Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Kawandi #12 is Complete!

My Kuna quilt group did a "Tear and Share" activity last January.  Each of us ended up with five different fabrics to use together in a project that is due at our November meeting.  I felt the five fabrics I ended up with did not really go together.  Two went together and the other three went together, but they did not all go together.  The one that really did not go with the others, I used for the quilt back, so no one is going to see it anyway.  That, by the way, is the fabric I took to the "Tear and Share".  Since I have taught the Kawandi method of quilting to three different groups of quilters, I decided I should make another Kawandi. 

It is a good thing I decided on Kawandi, because the magic of Kawandi is whatever fabrics you put together just seem to work!  I did not think it possible, but it holds with the thoughts of Margaret Fabrizio, who I believe is the west coast guru on Kawandi.

These are the five fabrics I used to make the project.  The pale blue, fans, fabric I used on the back, as it was the largest piece (1/2 yd).

I auditioned some other fabrics to see what would bring these four fabrics together.  I did not use the blue charm square on the left, but I did use some of the periwinkle on the right.  It turns out the blue periwinkle is polyester, but it worked just fine.  Looking at my creation, a couple days later, I decided this is a "now" piece of art quilting.  The past is melded with today to make the now.  Some of the fabrics in this piece are old and some are new, which makes the now.  Contemporary is now.

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