How to Use African Fabrics for Quilting
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2023
- How to Use African Fabric for Quilting
Everything you need to know about using African fabrics in your next quilt project is in this video. It gives you a closer look of all the fabrics in the thumbnail so you can see the type of variety that is available from the rich diversity of all the countries in the African continent. It includes beginner tips for how to buy African fabrics and lots of ideas of how to use them in your quilt. Finally, it gives you real life examples of how I have used African fabrics in my quilts.
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O'Quilts blog: oquilts.blogspot.com/
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African fabrics make the most beautiful quilt backs.
I agree, Leisa, some of these fabrics are too beautiful to cut up.✂
Thank you for sharing the shop’s name!!! Love your fabrics!!!
You are so welcome! I love them too!
All these fabrics are gorgeous!
Thanks! I really like them too.
I can't imagine cutting up those gorgeous fabrics.
It is hard to cut them up, but as a quilter, I feel like I have to cut up perfectly good fabric to use it in a different way.
I'm from north africa it 's fabric it's beautiful it's colorful ✨️ that's it
Welcome. I agree that it is beautiful and colorful fabric.
How beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Shelina! Im so glad I found you! Brenda of conquering mount scrapmore sent me.❤ I work A LOT with African fabrics. Im lucky, my roots are also in East Africa and my friend is a tailor who regularly bequeaths me her scraps which would normally be thrown out. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to following you 😊
Welcome! Thank you so much! That is so nice that you have a source for African scrap fabrics. I've shown several videos of quilts where I've used Ankari fabrics and am looking forward to making more in the coming years.
I look forward to seeing what you do with these beautiful fabrics
Me too!! I have an idea but there are many other ideas that are crowding the space.
I've been sewing my whole life and I think African fabrics are the most beautiful fabrics made.
It is really beautiful for sure. What kinds of things do you make with African fabrics?
Oh those are such beautiful and different patterns you have found. So many beautiful cultures and styles from Africa! Just gorgeous and I am looking forward to seeing your work of art after you apply your genius to it!
There were a lot of beautiful fabrics to choose from. Very hard to resist.
Gorgeous
Thank you so much, Karen!
These are all gorgeous. The first one and the blue and yellow “wave” are my favorites.
I agree that they are all gorgeous!
My husband and I have a stash of numerous fabrics he bought when traveling in Africa 50-odd years ago. (Before I met him.) I’ve never known quite what to do with them. This is exciting!
That is so nice! I hope you get them out and play with them.
I really love the colors and patterns. Beautiful dynamic prints. I want to get some and put some into some of my work. Thank you for sharing this with us.😊
Thanks! I gave some as gifts. I can't wait to cut into more of them and turn them into quilts.
I first fell in love with Hawaiian fabrics with the romantic feel I received from watching my Grandparents dance arm in arm wearing the first muumuus they brought home from Hawaii. My muumuu matched. I was three. Many years later now, but these wax block prints from Africa give me a similar feel of love and dance and the different culture and lifestyle they represent. I will have to say that yardage to cover the reverse side of a pieced quilt is so worth it to me as so many of these prints are such a wonderful showcase all by themselves for an immediate different look in a room. So glad to have found you on day 4 of this video. I am already looking forward to seeing more of your quilts and maybe a matching dressing gown with these colorful fabrics! Aloha🧵🧵🪡🪡
What a treasure of a memory! The wax block technique comes from Indonesia to Africa so it makes sense that it would inspire such a memory. The fabrics are so beautiful, that you are right, it would be great to showcase them just as they are without cutting, such as using them on the back. No dressing gown for me though. I don't know how to make clothes. Aloha.
I love the fabric! I love bright colors.
Me too!!
I can’t decide which ones I like best but I’m partial to that black and white and the first one you showed! Happy creating!
I had a really hard time choosing, as you can tell. The B&W one has so many possibilities. Thanks!
Wonderful fabrics! You really have a treasure. Lots of good ideas and suggestions! Thanks for your video.
Thank you so much! I am really happy with them.
What great colors! I'm sure the quilts will be stunning.
Thanks! I hope so!
Thank you so much for sharing the fabric source. I sign up for the newsletter. I moved from the city to a rural area and have been wanted to get African print material.
You are so welcome!
Most of these colorful fabrics would make awesome "one block wonder" hexagon blocks if you can get pieces in four or five-yard lengths that have patterns that repeat every 48 inches or less.
Ooh that is so true. They would be great for any stack and whack blocks. You would have to get enough fabric for the repeats.
Just beautiful. thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching, Patsy!
These fabrics are beautiful!
I think so too! I've already cut into them to make a quilt.
@@shelina_virjee I went to the website link you provided. I found some really beautiful fabric. I want to spend some time browsing and then place an order.
I have no affiliation with the company, but I got good service from them and I like the fabric that I got.
Stunning!
Thank you! 😊They really are.
Thanks so much for this clip and the information ❤️❤️
Thanks for watching!
Really beautiful.
Thank you! 😊
How do you wash wax fabric 2:22 2:27
Thank you for watching, Hazel. You can wash this fabric just like you do any other cotton fabric. I just put it in the washer and dryer. I don't usually prewash. I wash all quilts in cold water and take out of the dryer when it is slightly damp.
Спасибо за совет
Wow, such beautiful prints. Where did you order these from?
I really like them too! I also get fabric from Fabric Wholesale Direct: fabricwholesaledirect.com/
They are indeed beautiful fabrics! They are so vibrant. Thank you for showing us how to use them.
I bought these from Fabrics on Sale www.fabricsonsale.com/pattern?Category=African+Print+Fabric+-%2245%22
You're quite welcome!
Many of them are ready to quilt
You showed the fabrics but did not show what you did with the fabric into quilts.
I showed two quilts that I have made with African fabric. I have three other quilts that use African fabric in the works, including one that specifically uses the fabric I showed in this video. I will be showing the one that use these fabrics as soon as it I finish quilting and binding the quilt and editing the video. Thank you for your patience.
These are NOT African fabrics. They are Dutch and for the most part made in Holland still. Although the Dutch have set up a few factories in Africa to exploit the cheap labor. Yes, they are widely worn across Africa as one of the last vestiges of rampant Dutch colonialism. I have no problem using these fabric and often do so myself. But, please don't further the myth that they are African.
Thank you for your input.
They are known as African wax fabrics or Ankara simply because they are popular in Africa
Yes the Dutch introduced them
They learnt the wax resist technique from Indonesia but they didn't like their style but west Africa did
If they weren't popular they wouldn't have sold they're still popular now
Yes they have businesses in Africa there will be benefit to that area for work
Those businesses are ran by Africans including the designers
Africa is not a country. It is a continent. Each country has its own traditional fabrics and prints. I think these are Ankaka prints which are totally different to eg Shwe-shwe prints which are South African.
Yes I know and you're right, I should have said it in the video. I was born in Uganda. I mentioned it in the video description when I noticed the oversight. When I buy fabric, the retailers don't usually tell you the region or ethnicity of the fabric. I think you are also right that these are Ankara fabrics. Thanks for the comment.
What she said.
The fabric is marketed as African fabric, so that is the term I used.
Being open to compliments AND critique is a way to learn and grow. Just as a quilt is judged at a show, you want to know how you can make it better to learn and grow in your art.
That is so true, and that is why I do accept and listen to all critiques as well as compliments.