Kaleidoscope runner

I made this runner a year ago whilst on holiday but was not allowed to post any photo's of it as it was made for our Quilt Festival.  With the festival now under way, I can finally showcase this beautiful runner.

Although it is only 15 blocks stitched together, it took 2 days to complete as it is quite time consuming.  It was done using the paper foundation technique.

Innovative Quilt Part 4

I completed another one of the  three owls.  My husband was so clever in finding a hairpin to use for the beak.  Now I just need to get the teacher's blessing as well. 

Hopefully I will get more ideas tomorrow night at our group meeting as I'm struggling with the last owl. It seems I used up all my ideas.

Innovative Quilt Part 3

Luckily our group meeting for May was postponed by a week, so I managed to catch up with this quilt.  The 3rd and last owl was appliqued and stitched - ready for embellishing as well.

 

 

9 of the 10 traditional blocks are also complete.

 

 

 

And last but not least - the first owl is complete .

 

 

 

With our next meeting planned for the 18th of June, I am still under pressure to get the other pair embellished, but after conquering this one, I feel a lot more confident.



Charity Quilt completed

Our Group's Charity Quilt is finished and looks absolutely stunning.  It was awarded a second prize at our annual show in the Groups Quilt category.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Even Missy and Vlerrie (the cat) admired it.

Innovative Quilt Part 2

After seriously falling behind with this quilt due to overtime and the Challenge quilt I wrote about in the 2 previous posts, I finally manage to continue working on the trio of Owl blocks.  The second owl was appliqued and stitched, ready for embellishment. 

 

Read the original post here.

 



Advert Challenge Quilt - Part 2

As I wanted a luxurious look, I used satin fabric in white, black, silver and gold.  All the shapes is appliqued to which I added jewels after free motioning the large open areas.  I added tassels to the corners to finish it off.  The sasching and border was done with a gold on black cotton print.

I bought the jewels all over town to get the correct sizes and colours.  All of the blocks was used twice.  In most cases I swopped the colours to create a different look every time.

Do email me at wgeel@mweb.co.za for the pattern if you want to make one for yourself.

Advert Challenge Quilt - Part 1

I decided to participate in our National Quilt Festival's Challenge competition during one of our Management meetings last year.  The rules stated that no quilt related advert could be used.  Whilst on holiday during December, I know I had to find an advert.  After turning a few pages in about the only magazine in the home, I saw an advert for Nomination jewelry and immediately decided that's the one I'm going to use.

Being a Computer Aided Draughtsperson (CAD Operator) by day, I draw the whole quilt from which I designed the blocks with Sierra Embroidery Software.

 

As the rules stated that square or rectangular shapes was not permitted, I settled on a diamond shape.

 

By now, it was already mid March and as D-day is the 1st of May, I concentrated on getting it finished in time.

 

And this is the end result.

 

 

 

The pattern is available here.