NHK's Partnership Quilt Project, for 2017

My blogging friends Jenni in Australia, and Tanya here in Japan, already completed their contributions for NHK's Partnership Quilt Project at Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2017, to be held in Tokyo Dome in January next year. My other blogging friend Julie, also in Japan, has made plans for her block. So I felt I had to get a move on and whip up my block.

As I reported in January, the theme is GARDENING and several of the rules have changed. Smaller size block, earlier date for contributing the blocks. More information can be found on the official website.

Now what can you do on this theme, gardening, eh? I racked my brains last week and after a visit to a botanical garden where I saw this

my choice fell on bonsai. This form of 'gardening' used to be a favourite of older men in Japan, now it has become a fad overseas and there are many foreign tourists who travel all the way to Japan to see these miniature trees.

Here is my bonsai:

Raw edged appliqué with Buttonhole stitches, and of course the Swedish flag found its way into the block!

For anyone who wants to send in and donate a block to this charity quilt project, here are the rules:

• one block per person
• 15 cm x 15 cm for the motif, add a seam allowance of 1-2 cm on all sides
• flimsy block, i.e. no wadding, no quilting
• your name should be written with pen in the seam allowance of the lower right hand corner
• your block should have reached NHK by 31st July, 2016
• enclose a note with your name, address, tel no, email address
• send to:

Partnership Quilt
NHK Sutekini Handmade
2-2-1 Jinnan
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8001
Japan

Read my page on NHK for more information.
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Please note, this information was added after I first posted.
NHK will broadcast an episode of Sutekini Handmade with information about the show, the gardening theme and the partnership quilts.

The team leader is Eiko Okano (岡野栄子先生), famous for her funky food quilts.

Thursday May 25, 9.30-9.55 PM on NHK channel 3
Repeats on:
Tuesday May 31, 10.15-10.40 AM on NHK channel 1
Thursday June 2, 11.30-11.55 AM on NHK channel 3
If you're in Japan and have a chance, don't miss it!

Have fun!

WIPW - 405

Work In Progress Wednesday is green, and a bit white.


Trinity Green

I fed my ELNA (sewing machine) with paper and 'greens', and I now have 405 green triangles.

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Before I turn green in the face I decided to start another project, and it will be mainly white. Here's a bit of the sketch.

As you can see it is still in the paper stage, hope to get the white fabric out of the drawer soon...

A birthday card

I made another embroidered birthday card.

It was nice to work with other colours than green!

WIPW - A New Green Project

Work In Progress Wednesday features my new green project,

Trinity Green

I need a new bedcover. 

I want to make a quilt.
I like green.

I have a lot of green fabric in my stash. 

I want to make a dent in that green stash. 

I will make a green quilt.

I like triangles.

I will make a quilt with green triangles.

I dragged out my green scraps and fat quarters.

I armed myself with graph paper, a green pencil, a ruler, a green cutting mat, a rotary cutter, a quilt ruler, fabric markers, scissors....

I drew a paper foundation pattern of triangles.

I made a lot of xerox copies.

I cut the green fabric into triangles. I cut some more, and more, and more...

I sorted the green cuttings into boxes.

I sewed the green triangles onto the paper.

I have to make a lot of these pieced paper slips...

I am facing a long and boring project....
Why did I give myself the green light?
After all, I am green, a beginner of paper foundation quilting.

I will soon be sick and tired of machine piecing, of green, and become green in the face.

My hair will not turn white, but green.
My home will be full of green fluff, when it should be full of green food stuff, like green salads and greengage from the greengrocer.
Machine piecing isn't a very green way of sewing, will it contribute to the greenhouse effect and emit greenhouse gas?
Should I propose a Green Paper on the Promotion of Hand Piecing and Hand Quilting alfresco, somewhere in the green belt around the Metropolis?
I could stitch by the golfcourse while watching the greenkeeper take care of the green?
Or I could sit on the village green and quilt while watching the green grass grow?
Or move into Granpa's old greenhouse and quilt there, as I haven't got any green fingers and can't grow green peppers, green beans or green onions ; they would soon be attacked by greenflies.
Wherever I quilt, I must take care not to stab myself in the fingers or they'll get infected and full of green pus and gangreen will set in. Oh, no it's spelled gangren...
It's time for me to take a break and drink a cup of green tea, before my brain grows green with mould. 
Then I need to gear up the sewing machine and get on with Trinity Green.
Whatever you do, don't be green with envy of my new green project!