Elephant Story.
This time I looked to my fabrics for inspiration. I wanted to use the bark cloth from Kenya and remembered the Elephant Story form Zimbabwe.
When God first made elephants their favouite food was butterflies. They ate huge numbers. God didn't want all the butterflies to be eaten so he told tthe elephants that he would make a tree with leaves like butterflies which would taste delicious. The Mopane Tree has been the elephants favouite food ever since, and there are hundreds of butterflies in Southern Africa.
Alison Farmer
This time I looked to my fabrics for inspiration. I wanted to use the bark cloth from Kenya and remembered the Elephant Story form Zimbabwe.
When God first made elephants their favouite food was butterflies. They ate huge numbers. God didn't want all the butterflies to be eaten so he told tthe elephants that he would make a tree with leaves like butterflies which would taste delicious. The Mopane Tree has been the elephants favouite food ever since, and there are hundreds of butterflies in Southern Africa.
Alison Farmer
I love your quilt, Alison, and what a lovely story too. I just love the African stories and have got quite a few volumes of them but this one was new to me. I do know that the Mopane trees attract worms, called "mopaniewurms, in Afrikaans and I even ate some of them long long ago.
ReplyDeleteWell done Alison. Yes, a lovely story - I hadn't heard it before either. The Ele's look great using the batik fabric - gives them some life somehow! BTW - I dyed some Barkcloth with Indigo - works great - come up black!
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