Did you already think if I still was stashbusting? Well stashbusting didn't happen a lot here as I was busy with quilts were the fabric was already counted for. But as this week I started Eventide I can bust some stash. I am still not buying much.
Fabric in 2011: 7 meter
Fabric out 2011: 17.70 meter (when I have fabrics leftover at the end they will go back as fabric into the Fabric busted in 2011: -10.70 meter
I am a woman from the Netherlands. I am married to John and we have a cat called Sjors. I love stitching and quilting very much and most post will be about that.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
A little house

Almost forgot I gave Miranda a little hint how to sharpen your scissors, but now explaining in english is going to be hard. Just grab a wineglass with foot and your scissors and try to cut the foot of by snipping in the stem of the wineglass. It will really sharpen your pair of scissors. Now just scroll down and you will find the rest of the story in English.

Today it is my birthday and sunday my family comes for diner. I will make some indian food as we all love indian food very much. I will make a shrimp, lamb and chicken curry a la tikka masala. And when I was in the cookshop yesterday evening I found these beautifull little pots from le creuset. They had 12 colors and I bought them all. Another birthdaygift for me. So you can see me serving the curry's in the little pots one per person and the rest will be used for the rice. I will make a pic when we are all at the table enjoying the food. Than last night we also had to pic up John his bike which was at the shop as preparation for our trip to the spanish border started from our own house through belgium and france (1680 km or around 1000 miles). To not get as many flat tires as last year (6 in total on 820 km) we have now different tires and we hope it really will work. But to not get of the story, we were both home at 17.50h and the shop closed at 18.00h and it is a 5 minute drive when all the stoppingsigns are with us, off course they worked against us and we arrived at 17.59h, but we got the bike. It was already waiting for 2 weeks at the shop for us to pic it up, but we just didn't have time to do so. We had a little talk with the shopowner and he really was very enthousiastic about our trip. With all this running I was just to tired to do anything else. Now today I won't have a relax birthday as I have to clean the house downstairs and also have to do groceries for this weekend as tomorrow we will be at bicycle and pedestrian fair and I won't have time to clean or make diner.

Vandaag wordt geen ontspannen verjaardagje, want hier beneden moet het hele huis gepoetst en ook nog boodschappen gedaan worden, want morgen zijn we de hele dag op de fiets- en wandelbeurs.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Gezellig dagje

Ik had gisteravond nog even snel bananen-cacao muffins gemaakt uit het boek "Keuken"van Nigella Lawson, want bedacht dat ik vergeten was langs de bakker te gaan en ik zou wat lekkers meenemen voor de koffie. Ik had nog wel snel een foto gemaakt van degene die over waren hier thuis. Je moet ze warm eten zegt Nigella, want dan zijn ze het lekkerst. Ik weet dus niet hoe ze koud proeven, maar warm zijn ze heerlijk, hoewel er naar mijn smaak meer chocola in mag, dus misschien ga ik dat zondag uit proberen bij de visite. Misschien stukjes chocola erin.
Na de lunch hebben we aan onze werkjes gewerkt. Je ziet Miranda hier bezig met een huisjesnaaldenboekje die ik daarna cadeau kreeg. Ik zal morgen even een goede foto plaatsen. Hij is het wel waard om een heel eigen blogje te krijgen. Ik heb aan Journey of a quilter gewerkt.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Eventide sew-a-long

Tomorrow I am going for a day to Miranda. I have met her the first time in october with the Belgium quilting retreat and she became a friend than, it is a pity that we live so far apart from eachother.
Jippie vandaag zat het Eventide patroon bij de post zoals jullie kunnen zien. Als jullie me konden zien zouden jullie een grote glimlach om mijn mond zien. Ik las op Thelma haar blog alle stofselecties die iedereen heeft gedaan tot nu toe en ik denk dat aan het eind er een hele kleurrijke parade gaat ontstaan.
Morgen ga ik een dagje naar Miranda. Heb er erg veel zin in. We hebben elkaar met het belgisch quiltweekend ontmoet en het was gelijk erg gezellig. Jammer dat er bijna een heel land tussen ons inzit.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Waar komt die kou vandaan?
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Sheperd's roll (18-3-2006) |
Vanavond weer een nieuwe aflevering van Bones, heerlijk heb er al zin in en natuurlijk Private practice, maar die neem ik altijd op en kijk ik later in de week.
It was so cold here today, -8 celsius and on the bike I was really freezing this morning. I arrived on my work with very cold hands.
Tonight a new episode of Bones, I am a big fan.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Journey of a quilter blok 3
I just finished block 3 of Journey of a quilter. I finally found the love back for this quilt and I enjoy it now a lot doing the stitcheries. I prepared the last 3 blocks today 7,8 and 9 and now I have to find number 10 for the borders and the fabrics. I know I have them somewhere. Today I also made naan from this recipe with our indian curry and is really the right naan recipe. It tastes really like those at Indian restaurants. The curry was also a new recipe and was delicious too.

