I have been making similar quilts to this one for the men in my family. The center block is the family crest and the other blocks are chosen by each recipient to reflect his own personality. This isn't real sashiko but mock sashiko. Most of the fabrics are from Japan. That inner border is only 1/4 inch wide--a very interesting task.
One of my favorite quilt artists is Suzanne Marshall. She made a quilt similar to this based on tiles by an aesthetic period English artist named deMorgan. I thought I would see what his original tile set looked like rather than duplicating Ms. Marshall's well known quilt since hers was made entirely with orange flowers and that's not how my garden grows. Well he had lilies and chrysanthemums so her choices made sense but I am not overly fond of chrysanthemums so I changed some of them into hibiscus or loosely hibiscus flowers. I am not crazy about the plain border but the vase and the embroidery turned out well.
Melon Slice for Mary Kathleen.
Once again I borrowed elements from another quilt artist for my own quilt. It isn't entirely my own design nor is it entirely the original artist's design. When I do floral applique I like to add birds, bugs, etc. I call this one Paradise Lost since it reminds me of old illuminated books, minus the script. When I finished the quilt the border just didn't stand out enough so I embroidered with perle cotton around the edge of the center whole cloth square and that did the trick. Look for three birds, a luna moth, a beautiful dragonfly with Dupioni silk wings, and a ladywing among other fauna.The borders were adapted from Delectable Pathways by Mary Sorensen and Cindy Blackberg.
A small quilt for Tea who is a very sophisticated baby born in February, the Stock family's Winter Rose.
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