Flour Sack Pants

About a year ago a woman who I met through Facebook Marketplace, had some flour sacks for sale.  I bought a few and asked friend Magda to stitch some pants.  This is how they turned out and looks quite cute with pockets both sides.  They are for sale @ R150 size 4 to 7 years.  

 Pants 1 - Front

 Pants 1 - Back

 Pants 2 - Front

 Pants 2 - Back

 Pants 3 - Front

 Pants 3 - Back

 Pants 4 - Front

 Pants 4 - Back

This one made from honeycomb kitchen towels is also available @ R350 size 4 to 7 years

 

Back

If you are interested in any of them, just email me at wgeel@mweb.co.za

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.

Quilt rescue

The Stack and Wack quilt I wrote about in this post, started to seriously fell apart when the satin bias binding I used, started to unravel and disintegrate all over.  The cotton fabric however was still in pristine condition so to scrap all this hard work was not even an option.

So, with a 3 week holiday on hand, I bought 30m 10mm wide brown ric-rac braid and started stitching it on top of the unravelling bias binding snipping of the frays as I went.

And after 20 hours of stitching over 3 days, this quilt was rescued to be used for a few more years to come.  Mission accomplished.

Baby Quilt

At the start of November, one of my quilting friends, Frances, asked me to embroider flowers for a baby quilt she is making for her youngest son's first baby called Sofia.  For this, Frances choose the Floral Sketches set from Hatched in Africa to alternate with the card trick quilt blocks she had made.

After finishing the top, she had it quilted by Hettie Pringle who did a beautiful job as always.

According to the proud grandmother, the quilt attracted beautiful comments at the stork party.

Pond life

After spending many years on my design wall, the stained glass butterfly as well as the two backgrounds I wrote about in this post was finally turned into a wall hanging after I saw these designs on Kreative Kiwi's website.

I thought at first to stitch two separate quilts but then got the idea of using the tree to camouflage the seam between the two backgrounds thus turning it into one continuous quilt.

I embroidered all the motifs on black fabric to duplicate the stained glass look of the butterfly.  This ufo of 2017 is done.

1.  goed gebruik op vlerke.

2.  by appliekwerk.

3.  drade aan agterkant.

4.  met organiese vorme.

Cushions

I have started to use some of the stitch outs I bought from Stichdelight in January 2024 (this post refers).  At this stage only cushions were made.

This one is the plain-fabric-leafy-panel which is designed for smaller hoop sizes to stitch items to coordinate with the original 43" x 43" Hoffman-Dream-Big-Leaf panel.  The set consist of about 50 individual designs which are stitched separately to create a stunning masterpiece.

  This is the 43" panel stitched by Stitchdelight.  The design is available here.

This is an original panel without any stitching done in another color way.  Absolutely stunning.

I added some gold braid around the embroidery which finished it off quite nice.  The cushion received some well deserved compliments at Bloemshow earlier this year.

 

I also finished the quilted circle into a round cushion using a beautiful coordinating bridal satin thus turning this into a double sided cushion.

Below is a closeup photo of the embroidered panel.  I am however unfortunately unable to find the pattern on the website as I don't know the name or number of it.

 

I also finished one of the alphabets I received for free into a pillow.

This font is available here.