Quilt Fesival Part 3: Yoko Saito is kind of a big deal.

As we walk around the festival we saw this quilt and just lost our marbles.

Hand quilting done to perfection.

This is quilting truly elevated to art.

I saw the little Japanese woman and turned to Amie and said "OMG, that's Yoko Saito...and she's kind of a big deal." They were SO SO gracious and allowed us to take pictures of everything. We are filing this into the category of : "Projects to do when we are worthy."

You have to be a genius to take these muted fabrics and produce something so full of life and general uh-may-zing-ness.

This basket quilt (above) is the one that had my applique friends from church geeking out over.

I love the sewing basket in the bottom middle (above).

The woman herself!

That lattice work is not piecing, it is hand applique.

And Amie took all these pictures because honestly I was flipping out too much to even work a camera in this booth. You can see her take on festival this week too at www.fabricwarrior.blogspot.com