My company JT Trading Corp is sponsoring the WOW (Women of the World) Friendship Quilt Display. This group of quilts came out of a fabric challange where invitations were sent out to a group in 4 countries, Turkey, Japan, Australia and USA. Each group leader chose 3 fabrics and invited 8 quilters from their group to take part. All 32 participents recieved a fabric packet with 3 fabrics from each country along with some embellishments. The rules were to choose a friendship sentiment to help reflect the meaning of the finished quilt. Use a minimum of 2 fabrics from each country and include up to 3 of your own choice and use any of the embelishments. Over the next 2 years the collection will be traveling to the guild shows in all of the countries. The first one will be with the Kagoshima Quilters Association in Kagoshima Japan Dec 11-13.
Here is a sampling of the quilts from this exhibit -
Hiroko Matsuda – Japan My work this time represents my great appreciation for our sincere friendship that has expanded throughout the world , involving many quilters.
Mizuho Takeda – Japan Eternaru friendship. Nothing is more treasured than our friendship
Patricia Pineau – Brookfield, CT – USA “Doll Maker”
Angela Liptack – Ridgefield, CT – USA “Friendship is a sheltering tree”
Jan Style – Perth Australia “Chains fo Friendship”
Gay Kershaw – West Australia “Friends, Like Flowers, Garther Together
Betul Canatar – Istanbul Turkey “People who share the same feelings understand each other not those who speak the same language.”
Sevtap Alkan – Istanbul, Turkey “Friendship is being able to walk on rough roads, looking out for one another.”
If anyone knows of a venue that might like to have this display please email me at Jenobrien@aol.com
Hope you enjoyed the sampling of the show, Jennifer
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 1:49 pm and is filed under Friends, Travels, quilting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.