Shweshwe

We had a long, busy week with transfers happening Wednesday-Friday. Ten outgoing missionaries,nine incoming missionaries, 28 trainers and trainees, all came through our house. We held four meetings of between 2-4 hours long each and served almost 50 meals. So, we were ready for a quiet weekend.

I chose to have fun with some fabric I bought in S. Africa. It's called Sehoeshoe or shweshwe..

It comes in interesting small patterns with bigger coordinating prints on the back. It makes it easy to make outfits with this coordinated fabric used in different parts of the dress.

I've been trying to figure out how they make it, but even after reading about it I'm not sure how they dye it one way on one side a different on the other. So far it's a mystery to me.

I used shweshwe to make the box sashing around the autumn leaves and pumpkin. It was a fun and easy project. I do love a good project! I'm going to use it on the table for Thanksgiving and then make it into an autumn throw quilt for the back of the couch next fall. It sure was a fun weekend.

First try Second try

Here's a question for the OCD who read this. Can you see why I had to take the quilt apart last night and remake it? Just couldn't have enjoyed it the way it was the first try. Neurotic, right! Quiet evenings locked in the house can make you do crazy things! But it looks so much better!