UK Quilters
Miranda Rowlands Quilt “Celebration: Nigeria meets Australia in a burst of Colour” winner of the first ever Quilt Africa Fabrics Challenge. Since it was introduced to the shores of Africa in 1846 by the Dutch, African prints have come to represent the culture, history, tradition and way of life of not just one group of…
I’m way past beginner, but a little afraid to embrace being an intermediate quilter. When I let it, it gets quite scary, tackling techniques and patterns for the first time without anyone on hand to teach or show me. I must have mentioned that quilting isn’t very popular in my part of Africa, us ‘natives’…
Choosing African prints for quilting might be a little daunting because the patterns are bold and the colours plenty! If you are a beginner and feeling a unsure, my advise is to approach it the way you would choose the fabrics for any other quilt you are making. Let the idea of the quilt you…
Hello everyone…Miriam here. I’m an Architect turned stay-at-home wife and mother to two beautiful girls and a baby boy. I live in Africa, in a country with no culture or history of quilting, quilt shops, guilds or workshops, but somehow I fell in love with quilts and quilting and after months of drooling over the…
