Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 Newsletter April 2014 Content + Links you don’t want to miss 1 Looking back at 8.PPM 3 Milena Kankrlíková 4 Anka Zimová Thank you for visiting Prague www.sicistroj.cz www.latky-cerveny.cz Prague has been the centre of European www.nej-sici-stroje.cz patchwork for the 8th time this year. The 8th www.latky.cz Prague Patchwork Meeting has been a www.ragos.cz wonderful experience and I would like to thank www.patchworkparty.sk www.strima.com www.vierma.cz www.patchwork-hobby.cz www.patch-design.cz www.berninacentrum-av.cz www.hotelstep.cz all of you for your support. I hope you had a great time in Prague and am looking forward to seeing you again in the next years. Best regards, Anna Štěrbová 1 Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 Looking back at the 8th PPM and forward to 2015! We would like to thank you for the amazing support you have provided to the 8th Prague Patchwork Meeting. Thanks to you, we have grown a little bit more – not only by area and other numbers, but mainly in terms of quality. Truly outstanding were the pieces that have entered the Application competition this year. It has not been an easy task for the jury, every single entry has received at least one point. However, we had a clear winner – Nocturno by Mrs. Milada Kankrlikova. We are proud that we can present you the profile of this extraordinary Czech author (page 4). Mother Nature has been a core theme for Mrs. Jaroslava Grycova over many years. You had the chance to admire her work within sole exhibitions. This year, she has charmed the jury and claimed victory in the challenge. We will be presenting you more winners in the upcoming issues of the Newsletter, including the winner of the Visitors Choice – Roses from Venus by Mrs. Dana Richterova, mainly her precise quilting that has charmed so many of you. The visitors have noticed large number of changes – different retailers location, new stalls as well as the traditional participants, sometimes in new roles. You all know Mrs. Anka Zimova that has presented herself as an author this time with her small gallery. The international collections and profile galleries have once again reminded us what the extent of textile art possibilities is, letting us peak into the world of new techniques. I am sure that next year, we will witness a small gallery of quilts that came out of the two day workshop of Pia Welsch. We should not forget about the highly inspirational mini formats by ABC Quilters or the Boredom collection. I have personally enjoyed the Great Britain and Denmark selections and all visitors loved the SAQA collection presented in Prague. Jaroslava Grycová Prague Patchwork Meeting s.r.o. 2 2 Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 Looking back at the 8th PPM and forward to 2015! 8th Prague Patchwork Meeting Foto: Petr Nikodem I would like to say a big thank you to all Czech quilters. An incredible experience was the collection of Vera Skockova. Art Quilt Club has presented the awaited collection LINEN, showing an incredible amount of variations. The collection has moved to MFC in Hlinsko straight after PPM, where it has been admired by hundreds of visitors. The quilts will continue their journey throughout Fulnek and will be displayed within the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. In case you did not have the chance to see the show or did not manage to take all the pictures, you can buy our CD with majority of the displayed collections. Please write us at [email protected] for more information. As soon as the event closed, we have started preparing the 9th PPM that will take place between the 10th12th April 2015. And the main topics? We have chosen Architecture as the theme for the creative challenge (no technique constraints, size 80 to 150cm). The traditional quilters will surely welcome the technique of Grandmothers Garden (80 to 200cm each side). The compulsory material for the Art Quilt Club members will be fur and leather, the compulsory format is 80-100cm x 80-100cm. And our guests? We will present them one by one, but I am pleased to announce that our star guests will be Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably that will return to Prague. Outside a textile workshop, we will be hosting a knitting one for the first time in PPM history. