Kwandi quilts

Soooo. After all these months, I took my first remote quilt class over the weekend! It was Siddi Quilt , taught by Sujata Shah of The Root...

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party! It has been a spectacular fall here in Southern Ontario with a display of colour like I can't ever remember. I have taken many photos to enjoy over the winter to remember these beautiful sunny days. Last weekend I took a class with Sujata Shah of The Root Connection. My Kawandi quilt was inspired by the beautiful fall colours. It was my first online quilting class and I really enjoyed it. This kind of quilt making is all by hand and I loved that…

Kawandi Table Runner - a fun and easy way to use up fabric scraps, creating a beautiful, hand quilted project.

Modern Style Kawandi Mini (17" x 18") made by Mel Beach is inspired by traditional Kawandi quilts seen on display at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, NE.

A quilt story I really want to tell.

We visited this show of beautiful quilts at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. All so beautiful! And then something really fun happened- as we drove away from the museum, I saw a woman dressed in an artful way, and I recognized her from a short video of Margaret that was included in her show. I had Dave stop the car so I could get out and tell her how much I enjoyed her quilts. (No photo of our meeting- I'd left my camera in the car and Dave had driven off to get gas.) We walked…

Kawandi is a style of quilt created by the Siddi people of India, traditionally done by hand. It is truly scrappy and improvisational. While I like doing hand work, I was also intrigued by faster machine methods. I've listed some resources at the end of this tutorial if you are interested in creating Kawandi by hand, want to see another machine tutorial, want to see some footage of Siddi creating Kawandi by hand, and a discussion of creating Kawandi in your own style. This tutorial describes…

Kawandi Style Quilt Project

Kawandi style quilt project. Great scrap busting project.

I've been exploring the tradition of Kawandi and Siddi quilting recently and it is a breath of fresh air in my studio.