Busy December

A lot of gifts...

...new magazines...

...new fabrics...

...and some days of vacation in Paris!

EPm: Gee's Bend quilts

Do you know

the gee's bend quilts history?

The quilts are touching and the location of the exhibition charming!

EPm: guest Yoko Saito

I have known this fantastic artist through her books and I have admired her incredible appliquè blocks but to see this amazing quilts live is a great experience.

Her quilts are so so full of great details.

 

European Patchwork meeting

I had a very nice time with my friends and we saw a lot of beautiful quilts.

Today I want to share with you some vibrant and amazing Amish quilts.

But there were many other kind of works from different part of the world....

And this is what I have bought.

Colorful woll fabrics for primitive projects.

...and books,books,books!

Expo

I'm already trilled...Thursday I and 4 friends are going to leave to France to visit the most important patchwork expo in Europe. The meeting location is beautiful, the nice Val d'Argent in Alsace. The village of Saint Marie aux Mine and three little ones near it will become places of expositions for traditional,ancient and modern quilts arrived from all over the word.
And ,of course, there will be a very interesting commercial area.
I will take a lot of pics and I will share with you my fantastic next four days!

Paris and peoples

Grande Arc De la Defense

Tour Eiffel

Paris is fantastic.

But the most fantastic spectacle of Paris are peoples. I never have seen a place with so many kinds of peoples living together.

In Paris integration seems to be possible.