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2018 Kenya Quilt Show – Art meets fabric: 8-26 March 2018





The Nairobi National Museum, part of the network of National Museums of Kenya, is hosting the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show – Arts meets fabric – from 8-26 March 2018.

Presented by the Kenya Quilt Guild, a range of art quilters are presenting their artworks.

Two of the established quilters presented in the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show is Dena Dale Crain and Beverley Rebelo.

Dena Dale Crain of Lake Baringo in Kenya, has a background in fashion design, textiles and consumer economics, and African art anthropology. She helped found the Kenya Quilt Guild and is currently a Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates. She established a global art critique service (SAQArtique) for its international members – the first of its kind for art quilters. Dena Dale Crain is also an international art quilting teacher. She is a South African Quilters Guild certified quilt judge and judges for the Unted Nations Art for Peace.

Beverley Rebelo lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has shifted from traditonal quilt techniques to free motion machine quilting and thread painting, incorporating photographs into her quilts. Beverley Rebelo is a National Quilt Judge and a South African recognized international quilt teacher.

Other art quilters on display at the 2018 Kenya Quilt Show are Patty Arensen, Kulwinder K Birdi, Dal Botha, Jaya Kamdar, Jharna Kamdar, Christine Kibuka, Gretchen Sanders Mwaura, Charulata Patel, Kundan Pattni, Jasvinder Phull, Gill Rebelo, Veena Sennik, and Dorothy Stockell.

The art quilters showcase traditional and original designs, machine and hand pieced, machine and hand quilting, machine and hand applique, embroidery stitch, fabric painting, and embellishments.

Amazon by Veena Sennik
Bubbles III by Dena Dale Crain 
Ammonite by Beverley Rebelo
Tortoise Foot by Beverley Rebelo
African Indigo by Gill Rebelo 
Dahlia by Kulwinder K Birdi
Single Irish Chain by Dorothy Stockell
Chai by Gretchen Sanders Mwaura (made with used tea bags) 
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Gill's Quilt by Gill Rebelo
Giraffe and Egrets by Beverley Rebelo
Babwe by Beverley Rebelo
Modern Africa by Dorothy Stockell

Out of Africa by Jaya Kamdar
African Drums by Jaya and Jharna Kamdar
Maasai Necklace by Charulata Patel
Bird's Kingdom by Christine Kibuka
African Wedding Ring by Kundan Pattni
Thinking Summer by Veena Sennik 
Fight for the Elephant by Jasvinder Phull
A Mother's Love by Patty Arensen





MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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