Heart Quilt Block 1

 After acquiring all the fabrics needed, I could finally started working on this quilt.

I used the Crazy Heart quilt set from Molly Mine for the heart in the centre.

With Covid 19 with us for close to a year now, it was time to stitch some more masks for my son to wear at work.

I also stitched some more monograms for a few of my quilting friends who haven't received any yet.

 A friend of mine told me about somebody on Facebook selling Marathon embroidery thread at R5 each, so although I have nearly the whole catalogue of colors, it was not an opportunity to pass up on, so shopping she went buying me 100 cones.  

I also stitched myself a pouch like the one's I gave away as birthday presents last year.  The design is from Smartneedle and can be found here.  Been quite a busy week with lots of projects done.

I also made a skirt for our bed to extend to the ground.  Above is a before photo and below, after.

Spit cloths

Did some spit cloths for a new baby as well as embroidering some crosses and monograms for our friendship group named Amistad (Spanish for friendship).  And buying other background fabric for my heart quilt after my choices was shredded to pieces by my fiends. 😀

After having twin daughters 3 years ago, their parents was blessed by a boy.  They ordered the spit cloths in December but with my machine broken at the time, I was unable to embroider them in time.  But they are done now and will be on their way tomorrow.

I embroidered some crosses for some of my friends who joined our quilting group later and missed out on these beautiful bookmarks.  I always embroidered them in white, but use a beige this time and I think they look better than the white one's.  You be the judge.

The white one

and the new beige one.

I also visited all of the local quilting shops in vain to try and find two coordinating background fabrics and settled with only one background.  I also bought a yellow/orange/gold piece just to brighten up all of the dark colors.  Below are my new selection.

Baby quilt for sale

Anther one is done and ready for when I open the shop.  The quilt are completely square, just me trying still to take decent photo's, not such a good combination.  I should do a course or two on the internet.

This one was done in shades of purple, white and green with the whole quilt quilted in a variegated white and purple combination thread.

The pattern is called Mirror-Mirror and is available as a free download from Jordan Fabrics .

A close-up of the quilting done.

And the backside.

The quilt is 82 x 107cm (32"x42") and is available for ZAR650 .  It can be ordered in any color with 50% deposit payable upfront via Paypal or into a Nedbank account.  Email me at wgeel@mweb.co.za with any questions.

Heart Quilt - Fabrics

What would a new year be without a new project?

One of our local teachers started doing classes via WhatsApp since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown almost a year ago, inspiring the Guild's lady's to keep on quilting and stay busy.

So when I saw this quilt heart I just new it will be gorgeous with my Langa Lapu fabric.

For the background I chose grey

with this beautiful fabric for the sasching which pick up all the colors beautifully.

You may wonder at this stage what I am making and below is the pattern although mine won't be a traditional one like the photo.  I will be using crazy quilt heart embroidery designs, but that is still a secret.

As I am already one month behind, I will have to catch up in the next 4 weeks between all the other projects I also have going on.  Far too little hours in a day....