This post should have been posted weeks ago…
In July, Cape Town hosted an International Quilting festival. One of my blog readers let me know that she was coming from Australia to attend the festival and so we made plans to meet up.
Jenny arrived with some Sanitarium Marmite (the recipe is different from the Marmite sold here) and some Cherry Ripes which were most gratefully received. Jenny actually lives in one of the towns that I lived in when I was in Australia, but we didn’t know each other then.
Here we are at the festival.
The quilts were amazing. Since I no longer belong to a guild, I don’t get to see quilts in person anymore, so it was nice to get up close and personal with quilts instead of viewing them on a computer screen.
Here are two which impressed me the most:
And with my finger for scale (please note I did not touch the quilt at all).
I can’t even begin to imagine how to make something that small.
The mind just boggles!
The quilt show did prove that I’m more of a knitter than a quilter though. Carle and Dana had a stall in the shopping area at the festival and I filled my bag with yarn in about 10 minutes. (I did have a list and was shopping for specific projects, but still). I did buy a little bit of fabric in some lovely bright colours which I will mostly use for soft toy making, but most of my money that day went on yarn.
I have been quilting though, I’ve been working on finishing a quilt that the mother of a friend of mine started about 15 years ago. That’s been an interesting challenge. I’ve just gotten it back from the long arm quilter and need to put the binding on and then I can deliver it to her.
I didn’t even know there was a Quilt Festival in CT. Wonderful. I love seeing quilts in person too, they are just so much better. Sounds like you had fun.
Wow! Those pieces are so very tiny – it DOES boggle the mind! Amazing. Not sure I would ever have the mental health to do something so tiny myself but they sure are pretty!
How wonderful to have friends over. It is always a highlight when living abroad – I know!
Such fantastic quilts! It will take very good eyes, skill and patience to make those.
The quilting is indeed amazing – but what I want to know is what is your anti-ageing secret?!! As the mom of a busy youngster, you’re supposed to age quicker. Didn’t anyone tell you that? My gosh, I had to show my passport, which was issued when Max was a toddler, and the woman honestly didn’t believe I was me … that much ageing had occurred. So what is your secret?
Ruth, loved the pics of the mini quilts. And had to catch up on your trip to Limpopo…. Wow, it brought back memories. I will tell you, we never saw so many elephants as up in the Kruger Park, near Phalaborwa….. we were sick of them by the time we left. And down by Nelspruit, there were beaucoups elephants. It made me miss the animal sighting trips we took every year up there. Your knitted shawl was to die for. Absolutely stunning.
I think it is easier to do knitting than quilting when the kids are small, as knitting can be picked up quickly and done for few minutes.
Hi! That quilt is amazing!