Christmas Crazy Quilt

After finally finishing up with all the bibs and baby shoes for Eunice Market ( find the post here) , I had 3 weeks to complete a quilt for our Guild's 4th Quarterly Challenge - My Prettiest Christmas Quilt.  I bought the designs for this Crazy Quilt some time ago from Molly Mine and was looking for an excuse to embroider it.  It was very time consuming as you have to change the thread up to 34 times for each block.  To complete one block took up to 3 hours.  So, to embroider the 20 blocks and finish the quilt in as many days, was no mean task.

But I did it and it was picked as the Viewers Choice for which I was rewarded with a pretty fat quarter which you can see here.

The start of my quilting journey

During July 2010, I overheard our local Pfaff dealer, Marie Coetzee and another friend of mine, Annelie Opperman talking about the beginner quilt classes starting August 2010 and thought it was a great idea as I already struggled through the Latte Quilt without any knowledge of quilting.  Hettie Pringle (http://stitchingmatters.blogspot.com/) teaches it on behalf of Pfaff.

At the time I thought I will only learn the different techniques, but in the end join the Oranje Quilters Guild in January 2011 only to find out that Quilting is not only a hobby, but a way of life.  And now I'm completely hooked.

My beginners quilt, won 2nd prize at the Bloem Show in 2011 and looked like this:

Sham set finished

My husband and son went fishing today, so I was able to spend the whole day behind my sewing machine.  I managed to cross 12 items off my very bulky "To Do" list for the day. 

This Sham set was part of the items finished today.  A pillow or sheet sham is just a decorative cover placed over the pillow and on top of the sheet.  As can be seen on the photo's, it covers only part of the pillow.  I apologize for the quality of some of the photo's.

The design is from Louisa Meyer and can be found here.

My First Quilt

In 2009 my embroidery friend, Maresa Pretorius, invited me on a quilting journey.  She wanted to make a Latte Quilt for each of her two daughters and asked whether I would be interested.  Being an embroidery enthusiast as well, I jumped at the chance. 

It took the better part of 18 months to finish.  Each of the 16 blocks was embroidered in 8 to 14 steps as I could only embroider 13 x 18 cm at the time.  A completed block measured 35 x 35 cm.  As neither of us mastered the free motion stitching at the time, we had it done.  Look on the Quilting page for photo's of the complete quilt.

Funky Roosty Designs are up for sale

The Funky Roosty Design set is for sale either as a set or as single designs. Email me at wgeel@mweb.co.za with any orders.

Funky Roosty Designs

I've just loaded photo's of my Funky Roosty machine embroidery design set on the "for sale" page.  There are 10 designs in the set and are all applique designs.  I thoroughly enjoyed digitizing them and think they are quite, well, Funky! 

Bathroom make over

After getting out of the bath one too many time without any towels in sight, I decided to embroider our names on it and now my towel stays put.  I embroidered multiple sets for customers over the last 12 years, but never made time for ourselves.  Whilst busy with the towels, I also dressed the windows with new curtains.