It didn't take long until I noticed that there were circles in a lot of the quilts. I still don't know why that was, but they inspired Julie, Tanya and myself to pick Circles for our challenge for next year.
Here are some examples of the O shape.
Toshiko Shimada (島田壽子) embellished her circles with embroidery
Kumiko Koyama (小山久美子) made a Mola with lots of details
Shizuko Osaki (尾﨑静子) added lots of embroidery.
Yumiko Matsumoto (松本友美子) changed the look of the fabric by adding lots of embroidery.
Reiko Domon (土門玲子) used beautiful Kogin embroidery.
Tanya and Julie's brains are working in CIRCLES.
Quilt artist Misako Imamura (今村美佐子)
Details from Yoko Izumi's (泉洋子) quilt
Emiko Koushi (工士恵美子)
Ayako Hino (日野綾子), kind of Double Wedding Ring and Colonial Knots.
Hideko Onosaki (小野崎秀子) added sashiko on every piece.
Mimi Tamura (田村美美) paired geometric shapes with circles in this impeccable sampler.
Would it be wrong to call hexagons geometric circles?
Yoko Akita (秋田陽子) stitched hers onto the background in a unique way.
Nobuko Hirata (平田信子) worked in the same way, but then added a bead in the centre of each hexagon.
Cathedral Windows are another form of circles, although Hiroko Shindo (進藤綋子) made some of hers oblong.
At the JUKI sewing machine stand was a Cathedral Window quilt by Felisa Nakazawa.
She has published a book on her 'new generation' Cathedral Windows. You can have a look on her
blog.
You are right! There were so many circles. I love the photo of Tanya and Julie!
ReplyDeleteGoodness - circles wherever you look!
ReplyDeleteIt is such a treat to see these beautiful quilts! It's amazing how such a simple shape can have so many variations. The amount of embroidery is stunning: I especially love Yumiko's monotone red version where the embroidery adds detail and texture, Reiko's stunning black and white Kogin circles, and Misako's charming floral bouquet! Hideko's fully embroidered quilt is amazing but I cannot imagine the time and dedication it took to hand stitch every block. The hexagons-on-black quilts remind me of mosaic tiles. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThe sheer amount of work in these fantastic quilts is overwhelming to me. I raise my hat to the dedicated ladies for sure. My favourites are the Circle/geometric and the gorgeous Astral one.
ReplyDeleteI remember one year there were quite a number of spider-webs on quilts, and another year that words printed on fabric were in great use. Often these years are the start of seeing fabrics printed in those themes. Now that I think of it, I have a rather large collection of polkadot fabric waiting to be used.
ReplyDeleteI love the quilt with the Kogin stitching but then I am biased in that direction. Still It was such an inventive way of incorporating the stitcning into the quilt.
ReplyDeleteJust to correct the name, the quilter of the first one is Toshiko Shimada. You can find her works here as well.
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The tiny details on the mola quilt must have taken an age to do.
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