Baby Quilt

At the start of November, one of my quilting friends, Frances, asked me to embroider flowers for a baby quilt she is making for her youngest son's first baby called Sofia.  For this, Frances choose the Floral Sketches set from Hatched in Africa to alternate with the card trick quilt blocks she had made.

After finishing the top, she had it quilted by Hettie Pringle who did a beautiful job as always.

According to the proud grandmother, the quilt attracted beautiful comments at the stork party.

Baby statistic Bunny

With all the extra draughting work I am currently doing, quilting and machine embroidery as well as digitizing, is almost non existing.  I however did receive a request from one of my clients for a bunny for her new granddaughter.

All the other baby statistics I have done, was on teddy bears.  Luckily I was able to find a bunny which would work on Planet Applique's website available here.  I bought Mongolian fleece as it is so much softer and fluffy but decided that ordinary polar fleece is just better for the wording as this fleece spill over the embroidery making it look sloppy in my opinion.

Lovely Hearts Set 2 embroidery designs updated

The set I wrote about in this post was revamped and replaced with new designs in my store here.  It is on special for one week and include a free design to download and try before buying.  The designs are available in 3 sizes.

The set includes 8 hearts with a bow at the top of the heart and 4 without the bow.  For the applique, I used satin ribbon in two contrasting colors which I basket weaved.

Now I still have to transform these blocks into a quilt which will be for sale.

Lovely Hearts Set 1 embroidery designs updated

The set I wrote about in this post was revamped and replaced with new designs.  It was much more work than I originally anticipated, embroidering all 12 designs as well as using them in a project to help boost sales.  It just felt forever the last 3 weeks or so, but it is finally done and uploaded on my shop's page here.  It is on special for one week and include a free design to download and try before buying.  The designs are available in 3 sizes, two of which I used in the quilt as you can see below.

Even taking decent photographs of the completed quilt was a no go. 😒

A close-up of the center.

The set includes 8 hearts with ribbon weaved through embroidered buttonholes with a bow at the top of the heart and 4 without the ribbon.  They embroidered beautifully and the ribbon added that bit of oomph and 3D dimension to an otherwise plain heart.

The first time using scuba for a quilt and I really do like the softness of the fabric although it gave me loads of trouble with the quilting since I used the stitch and flip method rather than adding a binding.  Wont make that mistake again.  

Miscellaneous embroidery items done

Whilst finding my feet with the new Luminaire by taking it one step at a time, I caught up with some orders on my Brother Innovis 4000 (lovingly called Boetie - the Afrikaans for Brother).

My friend from Clover and Stitch, Ansulet, asked me to compile all the parts necessary for a biscornu pincushion for a friend of hers.  So, I embroidered the two parts and added stuffing, ribbon and a tassel with which she can now complete the biscornu on her own time.

Pattern Biscornu 2 available from Artistic Designs

My husband wanted two bookmarks, and as the frame can do 3 at a time, I stitched 3 and gave the third one to the young girl to whom I donated my mother's Elna 2004 .

I also digitized and stitched a logo for a fellow bowler of my husbands bowling club.

I completed this cute frog a few weeks ago which I received a few years back halfway done by a woman who had since died.

I also made a baby statistic bear for a friend of mine's first grandson.

Design from Ofnah Embroidery Designs

A spit cloth was also stitched on Saturday with a crochet border added yesterday by friend Magda and delivered today.

Yes, again this adorable little elephant from Appliquetion Station

Amazing what one can achieve in just one day just staying seated behind the machines. Feels like it's been a long time since I had the luxury of stitching away, but that's just because life happened.  With the new Luminaire I had to split my sewing room into two rooms to accommodate both Brothers.  I also had to do an over hall of my closet as I am starting working fulltime on the 1st of April and was in serious need of office clothes.  Luckily friend Magda stepped in and helped by doing some alterations as well as stitching some jackets to wear over the sleeveless dresses.  I now also have to spend some time acquainting myself with Autocad 3D so that I can at least use the program efficiently.

On top of that I have to finish the quilts destined to be exhibited at the Bloemshow as well as finishing 4 blocks of the Bernina challenge I am partaking in before the end of the month.  And my shop needs some new designs as well.  So much to do and so little time...

When mistakes happens...

Friend Magda had a bad embroidery day or three with a few spit cloths ruined, but with adding this cute little elephant from Appliquetion Station I was able to salvage them.

I appliqued the elephant to the back as well as the front and with clever placement of satin ribbons

 

as well as a little bow, these spit cloths now look super cute.

A few months back I had the misfortune of Sharpies bleeding and salvage the spit cloth also using the same elephant.  A cute as well as versatile design and big enough to cover just about anything.