Vandaag ook naan gemaakt volgens dit recept en iedereen die weleens bij een indiaas restaurant heeft gegeten zullen de echte naan herkennen. Ook het nieuwe curryrecept wat ik probeerde was heerlijk. Ik heb trouwens de naan gewoon in de koekenpan gebakken met antiaanbaklaag zonder olie of boter en het beste is ze een soort van te vergeten, worden ze perfect ook met een beetje zwart/bruine vlekjes en ze worden heerlijk luchtig.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
De quilt op de beurs
Here are the pics from my quilt 40T on the fair. Didn't Merel take beautifull pics. Aren't the quilts from Miss Rosie gorgeous. Just want to make more and more of her quilts. I am looking forward to starting Eventide and maybe the coming days I will work also a bit more on Summer Rental.
Today we will also reorganize the kitchen cabinets as with all the new things in the kitchen it is a bit of a mess there.
Today we got the car back and it was the starter.Vandaag gaan we de keukenkastjes opnieuw inrichten. Eerst ga ik het huis poetsen en dan alles uit de keukenkastjes en opnieuw erin doen en dan wat we weinig gebruiken weggooien, want het is een beetje een zooitje.
De auto bleek uiteindelijk de startmotor te zijn en vandaag hebben we hem weer terug gekregen.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Eventide Sew-A-Long

Thelma houdt een sew-a-long voor Eventide en na veel heen en weer gedenk (wel, niet, wel, niet, wel) heb ik besloten om dus toch mee te doen. Ik ga Roses the Noel gebruiken ervoor. Ik had alleen niet genoeg lichte stoffen, dus voeg ik wat bella solid waarschijnlijk toe.
Ik hoop dat de post meewerkt en het patroon snel aankomt.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Zijn het geen schatjes
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Journey of a quilter blok 5
And here is it block 5. Just finished yesterday.
They called from the cardealer and it is the starter that is brooken.
En hier is dan blok 5. Ik kreeg hem gistermiddag af en ben nu verder gegaan met blok 3 en die schiet lekker op. Inmiddels heeft de garage gebeld en het was de startmotor. En ja Inge het klopt dit was de auto die meer km's moest gaan maken.
They called from the cardealer and it is the starter that is brooken.
En hier is dan blok 5. Ik kreeg hem gistermiddag af en ben nu verder gegaan met blok 3 en die schiet lekker op. Inmiddels heeft de garage gebeld en het was de startmotor. En ja Inge het klopt dit was de auto die meer km's moest gaan maken.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Vijfhuizen

As you have seen Saturday I went that day to Vijfhuizen. I arrived late at around 3 hours and then a lot of people were already leving. In the parking lot was a large bunch of mud, but luckily I couldpark pretty near the park entrance, I saw I could park closer to the exit and I walked back to the car to park closer to the exit. Well he did not start anymore, I hoped he would do it again some time. So I went into the building. First to the quilts of Supergoof walked as I had read that there Bird Blocks view it. I dropped by Merel and Marion. Then proceeded to run the show and I was quite surprised when I was at Quilthouse Lieselotje were my quilt was hanging. A very nice surprise and completely unexpected. I have never a hanging sleeve on my quilt for the simple reason that I'm not going to hang them, only with small quilts I have sometimes a hanging sleeve. So something other than draping could not. In the store, he also layes draped. He is there to show what you can do with a longarm and how the yarn (Kingtut overflow) looks like. Tonny had already had many questions and nice comments. Jantine from the stitch cottage looked out on it from the otherside and recognized my name clearly on it. I saw some more people like Anita and Elly. Merel has photos of my quilt for me, as I had no camera with me. I stayed until 17.00 hours and then with Merel, Marion and Elly walked to the parking lot. When I got to my car and tried to boot still little reaction from the engine, so called the ANWB (carhelp) and after one hour he came I was the only one left in the carpark, so when he asked where I was I told that was easy, the only car that was there. He has helped to get it running again and we shall shortly bring the car to the garage and see if it is a relay or the starter.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
stashbusting
Nothing was added or busted.
Tomorrow when I am feeling less tired I am going to tell about where I was yesterday.
Tomorrow when I am feeling less tired I am going to tell about where I was yesterday.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
de laatste
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hawai
Ben lekker bezig om tussendoor telkens een uurtje aan deze quilt te werken. Foto laat erg de wensen over, maar ach het idee zien jullie wel. Heb het patroon zelf geknipt en hoopte dat het er leuk uit zou zien en ik ben erg tevreden. Ik ga nu eerst het deel dat er op komt geappliqueerd erop rijgen en daarna ga ik pas appliqueren. Dat werkt voor mij het beste.I am busy with my new quilt. Pic is not the best there is, but you will get the idea. I have cut/designed the pattern myself and I am very satisfied with it. Now I am basting the applique on the background and after that I will go applique it.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
En nog 3 cadeautjes


