World Quilt Festival 2022 In Yokohama - Part 6

To participate in the quilt contest you needed to be a member of the Japan Quilt Society.

Here are some of the quilts entered into their contest:

小田井由里子＊Odai Yuriko

made this beautiful Hawaiian quilt. In reality, the red was slightly more pinkish and made me think of blueberries and raspberries, not tomatoes.

平野祐子＊Yuko Hirano

齋藤由美子＊Yumiko Saito

柏木智子＊Tomoko Kashiwagi

谷口よし子＊Yoshiko Taniguchi

平沼淳子＊Atsuko Hiranuma

A group quilt

with many interesting blocks.

Ayfer Akşehirli Bickford and Serap Piskin 

lead a group from Turkey

Another group quilt 

inspired by the cherry lane in L.M.Montgomery's story Anne of Green Gables.

This book is extremely popular in Japan and especially among quilters!

長谷川徳子＊Tokuko Hasegawa

菅原真理子＊Mariko Sugawara

who won a commercial award with her 'Casablanca'.

安田榮美＊Eimi Yasuda

received, as you can see, an Excellence Award.

 

後藤恵子＊Keiko Goto 

also received an award for Excellence.

沖津明美＊Akemi Okitsu,

another award winner.

林敏鈴＊A quilter from Taiwan got the Clover Award

乾由佳＊Yuka Inui

also got a rosette for her Hawaiian quilt

草野純一郎＊Junichiro Kusano

landed 2nd prize with his colourful fantasy quilt

inspired by the viruses of the Pandemic. He wanted to make something to cheer everyone up.

1st prize went to 

界亜希＊Aki Sakai

She is a well-known and productive quilter.

 Her work is always feminine, sweet, cute, and impeccable, and has MANY tiny, details.

Can you spot all the small dolls, rabbits, Suffolk Puffs and the Sunbonnet Sue?

There was of course a third prize as well, but I did not manage to get a good photo. It was a beautiful and heavily quilted Hawaiian Quilt. My friend Pamela has a good photo on her blog. Check it out here.

This is my last report from the World Quilt Festival 2022 in Yokohama. Thank you for reading.

Finally, I would like to say that figuring out how to pronounce Japanese names is a challenge.

It is my wish that the organizers printed the labels with the names written in both kanji (Chinese characters) and roman script (ABC) to make sure the quilters' names can be read correctly. Please forgive any mistakes I have made in my guesswork.

Japan Quilt Society will hold its next show

 March 30th - April 1st, 2023

 at Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho