In case you haven't noticed, there's a new quilt trend exploding all around the globe: Hexagon Madness!
It's been slowly creeping back – we've seen those English paper-pieced hexagons in 30's reproduction prints – then they started to show up in Modern quilts.
However, hexagon quilts have been popular in Japan since the 90's!
This year you are going to see so many hexagon quilts at shows and in magazines, I predict we'll all be sick of them by this time next year.
However, when you see a hexagon quilt as fascinating as this one…
how can you resist?
I have a nice batch of photos posted now from the Tokyo Quilt Show: so far I've edited images of indigo quilts and featured artist booths from the exhibits.(more to come – Taupe, Contemporary and Traditional Applique!)
When the Romaji name
(transliteration from Japanese Kanji to Latin script) is not available,
I have pasted the name in Kanji characters in the lower corner of the
image.
We want to make sure credit goes to these fabulous quilters!
One of my contacts at the Tokyo is Keiko Goke, who is a quilt artist, author and textile designer living in Sendai.
(the community hardest hit by the tsunami) Her featured artist exhibit space was a tribute to those lost in the tsunami and earthquake.
Here she is holding a photo of a poem and pinwheels someone planted on the devastated coastline.
My friend Akemi translated the poem for us, so I could share the words that moved Keiko to create her exhibit:
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People who became the wind in the sky
Turn windmills and let us know your messages
Blowing across the sky
Higher and higher,
Further and further
Blowing from a high place as the west wind
Let us hear your voice from far away.
* * *
People who became the bird on the wind
Turn windmills and let us know your messages
When the spring wind is shining
When the fresh wind is fragrant in the young leaves? season
Let us hear your voice from far away.
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Akemi writes:
An 82 year old man in Fukushima made the
little windmills and the poem, and placed them at tsunami-affected
seaside in Fukushima for the repose of soul.
Goke-san was very impressed with this scene, and made a series of quilts inspired by the poem, and the pinwheels spinning in the ocean breezes.
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Keiko's house survived the tsunami because it was up on a hill, but they
cannot live there because there are no utility services available
anymore.
2000 residents are still missing in her community alone…and the tsunami debris is still piled deep along the coastline.
She sends her sincere thanks to all of the quilters who made and donated quilts to the residents of Kesennuma.
Please feel free to share your thoughts on my blog.
Best wishes and Happy sewing,
Paul and Luana Rubin
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