Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Tapestries from Japan


Years ago, I took piano lessons. I tried really hard, but never got anywhere with it, I thinbk it was mostly stubborness and not enough talent to make a go of it.
Anyway, my piano teacher had these old tapestry panels that her mother got from Japan many years ago. She never knew what to do with them, so she asked if I would put them together into a wall quilt. This is what I came up with.
I borrowed the quilt back for one of our guild quilt shows. Lynda Balas was standing there looking at it and thought the spider embellishment was cute- until it moved, lol!

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