Quilt Festival 2013

The Quilt Festival we have been working on the past two years, is over.  As far as I could gather, it was a huge success.  I did not attend any workshops as my daughter and son in law from England is visiting. 

I did however visited the exhibition and was blown away.  Every single quilt showcased is an artwork.  Gone is the days of  "ordinary" (traditional) patchwork quilting - the type I grew up with and was never attracted to.  Not that there is anything wrong with the traditional quilts, it simply is not my style.  The newer, modern versions and techniques are more my cup of tea.

Below are photo's of some of them.  But before getting to them I must congratulate the Rafels Quilt Group on the absolutely gorgeous Goody Bags we received.  It was like being on a treasure hunt and clearly shows that a lot of thought went into the Bags of which I will post photo's in a future post.

The first photo is a quilt constructed with Suffolk Puffs:

 

 

This one was my husband's Viewer Choice.  A beautiful flower arrangement with the flowers all cut out and assembled into a gorgeous bouquet:

And who would have thought that you can actually paint with fabric?

 

 

A beautiful Crazy Quilt

 

An abstract work of art by Susan Wessels called Flight of Fancy:

Below was one of the entries for the Advertisement Challenge competition I also participated in.  This one depicts 5 Roses Tea.

 

I unfortunately did not wrote down the quilters names. My sincere apologies.

Innovis 10 sewing machines for sale

Brand new Innovis 10 sewing machines are for sale at nearly half price.  They were set up for use during our quilt festival, but none of them was used.  So, you can buy them cheap for only R2 800 just because their boxes was opened.  Normal price is R4 500. 

If you are interested, email me at wgeel@mweb.co.za.  Only until Saturday.

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. 

 

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