Pink and Barbara

Wanted: test seamstresses ...

Hi!

I am looking for 3 special people:

A dutch person ( not anymore see edit att the bottom) , A native English speaker and Swedish person. 

Why?

I have made a new bag pattern and I would like to have some test-seamstresses. You don't have to be a super sewer, just someone who would like to test-drive one of my new patterns and see if they understand everything and see if everything works. I would like to have people who can sew the pattern fairly fast/soon so I can put the pattern out. Please email me if you would like to test for [email protected] I will pay you in goodies..:-)

Thanks!

Barbara

Edit: I just got the Dutch tester...thank you marleen! 

 

 

new sheets and bag

Hi!

Since I have Molly I have been doing so much. It feels like I want to use every free minute I have. So as soon as she falls asleep I hurry of doing something..

I finished the bag I was making. 
I am going to use it as a my diaper-bag. Here are some picutres of the inside:

The other side:

I also made a zipper bottom as I sometimes make. Here I have an extra set of clother for Molly and other things I don't use that often.

I have also made some new sheets for Molly to match the basket quilt I am going to be making:

The design is from Black Bird Design in the Friendship Garden book.

That is all for today! Have a great weekend!

Episode 8...swap anyone?

Hi 

here is episode nr 8 of the podcast.

 

Shownotes:

I am making this bag from Quilt-it & Dotty

Here is a picture of the bag:

Would you like to swap with me?

I would love to swap small 2 by 2 inch pieces of fabric with you for my thimble quilt. Send me an email at: [email protected] to get my homeaddress and send me an envelope with pieces of fabric in beige/white brown or pink. I would love it to have a print I can cut out. I will send you back the same number of fabrics and the small template to make your own thimble quilt. I will send you fabrics in the color that you would like (please note I don't have batiks, purples, novelty fabrics etc. please look at my blog and at my quilts to get an idea of what kind of fabrics I have) Let me know if you would like to swap...

In Dutch:

Vind je het leuk om lapjes met me te ruilen? Ik wil graag lapjes ruilen die 2x2 inch zijn voor mijn vingerhoedjes quilt. Stuur me een email voor mijn thuisadress en stuur me dan een envelopje met stofjes in roze,bruin en wit. Ik zou graag stofjes willen waar ik een motiefje uit kan knippen zoals de roos hierboven in het voorbeeld. Ik stuur je dan hetzelfde aantal lapjes terug met een malletje voor je eigen quiltje. Ik stuur je graag stofjes toe in de kleurtjes die je leuk vind. Je kunt op de website zien wat ik voor stofjes heb. (ik heb geen fele kleurtje, batiks enz) Stuur me graag een email naar: [email protected] als je wilt ruilen!

I am knitting my sin miedo socks. You can see them here

The blanket I am working on is called Hemlock ring blanket by Jared Flood

This picture is taken from the Jared Flood website..please visit him here

Molly's blanket is called the Zig and Zack sockblanket you find it here

The book I reviewed is Broderie Blanche by Marie-Noelle Bayard you can find it in french here

I hope you liked this episode and see you next time...and I will try and say uhhmmm a bit less!

Hugs Barbara

 Join me on Plurk at: www.plurk.com and add me as your friend: pinkandbarbara

 

Episode 7 with Weronica!

This is episode 7 with my quilting friend Weronica. Shownotes soon to come. Enjoy!

 

In this podcast I talk about what is in my knittingbag but forgot to show it..

I use my pip bag during winters

and my heartbag during the summers because I don't want it to get wet and dirty:

Triangle Bag tutorial

Hi!

This is a tutorial on how to make the small triangle bag. The bag is perfect for your sock-knitting or quilting supplies.

What you need is:

Your sewing machine and sewing supplies like: needles, thread so on..

Outside fabric: 35 x 25 cm  (14 x10 inch)

Inside fabric: 35 x 30 cm  (14 x 12 inch)

A zipper that you can take apart that is 27 cm (11 inch) long. 

Optional: interfacing so you can make your bag more sturdy. I used a light one since I use the bag to take with me in my handbag and I don't want it to get too heavy.

Step 1

Attach you interfacing on the outside fabric. Cut your inside fabric into a 35 x 25 cm piece (14 x 10 inch). (The leftovers will be used later) Cut your inside and outside fabric in 2 pieces. So you will get 2 pieces that are 17,5 x 25 cm (7 x 10 inch) of the outside and inside fabric.

Step 2

Mark your outside fabric by laying your fabric on your work surface putting the 2 pieces together which you just have cut apart. On the cut make a mark 1.5 inch inwards on each side like in the picture above.

Step 3

Take your outside fabric and place it on you work surface with the right side facing up. 

Take your zipper apart and put it with the "teeth" of the zipper on the fabric facing down and pin it in place. Do the same with the second part of the zipper. (see photo)

Step 4

Layer the inside fabric over the zipper and outside fabric like in the picture. Pin it into place,  right sides of the fabric on each-other like in the picture. 

Step 5

Now sew the zipper into place from mark to mark as in the picture ( I am showing you the outside fabric with the black interfacing on it and the white thread so you are able to see it in the picture)

Step 6

From the leftover piece of the inside fabric cut  2 rectangles that are  5 x 7.5 cm ( 2 x 3 inch). Fold this so you will get 5 x 3.75 cm (2 x 1 1/2 inch) pieces.

