jane dong 

 Quilts

Since my husband is half Japanese, much of my quilting was done with Japanese fabrics for a long time. 

This first quilt is one of my super favorites and still remains with me.  It is actually quite large 80" x 80.”  Many of the others were sold or given away as gifts. 

The next three were a series made from the Blue Collection pattern.  The first was sold for $1500 at the Breast Cancer Quilt Auction a few years ago.  The second was commissioned by a close friend, and the third was made for my office at work.

This is “Red.”  I made it for the living room wall.  As you can see, I also made a vest just like it!

This “Amish-Japanese” quilt was made for our living room.  I made it for our 10th Wedding Anniversary.  It is difficult to see that the entire quilt is heavily beaded and was beautiful in the evening when the lights in the house, or the lights from the Christmas tree would reflect off of it!

The following three wall quilts were for our long hallway.  I was into the Amish style where no faces were painted onto the heads.  I rather enjoyed the anonymity! 

I made two quilts from this design taken from an old Japanese World War II poster.

This Hexagon Garden was made from the old Grandmother’s Flower Garden pattern - only I enlarged the hexagon for the lower half of the quilt.  It was a fun idea!

Of course, I made a lot of children’s quilts, but these two are my absolute favorites!  

I also made some Amish quilts.  This was a large one 70 x 70 that hung on  diningroom wall at our old house.  

This is one of my favorites - a simple house quilt.  I call it “Quilting all day long” since you can see from the time of day change from early morning in the top left to late night in bottom right!  I know it is rather childish, but it was one of the first quilts I ever made!

And finally, Christmas Quilts!  I made alot of those too, but these two are my favorites.  The Poinsettia Quilt has lights strung into the quilt around the window and when you plug it in it makes a nice subtle Christmas glow.  I made this one for my office at work to keep the place festive!

This is an example of my wearable art.  I have only retained a couple of pieces.  This one is called “The Anniversary Jacket.”  I made it for our 16th Wedding Anniversary.  The back is again the Japanese couple in Wedding Attire and as you can see below, I included an inscription from our wedding ceremony inside the jacket.  This jacket is also heavily beaded so that it sparkled beautifully under the multitude of lights on a cruise ship.  I wore it all the way up until our 25th Wedding Anniversary.  It is now packed away.

This is my “At Sea” Jacket, which I made shortly after the death of my father-in-law in 2004.  Following his funeral in Hawaii, we all walked across the street to the sea and threw white orchids into the beautiful blue Hawaiian water.  I stood for a long time watching them drift and float upon the water out to sea.  He was a lovely man and I made this jacket to help me heal from the shock of his sudden death.

I wore it in 2005 on our 15-day cruise to Hawaii and back, which proved to be rather chilly way out there in the Pacific Ocean!

When we arrived in Hawaii for the funeral of my father-in-law, I was asked to take his Hawaiian shirts and make small lap quilts for his four grandsons.  It turned out to be a project that involved the whole family in that week we spent at their home in Kona, Hawaii. 

 I even used the pockets of the shirts to insert a tag stating for whom the quilt was made and a quote from the Bible.  

This last photo is of the lap quilt I made for my husband with the left over squares from his father’s shirts.  You can imagine how dear this quilt is to him.