I saw this quilt in the 'Out of Africa' shop at Cape Town International Airport when I went to visit friends in 2010 but it was too expensive so I decided to use this as the inspiration for the project instead!
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Buying the fabrics...
I decided that my first task was to buy the fabrics that I would use for my quilt. I wanted to get either genuine African wax print, African animal print fabrics or African batiks.
I went to a local African shop in Telford, but they only had large cuts of fabric at £30 a cut, and would not cut it smaller for me, so instead I went on a mission to the rag market in Birmingham to see what I could find!
I managed to find a lovely Ghanian lady who had and African fabric shop and dressmakers in the Rag Market. She sold me some lovely offcuts and end of rolls of some genuine African wax print fabrics for the bargain price of £30! :)
I also plan to get some plain fabric to put on the back of my quilt, and my lovely friend Jess gave me a hug amount of wadding to make it all comfy and warm when I have finished!
I also found some lovely African animal print fabrics on eBay, which I won the bid for. These are the fabrics from eBay:
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