Obento - my quilt for Junko, Ian and baby Julian
 

My friends Junko and Ian are going to be parents in a couple of months - their first. Junko is from Japan, she and Ian decided to moosh their names together and came up with Julian for the baby - so I used the Bento Box pattern, Asian prints, making 'positive' and 'negative' squares of each combination (Yin and Yang), a simple SID quilting, then went online to find the katakana for Julian (Japanese phonetic rendering of foreign words), to put on the label. The backing is a batik with Kanji writing - it just all seemed to come together perfectly.

It was passed around the room at the shower, with everyone oohing and aahing, and people are still talking about it three weeks later - I think I could get to like this acclaimation thing for my quilting!

Beautiful quilt!!!!

Just beautiful, great job
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

How very precious! What a wonderful gift! :)

Beautiful quilt - great job.

Your quilt is beautiful and I know that mom and dad are loving it! It does make you feel rather good when others ooh and aah over our quilts. The oohs and aahs are well deserved you did a wonderful job!!

Awesome job!!

That will be loved.

The quilt is beautiful.
But, the story makes it so special!
Thanks for sharing.

Very nice!!!!