Thursday, October 26, 2023

Sew Happy BOM

I had seriously fallen behind with this quilt between visiting the kids and being ill.  Block 3 and 4 is done and I am busy with the borders.  I am however having trouble getting a coordinating navy fabric for the outside border as I had only a fat quarter.  Never new there are so many shades of navy until you start looking for a particular one...



Sunday, October 1, 2023

Sport towels for bowls

My son was chosen to represent the Southern Free State bowls under/30 team at the inter districts tournament held in Klerksdorp.  As part of their outfit, they needed towels to keep the bowls clean.

I embroidered one for each of the 4 team members adding their SFS numbers as well.  

And this what it looked like.





They four young men representing their province.
From left to right:  Mardian Bezuidenhout, Pieter Kleynhans, Phillip Schoon and Trevor Geel JR



Clover and stitch

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