WIPW - Greeting Cards

Work In Progress Wednesday today includes a couple of greeting cards.

But let's start with
Crazy for Crazy
I have selected the fabric for the next block.

Embroidery and embellishment will be in the shades of rust/orange/salmon.

BES (Brazilian Embroidery Study)
I have mounted the embroidery on a piece of cardboard.

Vaxholmskudden

Last week I made some Stem Stitch swirls. Those have now been whipped for better definition.

Round dots of boiled wool appliqué has been added.

Greeting cards

Two birthdays need to be celebrated with handmade cards.

Quilt Time Festival 2019 - Yokohama, Part 5

What is a quilt show without a contest?

 Grand Prix was won by Masako Kaya/榧政子

 Mutsumi Kanda/神田睦 won a prize for her small traditional quilt.

 So did Aki Sakai/界亜希. I have seen her work before, always charming with lots of small rabbits, birds, flowers and ribbons.

 Here is another quilt with mini-mini stitches, made by Naomi Iida/飯田奈緒美.

Just how small the quilting stitches are can be seen here.

Misako Muto's/武藤美左子quilt was very colourful.

Michiyo Watanabe/渡辺美智代 also had a floral motif, but in Japanese style.

Chizuru Yajima/矢島千鶴 worked with flowers, too.

Chiharu Takahashi/高橋千春 needs three watches to keep track of time, or?

Junko Hiranuma/平沼淳子 made a huge quilt with a hindu motif

Lots of details, like this stump work butterfly.

Yayoi Abe/阿部弥生 used a special technique for her floral landscape.

 Small scraps of fabric has been placed on the background fabric, then covered with tulle and machine quilted.

Sakuko Tsunoda/角田佐久子 made this funky tree that can serve you coffee!

 Miwako Suzuki/鈴木美和子celebrates nature with butterflies and flowers on her large quilt.

Tsunemi Suzuki/鈴木つねみ won a prize for her colourful quilt made from her 'fabric collection'.

Sanae Nagasaki/長崎早苗 bought a large piece of fabric in Guatemala, then cut it into squares and quilted it in an artistic embroidery style.

And with this quilt, I close this quilt show review.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 101: Rose Leaf Stitch

It's Sunday so time to learn a new stitch.
I found the Rose Leaf Stitch in 'A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2'.
There it was done in wool and maybe that is why it looks neater than the one I made here in four strands of DMC floss.

You need a piece of cardboard for this stitch, three shades of thread, and a hoop.

Stitch over the upright cardboard and place the stitches close.

Dark green x 2 stitches, medium green x 2 stitches and light green x 2 stitches. Fasten all stitches on the back.

 Pay attention when you remove the cardboard

Carefully turn the threads inside out in the loop.

Anchor the dark green loop where you want the tip of the leaf.

Smoothen out the leaf until it is even, but fluffy.

Homework:
Work Rose Leaf Stitch on the Aida Sampler,
on the Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart and
on the new piece of teal wool tailoring scribble cloth.

Quilt Time Festival 2019 - Yokohama, Part 4

What more did we see at the quilt show?

Colourful quilts from Mexico!

'Beautiful Mexico' by Sonia Flores Ruiz,

who also made

'The Comrades'
Look at the details and variation of techniques

Here Sonia is posing in front of her 'Kukulkán, myth or legend'

She told us about how in spring and fall the sun casts a shadow on the steps of the pyramid at the temple El Castillo, Chichen, Itza. 
The shadow looks like a feathered serpent descending down the steps. 
You can read about it here.

 The pond was a used for human sacrifice, and archeologists have found jewels with the bones.
Sonia added these details to her quilt.

Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert

made this beautiful 'Virgin of Guadalupe'.

Invited from the US were Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Modern Quilt Studio.

Their quilts were colourful, fresh and very attractive.

'Go Big'

 'Star Bright'

 
 'Pacific'

 'Crown Jewels'

 My friend Pamela of Hokkaido Kudasai, has posted many more photos of these quilts. Don't miss this chance!

 Chikako Ueno (上野知佳子) and her fellow members of Nihon Heritage Quilters Guild had once again (19th time actually) joined hands with quilters in the US and France to work on a challenge: 'World Poet & Author'.
The works of 30 writers had been selected and a quilter each from USA, France and Japan had made a small quilt depicting the poet or piece of poetry.
Ueno-san and her US and French partners had picked Emily Dickinson.

Among the poets I found the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson

 

Seeing others' work is inspiring, suddenly you want to make something yourself.

Pamela and I decided to take a mini workshop and opted for making necklaces.

 We covered plastic cupped discs with fabric, then joined them to a string with beads.

This project was a great way to use up small pieces of scrap and added instant style to our blue shirts.

In my next and final report from Quilt Time Festival we will be looking at the contest!