Surface Design Quilted Postcard

I hardly ever use the decorative stitches on my machine, which is kind of sad.  If you have them, you might as well use it.

I then recently saw this video by Karen Linduska on You Tube and even though I am not making promises which I know I will break, not a bad idea to start thinking about making a couple for Christmas.  

Even though Karen says it can be mailed I am rather skeptical about doing this in South Africa.  So if I ever get to make a couple, it would go with the gifts I hand to people personally.  Take a look at her video.

Jigsaw Puzzle Quilt Pattern

I found this lovely pattern on the website of About.com Quilting.

Using the “H” quilt block, this can be assembled in a jiffy.  To see the full instructions, click HERE.

Photos from the 15 August 2013 quarterly meeting

A huge thank you to Frances van der Walt for taking these photos.  Nice to have those reliable crutches in any guild.  Much appreciated Frances!

Martie Botha's quilt was chosen as the viewers' choice.  Congratulations!

Iessie Steenberg's landscape quilt from a class by Elaine Barnard

Wilna Geel's entry for the quarterly challenge

Amanda Palvies' take on the Marilyn Pretorius handbag

And the winner of the challenge with her Marilyn Pretorius handbag, Amanda Palvie

Alta Stemmet's handbag from her class with Marilyn Pretorius

Crocheted blanket also by Alta Stemmet

Twinchies by Elsa van Coller

Anina Louw's quilt from a class by Macky Cilliers

A friendly welcome with a nice gift to all

Reminder - Quarterly meeting

Just a friendly reminder that we will have our quarterly meeting again this Thursday, 15 August 2013 08:30 for 09:00

Fichardtpark Church Hall, Altona Drive, Fichardtpark

Fabric Trays

I hope all South African ladies enjoyed a lovely Women's Day on Friday.  I spent the whole day in my PJ's and found this tutorial while doing as little as possible for as long as possible.

These little trays can simply be used for any and everything and such a quick and easy gift to make.

I found the tutorial on the website of Noodlehead and to see how it is done, click HERE.

Ragtime quilt

Karin and I have been threatening to make a ragtime quilt for forever but we just never get to it.  Amanda Jean from the blog Crazy Mom Quilts shares one way of doing this with a stunning end result.

To see how fast and easy this can be whipped up, take a look at her tutorial over HERE.

Thank you Iessie

First a sincere 'thank you' to Iessie who has been so kind to partially take over my duty of writing the blog.  Unfortunately for me, life got in the way but taking one step at a time, life might just give me a breather somewhere along the line again.

Then the reason for me popping in was this lovely blog post by one of the international teachers on our festival.  We thank you for your wonderful and kind words Maggie and it was great having you here.

Read Maggie Ball's blog entry over HERE.