The Art of Quilting Sampler Quilt - Blocks 73-90

The last few blocks are complete and I am busy finishing the top so that I can start the quilting process. 

Blocks 73-74 and 78-79

Blocks 75,77 and 84-85

Blocks 80 and 87

Blocks 82-83 and 89-90

 

Block 88

Advanced Beginners continue

We continued with the Advanced Beginners Quilt classes with the Mariner's Compass block using the foundation piecing method.



Block 12

Advanced Beginners Quilt

We finally moved back into our own home during March after the repairs was done.  The house is almost new with lots of improvements for which we are so grateful.  We had insurance on the building as well as the contents and had absolutely no problems at all getting our claims finalized.

The rest of our quilting group started in February with an Advanced Quilt Course.  When all my stuff was eventually unpacked, I was a little behind and had to hurry to catch up to them.  It is absolutely heavenly to be able to quilt and embroider again.  I missed it dearly for the 7 months whilst everything was in storage.

For this quilt, I decided to use Satin and Taffeta.  I adore Taffeta as it looks so rich and luxurious that I just had to make something with it.  The photo's was taken before quilting was done.  We are using the quilt-as-you-go technique, so each block is quilted after assembly.

Block 1 (3D Flying Geese)

Block 2 - Snail's Trail

Block 3 (Half and Quarter Square Triangles)

Block 4 (Alternative Curves)

Block 5 (Four fans - Six blades)


Etsy shop

I am busy closing up my Etsy shop and moving to Craftsy as the business over at Etsy is extremely poor.  I hope Craftsy will be an improvement.  This will happen over the next 4 months until all the items expiring at Etsy are moved.

If some of the links is not working, just let me know and I will fix them asap.  You can find my Craftsy shop here.

Our house repairs is finally under way and we can hopefully move back at the end of February 2015.  I dearly miss my embroidery machines as well as quilting, but is using the time to sort out my vast library of machine embroidery designs and obviously, moving my shop.

Photo's of the damage to our house as well as the repairs being done, is on my Facebook page.

Regards.

Our house

Our house caught fire on the 31st of August.  Although only half was destroyed by fire, the rest was ruined by the water of the fire brigade and the black soot.  As a result, all of my machines are in for repairs and everything else that was salvageable, is in storage.  It will be some time until I will be able to quilt or embroider again. 

We are currently renting a fully furnished house as ours needs a complete makeover.  Telkom finally succeeded migrating our line to our new address only yesterday, so the internet are up and running again at long last.

Keep well!

Embroidered toys for Aiden (3)

I made this closet organizer for Aiden's room using the Signature Closet Organizer design from A stitch a half.  which I made for my sister in 2010.  The design is available in 2 sizes which I combined to create 7 pockets.  I added satin ribbon to the edges of the pockets to create deeper pockets.

I substituted the original designs with this set from Hatched in Africa with free motion stitching for a background.

And yet again I can't remember where I bought/downloaded the monograms.

This is what the original design looks like.  This post refer.

I will be making one for a baby girl one of these days as one of Megan's friends ordered one.  All the panels are embroidered in the hoop and then assembled using a sewing machine.

Embroidered toys for Aiden (2)

Another few toys I made for Aiden.  Having a few hundred thousand designs, it is impossible to keep track of the websites of all the free one's.  I think this little frog came from the Cuties website as well.  Unfortunately it has been down for a few months now, so it will do no good adding the link.

 

A cute, or is it grumpy? frog face.

 

Ollie Owl - from GG designs embroidery

This gorgeous set of Teddy's from Inspiration Mutz was a definite choice.  I fell in love with the designs the moment I saw them and just had to buy them.  I wanted to do the bunny family is well but unfortunately ran out of time.

 

 

Baby Bear

Mama Bear

and Papa Bear
 



The family.  Aren't they just beautiful?

My son-in-law was real perplexed when I said I need unused cat litter to finish up Aiden's toys!  As I wrote in last week's post, I did all the embroidery and stitching at home.  After my husband stuffed them, I just added the cat litter in zip lock bags to the bottom before closing them up and Voila! standing proud.