La Mona

I admit, I have been engrossed in art quilting.  I have been making fewer regular quilts.  Since I learned about Kawandi style in 2024, I have made quite a few.  The method inspires creativity.  I have completed my twentieth Kawandi style quilt. 

I made it specially to be displayed on the quilt shelf I made, which hangs in the entry way of my home.  I have always had only a few small quilts that fit on this rack.  I felt like I needed to make another, and now I have!  This Kawandi style quilt is 30" X 38" and has only fabrics that are not new to me.  The fabrics are reg quilting cotton, given to me or inherited from quilters who have passed away, flour sacks given me be my cousin, a piece of fabric of my mother's that she used to make herself a dress and to make a dress for my Tammy doll.  She made the Tammy dress in 1962 from the scraps.  Also in this quilt are scraps from other quilts I have made, repurposed silk Sari fabric, more scraps from clothing making, drapery fabric, and pieces of saved lace bits.  I used #8 Pearl cotton for the hand-quilting, which includes some different stitches and Sashiko stitching.  The Sashiko is a tribute to my aunt Shige.  The whole piece is a tribute to the people and things of the past that we do not want to let go of.