Sunday 5 June 2016


 
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL 2017
 
The theme for next year's Festival is "Gardening".

This my contribution to the Festival's Partnership Quilt.

Decided on something simple due to time constraints.

It's a single block (15x15cm) version of what I did for Quilty365.

The flower is hand-appliqued.
Two butterflies at the top right, stamped using fabric inkpad.
 The red rectangle has my initials, gives the block an Asian feel
--- traditional Chinese brush paintings/calligraphy
have the artist's name stamped in red ink at the corner.
 
This is just one of hundreds of blocks being sent to organisers of
 the Tokyo International Quilt Festival by patchwork enthusiasts
mainly from Japan but also around the world.

Volunteers will join and quilt these blocks by hand
to form Partnership Quilts.
 
These will be displayed, then raffled off, at the Festival in January 2017.
 
Last year, over 8,000 blocks were received and made into 74 quilts.


~Ema N~
 


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1 comment:

  1. Oh my goodness, "gardening!" If there was ever a time to get myself to that show! Well, never say never. Your little block will pop out nicely among the others, I think. What a fun idea!

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