Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 206 Brown Sweet Tea Girls patterns Overlapping Diamonds

Overlapping Diamonds

You can follow the instructions on  the sampler for stitching both layers together or use the plain half as the backing for a pillow or other project

You couldn't ask for a simpler pattern that makes up to such a stunning quilt

* Please note - these are unfinished panels

and interlocking flower stitch

Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 206 Brown Sweet Tea Girls patterns Overlapping DiamondsTsumugi is an obsolete, costly, narrow Japanese silk fabric made in the following fashion: first, a coarse cloth is woven with cotton wrap and thick silk filling; second, this fabric is run through a dye vat several times; third, it is buried in the ground until the cotton warp has rotted; lastly, the silk is rewoven into a fabric. The result is a mottled design produced by undyed places in the silk yarn where the cotton warp prevented dye