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.