Quilt with hand embroidery

This must have been the tiniest hand-embroidered blocks I’ve ever seen on a quilt and so extremely well done; I had to touch a couple of blocks as I thought the pictures were printed on the fabric.

I really had fun doing this one.

Sampler with sparkling blue fabric

This one was sent from the city of diamonds, Kimberley and a neatly pieced sampler in shades of blue with a pop of shimmer in one of the fabrics.

The quilter only wanted an edge-to-edge and something floral, so I chose the clover flower.

Bunnies for a baby

After a week of no quilting, it suddenly streamed in.  First this divine bunny quilt all the way from Nelspruit.  I couldn’t find pictures of log cabin block motifs or those I saw, I already did on other quilts, so I had to put on my clever hat and come up with something different.  Luckily, doing plenty of tiny pebbles made me see that one of the wheels on my frame did not make proper contact with the rails.  Handy hubby came to the rescue and now I feel like the master of pebbles again.

Striking colours quilt

This was made by a grandma for her adult grandson and if I don’t have this wrong, he chose the colours.

This was a variation of the Ribbon Pole quilt by Rob Appel and the maker apparently had several sessions with the seam ripper.

For this, I chose the "Loop-de-loop" as an allover design.

It turned out rather striking.

Sampler with borders

The quilter made the centre sampler many moons ago and when she heard of someone hinting to own a quilt, she decided to add plenty of borders to make it larger.

I love doing a sampler and with all these borders, I would not have minded to have this hanging in my frame room as an example of all the different motifs that can be done in a border.

As much as I quilt, I do occasionally run out of ideas.

Peaceful star

A stunning foundation pieced quilt made by a quilter from a class she took.  She had definite ideas on the quilting she wanted but after I quilted it, she still needed to add some applique.  I’ve seen the photo of the pattern and I think it will turn out gorgeous.