Mom's creative sewing

Mom’s creative sewing reached new heights this year with a number of prize-winning gifts flowing from her sewing room and out to the Grandkids:

 A fancy Victorian doll’s dress for Anneke’s birthday

(a real vintage dress made from material cut from one of Great Oma B's dresses!)

quickly became Anna & Emma's favourite outfit

A piecework apron for Bethany’s birthday

 

 

Her masterpiece quilt “ The Road Through Westville”  some years in the making was finally completed and given to Josiah who was eagerly awaiting it.

These all won 1st prize at the Bolton Agricultural Fall Fair!  (plus a crocheted bag purse) except the quilt which they said would've one 1st prize if it had more quilting on it!  Amazing job, Mom!

   She also remade a dress for Esther’s graduation - sorry we don't have a before picture so you can't really tell how vastly she improved it!

  And for Marike, she made a cloth stuffed doll complete with button eyes, yarn braids, dress &  matching bonnet, white frilly apron, and bloomers!

 

 which Marike fondly named Elisa and proudly shows to everyone who visits.

 

 

 Here's some more shots of the quilt during production and then close-ups for those who can't see it in real and asked us to post.  

the top layer of the quilt when the applique was completed

 

below: the batting, back, and jean patch side is on and Mom's quilting - this was the gezellig part as she could do it anywhere while visiting...

 

 

Dad's been a great cheer leader and even freeing up time by helping extra in the kitchen!

 

final check just before submitting it for the fair

 close ups  

 

If you look closely, you can see the hand quilted smoke, clouds, butterflies and birds

The main road through Westville has everything you need!

Oma's barbershop 

 

 

The applique, jean border and putting together was all done by machine so the 48 year old sewing machine (Mom's wedding gift from Dad) had quite a work out and died just after all her gifts for this year were completed!