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.

Shades of Red - Block 4

Finally embroidered the designs for Block 4, a chili and a tomato. They were also added to my store at Oregon Patchworks.

Designs available here.

Shopping at Fabric8

I needed key rings for all the key fobs I bought from Daleen Lubbe from Stitchdelight to hand out to the other quilting ladies taking the bus to the Voices in Cloth Quilt Festival held in Pietermaritzburg.  As Fabric8's prices are very reasonable and I really enjoy shopping from them, I ordered items placed on my wish list during June.

The 40+ key fobs.

I bought a packet of globe pins to use as row counters using some of the buttons. 

One of my quilting friends used tiny little doll clothes buttons on one of her projects,
and when Fabric8 received these 4 and 5mm buttons, I bought a packet of each.

Here is a photo of all the buttons I bought showing how
tiny the buttons are in relation to normal size buttons.

I also got a craft knife and some stickers.

These cute cactus caddies' will be used for all kind of nick naks.

I also bought ordinary sucker hooks to stick to my overlocker and
sewing machine for scissors.

And last but not least I bought some more of the handy
bulky seam jumpers for one of my friends.

Luna

Our little pocket rocket, aka Luna, ripped her brand-new jacket.  Luckily for my embroidery machine, so I just embroidered two patches and sew them to her jacket.  Just in time for the icy cold weather.

 

Mug Rugs

One of my quilting friends, Angeline, saw this beautiful mug rug from Embroidery Library and asked me to embroider 6 for her.  It went really fast without any hiccups, and she is pretty happy with them.

Thread Stand

With so little working space whilst embroidering, I decided to treat myself with a thread stand.  Now at least the thread won't take up any valuable space or be lying around cluttering up the table.  Truly impressed with this item.

Neatly tucked away behind the machine.

New design added to online store

I've started designing blocks for a Bohemian style quilt.  The first block includes applique.

Combining 4 blocks forms another flower as a secondary pattern.  Below is a computer-generated image of 4 blocks.

The finished quilt will consist of 30 blocks, so this will be a long journey.  Grab this one while it is on special here.