Loving Indigo - The World of Shigeko Asada
John and I took a trip to Ballan yesterday to attend the Ballan Festival and view the amazing Japanese quilts on show at Mill Rose Quilting. It was a fundraiser for the Red Cross, a very worthy cause. As with everything Sue organises, it was wonderful.
The quilts took our breath away...
and the stories behind each quilt were fascinating and touching too.
John had never seen sashiko and and fell in love with the look. Lucky I love it too...so a sashiko quilt will definitely be on the cards in the future.
The exhibition heads on back to Japan tomorrow and I feel very lucky indeed to have seen it while it was visiting us.
If you are new to Sashiko there are three great tutorials HERE at Studio Aika.
Just click on the Sashiko Tutorials button.
Now here are some wonderful free Sashiko designs for you to stitch.
You can find them HERE at Embroidery.com
It is great to be back
Have a wonderful day
Love
What fabulous quilts! Looks like you had a wonderful visit! xx
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful quilts! Thank you for sharing them with us.
ReplyDeleteLovely to have your precious self back, Melody.
ReplyDeleteI too love sashiko. I made two sashiko embroidered bags many years ago and just the other day I was looking for the pattern to make another.
Bless you!
Jenny
xx
So good to have you back! I am so very very happy to hear it went well and that you are feeling better. Love always xxx
ReplyDeletehow lovely to see them.... I keep meaning to have a go at Sashiko... I love the indigo colours...
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Missed you Mel...gorgeous quilts..xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely, touching story behind the quilts.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing exhibition Mel. wonderful that you got to go. Lovely to have you back on deck, and so glad you are feeling much better. Missed you
ReplyDeleteGosh that would have been so worth seeing, lucky you.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful and so touching too. Thanks for sharing xx
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