African Collage

Last weekend I spent at a workshop with Pippa Moore.  This is one great woman!  Go check out Pippa's website to read all about her quilting and the work she is doing in Africa - What a great weekend!


I started with a kit that Pippa provided - 3 screen prints , and a whole pile of other African and commercial prints and batiks.

We made a variety of borders:

checkerboard

Seminole type squares

I couldn't just make mountains, they had to be wonky mountains!

flying geese

saw tooth triangles (again a little wonky!)_

Then we worked on adding these borders, strips and strings to the starting blocks.  I found a couple of white print panels that I liked, but they were too stark, so I tea dyed them.  Eventually, I added more colour to one of them - quite like how it has turned out - subtle colour, but more fitting now.

I played with my layout, and added a few more bits here and there, and this is where I am now

Borders on, beads will be added when quilting is done

I've started the quilting tonight - won't be anything too fancy - with all the colours and patterns it is already pretty busy, and the quilting would just get lost.  I've free motion outlined the animals, and stitched in the ditch around the feature blocks.  I think it will be mostly in the ditch stitching, although I may have some fun in the borders!


We shall see!
Happy quilting!