stitchinwitch

There doesn't seem to be too many places to find the look of African quilts. For some reason, I am drawn to the boldness of color and arrangement of what I HAVE seen. Have any of you made an African wallhanging or bed quilt that you would like to share?

dakotamaid

try goggling African quilt images.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&expIds=17259,25941,26104,26309,26348,26578,26751,26758&sugexp=ldymls&tok=46-FH8Wwu8ubTBeyJKkFjQ&xhr=t&q=african+quilt+images&cp=20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=11ObTKyFAYmfnQfns5X8Dg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQsAQwAA&biw=1350&bih=561

sall

Yes I have made an african quilt, mainly out of fabric that I bought in South Africa. I will photograph it and post on bard in next couple of days

sall

I have just clicked on the site DAKOTAMAID suggested, and noticed that the people on the tour in the photos bought fabric at Mnandis. That is where I bouht most of the fabric for my quilt. It is not a quilting shop, but they make up african dress and also sell the fabric. I promised to send the owneer a photo of when I had finished the quilt. Which I did, perhaps they have it up in the shop. The western cape is my most favourite place on earth.

Holice

Do you mean African quilts with images from African Nations or the African American quilts such as Gees Bend?

sall

As I cannot seem to post pictures on this site. I have posted on PICTURES site on forum

sall

Oh well. It looks as if one of my pics has posted

stitchinwitch

Oh WOW! Now THAT's what I'm talkin' about! Thanks

How did you do the village background in the lower left hand corner? Did you design the entire quilt?

stitchinwitch

We must have 2 threads about African Quilts

sall

That was a postcard that I copied and painted on the fabric. I did not design the quilt especially. It just evolved as I went along