National Quilting Day

Circle Quilt Tutorial

Julie Herman from the blog JaybirdQuilts shared this interesting Circular Quilt tutorial and apart from being pretty, it seems like the ideal stash buster as anything goes.

To see just how she did this, get the free tutorial over HERE.

Spike Border

I think most of us are just so grateful when we finally get to finish a quilt top that we tend to neglect the border.  Another lovely tutorial found on the blog of Molly Flanders is just the thing to spice the final step of your quilt top up.

Read her step-by-step tutorial for this spike border over HERE.

Photos from our February 2014 meeting

 Mari Strydom's challenge winner (above)

Guest speaker SAQG president, Elsa Brits (above)

Adrie Botha winner of Show
and Tell with this lovely quilt
for her newborn grandchild.

Groups and group leaders for 2014

2014 February newsletter uploaded

For those of you who simply can't wait until your next meeting to get your February Newsletter from your group leader, click HERE to read it on-line.

Now don't forget to mark all the important dates to remember as you read through them.  Enjoy!

Time to prepare for The annual Bloem Show

This year the theme of the Bloem Show is Bloemen Leka – sounds interesting doesn't it?

Now for the braver amongst us, why not design a quilt with this theme in mind.  We are all aware of the unspoken (darn and here I talk about it!!) competition between groups about which group will enter the most quilts.  So be the instigator in your group and get those creative juices flowing or simply just enter those quilts you've finished this year!

This year the Bloem Show will be held from 24 April until 3 May but you do realize the quilts have to be entered and handed it at a much earlier date.