The weblog of Christine Covert - the African Fabric Lady
Posted in African Prints, Bazin, Events, Hand-Decorated Damask, People, Uncategorized, WAX on Apr 11th, 2010
If you can’t make it to Africa this year, or even any time soon, New York is a pretty good second choice. We are here for the month of April, having rented an apartment at 119th & Frederick Douglass in Harlem. While our little street is pretty quiet, we’re just a couple of blocks away [...]
Posted in African Prints, Events on May 10th, 2009
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It had been my intention to post weekly at African Fabric Lady, but life intervened, weeks passed, and anyway here I am again. In December we traveled to NYC where we saw the fabulous if small show of African Fabrics at the Metropolitan Museum. I still can’t determine how [...]
Greetings All,
I’ve just returned from the Quilters’ Gathering. No quilts strong on African Fabric…we’ll have to work on this for next year’s show. But I handed out many cards and encouraged folks to send in snapshots of their quilts using African Fabrics for the soon to be launched Gallery Section of this blog.
If [...]
Posted in Events, Other Links on Nov 4th, 2008
This is the weekend for the annual Quilter’s Gathering, held at Nashua, New Hampshire. It’s their 20th Anniversary show, and the second year of the second generation of promoters, daughters of the women who started the show. I’m the only vendor who specializes in African Fabric at all the shows where I participate, though there [...]
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