tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-290184 2011-07-15T16:30:07-03:00 Ideas and resources for creative quilters TypePad Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341da4c753ef014e89de4abc970d 2011-07-15T16:30:07-03:00 2011-07-16T09:01:50-03:00

Marianne and I have a lot in common. Besides both being quilters, we are both originally South African.

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I had fun putting together this sampler of landscape fabrics from my stash. It was the prize offered on my Landscape Quilt Group.

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This just in from patti Carey of Nortcott Fabrics in Canada: Northcott has been contacted by several interested and concerned quilters asking if we would be able to assist in getting quilts to the earthquake/tsunami victims in Japan. The answer is YES. At this point, we have agreed to collect quilts until end April. We will then ship them to Japan, to the editor of Patchwork Quilt Tsushin Magazine. The quilts should be NEW, and anything from crib to twin/double is acceptable, though twin is preferred. Due to the difficulty in shipping quilts across the US border, we are asking...

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Quilters around the world are shipping quilts to easy the burden of the earthquake disaster in Japan. Here is information directly from Japan regarding the quilts.

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via www.nfb.ca

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There are few things more nurturing and soul soothing than stitching with dear freinds. This past week I met with five dear fabric freinds to stitch and talk and eat and stitch some more. Bliss

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Bonnie Samuel asked me to write a guest blog about one of the stitchery groups that I buy textiles from in South Africa. I chose to talk about Isipethu - Zulu for "going to the fountain" - as this group makes the most fascinating collages in appliqué and embroidery.

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A fabulous box of Sulky goodies arrived at my door recenlty. Joyce Drexler of Sulky America asked me to submit a project for her latest techniques book. I sent in this landscape.

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A Textile Diaspora. I am drawn to stories expressed in cloth and was delighted by this slide show and article about African textile artist, Yves Appolinaire Kpede and his fascinating appliqué collage quilts and hangings. The quilts and hangings talk about the history of the African people and the essential stories of our species, the ones that tell truths inspire and terrify. Yves lively West African tradition of pictographic appliqué textiles are similar to Ghana’s asafo flags. The Fon-Yoruba roots of his work relate to the traditional textiles of Haiti, Cuba and Brazil where art practices come from West African...

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Join me on a tour of South Africa for 15 culture and adventure filled days! April 2011

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