Curved Log Cabin Quilt

For 2026's National Quilt Day, the South African Quilters' Guild choose the curved log cabin pattern.  I have been wanting to stitch this pattern ever since watching Donna Jordan's video using a jelly roll.  Using one of the roll's my husband bought me for my birthday in December and some prints from my stash with cream for the background, I started stitching the 16 blocks required.  And this is the completed quilt.

The quilting was done by starting off with a spiral machine embroidery design in the center and then just continue stitching round and round which I think compliment the rounded effect of the log cabin blocks.

The spiral machine embroidery design is available in my shop here.

Below is a close-up of the background fabrics showing the different prints used.

For photo's of our Guild's National Quilting Day held at A Lodge, read this post.

Donna's free pattern is available here for download.

Baby quilts with lovely hearts and edge to edge designs

Scrolling through my blog posts, I realize that I never posted photos of the two complete baby quilts I finished in March.  It hasn't been a very productive year thus far with three quarters of the year already behind us.  I will have to seriously make up time.

With the Lovely Hearts Set 1 I digitized, I made a whole cloth quilt with lace and satin ribbon added to the sides.

Set 2 was done in separate blocks which were combined with some of the edge-to-edge designs which is also for sale in my store.  This blue and purple quilt was gifted to one of my sons' friends who welcomed their firstborn recently.

All designs can be purchased here.

Sea Glass design

I was finally able to finish this design and upload it to my store.  I actually embroidered it twice as I entered the first one in the Sew Awareness 2026 quilt festival which contained copyrighted designs from another store.  So, to be able to upload a photo on my store, I needed to embroider another one.

I don't know if it is a labor of love or just craziness to gather up about 120 different pieces of fabric and about 60 spools of thread and change color with every piece of fabric.  Embroidering about 15 pieces per evening after a whole day of work, well, you decide.  The design was already done in February and embroidering two of them with life in-between, brought us to mid June.  And beware, rummaging through so much fabric left your studio looking somewhat like a war zone.

Get your own design here while it is still on special.  Completed size is 400 x 500mm.

I gifted this one to a friend who is going to turn it into a bath mat.  I will put up a picture of my original one after the festival have concluded.

Edge to Edge Quilting Designs Set 6

And finally all 60 designs is finished.  It has been a long trek getting all of them done and I can continue with all the other ideas filling my head.  Producing 60 designs in 8 sizes and in 10 different versions for Bernina, Husqvarna, Pfaff, Singer, Brother etc. machines resulted in a grand total of 5 611 files - something people just don't realize.

Last year Embroidery Library updated their website after babying their customers for years and they received terrible backlash from their customers.  Some people bought designs and never downloaded it and expected the store to keep their purchases until the day they decided to use it.  No, that's not how it work.  The bigger the store gets, the more expensive and cumbersome it gets.  It's like any other item you buy, you take it home with you and take responsibility for it's safekeeping.  

They were all bitching and moaning because they now have to download a zip file...  Well, it is so much faster to upload one zip file containing all the different versions instead of uploading one by one.  You just unzip and delete the files you don't need.  Just good housekeeping.  The difference by using these 60 designs as an example, I uploaded 600 files in total instead of 5 611.  I thing the numbers speak for themselves.

And for taking the store's side, I was told off by quite a few as being perfect and what not.  No, far from perfect, just always mindful about how files are stored since starting to work on PC's as a computer aided draftsperson since 2000.

Herewith the last set of 10 designs.  Embroidery Girl's store

Edge to Edge Quilting Designs Set 5

Set 5 of 6 done and dusted.  Get your own set here in my shop while on promotion.

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.

Edge to Edge Quilting Designs Set 3

After three months of juggling two jobs as well as coping with an ill husband, I was finally able to finish up Set 3 of these designs.  If you are interested in getting a set of your own, you can get them here in my shop.