Thursday, October 22, 2020

Homestead Quilt 9

I have been less productive the past few weeks as I changed from work and found it absolutely stressful.  I have been working in the Roads Department of a local engineering company for most of the past 40 years but as things are falling apart quite rapidly in all of the State Owned Entities in South Africa, I could not pass up the opportunity to work from home for a UK company although it meant learning a new draughting program (Microstation) as well as changing to railways and all the electrical installations that goes with it.  But by taking baby steps and utilizing Google as well as YouTube tutorials, it is getting better every day.

I did manage to finish another 4 blocks of this quilt though.

Block 36 Wishing Ring

Block 37 Wild goose chase

Block 38 Diamond grid

Block 39 Fool's square


Clover and stitch

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