PPM Brno Quilt Show 2022 – Many Happy Meetings

 

After two years brake caused by covid, the international exhibition Prague Patchwork Meeting could open its gates again. In a new location - Brno, the biggest city of Moravia. Under a new name: „PPM Quilt Show Brno 2022“.

The quilt collections, which were prepared for PPM 2020, quilts, which were crated during the covid pandemic,  international contests „Water“ and „Kaleidoscope“, this all could be seen in Brno on the 22th – 24th of April 2022.

I was present at the exhibition with my small gallery „Fields, Meadows & Gardens“. 

Late Summer

   

Spring Meadow

Grandmother´s Farm

Washing day

Berries

In the garden

Wood pidgeon

Titmouse

The yellow bird of Bengal

Raven

I fully enjoyed those tree days: meetings and talks with quilting friends and visitors, participation in workshops, and talks with authors of amazing quilts, especially with ladies from the German Group SnipSISsters: Gonhild Murmann (München), Eva Wöhrl und Gabi Fischer (Freising). Their quilts were for me the highlight of the exhibition.

Some impressions:

Obviously, there were also night visitors...He had no ticket and had to leave the exhibition:-)

Those three beautiful days are over. I´m looking foreward to the next 365 days of needle work until PPM 2023 comes.  

Happy stitching!

Michaela

Quilt 6 - In the Garden

 

Yesterday night, the last stitch was done on the sixth quilt of the series Fields, Gardens & Meadows. Or better, the quilt was declared done. I could imagine much more stitches, details, last touches, but time is relentless and  thousand little things need to be done before the exhibition (only two weeks to go!).

I started in the middle of March without a thorough plan. Following my immediate feelings and movings of my fingers, step by step, night by night, I created a view into a garden with different flowers and weeds. My limitations were the same as with other quilts from this series – linen background and sewing by hand using my dyed fabrics and threads. The last rule was broken the very last evening by using the beautiful silk threads by OliverTwists, when embroidering the weed.

I started with quilting the background and fixing raw edges with uneven sewn fly stitch. 

 

Then the first stems and leaves came out of the ground.

 

The plants got flowers.

 

As I said, I followed the instant movements and feelings, which were quite changeable, as you can see:

 

More and more details were added:

 

Welcome to my garden!

 

Happy stitching!

Michaela