Vintage market

Visited the Vintage Ideas market at Simondium this morning... browsing for 3 hours through all the inspirations...

I just could not resist having this quilt! (...especially now that I know about some of the effort going into this!)

Bought a few doilies... I would love to try a quilt-like project including these!

Aaaa ... was so glad finding these!! ... want to try out crocheting these or maybe work with some doilies on them...

This little painting from Christelle Bester got our attention and we had to have it! 

Quilting fun continues...

This previous week I had some time off from work on Wednesday afternoon and for 3 hours I  had such fun again at Dots Quilts.  Dot was so nice to have me there again so I could learn the actual quilting with the sewing machine on my cushion that we began at her workshop.

It was so amazing experiencing Dot and her daughter, Natalie's passion for fabric and working with it!  Dot told me how she liked to work with fabrics that reflected light... and also when quilting, she liked to use a thread a little bit lighter than the fabric as to reflect the most light.

And so I was taught to quilt free-hand lines on the back of my cushion cover...  whoooheee... some even crossing over :) 

The front part of my cushion is also progressing ... all is now stitched together and Dot inspired me to also start doing this free-hand quilt lines through some of the blocks. Can not wait to try this out!!

Quilting class coming up

All set for tomorrows' introductory quilting class!  I had a sewing machine from more than 20 years ago and 2 days back when we received the equipment list for the quilting class.... I suddenly got this bee in my bonnet to ... just  m a y b e .... buy a new one before my class tomorrow!
And this afternoon with the help of my mum... we explored an Elna shop... and I did it!!

Now I'm all fired up for this class tomorrow.... after which I will know all about the 1/4" pressure foot, walking foot and darning foot... that I just bought as well!

I do not suddenly want to make huge quilts.... but I'm dying to see some of the techniques and am very excited to try them out in my own way...