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Noticing
I follow Margaret Fabrizio on IG and started watching her videos on YouTube.
She learned of the Siddi African people that live in A remote area of India and went to find them and sit with the women while they made their quilts.
They work from the outside in pulling from a scrap bag of remnants and pieces of clothing with the soft texture of having been worn. The pieces are not stitched together but are set down on the fabric with a fold on 3 edges and a running stitch is worked across the piece which holds the fabric down. Occasionally a decorative square can be placed to add beauty to the piece. The stitches continue and pieces are added until the center of the piece is reached.
The quilt is completed with the addition of a square of fabric folded into a triangle and added to the 4 corners of the Kawandi.
I had to force myself not to straighten the grid on the pattern. I sewed the piece down and realized I can cut haphazardly so there is no straight of grain on the edge. The solid blue is not 100% cotton. It is thicker than what I normally have in my projects.
Noticing
I follow Margaret Fabrizio on IG and started watching her videos on YouTube.
She learned of the Siddi African people that live in A remote area of India and went to find them and sit with the women while they made their quilts.
They work from the outside in pulling from a scrap bag of remnants and pieces of clothing with the soft texture of having been worn. The pieces are not stitched together but are set down on the fabric with a fold on 3 edges and a running stitch is worked across the piece which holds the fabric down. Occasionally a decorative square can be placed to add beauty to the piece. The stitches continue and pieces are added until the center of the piece is reached.
The quilt is completed with the addition of a square of fabric folded into a triangle and added to the 4 corners of the Kawandi.
I had to force myself not to straighten the grid on the pattern. I sewed the piece down and realized I can cut haphazardly so there is no straight of grain on the edge. The solid blue is not 100% cotton. It is thicker than what I normally have in my projects.