Coming home from Nadelwelt Karlsruhe I´m again (like coming back from QuiltCon in Austin) totally inspired, totally confused and totally absorbed in sewing, glueing, patching, matching..... I´d love to do this from 7 to 7 every day!! Well, I did this the last 3 days and it was fun, fun and again fun!
Karlsruhe: an amazing exhibition of quilts and textile arts, some I admired endlessly, some I liked, some amazed me totally and some were just not my cup of tea.
Beautifully modern were the quilts from the MQG Stuttgart Group Heilbronn (a lot of them in my favorite color grey)!
And the Log Cabin Challenge quilts from the Karlsruher Patchworkgruppe testifies that traditional patterns turned modern is creative excellence!!
I am very sorry that I did not jot down the quilters´names which I should have done - but let the quilts speak for themselves: beautiful, spectacular and traditionally modern!
The quilts that I loved most were the ones from Shizuko Kuroha, a Japanese woman that I really admire. Her 1-day workshop (Log Cabin) was way too short, it should have been a 3-day course. In one day we learned about her ways of patching and quilting and sometimes it was amazing how different her approach to quilting is and how easy it seams once it got explained. Many thanks to her, her assistant and Isolde, the interpreter, as Mrs. Kuroha only spoke Japanese - this day has been a one-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
And the Log Cabin Challenge quilts from the Karlsruher Patchworkgruppe testifies that traditional patterns turned modern is creative excellence!!
I am very sorry that I did not jot down the quilters´names which I should have done - but let the quilts speak for themselves: beautiful, spectacular and traditionally modern!
The quilts that I loved most were the ones from Shizuko Kuroha, a Japanese woman that I really admire. Her 1-day workshop (Log Cabin) was way too short, it should have been a 3-day course. In one day we learned about her ways of patching and quilting and sometimes it was amazing how different her approach to quilting is and how easy it seams once it got explained. Many thanks to her, her assistant and Isolde, the interpreter, as Mrs. Kuroha only spoke Japanese - this day has been a one-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
But you know what: after a few hours listening to Shizuko Kuroha explaining her work, by the afternoon some of us thought we already understood what she was talking about without hearing the interpretation from Isolde......
The woman in the grey kimono is Shizuko Kuroha, the one in black opposite of her is her assistant. The lady behind her with the red Bernina ribbon is Isolde, her interpreter - all three of them very, very nice, kind and devoted to what they were doing.
Shizuko Kuroha explained her way of quilting - it seemed so effortlessly and easy...... but the most amazing thing was her way of basting a quilt so that it does not get any creases, not at the back nor at the front. Seeing this, it seemed so logical....
In the workshop we started the clamshell quilt from her book "Japanese Quilting" called Echo I and Flame. During the workshop we did not get very far and at home I realized that we did not talk about the completion of the quilt.
So I had to check this out myself (having the book on hand was supporting). And this is how far I got after 3 days and the only thing that stopped me today was that I ran out of glue........
We got a bag with fabrics from cut-up kimonos, some very colorful. At first sight you could not believe that with them you could create a beautiful quilt!?!
