3rd Prague Patchwork Meeting

My "Kasuri Sampler" quilt is on its way back from Prague after the big patchwork meeting last weekend. The photo shows it hanging with "Irori" at the Great Northern Quilt Show at Harrogate last year. I didn't expect it back so early, as I thought it was coming back when Jana visits Festival of Quilts in August, so it is a nice surprise and it can go straight back in with my talk & workshop quilts. I've missed having it around! My friend Jana Lalova won seventh place in the themed category "Emotion" with this quilt - I've just had a look at the quilts online and noticed the prizes in that category were very impressive, with the first three prizes being Brother, Janome and Bernina sewing machines!

You can see more of the quilts on the Bohemia Patchwork Klub site - click the thumbnails to see much larger images, as usual.

Kasuri Sampler at the 3rd Prague Patchwork Meeting

My Kasuri Sampler will be going off on a journey in a few weeks, to the 3rd Prague Patchwork Meeting - click the link for show info. I am going to attend the 4th meeting next year, where I will be teaching sashiko. Jana Lalova, who has translated "The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook" into Czech, invited me to teach there and I'm really looking forward to it.

We discussed sending one of my quilts for this year's show, as a kind of advance view for next year, and I thought the Kasuri Sampler, from "Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match", would be ideal. It has already been shown several times in the UK - as part of Quilts UK in 2007, where it won a Judges Merit ribbon, and it toured the Grosvenor Autumn Quilt Festivals with other quilts from "Japanese Quilt Blocks..."