Hi!
I don't know if I ever showed this on the blog before. But I started to make a Dear Jane some years ago and never finished. So now I have been thinking about putting the 61 blocks I have together so that it will make a mini-jane.
I just love all my little blocks and it is such a shame to just have them in a box...right? What do you think?
Hugs!
Oh btw..I have added some new photo albums so you can look at some of the blocks!
I made this quilt for my beginners class. It was so much fun to make even if I had to rush. I had only 5 days to make it and quilt it. But I love how it turned out.
We will be making this quilt in 6 weeks. The quilt is 140cm x 140 cm so big enough as a lapquilt.
I hope to be blogging again more soon. Some of you know that I had the worst virus ever and lost so many things and I had to reinstall a lott. If you have send me an email and didn't get a reply...I am sorry..virus.
Enjoy!
As I wrote before I started my SB'S over. This is how it looks now. It has a brighter white background and a dark pink sashing. I am happy I started over and am now happy with how it looks...
Last week I got a really nice package in my mailbox. I just love getting mail!
I am also making this...can you guess what it is going to be?
Okay going to keep on knitting now. I am almost halfway .....
Hi!
It is a big mess in my sewing room but that is because there is a lot of sewing going on (but not for me :-( ). Andrea my cousin is here and we always go a bit insane with the planned projects..we get up early in the morning and keep on sewing into the night with a cup of tea and a lot of talk...
I have started to take my SBS apart...yes...you read it correctly. I didn't like the way some of the blocks were turning out. Some of the background fabrics I had were to busy and the blocks disappeared like this block:
So I am going to change it into a white background, the same one for all my blocks. It wasn't fun ripping all the seams out but it seems better then to sew 140 blocks and not be happy...right??
This will be the sashing:
Okay...we might be sewing for a while longer, but we will be back tomorrow with an update...
Hugs Barbara
Hi!
We have had a snowstorm this weekend so I have been at home the whole weekend and did just crafty stuff.
On Friday I went into town because I had some quilting books spiral binded. Some quilting books you just use so much and to be able to draw all the patterns you sometimes you need to really "crack" the binding to get into the center. So as a result some of my books were falling apart. But they look great now..
I was reading one of my favorite blogs Supergoof and saw that she was putting pieces of the fabric she used in her Dear Jane in her Dear Jane book. On the Dear Jane software there is an option to print out pages were you can journal and write about each block. I was doing that, but noticed that I always was behind on the journaling and glueing in things because it just was a bit to much work. So when I saw this idea I loved it. Now that I have spiral binded my Dear Jane book that just works great. So yesterday evening I spent some time on glueing the fabric pieces in and writing the journaling from the loose pages I had collected. This is what it looks like now.
I also managed to make some blocks last night and some nights before. The blocks that have crosses in the middle are really hard to get straight but I think I will leave them the way the are.
Last year me and some of my friends had a Crazy Quilt swap. You made your own Crazy Quilt, so you could choose the colors and size, and the others would just decorate it with stitches, beads and so on. I really love what I got back. I have framed to keep it from getting to dusty/dirty since I can't wash it because of all the beads and things...
Yesterday I did some work on 2 bags, so that is what I will finish today hopefully..
Hugs,
Barbara
