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| Interesting! here I used loose french knots in different collections and each time the flowers came out so different. Its the row of yellow pink blue and red flowers that is covering the joining seam. |
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| Enjoying the sunset over Clanwilliam Dam with a nice braai with my son and his family |
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| Here is my new leaves that I thought out and its so easy and quick |
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| Here is where I have added more of the same embroidery over the seams to have a continues flow of embroidery and not block by block |
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| Here I joined the blocks with a lovely bright green leave and shades of pink french knots. The leaves came out great. I did a long stitch and then went over that with a chain stitch and then using the weaving technique I wove these lovely leaves through all three legs. uhm thinking I will have to make some more of these in the rest of the quilt as it was so nice and easy and also fun to see that the leaves did not all turn out to be exactly the same. |
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| Here the 4 seams come together just to show that I am now embroidering on the seams after joining my blocks together |
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| Joining at the new seams
Last but not least, at last I have now wrapped all
the Christmas gifts and just hoping the grandsons will
enjoy them.
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| Christmas decorations are now up and this is what it looks like before the lights are switched on. |
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| Here I have started with the embroidery after joining the blocks together into rows and now joined 2 rows I will be doing two by two and then join with the centre row. |
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| Well I am a very sentimental person and this proves it. We received a lovely set of different crystal glasses from my Mom and slowly over the years they have broken out and this is the last one left. Well I could not throw this one away and strange enough they all seemed to break just under the round of the glass. There is a lovely crystal ball just above the foot of the glass. So looking at it I turned the foot upside down and there we are I have my very own crystal ball in a nice snow bubble. Now I have preserved this piece of history for many years to come. |
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| Here you can see my crystal ball when the sprinklers have settled down. |
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| Okay here is what everyone has been waiting to see. Here I have laid out all 25 blocks of the crazy quilt and as you can see they are not arranged the way I wanted. But be assured I will be posting this when completed. |
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| All done, 10kg apricots into jam. I get apricots yearly and have to make into jam because the bought ones are not so tasty and also lot less sugar and no preservatives in. This will last us about a year. |
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| A bit more done |
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| Just love using the House of Embroidery threads |
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| I found some fresh water pearls in my bead box and just had to add them here |
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| Well this is some fabrics that I bought at a quilt shop that I visited this past week. It was a huge gift because I have not been to a real quilt shop in a few years. heheheheh no not joking we hardly ever go to Cape Town just for shopping, its only for visits to the Specialists And on Tuesday was the day for Qubby to be at the drs. Well while waiting for the next appointment I decided to go to Thimbles, a very nice quilt shop in Durbanville near Cape Town. Well it was really like a Christmas gifts for me. I was totally lost between all those lovely fabrics and ideas. As always I could not decided what I wanted and what to buy. So while there daughter phoned and asked where I was, must have sounded overwhelmed, so of course she is also a quilter and had to get her some fabrics too. So this is what I bought and a bit more other goodies. |
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| Now you are wondering what this is. I just love to add something colorful to new linen when I buy them. We have bought some lovely white percale sheets and this is a crocheted strip that I added with some nice red satin ribbon. Also did the pillowcases to match. Well I put this on the flat sheet so that I know where is the top of it. And of course this makes the sheets look so inviting to me
Well thats it for now and I have 3 blocks to check and hopefully have it laid out open to see what block goes where. I also have to put the Christmas decor up this week. To get into the Christmas feeling. So all have a great creative week. Take care and hugs to all.
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| A bit more filling done today |
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| Added grapes and also some stars and beads. Added the grandsons names and birth dates. |
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| 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. |
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| This is pure orange blossom honey that hubby and neighbor collected yesterday nothing added.. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Matthew and his parents went to Sudwana Bay and had great fun, esp Matthew with this huge crab. |
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| A seam done |
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| a filler done |
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| one whole corner completed, this was my very first block and now I am going back and filling in. |
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| 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. |
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| Just had to add some lovely pearly beads |
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| This is a daisy |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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