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This from the International Quilt Festival of Ireland on Facebook:
don’t forget, we are drawing another name to be entered into the final drawing for the all expenses paid FREE TRIP TO IRELAND to attend our quilt festival in june 2012. tell your friends to come to this fan page, click the word LIKE at the top of the page and they are entered. you are automatically entered because you are fan already.
next drawing is in two days. Good luck!
One of our members, Dena Dale Crain, has had an article about her lovely Crystal Quilts and their design methods published in the March 2011 issue of American Quilter Magazine. Congratulations, Dena!
Jewel of Africa, a Crystal Quilt by Dena Dale Crain
Dena teaches an online class, Crystal Quilts, for Quilt University. The next session of Crystal Quilts opens on April 1. Registration opens on February 26.
Find a host of free sewing and quilting project patterns, the ones shown below and many, many more, available free on The Quilt Show!
Fabric File Folder by Terrie Sandelin
Ocean Waves Placemat by Benyapa Steinmetz
Bird on a Branch by Linda Jenkins
During our “Tea with the Stars!” last week, several of the safari group participants asked for recipes for foods they found on our table.
If you are a member of the Guild and you have a favorite recipe, why not send it in to us for publication on this blog? You can use the contact form in the sidebar at left or use the Kenya Quilt Guild Gmail account.
Recipes from the Kenya Quilt Guild
Be sure to tell us something about the history of the recipe. Did you learn it from your mother, pick it up from a friend or out of a magazine or cookbook, or is it original?
We’ll set up a page for Recipes and publish all of the Kenya Quilt Guild’s favorites. Who knows? We might eventually publish a Kenya Quilt Guild cookbook!!
The Good Hope Quilters’ Guild, under the auspices of the South African National Quilters’ Guild will be holding the 16th South African National Quilt Festival in Stellenbosch, outside of Cape Town, South Africa, from July 1-7, 2011. Find out more information from the Festival’s website.
Two of our members, Gill Rebelo and Dena Crain, will be attending the Festival and serving as apprentice judges for the exhibition under the SAQG Quilt Judging Certification Course. They would love to see and receive support from familiar faces from home.
Download the schedule of events and make your plans early! Spaces fill quickly, so get your reservations in as soon as you can.
On Thursday morning, January 20, 2011, the Kenya Quilt Guild received quiltmaking visitors from overseas, courtesy of Jim West’s Sew Many Places. Accompanying the 50 tour participants were quilting superstars Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, hosts of The Quilt Show amongst all their other many activities. What a great time we had!
The event was hosted in the East African Women’s League headquarters at WEAL House on Bishop’s Road in Nairobi. Our guests, who were lodged at the luxurious Nairobi Serena Hotel, arrived promptly at 10:00 a.m. Pulling up in three shiny new buses, the safari participants debarked and moved into the hall and auditorium of WEAL House where they were warmly welcomed by members of the Kenya Quilt Guild.
With the entire group assembled in the auditorium, a few small speeches were given. Margaret Odera, resplendent in full African dress, shouted “JAMBO! Karibu sana!” and issued a customary welcome to Kenya to our guests. Then, our Lady Chairman, Jasvinder Phull, greeted the visitors on behalf of the Kenya Quilt Guild. Gill Rebelo, our resident quilt and East African textile historian, spoke briefly about the history of the “Settler Tapestries” on permanent display in the hall.
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- Buses
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- Debarking
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- Alex Anderson
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- KQG Speakers
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- Alex and Ricky
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- Settler Tapestries
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- Bitings
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- Social
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- Admiration
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- Display
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- Organizers
Alex and Ricky jointly spoke about how delighted they were to be visiting Kenya, and about all the fun they have working with quilters from around the world. They presented all members of the Kenya Quilt Guild with a gift subscription to The Quilt Show. Our members were delighted!
In return, the Guild presented Alex with a lovely African necklace that we know she will enjoy wearing with great pride, and Ricky with a traditional African “finger piano.” What better gift for a talented musician and entertainer? Ricky promises he will be playing it on his next album! To Jim we presented a lovely ebony “mother and child” antelope sculpture.
The participants of the tour enjoyed proper Kenyan hospitality, taking tea and coffee with us and feasting from a table loaded with cakes, samosas and all kinds of other “bitings.” They wandered leisurely around the building, viewing a fabulous, although hastily hung early that morning, display of quilts made by our members. There were about 45 quilts on display, both indoors and outside, so there was good reason to keep moving about. The visitors introduced themselves and chatted with our members, and vice versa, and a truly good time was had by all!
The buses departed at about 12:00 p.m., and we were sorry to see the party break up as all good things must come to an end.
Thanks go to all those who loaned quilts for display, brought food to share, helped set up the space and quilt exhibition, and especially to Dena Crain, whose idea this reception was, for organizing it with Jim West.
We hope Jim’s safari tour group will enjoy the rest of their time in Kenya as much as we enjoyed entertaining them yesterday morning: “Safiri salaama!“
Lynne Edwards: Patchwork Quilter, Teacher and Author
Our good friend Lynne Edwards sent in an article by way of updating us on her recent activities. We hope you will enjoy reading about Lynne!
