Quilt with Da Gama circles

Yes, you read right, another circle quilt.  This group and their circle quilts truly kept me busy and that is not a complaint, I am extremely grateful.  This quilter, my bestie, allowed me to do whatever I wanted and having done so many edge-to-edge designs on most quilts lately, I had thought about a motif but inspiration comes from everywhere and looking at the different Da Gama fabrics, I noticed this purple fabric with swirls on it (the cross over the top, is simply my chalk marking) and decided swirls it would be.

I just need to jump to the ‘new’ house first.  When we moved in, one could not miss the paint job on all the doors.  It was utterly fugly and this is what it looked like.

Hubby started painting these after we had somewhat of a tiff, as to me, it felt he spent all his time and money in the garden.

Now with a couple of layers of paint, this looks not only soothing but so much nicer.

While painting the doors, he took off the handles for me to clean and some were terribly filthy with a thickish green sticky substance on them.  Trust dishwashing liquid and tartaric acid to clean these almost as good as new.

A fellow quilter spent this week in hospital with complications from cancer treatment and my friend Karin and I tried to visit her as often as possible by Saturday evening, she looked much better than the first day we saw her.  We’re now praying that all will go smooth from here on.

I loved working on this quilt, I guess because of all the pretty fabric I could lay my eyes on and after doing one row of circles in a motif that I really didn’t find pleasing, I decided to unpick a whole row which took up one full day but the end result is just so much better.

A quilt with Kaffet Fasset circles

It suddenly turned rather cold on Wednesday in central South Africa and I was grateful to receive the backing for this quilt, which was in my possession for a couple of days as my frame room is one of the sunniest rooms in the house and I wouldn’t mind spending time there.

Hubby, however, went to the Nampo festival and upon his return, I had to hear all the stories, so I never got to start the quilt.  Thursday didn’t turn out to be much better as life happened, the little one got sick at school and had to be fetched and then we had a company over to remove some of the unwanted plants in the garden.

However, when I finally got to quilting on Friday, I was as happy as could be, it was bitterly cold with rain and knowing I could spend the day indoors in my slippers, was my idea of the perfect cold day.

Mid-day hubby lit the fireplace and with the quilt done, I poured myself a glass of wine and we spend the rest of the afternoon simply soaking up the heat from the fireplace until the younger kids came to visit the evening.

This quilt must be the largest this particular quilter has ever asked me to do but it was so pretty, that I didn’t mind going on and on.

Clamshell quilt

This little handsewn darling came my way earlier this week and being so much smaller than most of the quilts I receive, I barely started when it was done!

This quilter loves Kaffet Fasset fabric but also dislikes dense quilting, so a quick edge-to-edge was her choice for the quilting.

This little quilt finished at 45,5 x 47”.

Another quilt with circles

This is the fourth quilt with circles that came my way this year.  A local group decided to make quilts with circles and I have the honour to quilt these.  Luckily most of the quilters preferred an edge-to-edge motif as I think I would have run out of ideas for custom quilting.

This is quilt number 4 and I do love the traditional South African Da Gama fabric and its bright colours.

Pinwheel quilt

On Tuesday, 26 April, I received a pinwheel quilt, pieced to perfection.  I quilted for this lady a while ago and she saw one of her fellow colleagues make quilts and decided to give it a try.  That quilt too was impeccable but I thought it would be a once-off to prove she tried and could do it.  I was therefore quite surprised when she phoned with yet another huge quilt finished.

As a rule, I try to load and finish a quilt as soon as possible but with this one, life simply happened and it felt like I took forever to quilt it.

First, my brother-in-law from Liberia came to visit but luckily stayed over in a hotel but we still had him and my mother-in-law over during the days.

Then it was mothers’ day with all the kids over at our house for lunch while I am still trying to find a house cleaning routine and just when I somewhat got it, the interior decorator came over, changed a couple of things up, drilled holes in the walls for décor and screwed up my semi-routine.

I was still trying to find a spot in the new house to take decent photos of the quilts and simply couldn’t find a place that would show the whole quilt and the texture created by the quilting in the same photo.  With this quilt it was no different and feeling slightly defeated, I took the quilt to the guest bedroom, and placed it on the bed until the customer would fetch it and voila, the perfect spot to take a pretty picture.