Out of Africa

Three postcards

The postcard swap I intermittently join in had "Out of Africa" as a theme for this month, giving me a great excuse to use some of my collection of African fabric from The African Fabric shop. (This is where I got my beautiful basket the other day.)

The postcards are strips patch-worked together and the lovely hand block printed Guinea fowl added as appliquéd patches.
Note the two tone one made from two half birds cut from the end of the strip that I didn't like to throw away!

The girls at the Creative Machine Embroidery class in Norwich have done a great job and between us we have 50 Bookwraps to send in on Thursday. Yee Hah!
Check out the Bookwrap gems site here

Cottenham Textile Fair

I found this beautiful hand made basket from Northern Ghana at the African Fabric shop at Cottenham. Visit Magie and Bob's online shop here. I wanted beads that were weighty and had large holes and I got some beautiful pale turquoise blue ones made from Gin bottle glass! I also had to have some fabric and this lovely small Bolgatanga basket, just right for filling with my machine threads. It had a wonderful handle and cost around £20 - bargain. I have two others, both large and full of fabric and threads, but a girl can never have too many baskets.
I have also completed another couple of bookwraps but will post the pictures on the bookwrap page.