World Quilt Festival 2022 In Yokohama - Part 2

 Here are the rest of the Beauties and Splendors of Japan quilts.

瀧田裕子＊Hiroko Takita

thought of all the blue flowers while making this quilt. 

Unfortunately, the spotlight on the wall makes the quilt look crumpled - it IS a tidy quilt and has a beautiful edge of loosely appliquéd flowers.

こうの早苗＊Sanae Kohno

This romantic bed-size quilt in silk has a delicately quilted overhang. It is the kind of quilt you expect to see on a four-poster bed in an English stately home open to the public. 

眞田雅子＊Masako Sanada

There are many craftsmen in Japan working with different materials. This quilt leads the thoughts to the mountains of Hakone where Yosegizaiku craft is created. Do have a look at the link.

This quilt with all its curves and set-in pieces is also a work of a skilled craftswoman.

島道子＊Michiko Shima

When you see a Japanese quilt with impeccable and intricate lines of bias tape, it's a good guess that the maker is Michiko Shima - the Queen of Bias Tape.

池敬子＊Keiko Ike

Ms Ike also uses bias tape, or shall we call it bias string, many of them so thin and rounded, almost like cords. She made the flowers in a unique way, too. We guess she fused stabilizer onto the back of white fabric, drew daisy-like flowers, and painted the centre yellow and some of the petals green, orange, pink or purple. She then probably machine-stitched the outlines of the petals before fuzzy cutting each flower and finally stitched each one around the yellow circle onto the quilt. 

You can learn so much from studying quilts at a show!

丸屋米子＊Yoneko Maruya

used indigo for the sea and kimono silk for the Benten-Sama 'mermaid' in this underwater scene. This goddess is usually sitting on a cloud playing a sting instrument called Biwa... Is this scene Ms Maruya's childhood fantasy?

千葉幸子＊Sachiko Chiba

Made a large and very beautiful quilt, by hand. The skills of Japanese quilters are really high.

マエダメグ＊Meg Maeda

Was inspired by the beautiful movement of banana leaves in the breeze.

Ms Maeda was the only quilter who had placed her quilt in a wooden frame or stretched it over a canvas.

In the next blog post, I will show you some group quilts.