Near the cafeteria area, CQ had a display of a selection of the 2008 journal quilts - of the 12, you had to choose four for display -
These are by Jackie Ingram and Briony Askew -
mine and Jennie Wood's -
And these are by Julienne Hanson and Hilary Gooding
The 2009 journal quilts measure 6"x12".
The long view doesn't show the marvellous stitching - here's a detail -
Also astonishing was the "White Feathers" quilt -
dense quilting giving rise to an effect like trapunto.
Amazing how much those little bags of threads end up costing!
These long pieces are made by, from left to right - Jennie Lewis, Leslie Morgan, Inger Milburn, Julie Senington, Sandra Grusd, and Ingrid Press -
and here's a delectable piece by the other member of the group, C June Barnes - this is called Transitions, and it's two-sided - cool colours on one side
and hot colours on the other -
Somewhat gorgeous!
Yoshiko Jinzenji exhibited her bamboo-dyed fabrics at FOQ several years ago, and that was spectacular (dyeing fabrics white? what an idea!). This year she showed quilts by some of her students, using the range of fabrics she has designed.
The quilts have a traditional structure, but the fabrics (and close, parallel quilting) make them look very modern indeed.
I liked the edgy use of the selvedge -
This one, Hieroglyph, is by Yoshiko herself - it has a sheer layer with gold print (or foiling) over the fabric -
Her latest book, Quilt Creation, which shows these quilts, sold out quickly. It doesn't seem to be available online.
as well as some Korean silk that we could buy small quantities of -
This type of wrapping cloth is used mainly for wedding gifts - one of the ties slips through the "pocket" and the tab hangs decoratively. What a good way to wrap money!
The class in action. In the afternoon we had an hour of "silent stitching" - it was more than pleasant, it was wonderful to be able to focus, or drift, without anything happening that you needed to pay attention to.
Pojagi technique is about the seams - and about tiny stitches! Running stitch for the first row of stitching, then fold over and turn in the top layer, holding it down with whip stitch - a fell seam, in other words.
As well as practising several types of seams, we learned how to make the "bat knots" that are put at intersections of seams, for luck. Why luck? Because in the Chinese language (which influenced Korean to some extent) the word for bat, fu, is the same as the word for luck.
After all those glorious items, my humble result, made of somewhat unsuitable fabrics -
I show the closeup in response to a question asked in class, what side should the seams show on - answer: it doesn't matter. (They are going to be beautifully done on either side...)
Last but certainly not least, here is Chunghie wearing her hemp jacket with calligraphy, a translation of Proverbs 31:30 - "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."
In her exhibition, the work centred on the theme of the "nameless woman" who made the beautiful work in the midst of a hard life in traditional society.
Linda and I attended Chunghie Lee's workshop on Thursday (more of which later), and nipped out at lunchtime to see how things were going at the stand. We were thrilled to see the long queue for tickets -
and to see the delighted winners -
Of course not everyone won four LGs at once, and some people kept coming back again and again, determined to get lucky. In case you're wondering how a tombola works, numbered tickets go into a drum - £1 buys a ticket, and those ending in 0 or 5 are winners - so usually £5 will produce a lucky ticket. But not always.... We had three boxes in which the quilts were in random order - winners got to choose which box their prize came from.
"Indian Gems" is a recycled indian-style top, and has motifs rescued and reapplied, as well as paisley motifs made of beads or french knots. Kantha-stitching through the thin silk was a delight -
"28. Tulipa" was finished on Sunday morning, and I happened to be on the Little Gems stand when a young lad won it -
The clusters of three backstitches are used on pojagi borders; the central panel is black print on calico, quilt-stitched here and there around the edges of the motifs.
Walls somewhere tropical - the Caribbean? -
This building was bombed during the war in former Yugoslavia - people carrying on with their lives regardless -
Somewhere tropical again -
The caption says this is the golden shrine of Tutankamun on runners - I find it rather frightening -
Here's a closeup of another piece by Dorothy Caldwell , showing the stitched marks -
Unfortunately I don't have the name of the maker of this piece of "marksmanship" --
It too leapt out to meet me where I seem to be now.
Donetsk, Ukraine: Smoke goes up from a burning warehouse containing fireworks 
The first one was straightforward: cut and bind -
But the part on the left needed "something more" - how about some fantastic flowers? Vivian suggested using the salvaged beads, and adding some red binding to pick up the colour.
And please overlook the carefully placed loose thread - I was in too much of a hurry to photograph this!
