In my second report from the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2017 I want to add a bit more about Yoko Saito's Swedish house, and just a little about the Partnership quilts.
Yoko Saito's Swedish House
Do you remember this picture from my last report?
Well, look through the open door and there is a bed...
on the bed there is a quilt,
let's zoom in
and go a bit closer
Look at the women dressed in local folk costumes. They are all holding candles in their outstretched hands.
This motif is taken from a very popular wooden
candlestick.
Then by the door there is a wooden Dalecarlian horse.
(You might remember the
cushion I made in 2014 where I added such a horse)
Now did you notice such a Dalecarlian horse on Yoko Saito's tea cosy I showed in the last post?
Here is a close up for you:
In the house Yoko Saito also had a 1960s living room:
Here there is a quilt on the wall and on the floor a hooked rug.
Have you ever seen a quilt show where the organizers have had a garden made with live flowers, had a carpenter build a house, then filled said house with authentic furniture, china, baskets and wooden ornaments shipped from Sweden? Just to display a set of quilts and rugs?
Could you ask for a better setting?
Partnership Quilts
This is the 14th time I have taken part in this charity event, by sending in a small block on the specific theme of the year. (You can see the other blocks in my tab NHK at the top of this blog.)
For 2017 the theme was Gardening, or rather Falling in Love with Garden, and I contributed with this block of a Japanese bonsai (a pruned miniature tree in a pot):
My friends
Tanya and
Julie have written excellent reports about the 63 quilts compiled this year. DO read them, it's a MUST!
May I just add a few interesting blocks.
Hydrangeas made from kimono silk.
Mt Fuji and a Japanese garden.
A cat made from a sock with a pot of 'cat sallad'; fur ball medicine!
A lucky Mola garden bird harvesting a four clover.
Julie (of My Quilt Diary) also includes a bird in every block she enters. This Ohio cardinal is sowing a seed.
The Hexagon Queen, and dear friend, Pamela, (of Hokkaido Kudasai) with her yellow hexy flowers.
Tanya (of By Taniwa) is so shy she only shows her red gardening boots! By chance her block has been placed near things related to her life: an active dog, a set of garden furniture, hydrangeas near her home, and strawberries (THE fruit of her prefecture)... I really wonder WHO guides the placement of the blocks???
I hope you are enjoying the show as much as we all did!
