FEBRUARY 2005 -- Our February speaker was Kitty Pippen who spent many childhood hours watching Chinese women mend and quilt their padded garments and doing embroidery in Ping Ting Chow, Shansi, China, where she was born to missionary parents.
Kitty eventually moved to California where she and her husband raised their family.
For many years, she worked as a draftsman in the biochemistry department at UC, Berkeley. During that period, she discovered Japanese fabric and bought a few pieces, which she set aside until retiring to Lake Almanor, California.
 There she ”unearthed” the fabric and made her first Japanese quilt. Since then, she has continued to educate herself about Japanese textiles – how they are designed, dyed and woven.
In her words: “The more I use them, the more passionate I am about working with them… and I want to own every variety. It gives me great joy to share my love for these fabrics by teaching classes and lecturing at guilt guilds.”
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KITTY'S RESOURCE LIST
• Specialty Fabrics (Mail Order / Local)
• Sashiko Threads & Needles
• Thermodore Ultra-Thin Batting
• Books
• And More!
Specialty Fabrics
Mail order and at quilt shows:
Katsura Dye Works
(Japanese-style patterns, fabrics, stencils, books)
Saratoga, Wyoming, E-mail: mailorder@kasuridyeworks.com
Marjorie Lee Bevis
325 4th Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
Web: www.marbledfabrics.com
Stone Mountain & Daughter Fine Fabrics (Imported fabrics)
2418 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 845-6106
Thousand Cranes Futon Shop
(Imported fabrics)
1803 Fourth Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 849-0501
Wendy Lee
(Vintage, antique and unique ethnic textiles, beads and buttons)
P. O. Box 7323
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 851-0434
Specialty Fabrics (Local)
J.R. Flamingo
(as of 4/05 moving to Fulton Avenue)
11257 Coloma Road, Suite 6A
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
(916) 638-3637
Quilters’ Corner
(Shashiko printed fabric and stencils)
9792B Business Park Drive
Sacramento, CA 95827
(916) 366-6136
SASHIKO THREADS AND NEEDLES
High Sierra Quilters
3450 Palmer Drive, Suite 8
Cameron Park, CA 95682
(530) 677-9990
J.R. Flamingo (see above)
Quilters’ Corner (see above)
THERMODORE ULTRA-THIN BATTING by HOBBS
Bearpaws and Hollyhocks
4128 El Camino Avenue, # 5
Sacramento, CA 95821
(916) 971-9392
High Sierra Quilters
(see above)
J.R. Flamingo (see above)
Quilters’ Corner (see above)
BOOKS
Quilting with Japanese Fabrics, Kitty Pippen, Martingale & Company,
Asian Elegance, Quilting with Japanese Fabrics and More, Kitty Pippen and Sylvia Pippen, Martingale & Company
And More!
Sylvia Pippen
www.sylviapippendesigns.com
Nan’s Little People (Fimo clay sculpture of quilters and their quilts)
Nancy Pippen
P. O. Box 107
Cutten, CA 95534
(707) 442-9367
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