The weblog of Christine Covert – the African Fabric Lady
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2010
Sumptuous lightly “gilded” prints from Bangkok are showing up in African Fabric Markets, and who am I to buck the trend! After all, the African aesthetic favors complex layered images and startling color combinations. See our new selection at www.africanfabricsales.com and let me know what you think. Isa2
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 1st, 2010
Yup, we had snow flurries yesterday. A little early in my opinion, but no one asked me in advance. However, there I was snuggled into a quilt made of African Indigo Fabrics, on the sofa beside the wood stove, so what did I care? Actually, lots, because now I really have to get it together [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2010
From younger days I remember seersucker as appearing in one form only–pale stripes of one color or another. It was worn by people of both genders in the summer months. For women as dresses and slacks, and for men as sport jackets. But seersucker has many manifestations these days. This is one example though this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2010
For some number of years I spent some number of weekends each fall on the road participating at quilt shows. It was fun to meet my customers in person, and to catch up on each other’s news. It was also a tremendous amount of work, from start to finish. I miss seeing friends–vendors and quilters [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2010
Greetings, Plenty of you have encouraged me to offer new Wax Print Fat Quarters, so here they come. If you don’t see what you are looking for–in other words, if you saw something in the Yard Cuts page for Wax and it isn’t here–just get in touch with me and I’ll cut yours and add [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2010
This title was also parked in the drafts folder with nothing further written. Little do I still know–I have no idea what I was going to share with you but it must have been breathless deathless prose of one sort or another. Sorry we all missed it. Isa2
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
The cleaning up of unfinished business in My Drafts Folder continues here……An email arrived in my Inbox last spring with the Message Header: My Plight!!!! The contents are reproduced in full below absent the writer’s full name. “Hello, I’m writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and i came down here to Edinburgh,Scotland United [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
What, you might wonder, does this title have to do with anything, at least 6 weeks since Hurricane Earl blew itself into and out from our minds? Well, I could only answer that I thought I was going to write something then about how the weather services have us in their grip of fear mongering. [...]
Posted in Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo, Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2010
A friend writes to refer me to some fabric dyeing videos on YouTube, commenting that this she is arm chair traveling this year. Enjoy–there are lots of fun ones here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3KPpcMHUs&feature=related
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2010
Greetings All, Our splendid summer continues. We are finally getting a well needed soaking rain–we’ve been not as dry as Africa, but the water table has dropped enough that the cellar no longer floods when it does rain. How do we count our blessings? Well, we just had a new totally automatic sump pump installed [...]
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