Quilting with Japanese Fabrics - Kitty Pippen

Award-winning quiltmaker and author, Kitty Pippen, makes one-of-a-kind quilts using Japanese fabrics. Born to missionary parents in China, Kitty developed an interest by watching Chinese women mend and quilt their padded garments and do embroidery. For many years, Kitty worked as a draftsman in the bio-chemistry department at UC, Berkeley. During that period, she discovered Japanese fabrics and bought a few pieces, which she set aside until retiring when 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. Pippen lives in Skagit County.