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague next year! We would like to congratulate our Facebook winners Hana Uhríková a Jitka Uherová for sending us the best PPM experience! Prague Patchwork Meeting s.r.o. 3 Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 Milena Kankrlíková Winner of the competition Application I have already written a bit about myself couple years ago. It was shortly after I won one of the competitions in the 6th Prague Patchwork Meeting (quilt called Window to the Autumn Garden). There is only one thing that I have not yet mentioned and that has a huge impact on my work. I am from Ostrava, a very industrial region, but have been living in near Sumava mountains for nearly 30 years, yet I am still charmed by the nature. As soon as I heard that the topic for the 2014 traditional challenge is Application I knew that it is my kind of theme. I was thinking “come up with something you love, leaves, blossoms, paper piecing, application, leafy fabrics, symmetry, precision..,”. I still prefer to work with pen and paper rather than computer programs, so the first idea was drafted on a paper. Twelve triangles, from which I aimed to create a border around a central square. I have intended to make three paper pieced flowers in each of the triangles and a mixture of stems and leaves coming out of them. The truth is that this was not the only quilt I have been working on last year, but when I had only those 12 triangles in November 2013, after 6 months of work and I had no clue about the central part, my daughter said: “Mum, you can never finish this on time” and she started to place the triangles next to each other and assemble a quilt. It did not look too bad after all. All of a sudden, the only thing missing was a border and final assembly. One of the most challenging moments was to quilt the whole quilt on my Janome 6600. My quilt is called Nokturno, which is a name for a lyrical piano play. My quilt also has not drama or stroy, just something pleasant (just like music)... I am glad that my work has been awarded and am very grateful for the price. Prague Patchwork Meeting s.r.o. 4 Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 Hobby spices up your life..... without one, life is grey and boring ANKA ZIMOVÁ Creativity is passion...... I was born many years ago in a picturesque valley, enclosed by high mountains in the north of Slovakia. Wild and beautiful nature, proud mountain peaks, open, direct and honest people and a large, embracing and loving family – those are the treasures I have been gifted when born. I have started to knit and embroider when I was 8 years old, I completed my first knitted sweater on an old machine when I was 10 and have received my own knitting machine in the age of 13, in exchange for the promise that I will earn the money back by selling the finished products. There were literally hundreds of them and I have also been knitting in hand, even at high school during classes. The teachers were not pleased, but I had the feeling that I have to make full use of my time. I had more and more ideas in my head…. Sewing, knitting, embroidery and other techniques were both pleasure and necessity as the shops were empty and clothes lacked originality. So my first earnings went into buying a machine – I have it until today! It is like a close friend that understands me without speaking a word. My three big passions: math, physics and creativity influenced my choice of studies. I have graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Bratislava university and the Slovak capital became my home. The velvet revolution in 1989 has brought new possibilities to Slovakia. I have set up my first business in 1990, right after my daughter was borne, and have been faithful to sewing machines and appliances for the last 23 years. The original name of my company “KM-trend” has changed to Patchworkparty in 2008, when I added a wide range of assortment for quilting and patchwork to my retail activities and started to run workshops. Picture 1 – Patchworkparty shop Prague Patchwork Meeting s.r.o. Picture 2 - Final products of the Patchwork introductory workshop 5 Prague Patchwork Meeting Newsletter April 2014 ANKA ZIMOVÁ Back in 1995, my Austrian colleagues tried to explain me what patchwork is. No chance! I had no clue! Why would I cut the fabrics into pieces just to put them again? That made no sense to me. I do understand now. I know what it is all about. The fabrics talk to you, they change, adopt and adjust to your fantasies. One is discovering their secrets, transforming them and giving them new life. I wish I could transfer all of my ideas into fabrics, uncover all the secrets. Patchwork is like a children game, a puzzle. You are creating something new, building up a story. The creative process comprises joy and peace. One does dive into these warm and welcoming materials as new ideas emerge in the head, representing your dreams, ideas and wishes…. We are looking for the unknown, expressing the abstract ideas and we keep on searching… searching for the meaing of life, harmony and positive thoughts, the new world, world full of sun, joy and happiness. These are the thoughts I am trying to put into every product I am creating, to make me and those around me happy. I am wishing you a lot of joy and happiness while quilting! Prajem Vám pri šití Vašich výrobkov veľa – veľa kreatívnych nápadov a radosti ! Anka Zimová, www.patchworkparty.sk www.facebook.com/patchworkparty www.facebook.com/patchworkparty.sk Bratislava Business Center 1, Plynárenská 1, 84102 Bratislava, tel.: 00421 2 5441 3742 Pic.3 – the quilt called “Christmas gift” was finished one day before PPM. 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