The Art of Quilting Sampler Quilt - Blocks 5,18 and 29 to 34

After mainly focusing on my Innovative Quilt project for the year, I was looking forward to continue with this quilt.   My previous post for this quilt, was March already!   I can't believe the year has flown by so fast.  I have seriously fallen behind and need to catch up to block 50.  The blocks are sashed and stitched together after every 10 finished, so it is growing all the time.  Quite exciting!

After making a mess of Blocks 5 and 18, I got replacements and was at last able to finish them.  Whilst taking photo's outside, the wind blew them into the pool.  They were still wet when this photo was taken, that's why they look a little rumpled.



Blocks 5 and 18

Blocks 29, 30 and 32

Blocks 33 and 34

Now I'm off to cutting and stitching the following batch.

Block a day Quilt

Griet Lombard, an ex South African now living in New Zealand, agreed to repeat this class after the Quilt Festival for members who could not attend classes during the festival.  After being on holiday the first 2 weeks of July, I manage to get another day's leave to attend this class on the 24th of July.

This quilt is constructed with leftover scraps on calico and embellished with all sorts of beads, threads etc. mainly by hand - the ideal take along project.
 


The Quilt consist of 81 blocks.  Satin Suffolk puffs (Yo-Yo's) on the corners, gave a luxurious look to this beautiful quilt.  It won a first prize at the Queensland 2011 Festival.

 

Some close ups.

 

Sometimes the simplest design and fabric teams up into an absolute gorgeous masterpiece.

Baby Shower

During my daughter (Megan) and son-in-law (Mark's) recent visit from England, I organized a baby shower for her.  They are expecting their first baby in January and although she was only 12 weeks at the time, I decided to go ahead rather than having to ship all the presents at a later stage.  They haven't bought anything yet but went home with a suitcase filled to the brim with nearly everything necessary.  A few items which she will use when baby is bigger, was left at home which we will take with on our visit next year.

Before I started on my quilting journey in 2010 I actually had time to do other things beside quilting :-)  Feeling rather bored whilst watching movies with my husband, I knitted baby stuff which to Megan seemed rather crazy at the time.  But, she is pregnant now....




The expecting parents.  They were married on the 25th of January 2013 at the Maldives.

 

As Megan absolutely adores Pooh Bear, I made this nappy cake with Pooh and friends. 
I also made a duvet cover featuring Baby Pooh with Tigger, Eyeore and Piglet also as babies.  I used a pre-printed panel I bought at a quilt shop and just added the back. 

 

All the presents.  Most of my colleagues at work gave money towards a rather substantial voucher which M & M spend at Baby City.
 



A Baby Banner which pattern I downloaded fromDesigns in Machine Embroidery's website and embroidered.

A green jersey with a teddy bear appliqued with satin - knitted by me.

 

A white one.  I knitted a blanket with this pattern as well in blue, green, white and pink squares.



A yellow romper embellished with a white teddy bear.  I knitted a bunch of socks as well. 

I found this cute Baby Shower image on the Internet and used it as a thank you card for all the guests.  I added a message from M & M with a chocolate.

 

Quilt Festival 2013 - 2

More lovely quilts:

Look at the beautifully stitched circles below.

A beautiful floral arrangement with a close up underneath

 

 

Below is a quilt by well known teacher, Marilyn Pretorius, called Glow.

 

 

Another portrait

 

 

One day, my forest quilt will look something like this one...

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.