Block a day Quilt

The last 4 blocks is done and the quilt is ready to be assembled.

Bag

The past two months our quilting group, the Rotary Cutters, attended a handbag course at our local Bernina Dealer.   One of our members, Marietjie, was so kind as to arrange it for our group after hours as we are all working ladies.

We picked our fabric at the shop and Susan of Bernina  did all the cutting.  I had no idea which colors to use but quickly fell in love with this black, green and purple selection.

On the inside is various pockets as shown below.

We are all totally in love with our bags and very proud.

Another UFO finished

I embroidered this cute little handbag some time ago and finally finished it in time to send with the boys picture books to my daughter, Megan.

I used black satin fabric with metallic silver embroidery.

This is a design from A Stitch and a half and you can find the design here.

Baby Books 2

The other two books I embroidered from Ellen Maurer Stroh was Baby's Toys and Baby's Zoo Book.

The patterns are offered for free, so even if you don't have an embroidery machine you can download the charts for free and embroider by hand.

Baby Books

Ever since I downloaded these beautiful Baby Books of Ellen Maurer-Stroh, I wanted to embroider them - I just had to wait for the grandchildren to arrive! 

December 2016 with Aiden already turning 3 and Nathan nearly 1, I finally started embroidering them and it took about 3 months to complete with about 20 thread changes each.

I tried to have them laminated, but they were too thick.  I then just covered them with Decifix, added an eyelet in the corner and assemble with a ribbon.

I made up a packet, added their Dad's birthday present and then had it shipped over to the UK by boat as airmail suddenly went up by 33% putting it way over my budget!

The Baby Animal book contains these 12 animals:

 

1st Prize - Row by row Quilt

During our annual Show, the Row by Row quilt I made last year, won first prize.  I received very positive comments from the judge who thought that the machine embroidery was outstanding and that the quilt is visually very successful.