Embroidery, life and a cat!!!!!

A bit more filling done today

Added grapes and also some stars and beads.
Added the grandsons names and birth dates.

I just think this is really wow.
Love the way the use of the House
of Embroidery threads just give
this the extra wow that I needed.

This is pure orange blossom honey that
hubby and neighbor collected yesterday
nothing added..

And last but not least, here is Tonic
trying to wake me up early morning.
I was peeping at her to see what she does
and of course she knew that I was awake.
She just has the most magnificient whiskers

Just daily things!!!

Just a smalll update!!!!

I have been busy going through all my blocks of the crazy quilt and found lots of places that needs to be filled.

 Am taking my time and just enjoying the finishing part of the crazy journey. Will post pictures only when I have completed all the blocks.

Well at last I had a haircut, my hair was getting to long and heavy.
Was not planning on cutting it but long hair at my age, humph
makes me look very old and also having grey hair when its long
just does not look very nice.

Matthew and his parents went to Sudwana Bay and had great
fun, esp Matthew with this huge crab.

All in a weekend!!!!!!

 A seam done

a filler done

one whole corner completed, this was my
very first block and now I am going back
and filling in.

the House of Embroidery thread is the orange one and this
is just to show how nice the shaded area of the orange
flowers are.

The last block done!!!

 Well now I have done all 25 blocks and have them pinned to a huge sheet. Now I am going to go through all the blocks and fill in all the empty spaces. I need to use much more of my threads and goodies.
Then the huge task begins of putting all these together into a likable quilt and more embroidery to combine all the blocks together. Am just loving this and now need to get it all done. I am so proud of the huge crazy quilt and the completion of it. It did take long but I worked on it day by day and also got to enjoy all the memories behind all the work.

Just had to add some lovely pearly beads

This is a daisy 

Just had to have something nice and loved doing the pink flowers
in my special threads from "House of Embroidery" I was lucky to
have bought the whole range of nr 8 perle and am
having such fun with threads.

Wow What a Day!!!!!!!

I feel so special today. I ordered some threads
from "House Of Embroidery" on Thursday and received
them today all nicely rolled on the bobbins and also
numbered. Thanks to the staff esp Kelli for getting
this order out so quickly. They also post international.

This is what the threads look like when embroidered.
The shading differs quickly and makes the embroidery look very real.
I love using DMC too but their shading is very spaced.

Went for lunch today at Lambert's Bay, The seaside nearest to us
is about 60km from here and we love to have lunch at
Isabella's.

Now here we are having  lunch and also enjoying our 41 years
anniversary today. Still cant believe time has gone by
so quickly. In the previous post I have just started with our wedding photo
and here we are still very lucky to be together after all these years.
When we asked our grandson Matthew which one of us
deserves the medal, he answered Grandpa of course
because he has been looking after me for so long. hehehe

Last Block Done, well no !!!!!!!

This is lavender and just
love using the threads from" House of Embroidery"
which is a local thread company, great postal service and
the colors are just to lovely. The threads look like just one
color but when embroidered it looks so beautiful.

This is done with silk ribbon that I received from a friend
and it reminds me of wild violets that grow in the
veld here in Clanwilliam. Not the african
violets that is well known.

Well I thought I have nearly completed my blocks, BUT
yes but, I have seen a lovely crazy quilt embroidery blog
by Jenny at sewsocrazy.blogspot.com and I can see
that my blocks are just too empty so now I will
have to work through them all and get them filled up more
I have lots of threads and stuff left and need to use
it up. So here we go with embroidering a nice full busy crazy quilt.

Okay great news!!!!!!!

I am now on my last block nr 25 of this crazy journey and now have to go back to the first and work through and get them all completed, because in the beginning of this journey I was not sure about adding the beading and charms and stuff I had. I am now much more confident about the embroidery and stuff and will now go back and add lots more. hehehe Amazing that one is so unsure in the beginning but now after this wonderful long journey I can nearly call myself an experience embroiderer in "free embroidery" that is what all my embroidery journey is about. I have learned lots of new stitches and tricks and all thanks to the help of all the people in the internet world who post pictures of their work. I have never tried to copy the exact picture but they did inspire me to use my own brain to work things out for myself with the inspiration of their work. So Thank You all to the wonderful world of embroidery in whatever style you are for all the sharing of your work. 

Also want to say Thank you to all my friends here for your great support all through this journey. You are all very special real persons in my world here where there are not many people interested in the world of embroidery and handmade items. 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!

And last but not least is my best friend who got me started in this embroidery world. You are the best!!!!