Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Critters embroidery designs

This set of designs was of the first designs I digitized and they are for sale, separate or the complete set of 9 designs - 3 fill designs and 6 applique designs.


Cat Critter

Cat Critter - Applique

Dog Critter

Flower Critter

Lion Critter - Applique

Scottish Critter - Applique

Violin Critter - Applique


Worm Critter - Applique


Bird Critter - Applique

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Outreach Quilt

On Tuesday night at our first meeting of the year, the Rotary Cutters stitched blocks for an Outreach Project of our Guild (Oranjequilters).  A fellow quilter donated the fabric and we used a technique illustrated by another Group at one of last years' quarterly meetings.  The 12.5" blocks will be cut in 4 and then assembled to form a lap quilt.  It is also linked to the Challenge for the second term.  Afterwards al the finished quilts will be donated to Dewetsdorp's Old Age Home.

This is how the 20 blocks looks thus far:





Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Baby Shoes

These adorable baby shoes pattern was included as a project in one of the Art of Quilting magazines and I just had to sew a few pairs for Grandson Aiden - now 8 weeks old and 4.5kg.  Using fabric from my stash, it took only a few days to finish.






Aiden at 7 weeks.




Clover and stitch

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