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This designer sashiko panel is by Hitomi Fujita for QH Textiles, one of many I stock (ideal for combining in a sashiko sampler quilt). Her stunning original designs take hanafukin panels in a new direction, while staying traditional. 

 

This listing is for one panel, the first one of the photos.

This design features yama-zakura (mountain cherry blossom) kamon (family crest), against a background of tobi asanoha (flying asanoha), which suggests falling blossoms, a traditional design with multiple diagonal lines - much easier to stitch than it looks! A real classic that works well on its own, or with any of the other eight kamon + sashiko pattern designs in this series - all nine would make a superb sampler quilt. Please see my stitching suggestions below for ways to stitch this design to best advantage.

Hand printed in Japan.


It is a 'hana fukin' with literally means 'flower cloth' and printed on indigo blue coloured narrow width traditional sarashi cloth (an easy to stitch traditional Japanese cotton cloth). Each panel is supplied in one piece with a plain area the same size attached, because they are designed to be stitched through both layers and the edges turned in to make a little cloth, but you can stitch the printed layer separately (as I often do) - single is best if you intend to use this panel in a quilt, adding extra quilting later. They may be stitched with a doubled or single thread (or a mixture of both, for an interesting effect), in white or using coloured threads. Any of my medium sashiko threads would be ideal for these panels, or use the fine 4-ply sashiko threads doubled.

Stitching suggestions for the panel -
If you are stitching this to coordinate with other panels in this series, you may wish to coordinate colours for the background tobi asanoha pattern, and/or the circles around the yama-zakura kamon motif. The three sakura cherry blossoms in the central kamon crest could be stitched in pink or white, for a natural look.

These hand printed designer panels are more expensive than the other hanafukin I sell, but the patterns are so beautiful, I wanted to start selling them! I have more more designs by Hitomi Fujita in stock, including larger panels.

Sashiko Cloth by QH Textiles (Australia)

 

Printed with water-soluble ink - marks wash out

 

Composition : 100% Cotton

 

Individual Cloth Size : Approx. 30cm x 60cm (Finished size : 30cm x 30cm)

 

About Sarashi cotton -
Sarashi cloth is quite lightweight compared with other sashiko fabrics, but is very easy to stitch, super absorbent and wears well.  It is one of the fabrics traditionally used for kimono underwear! The second photo shows a comparison between these panels and those by Olympus Thread Mfg. Co., which are most of the other hanafukin I sell. This QH Sarashi fabric is a slightly finer weave, although the stitch length is about 3mm (the same as my Olympus panels), and is the one in front in the photo. The fabric shown both plain and with 5mm dots is the Olympus fabric. The shade of blue is also very slightly different (it actually looks more extreme in the photo than in real life). For a quilt or other project using hanafukin panels, you could mix the two brands and the colour difference would be minimal. If however, you want an exact colour match with all the panels, please just use hanafukin designs from one brand.

HF1115-22C yama-zakura (mountain cherry) designer hanafukin sashiko sampler

£18.00Price

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