Step 7

Open the 2 fabric pieces with the zipper and finger-press it so that it looks the way it should. Now put the zipper-pull back in. Hereby creating one big fabric piece with a zipper in the middle.

Step 8

After you have put the zipper-pull in you will have room between the edge of the fabric and where the zipper is sewn in. Slide the 2 pieces of folded fabric in and pin it into place. 

Step 9

Sew a nice seam over the zipper and by doing that sewing the folded fabric in.

So now you should have a piece of fabric with a zipper in the middle.

Step 10

Fold the fabric: right sides together of the outside fabric and the right side of the inside fabric on each-other. Like in the picture. Sew around the 2 short sides and on long side. So 3 sides only..not all 4 sides. (don't mind the marked square in this picture it will be explained in the next step)

Step 11

Mark a corner 6.5 x 6.5 cm  ( 2,5 inch) as in the picture and cut it out. You need to cut out 2 corners opposite of each-other. These corners are the corners that are sewn. So one corner of the outside and one corner of the inside fabric) You still have one side of the bag that is not sewn.

 

The last 2 steps are shown in these clips because you need to turn the fabrics different ways which is hard to explain in just text.

Step 12

Part 1

part 2

 

Step 13

You will take the left-over piece of the inside fabric and fold it so you will get a nice piece of fabric to put over the last sewn seam like in the picture.

I hope this is clear enough so you can make this nice triangle bag!

Have fun!

Barbara

 

Oh no...it is a podcast....

So I tested to make a video-podcast... it was a lot of fun...I never had so many giggle attacks..*s*..you feel like a complete idiot but after a while it went ok..

The first 20 seconds are grey and I don't know why..but it is normal again after 20 seconds so hold on! I will try to inprove some things like sound and light untill next time..but as said..it is just a test.

 

Part 1

Here are some of the things I talk about:

Hexagon bag frame

Cindy blackberg stamps

Ingrid aka Supergoof

Gerda from Kijk daar is

Nelly's quilt from Quiltmania 78...(please look in my catogories to find all the information)

Trick or treat baskets from Blackbird Design (please look in my catogories to find all the information)

The Dotty weekend from Quilt it and Dotty

Part 2 :

Again: The first 20 seconds are grey and I don't know why..but it is normal again after 20 seconds so hold on! I will try to inprove some things like sound and light untill next time..but as said..it is just a test.

   

 The fabrics for the bag are from Petra Prins

Sensational Knitted socks

The yarn for the socks are  Lucca from BC garn

Quiltmania is the magazine I talked about.

The videocast I like are: theknitgirllls and Around the Twist

So please let me know what you thought....and leave a comment.. 

 

Oh before I forget..Pinkandbarbara is now on plurk again..so get a membership and friend me there!

 

Hugs Barbara

 Please note: I have given links to online stores so you can see the product I have talked about..but please don't forget to support you local quilt or yarn store!

I love PIP

Many of you know that I love PIP. Pip studio is a Dutch brand of products that has all sorts of things..And I have collected many of them allready.. You can read more about pip here.

So I have the tea-set:

The shopping bags:

The pip shoulderbag:

The Bathrobe:

and wallpaper that I just to framed and placed behind glass doors:

and last week was my birthday and my friends gave me the 2011 pocket calender.. I am so happy!

Here is a look at the inside:

Happy Quilting!

Barbara

 

Friday Night Bag Night

Hi!

It is friday night and time for another bag....

This pattern is called Nightingale, it is one of my favorites and the colors are lovely.

The pattern is also for sale in my etsy-shop

Have a great night!

 

 

 

Friday Night bag Night...

This is bag you might have seen here..It is the heart bag. I love it...it holds everything and was so much fun to make...You can buy the Dutch Pattern in my etsy shop. It is for the experienced quilter! 
  have a great weekend!

Pink and Barbara News

Hi!

I am on my way to the fair in Rijswijk in Holland and look forward to meeting you all, so I hope you will stop by and say hi!

Some News!

I have a new BOM (block of the Month) called The Quilters Quilt. It has all kinds of sweet embroideries on it with things that we quilters need or love. So please have a look at photo of the Quilt (more pictures coming soon) It will be a 9 month club starting the 1st of March. Each month you will receive a pattern to make one of the 9 blocks. The fabric I used is Garden Party from Blackbird Design from Moda fabrics.Here you can see the fabrics. The fabrics will be released in February.

If you are interested you can order the BOM from my etsy-shop:pinkandbarbara.etsy.com and you can choose to pay by month or everything at once.

You can also order the pattern or the pattern together with fabric kits from the following Quilt shops:

Quilt-it and Dotty, The Log Cabin, Aztec-Rose, Quilt-Atelier Trijntje van der Horst

I am still looking for more shops to sell my products, so if you would like to carry my products or want your local quilt shop to carry my products, please let me know!

Other news:

We have several new patterns: Sarah's Quilt, The Heart bag and The Babette Bag so have a look in the etsy-shop.

Also some things have changed in my web-shop. Due to the illegal copying of my patterns, I will not be selling them by email PDF's anymore which is a shame. But now you will get wonderful printed patterns and all the prices include shipping to anywhere in the world. So I hope you will have a look at the shop:

http://pinkandbarbara.etsy.com

Have a nice day and thank you for visiting me!

Barbara