Goody Bags - Quilt festival

I talked about writing a post showing all the wonderful items included in our Festival's Goody Bags, but just haven't get around to it.  But, better late than never, I always say.

The bags was sponsored by Quilt Talk and Pfaff:

 

 

The Rafels group was in charge of the Goody Bags under the leadership of Karen de Villiers.

Karen and Hettie made 1300 quilt ruler bags between the 2 of them, with a little help from other Guild members.

 

 



 

 

Our group, the Rotary Cutters, was responsible for the emergency first aid kits.  All 1300 of them.  One of our group members, Prof. Frances van Schalkwyk is the Dean of the CUT Food and clothing department and she enlisted the help of the students to make and pack the bags.

 

Inspiration by Bernina:

A needle book:

 

A thread catcher, pincushions and snips.

 

 

A beautiful Journal and pencil - note the little windmill on the top of the pencil.

 

 

A kit to make a sewing roll-up.  Every member of the Guild donate 6 sets.

 

 

Charm squares, bookmark, bobbin and beads.

 

 

And last, but not least, a bag with candy.

 

 

 

Innovative Quilt - Final Post

And so this journey came to an end with the completion of this quilt. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot.

I bought the fabric for the border during our quilt festival.  It picks up  the colours used and bind the quilt beautifully together.

 

Baby Driver

With our first grandchild on the way, I can at last embroider all the beautiful baby designs I accumulated over the years. 

First up is some bibs.  All were done in the hoop.  I used 2 versions, but embroidered 6 different bibs.


These are the original designs available from A Stitch A Half.  Both bibs are embroidered in full using variegated thread.



With these 2 I substituted the original embroidery designs with 2 clowns.

These 2 were done with printed fabric.  Only the outside borders are embroidered.



The Art of Quilting Sampler Quilt - Blocks 42 - 45 and 48 - 50

With the long weekend almost over, I managed to catch up with all the blocks I received thus far.   The quilt top is halfway done at this stage.  With all the finished blocks sashed and stitched together, it is turning into a lovely piece.

Blocks 42-44
 

Blocks 45 and 48 to 50

 



The Art of Quilting Sampler Quilt - Blocks 35 to 40

Another 6 blocks over and done with.

Blocks 35 to 37
 

Blocks 38 to 40

 

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.