Stitchdelight

A few weeks ago, Daleen Lubbe, of Stitchdelight expressed her intend to clear out space for new projects in her cupboards by offering all items and projects previously embroidered, stitched and/or quilted for sale.  In order to be able to sell embroidery designs, they have to be embroidered and being in the business for about 25 years, the samples quickly stacked up.  Upping the sales of her designs by making complete bags, quilts, cushions, placemats etc. to give prospective buyers an idea what the designs can be used for, took up a lot of space.  Daleen offered it at ridiculously low prices with the idea to just recover the input cost of the fabrics, lace, batting etc. she used.

So, shopping I went.  Being an avid buyer of Daleen's designs, I mainly focused on items for which I don't have the designs, large designs and complex items.  Below is my stash (thus far)...

Dream Big for small hoops

I bought all the different embroidery sizes for these panels and did embroider a medium size one thus far on an Amafu print in 2020.  This post refers.  However, to embroider one panel like this, take 50 hoopings, so buying a completed one is a huge bargain.

Plain fabric leafy panel

Another huge bargain, 38 different key fobs.

Majestic Lion

A beautiful masterpiece of 85cm to which I will add blocks to convert it into a quilt.  I collected twelve patchwork quilt blocks as and when they were on sale and think they will make a gorgeous addition to this already masterful piece.  So, watch this space.

A beautiful 40cm quilted circle.

Quilted Mandala

Elegant horses

I received all the fonts below for free which I will convert into some useful items.

Matching Jurassic Font

Scratch Font

Swirly Swan Font

Elegant Renaissance Font

Hunter Font

Boho-baby-font

Little Blossom Font

Perfection Font

Little Ellie

Little cloud nine font

Montery Font

Little Stance Font

This cross stitch Christmas bauble sneaked its way into the package.

That's all for now.  As promised another sale will be held this week for the articles left over as well as fabric she also wants to clear out.  I just hope I will get a few pieces, as its fastest fingers first on that Whatsapp group.  Do ccome back regularly to see what was done with these pieces.

Placemats

I finished the placemats and is really happy with them although they took so long to embroider and was really heavy on thread usage.  I had to visit our local Jacksons to buy an additional piece of the Shwe-Shwe print I bought last year at Wookeys (this post refers) as I needed some just to finish the last one's binding.

Sew Happy BOM

I finished this quilt and is super happy how it turned out.  I was hesitant about the navy border as I couldn't get the exact same shade of navy as was used elsewhere in the quilt, but oh boy, don't it just look lovely, bright and breezy?

 The quilting was done using various techniques.  The four blocks were done with feather embroidery designs from Embroidery Library as well as some stitch in the ditch.  Walking foot stitching was done on the sasching strips with freehand feathers on the wide navy borders.

The four outside corner stones were embroidered in the similar fashion with matching feather designs.

A closeup of the feather done around the outside as well as the braid I attached to the small red border.

I then stitched some red and green buttons on the small yellow cornerstones and another one in the center and I just love the appearance of it.

With the label at the back, this quilt is done.