Scrap Jar Starts quilt

Amber from the blog 'A little bit biased' is a self proclaimed scrap quilt maker and has this lovely tutorial for a scrappy star quilt which you can see by clicking HERE.

Festival News - Making rosettes

Yes, I have a little to tell about the 17th National Quilt Festival in Bloemfontein from 1 to 7 July 2013.  Just because I write the blog does unfortunately not mean I am let in on all the secrets and should I by accident hear something that I should not, I am warned in a severely stern voice that "it is NOT for the blog!."

Occasionally however one of the higher forces sends me a photo with permission to use on the blog and I am just as charmed as the rest of you to see that everything is still moving along smoothly.  Those of you who have been involved in organizing a festival would know it is really hard work and plenty of planning but the nice part of the people in our guild is that we have so many helping hands and nobody has to work their fingers to the bone.

Look at this group of lovely ladies who participated in making rosettes for the winning quilts (or then the makers of the quilts) for the festival.

Now if you could hear Iessie, our festival organizer, you would hear words such as "amazing, I had such a great time, I learnt so many new things, Mariëtte (Venter) is such a good teacher" - so from what I gather they not only worked hard but had fun doing it too.  Thank you so much ladies!

PHOTO MAGNETS

Take a look at these cute photo magnets. I am not a morning person but I think a few of these on my fridge would make me smile. Especially if it’s special memories, or just fun photos. Click here to see how it’s done.

Bi Fold wallet tutorial

Have you started thinking about Christmas gifts yet?  I have, I always do this time of the year but sadly it never becomes more than just 'thinking about it'.

When I found this wallet tutorial I (once again) 'thought about it'.  Hope you will do more.

This tutorial is by Modest Maven and can be found HERE.

TRAVEL SEWING KIT.

We all do handwork sometime or other. At Handmade Harbour they have a tutorial for a travel sewing kit. I think it will make a wonderful gift. Now all your goodies will be together, and not falling all over the place. Click here for the tutorial.

Hobby X Bloemfontein

Yip, you read it right.  Hobby X is visiting Bloemfontein from 25 to 28 July and furthermore quilts will be exhibited.  So Marianne and Frances made an urgent appeal to all our guild members to PLEASE volunteer your quilts for this exhibition.  They would like the Sand du Plessis theater covered in quilts!

Contact any of these two ladies urgently at:

Marianne - 082 826 2128

Frances - 078 803 4019

Our African neighbors

There are so many international blogs and websites on the internet with great ideas but I do love 'home' and enjoy local blogs so much more.  So today I'd like you to pay a visit to our African neighbors in Kenya and take a look at what they are up to.

Click HERE to read and see more.