Beautiful work Hulahoop. Our guild had a speaker a couple of months ago that does a lot of shashiko. She showed us some beautiful work.

Thank you. It was fun to do, took me 3 weeks, and I had some really sore fingers!

Do you have a stamped patern to go by?

I think we all have to be at least a little nuts to be making quilts. But we love each other anyway.

I have a tough time with yellow.

We had to trace the patterns onto each block. Most are traditional Japanese patterns, but there are some that aren't -- like the iris and the meandering pattern.

Wow!! Those are gorgeous.

I don't mind green at all. I am really drawn to earth tones and love browns, golds, oranges, rust and greens of course. My least favourite colours are red and pink. I doubt very much that I will ever make a quilt with those colours. I always try to pick different colours to make new quilts so that they won't all start to look the same. I really like batiks and I am making a quilt with batiks right now.

welcome to the board canmitch. You like the harvest colors, like one of my girls. I really like them too, but, alas, I do love those pinks and reds. But it will be fun to see your stuff. I bought a book by Lynette Jenkins and opened up a whole range of possibilities for me in your preference range. quilting is so much fun, bc the sky's the limit. :D

oops, that's lynette jensen...i'm always doing that, lol! :wink:

I dislike Olive Green! But when I decided to do the Christmas Pickle quilt from Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith's book, Home for the Holidays, I made myself include all greens, regardless! I spent about a year picking up fat quarters until I had over 60 green prints. Not a single batik or hand dyed in the bunch. I ended up using 59 of those prints. (See attached) The photo color may be a tiny bit off - a bit blue-ish I think.
Now if you look in my stash, it looks like I'm in love with green, but it's really just a lot of leftovers from that quilt. I have used up some of the uglier prints by "wrapping" Christmas gifts for co-workers. I cut large circles with pinking shears, gathered up around the gift, and tied with red ribbon.
But back to the subject of color, my favorites are the colors of fall, sorry girls, even those dreaded oranges. After many years and many projects I finally decided I had enough fall fabrics for a quilt, so here is my Krazy for Fall quilt (see atteached). Rather than do the traditional embroidery, I let the fabric do the talking. I guess it's a Lazy Krazy quilt. The pic was taken before it was quilted. No, it's not a stack & whack; Yes, it is foundation pieced. I haven't bound it yet.
This is my first time for attaching pictures...cross your fingers!