Quilt from Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection 03-13-22

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.  

"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..

 

 And this was the original very large quilt:

https://www.africanfabric.co.uk/african-furnishings-interiors/decorative-african-textiles

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