When the ship sailed into Monrovia summer '07, I was blessed to have 4 special roommates for a few months. One of these women, Penny, gave me the idea to make a scrap fabric duvet cover from African fabrics. She had done this in Ghana and then was collecting Liberia fabric as well. When she left, she gave me a large garbage bag filled with different sizes and shapes of scraps. On and off over the last year and a half, I have cut and collected fabric and about a month ago got on a sewing kick and actually finished what I had started. I had also realized in September that I would need to be making a cover for a larger bed :) so instead of 60 squares, I was looking at about 130. Yikes! It took me about two weeks to get it all done and I was happy with how it turned out - it actually looks like what I wanted it to! If you ever come and visit, maybe it will be out on the bed :)
1 comment:
Most impressive!! I love the sentiment of having local fabrics.
See you in a few weeks!
dorothy
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