Hi!
I am in Holland now at Quilt it and Dotty. We had our dollquilt club and made my small quilt Dirks Dassen (dirks bowtie)
This is last months Doll Quilt made by Dorien and Jeanneke.. (in the background you can see the Pockets of Possies and Ursula's Mozaik quilt)
I had a wonderful time here and now I am on my way to Hendrik Ido Ambacht to Aztec Rose...
Bye!
Something I haven't showed you is what I bought for myself when I was in Holland. I bought some fabrics from Quilt-it&Dotty and from Petra Prins
I am working on the web-shop at the moment here at home in a cold and snowy Sweden.
Hi!
I am giving classes at Quilt it & Dotty in November.
The easy tote:
This is the Easy-tote is going to be on Thursday night the 20th of November. It is an easy constructed tote that is great to have a craft basket.
The diamond-quilt This class is where your learn the basics of hand piecing but most of all you'll learn the basics of how to make your own designs and make it work. This method will always give you great patterns that will always fit. The class is on Saturday the 22nd of November.
Hope you will join me! Contact Dorry at Quilt it & Dotty to sign up!
This august a new quilt shop in Holland called Quilt it and Dotty! It is such a lovely shop. I was there to help Dorry with the opening and we had so much fun.
The weather was lovely so she opened her garden as well so there was room to sit, have a glass of wine and just enjoy the last days of summer. It was great. We also had some girls showing of some new exiting products...stamps to use as templates directly on the fabric so no tracing of templates anymore!
I so regret not taking pictures in the the shop, but here are some pictures from Dorry.
If you ever are in the neighborhood, go and visit!
Last week was my birthday and I got this amazing birthday present from some of my quilting friends. Thank you so much! I was so touched!
Superbig hugs to:
Celine, Cathi, Kate, Gerda, Kris, Ann-christine, Jessica, Helena and Weronica!
Hi!
I finished my cardigan! It is a pattern from cosmicpluto called top-down raglan cardigan. It is a great pattern that is really easy to adjust to you own size. I made it in Rowan yarn Kid Classic on 5mm needles.
I am so happy with it...I just think...as long as you can wear your first caridgan and can button it and stuff...it is a big succes...! I will be wearing it with only 2 buttons closed...looks better...
A new quilt!
I started this quilt yesterday...and the top is done. It is the strippy-quilt I do a lot. (see the tutorial on the sidebar!) The thing was that I had these fabrics that were too nice to use...but I thought...now it is time to use it.
I like this as well...so it was a happy 3 days. btw...Thank you Kris for showing me the fabric for the border..!
I am going to our cabin for a while and am a bit behind...but I am hoping to catch up with all the email soon after the vacation!
See you later!
PS: a message for Annemarie!. (sorry that this is on the blog..but don't know how to do this otherwise)..Ik heb je een aantal keren terug geschreven maar krijg de email steeds terug...kun je me nog een keer emailen met een ander emailadress??
I had the girls over on Monday to have lunch with me, and we had a little mini Bee. They reminded me of a quilt we are making for a friend of ours who had turned 50. The blocks were due today. I had totally forgot about it! You know how sometimes think you'll have forever and you will do it later...and then it is later and you are stressing to get it done.
I also did a friendship block for this quilt. We swapped all these fabrics to make these blocks. I didn't really contribute since I didn't have these kinds of fabrics. The edges of this block will be cut of to make a square block.
On Monday I showed you a picture of the stitchery I have been working on for the bag exchange. I was looking for a embroidery floss I knew I had bought but I couldn't find it anywhere. I normally have all my floss organized. A local craft shop was going to stop selling floss so they sold all their DMC for half price! I hadn't organized them and in that heap somewhere was the floss I was looking for. So now I have been winding and winding and winding bobbins...
I joined a Spring/easter SAL. Juul is organizing it, you can read about it on her blog.
When we were living in our other house I had this idea to try and make different quilts for different seasons and hang it in the hallway. That is how I started this quilt by Robyn Pandolph. When I dug this old UFO out for this SAL I found out that I didn't have room for it in my new hallway. So I changed it. I have taken away the other blocks. I also had started to do the appliqued by hand (finished the bunny)but started doing it on the machine half way through. (don't ask me why) So I took the glued on things of and changed the flowers. So I have now finished hand appliqueing and am going to start quilting tomorrow. I think this quilt will get a scallop border.
Ingrid put a tip on her Dutch website about a tip she once got from a girl named Kris about the YLI quilting thread in the color light brown, which supposed to be awesome for quilting everything. So I went to my LQS and bought it so I can try it out on this quilt...
Have a great weekend..!
