Folded Flowers Fabric Origami with a Twist of Silk Ribbon

With a blend of Eastern and Western influences, Kumiko Sudo reinvents fabric origami with 24 new small quilt designs intertwining silk ribbons, cotton, and other fabrics. Choosing two or three Japanese flowers that bloom in each month of the year, each quilt presents an origami flower, its buds and leaves crafted from fabric and ribbon. Six additional purse designs feature a flower for each season. Step-by-step colour drawings help to make the projects easy-to-understand and follow. Introductions to each featured flower, lyrical haiku poems, elegant Japanese calligraphy, and watercolour paintings provide a glimpse into the rich cultural heritage that has inspired these designs. Full colour photographs of projects in authentic Japanese settings help provide a complete sense of the final product.

Kumiko Sudo is an internationally acclaimed quilt and fiber artist. Before moving to the United States, she was known throughout Japan for her quilting books and was featured on Japanese national television. Her works are in several public and private collections, including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. She is the author of Circles of the East, Fabled Flowers, and Omiyage. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.