'In Love With Africa', Complete

 My customer's 'In Love With Africa' quilt is all done, and its way back home.

This quilt measures 74" x 86", and has various types of appliqué and piecing on both sides.  The pantograph is 'African Samba'.  I used my glide foot, so as to smoothly quilt over all the appliqués.  There's a light gray-blue thread, more gray than blue, in So Fine 50-wt. on top, and silver Bottom Line 60-wt. thread on the back.  

Following is what my customer, Linda, wrote about this quilt:

My husband and I lived in Argentina for 14 years for his job in mining.

A gal came from South Africa with 250 kilos of fabric.  She was a quilter also.  When she left, I bought something like 50 pounds of fabric from her.  So, for the most part, this quilt is made up of mostly African fabric.

The name of this pattern is called 'Village', by Kim McLean. I saw this quilt at our local quilt show last year. It had all these houses in the middle, but when I saw it those houses didn't look like they belonged. Not with these wild animals. I came home and started drawing animals that weren't in the pattern. 

I ordered the original and completely changed it.

They had to have a source of water, so that's where the river came in. Then I knew the river had to have crocodiles, frogs, and fish. 

I looked on the Internet to see what the fish look like in Africa, and then, as close as I could, drew some.

I looked for African huts, people doing different things, chickens running around, etc. It was so much fun to do. 

Like I said before, for the most part the fabric is from South Africa.

I was especially happy to have the piece of fabric with Nelson Mandela (on the back).