{"id":2101,"date":"2013-06-09T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2013-06-09T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:38:34","slug":"second-patchwork-and-quilting-festival-of-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Second Patchwork and Quilting Festival of Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bigger and better than last year, this festival\u00a0ran for 3 days last week\u00a0here in a spacious convention location in downtown Montevideo.\u00a0\u00a0For the second year, it has run as part of\u00a0Art Days, in which vendors and teachers\u00a0ply their wares and demonstrate products, in some cases conduct classes in them.\u00a0 The\u00a0organisers\u00a0had a large\u00a0class schedule over the three days,\u00a0with teachers from Brasil, Argentina, USA and Uruguay\u00a0 shown\u00a0on the festival’s\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0 On Friday afternoon\u00a0last week I went down for a look-see.<\/p>\n

There was a nicely displayed exhibition of quilts, traditional and modern – for what would a festival be without an exhibition?<\/p>\n

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There were many people in attendance throughout the festival,\u00a0and, taking into account that many people were in classes behind closed doors, the patchwork and quilting vendors and demonstrators were pretty busy through the festival.<\/p>\n

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Check out the carpet design !!!\u00a0\u00a0 By the photos I took\u00a0I think you’ll agree that\u00a0quilters here are as focused as quilters anywhere when it comes to machines, fabrics, thread, handy accessories, notions and demonstrations.\u00a0\u00a0This year the sewing machine retailers and sponsors Janome and Brother have been joined by Bernina who have a new dealership here in Uruguay.\u00a0 Great news for a Bernina owner and long term devotee.<\/p>\n

There’s an interesting business called Caf\u00e9 Costura<\/a> (literally sewing caf\u00e9) and they also have a FB page:<\/p>\n

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It works just like an internet cafe – you can go there and sew, use their machines and notions, attend a sewing class or a sew-in, attend a craft class – it’s a neat idea. \u00a0I don’t know if they have them in other places, but it has caught on here in Montevideo, apparently.<\/p>\n

A new vendor this year was Patchworklady Anna<\/em><\/span> from near Atl\u00e1ntida.\u00a0 Anna speaks several languages, German, Dutch and English, and I’m sure she’s have Spanish under her belt soon, too – she learned her very good English while\u00a0quilting and teaching along with a group of women in Australia while there. \u00a0Anna’s organizing classes and plans to hold sewing days every few weeks.\u00a0 You can\u00a0contact her at palexanna@yahoo.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 The beautiful quilts in this photo are her own work, and demonstrate\u00a0her lively sense of colour and high\u00a0technical expertise levels\u00a0in a variety of popular styles.<\/p>\n

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A couple of Brasilian ladies from Porto Alegre, were down for the festival again this year, and it was nice to be remembered by Vera Escosteguy (L)\u00a0and Mariana Pedrozo (R) shown here with some of their fabrics,\u00a0products and class projects.\u00a0\u00a0 They do mail order with fabrics, much appreciated by Uruguayan quiltmakers who can access\u00a0almost nothing\u00a0in popular stylish cotton fabrics, unless someone sends or brings something in for them.. it has long been a frustration, but quilters here are managing to work around the situation with help of people like these two women.\u00a0 You can find them on their website\u00a0page,\u00a0Trapos & ARTE\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 The website will translate into English at one click.\u00a0 Their FB page has the same title.<\/p>\n

There was a terrific\u00a0stall by an\u00a0enterprising Argentine\u00a0Carolina Rizzi<\/a>\u00a0who teaches online classes with Cecilia Koppman<\/a>\u00a0and several others.\u00a0 From Carolina I bought a natty little stand for my plastic patchwork templates –\u00a0the several sizes of squares and triangles both isosceles and equilateral I use, and more.\u00a0Perhaps I\u00a0should have bought two – but anyway it will be\u00a0useful on the work table, and I hope Carolina will be over from BA\u00a0again before too long.\u00a0\u00a0Her stall was also stocked with lots of different rulers\/reglas and all kinds of interesting templates that every quilt shop in the US or Australia routinely carries – but dedicated quilt shops are pretty rare in this part of the world.\u00a0 Quilters here frequently need to order in (mails and running the gauntlet of customs are always highly risky) or have someone bring thing like this in for them.\u00a0 Determined quilters are resourceful and they do manage, but it was great to see this kind of thing is more easily available.<\/p>\n

From what I saw\u00a0it was a great success, and a tribute to the enthusiastic and hardworking local patchwork and quilting community, led by Graciela Aznarez, \u00a0who arranged it all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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