During the Voices-in-cloth quilt festival 2024 I signed up for the Miniature Storm at Sea quilt presented by teacher Annie du Toit. It was really an informative class with Annie showing us how easy it in fact is to do miniature quilt blocks using foundation paper piecing.
Embroidery Girl
Machine Embroidery and Quilting
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Miniature Storm at Sea quilt
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
New embroidery designs for sale
It's been a month since my last blog post and sadly, not much happened since then as my Brother Innovis 4000 broke down and parts isn't available locally anymore. 13 years and 30 million stitches later, the machine is now considered obsolete. So, although I have my Bernina 830 of 1981 to use, I just couldn't find the inspiration. I am so sad and so utterly disappointed in Brother... I was able to find the parts in the USA, but after buying and paying for all, I was informed that they however don't have all the parts in stock. My friend's fiancé would have brought it with the end of November, but now, who knows?
I was however able to digitize a new set of 12 heart designs for smaller hoops, as I currently can't continue with the Bohemian set which require the extra-large hoop of the NV4000. They are available here from my shop at Oregon Patchworks.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Four Patch Posy Completed
After hours and hours of quilting, the Four Patch Posy quilt are finally finished.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Disappearing Pinwheel
The second project our Rotary Cutters quilt group did for the year, was the Disappearing Pinwheel. Another very innovative way of starting off with just two squares of light and dark, constructing half square triangles and stitching them together to form a 12" pinwheel.
or this one, the look I went for.
It is created with 4 blocks laid out in the order as shown below which really had me utterly confused as I swopped the dark and light fabrics. And I also wanted the print of the darker fabric to all go in the same direction in each quarter, which my son (not so jokingly) refers to as his mother's OCD.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Shopping at Fabric8
This month's shopping at Fabric8 included among others more wool for Cheyenne's blanket as well as some cute charms and a pinking scissor. Do scroll down for a picture of the blanket.
The package was as per usual wrapped in gift paper
It is like unwrapping a present within a present and is just so welcoming.
Then another packet inside with all my little purchases.
Miniature Storm at Sea quilt
During the Voices-in-cloth quilt festival 2024 I signed up for the Miniature Storm at Sea quilt presented by teacher Annie du Toit . It...
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