Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Art of Quilting Sampler Quilt - Blocks 46 to 47 and 52 to 60

Another 11 blocks finished and ready to be added to the assembled top.

Blocks 46-47 and 53-54

Blocks 52 and 59-60

Blocks 55 to 58 (made a mistake with one block though and only discover it afterwards - will have to unpick the whole block.  Not so nice :-(



Wednesday, December 11, 2013

5th Simply Chic Carryall finished

The 5th Simply Chic Carry All I wrote about in this post, is finished.  I gave the bag to a dear friend and former colleague (of about 25 years) of mine, Sonia Botes.  She wanted one ever since she saw mine and when she was retrenched last November, I decided to make her one just to say thank you for her friendship, her prayers for me and my family and for just being there all these years.

The front
The back

The inside without the removable insert
and with the insert.
The lucky lady.





Clover and stitch

During the first meeting of 2024 in February, friend Ansulet Swanepoel demonstrated a rather mind-blowing technique enabling quilters to tur...