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baubles, beads, black and gold fabric, black fabric, black red and gold, embellishment, Fiber Arts, gold beads, kimono, original pattern, Paper Piecing, quilting, quilts, seed beads
A little while back, I created a paper piecing pattern for a Kimono – the pattern itself is for sale in my Craftsy pattern store.
Since I am attending the North Carolina Quilt Symposium (next week!) I decided to make the Kimono and enter it in the Symposium Quilt Show.
The wall hanging is approx. 24″ tall. I used oriental themed fabrics (remnants from another project), and framed it in a tone on tone black fabric. I fussy cut the dragon on one of the fabrics, to fit into the center from of the kimono. Then, I quilted the dragon in gold thread.
I quilted the red & gold areas with a gold thread, and the black areas with a black thread. Then, I started embellishing a bit. In one area, right below the waist of the kimono, I used gold paillettes. The sleeves have some of the same fabric, but I used red paillettes there, for a bit of a different look:
On the front of the kimono, I used a combination of small gold seed beads and larger amber/gold beads:
The belt and the sides if the wallhanging are also decorated with beading.
Finally, I hung red, gold and black beads and baubles from the bottom. I had no idea how hard it is to get oriental themed beads in our little town. Attaching those to the wall hanging is a skill I need to practice some more!
After attaching a sleeve and the required labels, the wall hanging is now ready to be delivered to the organizers of the Symposium on Friday!
I like this one, I lived in Japan for 5 yrs and this looks great. Hope u get a ribbon for it.
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Very lovely, Irene!
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