05 February 2024

More Blocks and Choosing Fabrics

Every time I sit to write a blog post, I wonder about the ideal layout.  Do I put the picture or the text first?  What alignment to use for the words.  Should they be above, below, next to the images?  So, I change things, but never fully happy.  If you are a regular reader, hope that this was not confusing!   

Just as I was almost done, a hit by our regular "load-shedding", ie the local euphemism for the government failure to keep the power on everywhere all the time.  We had almost three weeks over Christmas/New Year when the power stayed on, but now we are back to two-hour outages about every eight or ten hours.  Cape Town is slightly better than the rest of the country as we have a pump-storage system on one of the mountain rivers nearby which supplements the national power supply.  Glad we have invested in some solar panels and batteries to have lights and the fridge running.

Bramble Blooms:  Border number one attached, with a narrow spacer in red and beige/tan. 

Still trying to get the perspective of the top being further away than the bottom, so red strips are narrower at top, and the crosses are smaller at the top.

Not adding any applique, yet.  Happy so far.







Bonnie Hunter's Indigo Way:   All three borders prepped, just waiting for the desire to press the centre!

It has been unusually hot here, no enticement to get out the big ironing board.  It may be cooler later in the week.

Fabrics chosen to piece a back.  Might be some time before stitching together.


    

Good Hope Quilters' Guild Mystery 2024:  Third set of blocks sewn.  Tantalisingly slow, but a really enjoyable process.  I think that all the blocks might be set in a Suduko type arrangement.  Maybe as interesting stars?  There have been fabulous colour combinations being shown on various whatsapp groups and also facebook.









 

RSC2024 Sampler:  Red is this month's colour, and these are the 3-inch and 6-inch blocks made.    


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

02 February 2024

A little sewing

I have been busy with things other than sewing for the past couple of weeks.  Guild bookkeeping needed attention;  understanding new-to-me web-based accounting software for my sister's school, so I can remotely help with this;  keeping house very tidy for showing to prospective buyers (that's mostly keeping my sewing space tidy, which is not so conducive to the creative processes!)   And I needed a trip to doctor today as I couldn't quite put my finger on the problem (no pain, just slight discomfort and weirdly out of sorts), which turns out to be a very easily treatable UTI.

 I've prepared the first two borders for the Bonnie Hunter mystery, that is, cut, joined and pressed two long strips.   Also, have cut out one of the https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/ for February, and ready with the patterns for two more different blocks, probably a fourth one today.

 

 

We are running a block of the month at my monthly group (Creative Quilters).  We are about 40 ladies with 6 or 7 leaders who take turns in running the meetings, with assistance by all, in turn, providing amazing tea-time spreads.  

This was drafted by leader Candi.  We discovered that there numerous different colours of these support ribbons.  My choice was Burgundy, as it is the colour that represents multiple myeloma, because my brother-in-law is undergoing treatment for this incurable affliction.



 

 

 

 

 Another small Kawandi quilt finished. I think this was started in November and finished last week.

This is one of the very few hand projects that I do, and can be done on a Thursday evening at a small weekly group.

 

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