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not what it seems

 The entire quilt.  With an exception of the printed square fabric in the middle, everything else is made up of small squares.
 The blue fabric in a typical design you find in Chinese buildings. And the quilted scallop pattern...reminds me of old Chinese tiled roofs.
 What is really cool to me is that most of these are not in the "Asian fabrics" collections.  You have about three Asian patterns in the squares, and the rest are simply complementary colors and prints.  Very resourceful and economical, yet doesn't detract from the overall Asian pattern in the least.

And the center piece - the Chinese dragon. I was always amazed at how they resembled serpents to me. They would laugh whenever foreigners seemed surprised and would remark, "Dragons are not the mystical beasts you Westerners make them out to be."  Reminds me of the passages in Psalm that talk about sea serpents and leviathans and creatures of the deep. This was one of my many favorite quilts!

And for those of you tired of quilting, this is my official last post from the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, Virginia!

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