Local Quilters Meeting was Brilliant

On Tuesday evening I attended my first meeting of a local quilters group.  It was excellent.  I was made very welcome by the members and enjoyed it so much I shall certainly attend next month, and most probably join them as a member.

The speaker of the evening could not have been more appropriate, it was Magie the lady who runs the African Fabric Shop www.africanfabric.co.uk.  She explained all about the use of  indigo dyes in the fabrics she buys. How they are produced and the facts we need to know when working with them. She showed slides from here visits to Africa where she has seen first hand how the fabrics are produced.  She brought along some of her wonderful printed fabrics too that  helped illustrate her talk. Many of processes used to finish the fabrics were also illustrated. We learnt how the many different dying effects are achieved, it was a very interesting evening.  Anyone wanting to find out more should explore the web site, it's well worth it.


I knew about her after buying some of these lovely fabrics last August, at the Quilting Show at the NEC here in Birmingham. Which I made up into a waistcoat for my City and Guilds.

My fabrics were indigo dyed, I used four different fabrics to create this waistcoat.

It was lovely to work with these fabrics, the African designs and colours are wonderful, I intend to buy some more for another project soon.