In the past six months a few quilt tops assembled. This is one of two made from units from a Bonnie Hunter Mystery:

In the past six months a few quilt tops assembled. This is one of two made from units from a Bonnie Hunter Mystery:
It's early morning here, and after sending out emails announcing our Guild's upcoming Fynbos Quilt Festival to be held in Hopefield, decided to get back to writing a post, with many photos. It's been a while since the last post!
First up, one finished quite big quilt top. This 365 Challenge Quilt was started the first year it was offered by Kathryn Kerr, and now nine years later, a slightly blurry picture of the top. I was standing on the edge of a coffee table to take the picture, and then fell off! Mostly ego bruised, but glass everywhere from a picture frame on the table behind me! Only after this did I think I could have fetched a step ladder! The 12-inch block at bottom left has over 170 pieces! I love this top!
And, amazingly, another top finished, this time it is the Glenday Quilt. Our Guild President challenged our whole committee to make this one. I tried to keep sort-of similar colours as the original quilt, housed in the Cultural History Museum here in Cape Town. It is a quarter size of the pattern (by Diana Vandeyar), because I didn't want hand applique bigger stars, diamonds and flowers! I hope the minor wobbliness will quilt out.
And sharing an actual finished quilt, but not by me, but made by my daughter T for her friend's new baby. Quilt made in Wales and brought here by my son on his brief but welcome visit last month. This is the proud new Dad!
The summer here has been seemingly hotter than usual, or I think I am seriously missing the aircon from my old sewing room! We haven't had much cooling wind, and that also means that there has been less rain in the northern part of the country. But that hasn't stopped me sewing as much as possible.
This is the sum total of reels of thread used up in 2024. They weren't all full to start the year and have now been put in the recycling bin. Already have one emptied for 2025.
I've been trying to move various projects along, and have started a few new ones. Two mystery quilts started earlier this month are in progress and these are some of the fabrics for the first one, Good Hope Quilters' Guild's named The Cape Winelands. A bunch of deep bright blues have since been added.
A couple of needle-turned pieces, the one with yellow stars is the centre from a pattern our Guild was selling to raise funds and is based on a quilt in our Cultural History Museum. You may find it here: Glenday Quilt. The other is from my monthly quilt group in which we were asked to fold paper and make cuts like making paper snowflakes, and then use that as a template on a similarly folded piece of fabric. I just had to stitch it up to see how it would look!