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This is just in from our friends at Amani ya Juu:
Amani Ya Juu is holding a fabric scrap sales during this month of May. The scraps include dyed cotton and americana materials, screen print materials and many more. The sales are on every Wednesdays and Saturdays of the week at the Amani ya Juu shop.
Might be a great place to find scraps of African fabrics at rock-bottom prices!!
The Kenya Quilt Guild Exhibition at Village Market in Gigiri, just outside Nairobi proper and near the American Embassy to Kenya and the United Nations in Kenya, is in full swing. We have had a number of visitors, a few nice sales, and press coverage from Asian Weekly and The Star. Most important of all–we’ve had FUN!!
The show remains open today from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. We have quilters giving live demonstrations of hand quilting, machine quilting and hand beading. We will be raffling off three lovely patchwork quilts to three lucky winners, so be sure to buy your tickets and to vote for the quilt you believe is the best in the show when you visit us today!
The Kenya Quilt Guild worked hard yesterday to hang nearly 50 beautiful quilts in the Exhibition Hall at the Village Market in Gigiri. This morning, we will add a few finishing touches, but the gallery looks great!
We hope everyone will come to visit our exhibition, sign up as new Guild members, buy raffle tickets for the gorgeous raffle quilts we have made, perhaps make an offer for any of our lovely pieces, and have a wonderful time learning about the world of patchwork quilting.
Kenya Quilt Guild Exhibition Committee
Doors open at 9:30 this morning and at the same time on Saturday and Sunday, and they close at 5:30 p.m. Won’t you come to see what we’ve been making?
Today is the day we hang Guild members’ quilts for our exhibition which opens tomorrow at Village Market in Gigiri. The doors will be closed, but people walking by outside will be able to see a glimpse of what will be on offer during the show. Exhibition open hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this weekend.
Hand-quilting and machine-quilting demonstrations will be ongoing, and we will have “white glove ladies” to help visitors get a better look at the craftsmanship and remarkable detail of the quilts on display. We’ll be raffling tickets for three wonderful quilts made by the Guild, and we’re always on the lookout for quilters new to Kenya and new quilters who want to learn more about patchwork quilting by joining the Kenya Quilt Guild.
“African Drums” quilt by Charu Patel
“Flying Egyptian Geese” quilt by Diane Bannister
“Desert Beauties” art quilt by Bibiana Pereira
Find the Kenya Quilt Guild exhibition in the exhibition hall upstairs from the food court. We hope to see you there!
The Kenya Quilt Guild is holding an exhibition at the Village Market from Friday, May 11 through Sunday, May 13.
Tickets are and will be sold for a beautiful raffle quilt for our exhibition during the show and they are available from most Kenya Quilt Guild members. Hours for the exhibition are 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. each day. The raffle will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Kenya Quilt Guild members will also be on hand to help with membership applications, perform demonstrations of hand and machine quilting, and SELL QUILTS!
Don’t miss this special event at the Village Market Shopping Centre–this weekend! See you there!!!
This is just in from Owen Calverley, organizer of the International Quilt Convention Africa which will be held July 27-29 in Johannesburg, South Africa, about the Dreams Challenge:
Hello IQCAfrica fans
Entries for the Dreams quilt challenge officially closed on 1 May. Since then however, we have been receiving frantic calls and emails from quilters who missed the deadline. Rather than have UFO’s lying all over Africa, we have extended the deadline until Tuesday 15 May.
The following is addressed to all quilters living in Africa:
If your entry is almost finished or even only just begun, you have another 12 days to get it ready and photographed! Just in case you missed the notice, the Dreams exhibition will be also going to France in September for exhibition at the very prestigious European Patchwork Meeting. After IQCAfrica 2012 we will pack up the entire collection of Dreams quilts and personally escort them to France. Will one of YOUR quilts be one of them??
Before sending your entry, check the rules and requirements here to save yourself and us much time and agony: http://iqcafrica.ning.com/page/quilt-challenge
Send your entries to: challenge@iqcafrica.com – we are watching that mailbox for your entry!
Best wishes
The IQCAfrica Team
PS: If you HAVE sent in an entry but not yet received acknowledgement of receipt from us, please contact us immediately at challenge@iqcafrica.com or tel 0860 62 63 62 during office hours.
Visit IQCAfrica at: http://iqcafrica.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network and while you’re there, sign up for some of the fabulous workshops and lectures that will be on tap. Let’s ALL go to South Africa for the IQCAfrica!!
PS: Notice from the submission guidelines that it is only the Entry form that must be submitted by May 15, not the actual quilt itself.
The Kenya Quilt Guild will be hosting an Exhibition of its members’ quilts at the Village Market, May 11, 12 and 13. As part of the Exhibition, we will be raffling off three quilts. The principal raffle quilt is shown below:
Tickets for the raffle are being printed now. When completed, they will be available at The Woman Shop in Sarit Centre, ready for collection and sale by KQG members, or sold to anyone who is interested in owning this lovely cotton patchwork quilt. The quilts will be raffled on Sunday, May 13th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Exhibition Hall at Village Market. Stop by, won’t you, and see whether you hold the winning ticket?!
