How to Use African Fabrics for Quilting 

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African fabrics make the most beautiful quilt backs.

All these fabrics are gorgeous!

How beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

I can't imagine cutting up those gorgeous fabrics.

I'm from north africa it 's fabric it's beautiful it's colorful ✨️ that's it

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!

Gorgeous

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🧵🧵🪡🪡

I've been sewing my whole life and I think African fabrics are the most beautiful fabrics made.

These are all gorgeous. The first one and the blue and yellow “wave” are my favorites.

Thank you for sharing the shop’s name!!! Love your fabrics!!!

I love the fabric! I love bright colors.

I look forward to seeing what you do with these beautiful fabrics

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!

What great colors! I'm sure the quilts will be stunning.

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 😊

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.😊

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!

Wonderful fabrics! You really have a treasure. Lots of good ideas and suggestions! Thanks for your video.

Just beautiful. thanks for sharing

These fabrics are beautiful!

Stunning!

Really beautiful.

Thanks so much for this clip and the information ❤️❤️

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.

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.

Wow, such beautiful prints. Where did you order these from?

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You showed the fabrics but did not show what you did with the fabric into quilts.

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.

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.