African quilts

Marion Coleman, Susan #3, 2006 Stitched fiber collage portrait, 63 x 53 inches by Donna Hussain A collection of quilts sewn by Afric...

New member Reneau's made with cloth from Africa when she lived there.

As promised here are the pictures of Mom's (Anne H) latest African themed quilts. I love her Masai pieces and hope that she has more planned. The colours are simple but striking and she is able to create so much movement in her pieces. The quilt is bound with a facing so the edge is "clean". The tree trunks and branches are embroidered and she used acrylic paint to shade the trees. I quilted around the trees but not inside the trees so they are dimensional. I took the same approach with the…

My second Africa quilt is finished! I took it with me to California and left it with my capable sister, Deb. I loved making this quilt. I have never made anything like it. I was inspired by Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Wife quilt. The quilt measures 100+" by 86" and it is on a king sized bed in this picture. I arranged the blocks smallest to largest, but either end can be the top. As you can see, the quilting, which was perfectly done by my hero, Bob at Country Crossroads Quilt Shop, is a geometric…

6 Things Every Quilter should know about african fabrics .quilt africa fabrics.pdf - Google Drive

Hello Everyone, It seems like ages since I have blogged! Ack!! I hate that. I have been traveling and finally I am sitting down writing this blog post. I wanted to share some of my travels with you. One of the things that I love when I travel is the people that I meet and how fabulous each and everyone of them are,