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Annie's boromono - finished
Annie Horrocks sent me a photo of the boromono she started at the Japanese Art Quilt Boromono workshop I taught at Broughton Gifford in 2012. She's added hand dyed fabrics for the circles and lots of...
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Last week's sashiko workshops
I had a full week of travel, talks and workshops, visiting Leicestershire and Norfolk. Both Cosby Quilters near Leicester and Flying Geese quilters in Snettisham did my Introduction to Shonai Sashiko...
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West Country Quilt Show and the MaoNan Textile Ladies
I will be on stand 48 at the West Country Quilt Show in Bristol this weekend, demoing sashiko, and have entered Sidmouth Revisited (above) into the competition.Angel Yao is coming to the show with some...
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Fiona's ukiyo-e quilt
Fiona Fitheridge showed me some photos of her fab completed ukiyo-e fabric quilt this morning on Facebook, so I asked if I could share them here. I brought the fabric back from my last trip to Tokyo....
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West Country Quilt Show
We are having a great time at the West Country Quilt Show in Bristol this weekend. Sidmouth Revisited is hanging well. Angel and Ting have brought a great selection of hand embroidered and natural...
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West Country Quilt Show - part 2
Here are a small selection of some of the work I liked at the show. For most of them, I've been able to upload a detail photo showing the quilter's information about their work. The photo wouldn't...
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Reiko Domon of Yuza Sashiko Guild wins award
We had some exciting news via Reiko Domon's brother in law Yasui Tokumasa last week. Her quilts have won the Minister of Education Award at the Japan Handcraft Association's exhibition at Tokyo...
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Sashiko workshop at Edinburgh Patchwork next Saturday
The photo above isn't my workshop sample - I'm still stitching that - but it shows you another design on the same theme. My pine, plum and bamboo panel for the class has bigger plum blossoms and is...
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Sashiko from Scotland
Here's a sneak peak at some of the sashiko samplers by last year's Edinburgh Patchwork sashiko course which will be part of the Sashiko from Scotland exhibit touring to all the Grosvenor Spring Quilt...
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Sashiko from Scotland - any more samplers?
If everyone who has already promised their samplers for our exhibition at the Spring Quilt Festivals can get them to Kaleidoscope as planned, we'll have 15 quilts, but Grosvenor Shows have just been in...
View ArticleSolstice at Llanarmon-yn-Ial 2016
Denise's Solstice speech and the mummer's play. Happy Solstice!
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Sashiko in... Stockton!
I will be running my sashiko course in Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees, from September 2017. The venue will be All Saints Church, TS18 5EB, in the middle of Hartburn village (NB, there is another All...
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Architectural inspirations for quilting - Oxbridge
The people who lived in Stockton-on-Tees in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries built some very decorative public and private buildings. While some of the buildings in the town centre...
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New Year in Tokyo
We arrived yesterday (30th December) and everywhere there are preparations for New Year. This small shrine is near our hotel, and has pine and bamboo decorations called kadomatsu flanking the...
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Happy New Year!
At Sensoji temple last night, for Hatsumode. We arrived a bit early, about 9p.m., before it got really busy. There were lots of stalls selling food - we had okunomiyaki (savoury pancake) and yakiimo...
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Little Adventures in Tokyo
On January 2nd, we walked along the banks of the Sumida River towards Sumida Park and then Asakusa. Even the river boats have New Year decorations - this one had a small kadomatsu at the prow. A lot...
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Tokyo essentials - threads and hi fi components
We rounded off our short stay in Tokyo with a bit more exploring and some essential shopping - sashiko threads from Yuzawaya in Kamata (which usually has a good selection) and a trip to Akihabara for...
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Back to Yuza-machi
We came to Yuza by shinkansen and limited express train ('Inaho' or rice ear) via Niigata on Thursday. I had a cold and we were still feeling a bit unwell with jet lag and recovering from our New...
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Amahage alert!
On the evening of January 6th, we went to a small onsen ryokan in Torisaki district, at the very north western tip of Yamagata Prefecture. Three small meals were arranged in front of the kamidana....
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