Need Ideas for Quilt Using African Fabric from Uganda
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Our church sponsors a village in Uganda, and a team makes a mission trip there twice/year. One member brought back 6 yards of beautiful cotton fabric from Uganda for my friend. She and I have decided to use it in making a quilt for the annual mission fundraiser.
This gorgeous fabric is bold, and we are looking for ideas to showcase it in a quilt without cutting it into small pieces. We are not very knowledgeable about the culture, but would like to make a quilt that is in harmony with it.
We are interested in hearing your ideas and also in finding any resources that might give us ideas for design with African fabrics.
Thanks!
Dayle
This gorgeous fabric is bold, and we are looking for ideas to showcase it in a quilt without cutting it into small pieces. We are not very knowledgeable about the culture, but would like to make a quilt that is in harmony with it.
We are interested in hearing your ideas and also in finding any resources that might give us ideas for design with African fabrics.
Thanks!
Dayle
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Maybe cut it into wide strips and put other strips in between with a light background and stars, or circles, or some kind of block on point using the colors in the main fabric. That way you show off the fabric instead of it being in little pieces and yet still have some kind of pattern. Hope I explained it correctly. Good luck.
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I did a quick search and found some links:
http://www.maureenodoogan.com/page13/page12/page12.html
http://pippamoore.ca/patterns_kits.htm
http://www.braidandstitch.com/online_store
HGTV has some videos on African Inspired Quilts but my browser kept hanging up when I went there. ( I am posting from work and sometimes the firewall prevents me from reaching certain websites).
http://www.margreta.com/african.aspx
http://www.maureenodoogan.com/page13/page12/page12.html
http://pippamoore.ca/patterns_kits.htm
http://www.braidandstitch.com/online_store
HGTV has some videos on African Inspired Quilts but my browser kept hanging up when I went there. ( I am posting from work and sometimes the firewall prevents me from reaching certain websites).
http://www.margreta.com/african.aspx
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