Woven Placemats

When visiting a small town called De Wetsdorp, Riette de Wet from Aliwal North demonstrated this technique of weaving fabrics and I decided to use several colors instead of just 2, making 12 placemats for the home.

Completed: 11 September 2007

All my chickens

One of teacher/designer Iessie Steenberg's older patterns which I bought from her beginning 2005 but making it by myself, without the support of a group working on a BOM, took forever but I eventually finished it on 25 August 2007.

Marline Turner's Mystery

At the very first mini quilt festival held in Bloemfontein and organized by Hennie Hoffmann and team, I attended a mystery quilt class by Marline Turner.

What a grueling day of cutting, measuring and stitching it turned out to be with teacher Marline having very little sympathy for aching backs and we were firmly told that absolutely no moaning will be allowed in her class.

At first I didn't think my fabric or color choice would work on this quilt but back home, I kept going and later, as I worked the blocks together, this quilt, as Riette, one of my quilting friends, would put it, grew on me.

I've also used Marline's netting tip to transfer quilt markings and found it extremely easy to work with.

Completed: 25 May 2007

Simple Secret

On 21 March 2007 we celebrated National Quilt Day and the quilting group in Aliwal North invited our group to join them for the day. Teacher, Iessie Steenberg, designed a 27 inch mystery quilt for us to work on. True to tradition the Aliwal group left no stone unturned to organize this day to perfection and we eagerly started working on our quilts at 9am. When lunch was served around 1pm most of us were finished with the quilt top and could start the actual quilting.

With me however, size does matter and I decided that I wanted my quilt much bigger and returned home to Bloemfontein where I simply kept the basic centre design and just added more borders until I was satisfied.

I didn't have enough fabric for such a big quilt but my main fabric allowed me to improvise and play around with different colours and I am quite satisfied with my end result.

Completed: 18 May 2007

Making my own Medallion

This must be one of the nicest quilts I've ever worked on. Maybe because it was different from the usual sqaure blocks and because teacher/designer, Iessie, allowed us to continue where she ended the pattern and make the quilt as big as we would like it to be, by adding more triangles. Just realized something..... I actually had to do math with this one AND to top it all, this is my very first quilt with 4 equal sides. I can easily make a quilt with not one side even being remotely the same size as the next.

Must admit that I had the help of Marie, our friendly Pfaff store owner, with the stitching of the applique flowers with the horrible metallic thread as this almost prevented me from finishing the quilt. Thanks Marie............ (she did it for FREE!!)

Completed: 27 March 2007