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Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and More! As the anniversary of my first trip to Africa draws near, the images, sights, sounds and smells of Ouagadougou are filling my heart and mind and serve as my creative muse. Indigo batiks filled the marketplaces, many with similar images but no two were exactly alike. As an artist, I appreciate hand-crafted art. On this site, in the archive under Traditional African Techniques you can see how the process of how the beautiful batiks are made.

A gathering of quilters in Harrisburg, PA. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. A Common Thread- African American Quilters Celebrate Tradition, Freedoms. Legend has it that enslaved Africans running to freedom through the Underground Railroad used to look for North Star quilts on the clothes lines of sympathetic Northerners. Today quilting brings African Americans different freedoms- freedom of creation, freedom of expression, and freedom of relaxation.

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