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Ankara Appreciation Week 2023
Its time for Ankara Appreciation Week 2023. Have you made an outfit out of African wax print aka Ankara and just loved it? Enjoying the sewing and then the wearing of a garment, surely is the perfect match. Here’s your chance to show off your make and check out what others have been making. There’s nothing like a gallery of different outfits and pattern ideas to get the creative juices flowing.
Ankara appreciation week is a fun online social media event whereby people share things they have made with this vibrant and colourful cloth.
The event has been put together by Juilet Uzor and Lena King mainly on Instagram with a dedicated hashtag #sewankarafabric23
Join in the fun by posting and tagging your Ankara garment on Instagram from the 10th to 15th July. You can also enjoy checking out he huge variety of makes by other sewists using the hashtag. It’s bound to be a lot of fun with plenty of inspiration.
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