{"id":366,"date":"2012-02-04T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-fusion-of-yin-and-yang"},"modified":"2021-04-03T23:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:51:23","slug":"creative-nudge-fusion-of-yin-and-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-fusion-of-yin-and-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Fusion of Yin and Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the things I truly love<\/a> about traveling to all these international quilt shows<\/a>, is to see how the art and craft of quilting<\/a> is mutating and expanding every year<\/a>. I love seeing how techniques and ideas develop in parallel but unique ways on opposite sides of the planet. <\/p>\n

Sometimes a true piece of fiber art makes the traditional quilters<\/a> scratch their heads. Sometimes a masterful and technically perfect pieced quilt can be dismissed as unoriginal. Hey, it's all fabulous! I love seeing when the two halves of the Yin-Yang intersect and you find a distinctive forging of the artistic<\/a> and the technical in one visually stunning piece.<\/p>\n

At the Tokyo Quilt Festival<\/a>, there were so many of these types of fusion quilts. To be sure, there were many on both ends of the Art\/Tech spectrum, but here is a *closeup* of just one quilt, that shows a fusion of intricate curved piecing, precise applique (with a difficult gold metallic fabric<\/a>), swirling topstitching and quilting, then scatterings of opaline and moonstone-like beads that look like Tinkerbell just flicked her wand<\/a>… but in reality we all know they were painstakingly placed, and applied individually by hand. <\/p>\n

Emiko Osawa created this beautiful piece: it took 2nd place in the "Wa" category, which showcases Japanese<\/a> techniques and traditional themes.<\/p>\n

I am working on a slideshow from the Tokyo show to be posted this week, but first I wanted to share the photos taken by my friend Akemi, when she visited Kesennuma<\/a> on July 15. This was just two days after our 2155 donated quilts were distributed<\/a> (through Mission of Love) in this coastal town. For those of you who graciously rushed quilts so we could get them to those in need quickly, I wanted you to see what it looked like in this community, the week those homeless residents received your beautiful quilts.<\/p>\n

Many of you have asked where the survivors are living now. Akemi included photos from Miyako in November, showing the temporary housing which is like multi-unit trailer-houses<\/a>. They told me after 2 years they will have to move out of the temp housing, and the elderly don't know where they will go. Hopefully the government can come up with a solution by then.<\/p>\n

To our many friends Down Under<\/a>, I've booked my tickets to come to the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne<\/a>, this April. I am planning to be in Canberra the following weekend of April 21. More details to come – hope to see many of you there!<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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