Kawandi tutorial

A very general update on my Kawandi quilting adventures, including information on my next class session with Gotham Quilts.

Kawandi style quilt project. Great scrap busting project.

Kawandi quilts have been on my mind ever since seeing the Collecting & Recollecting exhibit on display at the International Quilt Stud...

I've completed my third Kawandi. This is the quiltmaking technique I learned in a workshop with Sujata Shah @therootconnection. The quilt is hand-stitched, working from the outside edges toward the center. It's 16" X 22½" and pieced with my grandmother's scraps of vintage fabrics. There's one particular large-scale print among grandma's scraps - pink background with white flowers - so in the center I placed one large flower. Backing fabric is an old-fashioned-looking print by Denyse Schmidt…

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…

My red Kawandi project is complete and I have to just say I love, love, love the texture of this style of project. For this one, I raided my red fabric scrap basket as February is the month of lurrrrrve. I have a fair amount of red fabric scraps which meant that I had lots of choose from and play with. For the actual stitching, I used a variegated Aurifil cotton thread in 12 wt. I love the variegation of this thread as it works its way from a scarlet red down to a pale pink. Here's the back…

I wanted to learn more about Kawandi quilts and the Siddis who make them. So last spring I took a kawandi quilt making workshop.

Hi, all! Friday is here once again, and that means it's time for us to get our whoop whoop on! I've been chasing a squirrel this week...

The Dutch Modern Quilt Guild issued a challenge for last year to make something from a collection of scraps. Not any old scraps, but a bag that would be coming in the post. There was just one bag that circulated each month and the idea was that everyone would take what she needed during a month, make something, and send the bag on to the next on the list after making up the weight from her own scraps. Mine was due in December but arrived some two months late. I had just been watching some…