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London #6

on May 17, 2013

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Yoko Saito

Yoko Saito is a Japanese quilter I also admire. Her work, though completely different from Shizuko Kuroha's, is breathtaking. I think that what defines it best is her use of taupe fabrics. She does a lot of appliqué and I have discovered throughout the years that she uses a lot of printed fabrics or checked textured fabrics as a background which gives extra dimension to her appliqués. A class with Yoko Saito is something you can not forget. It goes very fast as all the different techniques are explained and taught. I wish this class could have been a whole week class... The day began with this kit in front of me. Then I had to cut some fabric and to start preparing the backgrounds and the templates. I also noted down all the different instructions (8 pages!!!) and took many photopraphs so that I could remenber everything to finish it off at home. This is when you see the basket in "real" and very close up that you realize how perfect everything is!!! This class

The Japanese quilters 3 : Masako Wakayama

Masako Wakayama is a quilter whose books and projects are published in France by Les Editions de Saxe. We often found one or two of her projects in the magazine Quilt Country. Her quilt company is called Crib Quilt . Because her shop is not very far from Tokyo, I wanted to visit it. But unfortunately it was impossible to organize this visit while I was in Tokyo as I had so many things to see in five days.... and I didn't want to impose another quilt shop visit to my wife as I had already planned two. But sometimes, the planets seem to align perfectly and guess what? A few weeks before leaving for Japan I discovered that Masako Wakayama had an exhibition in a luxurious department store in Osaka and it was the weekend I was in Osaka at the beginning of my trip! I couldn't miss that opportunity and so I went there! Masako Wakayama creates quilts that are different from the ones of Yoko Saito and Reiko Kato. She doesn't use taupe fabrics. Her fabric color palet

Nantes 2016. Final post.

The quilt show was, this year again, fantastic. There are many more things I could have shared with you. If my photos were not blurred, I would have shared the Mountmellick exhibition. There were so many different versions of the same quilt. I paid special attention to the handquilting for inspiration. I was happy to meet Di Ford this year again. My Mountmellick is now finished and waiting its turn to be quilted. I will now start Pendlehill and why not attend a class with Di next year? I could have showed you the extraodinary boutis of Kumiko Geraerts if I had taken enough photos for a good report. But I am sure that if you browse the net, you will find photos. Odille Bailloeul "Sourisville" exhibition was extraordinary too! Brian Haggard's universe is very special and though I am not sensible to all his creations there were a few that I found really special. It took me time to publish these few posts because I have spent all my (little) spare time quilting

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