At last! I begin this quilt almost a year ago with my Mongolian quilt class. Then, it traveled across the world to Colorado where it remained untouched. So, back around the world it came and I just put the last stitch in place over the New Year holiday. I named it Rebel Geisha's because all the fronts have matching backs except the two in diagonal corners (I ran out of fabric!). And since most Asians find great beauty in uniformity (except for Mongolians!), hence the rebels. I did some pretty extensive free motion stitching if I say so myself. Done. Good feeling :)
I'm so tickled to be a part of this year's Bloggers' Quilt Festival ! My entry was done in Outer Mongolia (literally! --read on). This quilt is one of my favorite recent projects that I named "Renegade Geisha's" --renegade because two of the geisha's don't conform to the rest (mainly because I ran out of coordinating fabrics!). Can you find the two renegades? ;) The quilt incorporates fabric origami and the quilt itself is from Fantastic Fabric Folding --many projects from this book were a big hit with the Mongolian class pictured below. Due to my husband's work, we live in Mongolia; and I was privileged to teach classes at a local quilting studio. I've included a picture of the class where we were working on the geisha blocks. The students spoke almost no English and I speak what I call Monglish--a lot of English sprinkled with Mongolian. Regardless, we all had a blast! ...and, I'm very pleased with this quilt of mine!
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