons from strips of 2.5 inches in 28 different colors.  I think the size was about 56 x 56.

 The interplay of colors are wonderful.  The back is from kimono fabric.  It was a blue and white summer yukata fabric.  I bought the kimono from the Moilili Bon dance last year for $15.  There were old spots that were little brown dots here and there.  I undid the hand sewn stitches and washed the fabric in oxyclean.  There was just enough to make a nice backing.  The cotton fabric is so nice and soft.  The batting is a 80 % cotton poly bled.

I think my Mom gave this quilt to her friend Sumiko.  She is a new grandmother.

Cotton and Steele

This quilt was made with leftover scraps of Cotton and Steele that I purchased from the PIQF show in 2017.  The scraps were sewn into strips to make blocks of 10.5 inches.  

 They were then alternated horizontal or vertical.  I think the dimensions were 60 x 70.  The fabrics were very colorful and playful.  Although there were some halloween fabric that had cute skulls and ghosts.

The quilting was done from the back with Aurifil 50 wt thread.  I followed the outline of the flowers with free motion quilting.

This is the Kaffe Fassett fabric that I used for the back.  It makes such a pretty bright back.  This was given to my Aunty Helen on my Moms side, who is 90 years old.  She needed a twin size quilt for her bed. I had given her a queen size quilt earlier, but she said it was too big.  This was given to her daughter Charlene who just recently retired.

Skyscrapers

This is my latest quilt.  It was made from four panels of the Hoffman watercolor fabric.  I did not count the total number of swatches, but they were 1 inch by 2 inch pieces of the watercolor palette.  The size was enough to make either a thimble or half a hexagon.  Two panels were used to make the hexagons and two panels were used in the thimbles.

I tried to keep the thimbles sorted.  I added one row of Hoffman fabric and three rows of scrap thimbles.  It was hard to find the right colors in the scraps.

I did not plan the border very well.  The top and bottom border were originally one piece.  I had to stretch the hexagons out by separating the two hexagons to have enough for the top and bottom border.  The white fabric came from scraps of white on white and the leftovers from the Hoffman panels.

This was made over a two year time.  I would start it and then put it away.  The hexagons were hand pieced.  The thimbles were machine pieced.  The quilting is stitch in a ditch.