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 Connection. I had been fortunate to hear Sujata speak at a Seattle MQG meeting last year or so, but had yet taken a class from her. When I began seeing folks post about their Siddi quilts more recently, I knew I wanted to learn to make one too, and jumped at the chance when it materialized. It was so interesting, all history, words, and techniques I was not familiar with, and of course, hanging out with Sujata for a few hours was a pleasure.
So I'm not sure quite how long it's going to take me, as it's all by hand, so I thought I'd document the start of it by giving you a couple of peeks. Rather than totally use scraps, I dug into my modest Anna Maria Horner stash, much of which was floral, as well as some that was thinner than quilter's cotton - lawn maybe? I do expect I'll be adding some scraps, and definitely some other prints and solids, but the AMH Loulouthi you see in the for corners - the "pillars" - is where it all began.
So those pins are only there to keep things in place while I moved the piece to my evening-stitching seat - don't tell Sujata! ha. And that little corner bit? A "fula." So far, I'm finding the sewing to be most enjoyable. I'll be back eventually with an update!
