Scissor pockets

Birthday present done for a friend of 32 years, Rika van der Merwe.  Scissor cases to keep those scissors safe from Oregon patchworks.

Alphabet Design Set

After working mostly overtime the last 2 weeks, I eventualy managed to get this set finished.  

All night quilting session

After having an all night quilting session earlier this year at Hettie Pringle, our teacher's house (read the post here), we became hooked on the idea and arranged our own last night.  Me, Annelie, Linda and Sonja arrived at Natasha's home at 18h00 and manage to get quite a lot of stitching done. 

Here Annelie is busy knitting a beanie for her brand new and first grandchild, Jonathan.  She also started knitting one for herself as well as a cover for a hot water bottle.  In between she also managed to embroider her latest runner.  A real busy body, this one!

Annelie brought her sister, Linda, with and Chillie kept Linda company most of the evening.  Linda embroidered a cross stitch runner. 

Here is the lady of the house, Natasha and me busy with our foundation piecing projects.  Natasha and her sister, Bianca, was our chefs for the evening and prepared delicious spring rolls filled with a sweet corn and cheese mix and a feta and bacon mix.  At 23h00 our supper was potato soup and buns.  Delicious!  

It was a really pleasant night.  Thanks girls!

Now I'm off to putting in a few hours overtime.  My day job is seriously interfering with my hobbies.....

Home is where the heart is

Another design for sale.  It is embellished with Swarovsky crystals.

Baby Quilt

I just listed this Baby Quilt with Pillowcase at Etsy.  I made it a few years back when I still thought it was a good idea to exhibit at flea markets. 

If one of my SA readers wants to buy it, you can just contact me.  This set was sadly lost in our house fire in 2014.

Up and running again

I had an extremely frustrating week with not much embroidery or quilting done.  After the fhising attack on my computer last week, most of this week was spend buying and installing anti-virus programs, firewalls and spyware as the free versions doesn't offer complete protection.  Scanning and fixing as well as changing passwords was also very time consuming.  Luckily the Trojan was removed without the need to format the computer and starting from scratch.

The little bit of embroidery eventually done, was also very trying as everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.  It was really a week that I wish I could undo.

Enough moaning.  Let's rather talk embroidery.  Here is some pictures of the duvet cover I made for my son, Trevor aged 12, in 2009.  He is a big supporter of our local rugby team, the Free State Cheetahs. 

I embroidered a border of Cheetah footprints around the duvet using applique stuffed with batting to get a 3D effect. 

The head was split in 14 pieces as I could only embroider 130 x 180mm at the time.  The complete head measures a whopping 740 x 480mm. 

I am extremely proud of the end result.

Here the duvet is spread over a double bed.

Christmas Crazy Quilt - Close-up's 2

Some more pic's.