Cultural Fusion Quilts

Fantastic book. Really has kicked my creative mojo into high gear. Two quilts made from this book, another started, many more swirling around in my brain.

Fantastic book. Really has kicked my creative mojo into high gear. Two quilts made from this book, another started, many more swirling around in my brain.

Fantastic book. Really has kicked my creative mojo into high gear. Two quilts made from this book, another started, many more swirling around in my brain.

Sujata Shah takes a different look at traditional blocks and adds her interpretation with 15 simple and fun free-form block projects in Cultural Fusion Quilts: A Melting Pot of Piecing Traditions.

Weve featured an extract from this book on page 60 of this months issue; if youve already looked over Sujata Shahs Crazy Quilt then youll know that the author is an inspired designer. Sujata has a unique perspective on the craft, being born in Mumbai and moving to the USA later. She describes in her introduction how as an adolescent she would love fabrics but found sewing crushingly dull, telling her mother she would rather die than hold a needle! Later in life, after moving to the States and getting married, she discovered a love of quilting, luckily for us, and took much inspiration from fusing the styles of her native India and American folk art and Amish quilting. The resulting projects are a sight to see! The 15 free form block projects featured in this book are a celebration of this melting pot, and brim with ideas. The book is accompanied, refreshingly, with photographs illustrating some of the inspirations and stories behind the projects, and its a pleasure to see how Sujata has translated them into works of quilted excellence.