Kawandi Style

As you may know I'm quite taken with Kawandi style of quilting. I've played around a bit with both fabric and paper and have shared almost all of those projects here on the blog.

This was one of my first paper Kawandi style paper quilts...and you can read about it here in this post.

I used this tried and true technique with Roseanne's pre-stitched brown paper and those precious scraps.

My first step was reinforcing the back of the paper with some fused fabric. Stitching on paper creates perforated holes...so it can easily rip. Fabric backing gave the paper strength to hold up to stitching.

I started in one corner with a little scrap...

and kept adding...overlapping and stitching the scraps around the edge.

I stitched a couple rows before I needed to add additional squares and I would tuck them in to fill in the gaps and cover the brown paper. A variety of size and shape gives it interest.

I kept going....and once I get to the middle I was done.

Easy Peasy....and so satisfying. It only took about 10 minutes.

The papers are pretty diverse...but there's a good mix of light and dark they all work so well together and tell a personal story for Roseanne. Tune in tomorrow to see what I made for Roseanne with this Kawandi style paper quilt.