For quite a few years I posted quilts from TCQC on Sundays and I am going to go back to that. Here is a piece from England that was added in June 2014.
There is a lovely shop in England that specializes in African fabrics, beads, baskets, jewelry, and a lot more. The owners travel in Africa every year and buy from the native artists and markets. Musa, one of their artists, dyes fabric in his village and also works to provide medical care to the people there. One year the English quilters made this huge quilt to hang in the booth of the African Quilt Shop at a large quilt show. But after the show was over, what to do with such a huge quilt, there was no space to hang it in the shop. So, they cut it up into "planks" and sold those to interested quilters. The result was a number of very nice pieces that they put up for auction online with the money going to Musa's clinic in Africa. I happened to run across the auction and needed to add "One Plank Makes Many Huts" to TCQC.
This is the original very large quilt that was eventually cut up into "planks".
"One Plank Makes Many Huts"
Alison Livesley - England 2014 47"W X 47"L
Many of the fabrics are African, but there is a little bit of everything including Liberty prints, hand-dyes, batiks, etc..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As always I am having problems with my photo files, so these are all the pictures I can post tonight.
# # #
1 comment:
Wow...beautiful quilt and the planks, so very special. Del, you have had an absolutely wonderful time, seems to me, with your Thomas Collection, providing history, interesting quilters from around the world, and providing inspiration to your many followers. I, for one, thank you very, very much for your splendid collection and your sharing it. Please, take care and stay well.
Post a Comment