Prizes won

I have been busy with engineering drawings after office hours the last 3 months with no quilting or machine embroidery done at all.  As we are leaving for the UK in little more than a week, I won't get back on track until August.  But I'm not complaining at all.  The extra money always comes in handy.  And we get to hold our grandson for the first time!  The little guy is already 6 months old and isn't he just adorable?

Aiden Driver

 In the meantime I can boast with my latest prizewinning quilts:

2nd Prize Machine Applique

Best Innovative Quilt at the 2014 Bloemfontein Show!

Me and Bloemfontein singer Dillon Lerm.

 

The Mariette Venter Floating Trophy

I quilt just for pleasure.  The prizes just happens, but it does feel good that the judges think I'm worthy of a first prize.  Thanks also for our Guild for the prize money.

Sadly this quilt was completely destroyed during the house fire of 31 August 014.

Oranje Quilters Guild last quaterly meeting for 2013

At our last meeting for the year, a few of our group's ladies showcased their Innovative Quilts.

Dalene van der Colf with her beautiful butterflies

Hanlie Hoffmann also opted for the butterflies, equally beautiful.



My friend of 32 years, Rika van der Merwe, started quilting at the end of last year and decided to do this quilt as her Beginners project.  It turned out absolutely beautiful with her quilting attracting a lot of attention and compliments.  Well done!

And the 3rd place Viewer's Choice:

Me!

Innovative Quilt - Final Post

And so this journey came to an end with the completion of this quilt. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot.

I bought the fabric for the border during our quilt festival.  It picks up  the colours used and bind the quilt beautifully together.

 

Innovative Quilt Part 4

I completed another one of the  three owls.  My husband was so clever in finding a hairpin to use for the beak.  Now I just need to get the teacher's blessing as well. 

Hopefully I will get more ideas tomorrow night at our group meeting as I'm struggling with the last owl. It seems I used up all my ideas.

Innovative Quilt Part 3

Luckily our group meeting for May was postponed by a week, so I managed to catch up with this quilt.  The 3rd and last owl was appliqued and stitched - ready for embellishing as well.

 

 

9 of the 10 traditional blocks are also complete.

 

 

 

And last but not least - the first owl is complete .

 

 

 

With our next meeting planned for the 18th of June, I am still under pressure to get the other pair embellished, but after conquering this one, I feel a lot more confident.



Innovative Quilt Part 2

After seriously falling behind with this quilt due to overtime and the Challenge quilt I wrote about in the 2 previous posts, I finally manage to continue working on the trio of Owl blocks.  The second owl was appliqued and stitched, ready for embellishment. 

 

Read the original post here.

 



Innovative Quilt

Seven of our group members (Rotary Cutters) started an Innovative Quilt as our project for 2013 at home of one of our Guild's teachers, Iessie Steenberg (read her blog here) at the end of January.  Iessie prepared 4 different patterns from which we could choose.  Two florals, one with butterflies and one with owls.



After struggling to decide between the butterflies and owls, I asked my husband to choose and he picked the owls.  The first block look likes this after appliqueing.

Now for the real hard work, adding embroidery, beads, crystals, ribbons etc.