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The original logo |
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and the two big cats I embroidered. |
Machine embroidery and quilting
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The original logo |
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and the two big cats I embroidered. |
Nothing much happening around here craft wise. I am helping my son setting up a buy and sell business which is keeping us pretty busy. The only embroidery being done are 3 applique sewing machines for quilting friends attending a sew away hosted by the local Pfaff/Husqvarna vendor.
I received a photo of above design and low and behold, when I searched through my designs, I had the exact same one! I had to split the stitching on the applique to be able to embroider that in a different color but with Embird, that was quickly done. I have no idea where this design originates from.
I had seriously fallen behind with this quilt between visiting the kids and being ill. Block 3 and 4 is done and I am busy with the borders. I am however having trouble getting a coordinating navy fabric for the outside border as I had only a fat quarter. Never new there are so many shades of navy until you start looking for a particular one...
My son was chosen to represent the Southern Free State bowls under/30 team at the inter districts tournament held in Klerksdorp. As part of their outfit, they needed towels to keep the bowls clean.
I embroidered one for each of the 4 team members adding their SFS numbers as well.
And this what it looked like.
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They four young men representing their province. |
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10 pieces of 0.5m x 1.50m striped pieces (bought for quilt bindings) |
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Cotton thread |
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A closeup of two of the offcut bundles, 100% cotton. |
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7m precuts of 1m x 1m. |
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Mixed prints for boys consisting of 10 x 0.5m x 1.5m pieces. |
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Mixed prints for girls consisting of 10 x 0.5m x 1.5m pieces. |
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Another offcut bundle. |
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White polar fleece. |
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Black Faux Leather |
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Winnie the Pooh Bunting |
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Mickey Mouse Bunting - 1m x 1.5m for R15 - I mean, really? |
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Various offcut bundles/remnants - softshell, cotton fleece, 100% cotton bundle, cotton knit (always handy when machine embroidering as you don't need large pieces) |
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20m roll of bias binding for only R10 |
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Various lace pieces. |
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10m set for babies |
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Solid colors consisting of 10 x 0.5m x 1.5m pieces. |
I received an order for another puff quilt 3 weeks ago and as we are almost going on holiday, I started ASAP. It was the first time I had to stitch one according to measurements (cot size 140 x 70cm) and had a bit of trouble getting it to exact size as it reduces in size when the puffs are stuffed.
The order was for grey and white with blue and yellow. As I had the animal print already, I send a photo of it to the client, and she immediately gave the go ahead.
After embroidering a biscornu and scissor pockets for my friend's birthday, the other members of our quilting group, the Rotary Cutters, expressed their interest in obtaining similar sets. I told them it's fine, I will do the embroidery as long as they do the hand stitching themselves as I am not big on doing hand stitching. Luckily only one ordered the complete set with the biscornu included, so I decided to finish sewing everything. Each ordered in their favorite colors, so after combining the various parts and pieces in the largest frame my Brother Innovis 4000 uses, I started embroidering. And I must say, they did look gorgeous.
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Marietjie loves red and green which was embroidered on a light ivory Chintz fabric. |
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Angeline chose grey, turquoise and magenta and I stitched this on white Chintz. |
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After friend Aletta saw Angeline's set, she also ordered one. |
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Elsa requested black and red which was also stitched on white. |
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and Frances chose the rich bible colors of purple, fuchsia, scarlet etc. also stitched on white. |
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The designs are the Biscornu 2 set from Artistic designs available here. |
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Friend Magda got a set for her birthday done in orange and green on the ivory Chintz. |
All that remains now is to put all the thread used away in the handy steel drawer system I use to keep my threads organized by color and number.