More embroidery

I have a block of my crazy quilt left and working on it and here l have added a picture of each stage which is not planned. My creativity just takes over and decides what next.
I have used organza ribbon for flower and crochet maroon centre with gold beads. The stems and leaves are also crochet cotton. Found a easy way to make these lovely leaves. Anyone interested to know how? Just leave a comment and l will show step by step in my blog.

A Small Addition!!

I nearly forgot a small necessary addition a quilter always adds to a quilt and that is a spider and web. Its for good luck!  There are many such cute traditions in the quilting world that goes back many generations l am sure! Some of them long forgotten.

Shopping anyone?

Have now completed my long outstanding shopping bag at last. Fabric l used for doll dress was given to me from a special friend .

trrrr Drum roll pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have now been able to take a photo of my crazy quilt. Here it is and it is 250x250cm square. Thank you all for the support I have had through the 3 years I have been working on this wonderful special quilt.

Drum roll please!!!!!!!!!

I have now completed my crazy top and will be posting a picture as soon as l have a few hands to hold the quilt for me. Its is very heavy and l am still not sure which way l want to go with this great achievement of mine. Would love to share it with a local magazine too. If l can do this so can many others too. Just lots of time and dedication is is involved.

Crazy Quilt nearly there and life!!!!!!

Well all here I have the whole crazy quilt all of the 250x250cm square at my feet. I have joined the two pieces together and am busy embroidering the last joining seam. I still cannot believe that this journey is nearing the end. Its been very hot here lately and I have very sore fingers at the moment so I am not working on it this whole weekend. hehehehe It is just such a strange feeling having all this hard work together at last and have a feeling with all this at my feet "I feel so rich". Will post picture when done.

On facebook these last few days I have been able to reconnect with lots of my cousins on my Dad's side of the family and its just great. We have not had contact in years because my parents got divorced when I was very young and we had mostly contact with my Mom's side of the family, which was 2 sisters and 10 brothers of which there is only one brother left, just great to be able to get to know them all over again. My Dad had a huge family of, if my memory is correct, hehehe in most cases its not, 3 sons and 10 daughters, so I have a huge family with lots of cousins who I have never met. So now there are only 6 sisters left and funny enough they still remember me, well when I was that cute blond girl.
Life just has a way of coming round and to me it feels like after completing with this crazy quilt I am able to face the world without the heartache of missing my parents, much easier.

Wow nearly done!!!

Well now l have the 2 sections stitched together and started the last of the seam embroidery. Its really a huge 250x250cm square challenge with the hot weather we have , although its cloudy here the humidity is high and also the electricity was down for a few hours this afternoon, its very hot to be under it. Well will be embroidering like crazy now to get this huge project complete after 3 years                                                                                                                                                                         Something interesting l read the other day about the cherry blossom meaning is "incidents and emotions".  I remember at the time l wanted to have one in my quilt not knowing the real meaning pot the cherry blossom, but had to have it in my quilt. Will not be posting until l have all the embroidery done.

A new flower specie!

Charka testing a flower pot! Or is he trying to tell us something?

Crazy quilt progress!!!

I have 2 pieces now after joining all 24 blocks together. Now will be joining the last seam and then it will all be done. This was 2 days work. Must add l still having fun after the 3 years l have been working on it. Wow now its not long to go till completed.

Great visit at Ubizane Wildlife Reserve!!!

Here is what we went to visit, our daughter, her hubby and Matthew
and of course all the pets, Ziquenya the dog and Chloe the goat. 

Here is the way the animals greeted us when we left early morning to come home
They are not very bothered with the car. 

This is a tiny cabinet made by my wonderful Stepfather
when he was in high school. Now sadly not with us anymore
but now I have a small piece of his world.

Am still working on finishing my crazy quilt but took a rest to visit with our family for a delayed Christmas holiday. The kids are too busy with the Lodge for us to visit over Christmas as it is when the Lodge is fully booked. So we decided to visit them later. It was also great fun because my daughter has started crocheting and I had to help. Lots of laughter and excitement for her learning all new crochet terms. 

Well its now back to complete my crazy quilt journey as I have now ended lots of ends of this journey and just now at the last of this crazy journey to get done.

Visiting

Visiting daughter and family at Ubizane wildlife reserve. Will post m
ore when we are back home.