Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival

The 15th Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival will be held between 21st and 27th January, 2016, as usual at Tokyo Dome.

According to the official poster the show will feature William Morris, Peter Rabbit, Log Cabins among other things as well as the Partnership Quilt project. The theme this time is MUSIC and if you remember I made this block of a Swedish Key Harp.

I hope to be able to visit the show and see my block worked into quilt number 12.

Check out the official website where you can read a lot more about the show.

WIPW - Holiday Stitching

Happy New Year!
Here is the first Work In Progress Wednesday report for 2016.

I was lucky enough to have the time and opportunity to work a number of Canvas stitches on the

Pile' em On

Underneath the colourful Half Rhodes stitches of last year, 

there are Leviathan Stitches in green.

Beside the Half Rhodes stitches there are three Norwich stitches, the top one was worked last year and the other two this side of 2016. 

Next to them are Diagonal Cross stitches in green and blue,

then a set of Underline stitch in variegated blue, 

and underneath Rice Stitch

The Underline stitches and Rice stitches can be seen in this picture, too, on the left.

Then we've got Italian Cross stitch in blue, Montenegrin stitch in grey, and Oblong Cross stitch in variegated light blue.

The very compact grey stitches are half worked Upright Crosses, and so are the green ones.

The needle is resting in a set of proper Upright Crosses.

As you can see there are still a lot of blank areas to fill...

WIPW - Don't They Look Good Together?

For the (probably) last Work In Progress Wednesday report of the year I can report on some progress on the Pile 'em On and the completion of the Chicken Scratch project.

Pile 'em On

Here I worked the Half Rhodes Stitch in various colours and the Norwich Stitch in light grey. Both were easy and fun, and had they been worked on real canvas they would have looked much neater.

Chicken Scratch

I completed the central band of stitches on the Chicken Scratch cushion. (Excuse the blurred photo).

Then I made it into a cushion. I added lace at the shorter ends so that it would look good next to the charming cushion my friend Jacquie Harvey once made for me. Don't they look good together!

Season's Greetings to you all.

WIPW - The Lazy Chicken

Work In Progress Wednesday. It is slow going here. The Chicken is lazy and does not want to Scratch much!

Chicken Scratch

I have not made much progress, and did not have anything to post last week. This is as far as I have been able to work:

I hope YOU have more time!