Pond life

After spending many years on my design wall, the stained glass butterfly as well as the two backgrounds I wrote about in this post was finally turned into a wall hanging after I saw these designs on Kreative Kiwi's website.

I thought at first to stitch two separate quilts but then got the idea of using the tree to camouflage the seam between the two backgrounds thus turning it into one continuous quilt.

I embroidered all the motifs on black fabric to duplicate the stained glass look of the butterfly.  This ufo of 2017 is done.

Cushions

I have started to use some of the stitch outs I bought from Stichdelight in January 2024 (this post refers).  At this stage only cushions were made.

This one is the plain-fabric-leafy-panel which is designed for smaller hoop sizes to stitch items to coordinate with the original 43" x 43" Hoffman-Dream-Big-Leaf panel.  The set consist of about 50 individual designs which are stitched separately to create a stunning masterpiece.

  This is the 43" panel stitched by Stitchdelight.  The design is available here.

This is an original panel without any stitching done in another color way.  Absolutely stunning.

I added some gold braid around the embroidery which finished it off quite nice.  The cushion received some well deserved compliments at Bloemshow earlier this year.

I also finished the quilted circle into a round cushion using a beautiful coordinating bridal satin thus turning this into a double sided cushion.

Below is a closeup photo of the embroidered panel.  I am however unfortunately unable to find the pattern on the website as I don't know the name or number of it.

I also finished one of the alphabets I received for free into a pillow.

This font is available here.

Edge to Edge Quilting Designs Set 4

This set is also finished and uploaded to my store.  If you are interested, just follow this link.

Jelly Roll Rug Nr. 2

Two fellow quilters visited me mid-June to get some tips for making a Jelly Roll Rug.  I am no professional but having done one already I was able to give them some tips as well as directing them to the Facebook and YouTube sites I used to help me with my first one.  The info is available by clicking on the Jelly Roll Label on the right-hand side.

Although the tubing was completed back in June, with my husband being in hospital 4 times in as many months and me dividing my time between two jobs, it had to wait patiently for it's time to shine.  This time I made a green and purple one from 2 jelly rolls as well as some fat quarters of the same fabrics.  This one ended up 38 x 51.5".

Although I didn't unpick anything this time around, I had my work cut out for me with my Brother Luminaire acting up and constantly skipping stitches, no matter the presser foot or stitch I tried, all did the same.  Changing thread, needles, bobbin cases, everything, no luck.  After contacting a Brother dealer, I was advised to clear out between the tension discs as well as to change the tension, the presser foot pressure as well as the stitch length and width.  With everything done and finding some fluff in the tension disk, I was finally able to complete it.  Almost the whole rug was stitched twice to get rid of all the gaps. 😒 And after all that, the rug isn't 100% flat as I stopped ironing along the way as it looked completely flat.  Well, lesson learned, keep on ironing.  

A whole heap of tubing ready to be transformed.

This label was added to the end and

this one to the back.