Do you have that sometimes too that you have to much to blog about, I have now posts that have to make room for others and so these 3 scissorfobs already arrived a week ago, but till now I didn't have room to post them.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
A new quilt
Afgelopen zaterdag in Birdblocks waren er wat voorbeelden te zien van hawaiian quilts i.v.m. the nieuwe dollyquilt en zeker die van Marion zag er echt heel mooi uit. Ik raakte daar zwaar geinspireerd door en heb gelijk 2 stoffen meegenomen om er ook 1 te maken.
Last saturday at birdblocks they were starting a dollyquilt made from Hawaiian quilts and it looked great. I also read the last book from Jennifer Chiaverini and was inspired than already and when I saw the samples at Birdblocks I decided to make one too. Here are my two fabrics.
Last saturday at birdblocks they were starting a dollyquilt made from Hawaiian quilts and it looked great. I also read the last book from Jennifer Chiaverini and was inspired than already and when I saw the samples at Birdblocks I decided to make one too. Here are my two fabrics.
Monday, February 07, 2011
Journey of a quilter
Afgelopen week heb ik blok 2 van Journey of a quilter afgekregen, moest alleen nog steeds een foto plaatsen. Ik ben inmiddels bezig met het volgende blok.
Last week I finished block 2 of Journey of a quilter. I still had to place a pic, so here it is. I already started the next block.
Last week I finished block 2 of Journey of a quilter. I still had to place a pic, so here it is. I already started the next block.
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Stashbusting
Ehm ja ik heb stof gekocht, maar ik heb ook stof uit mijn stash gehaald voor de achterkant en bies voor Longstory. De stof heb ik gekocht voor backings voor Journey of a quilter en Stepping Stones.
Oops yes I have bought some fabrics for backings for Journey of a quilter and Stepping stones. At this shop in the neighborhood of my parents they had a nice sale and I bought 4 meters.
Fabric in 2011: 7 meter
Fabric out 2010: 6.70 meter
Fabric busted: 0.30 meter
Oops yes I have bought some fabrics for backings for Journey of a quilter and Stepping stones. At this shop in the neighborhood of my parents they had a nice sale and I bought 4 meters.
Fabric in 2011: 7 meter
Fabric out 2010: 6.70 meter
Fabric busted: 0.30 meter
Saturday, February 05, 2011
De uitdaging
Klink wel spannend he. Vandaag was ik bij de been bij Birdblocks. Het was heel gezellig en ik heb lekker aan Journey of a quilter gewerkt. 's Middags bleek ik hangen aangezien voor de dollyquiltworkshop er maar naast Marion maar 1 kwam. Wij hebben heerlijk zitten bijkletsen. En we hadden het over de logcabin quilt van Merel die maar niet opschoot. Na veel heen en weer gepraat ben ik een uitdaging aangegaan met Merel en Marion. Wij hebben alledrie werkjes die we heel leuk vinden, maar niet zo snel pakken om aan te werken. Merel gaat iedere maand aan haar logcabinquilt werken, ik iedere maand aan mijn SBS blokjes en Marion moet nog even kijken welk project het wordt aangezien ze er meerdere heeft om uit te kiezen. Ik heb op het moment 13 blokjes (staan allemaal op de foto) af van de sbs en aangezien het er 140 in totaal zijn gaat dat nog wel even duren. Ik zou er graag 2 per maand maken en we gaan aan het eind van de maand laten weten wat we eraan hebben gedaan.
Today it was bee at birdblocks. We had a lot of fun and I stayed a lot longer than I planned this morning. Lucky me my DH was also in Amsterdam for his job and he picked me up at the shop when going home. Merel, Marion and me started a challenge. We all have quilts we love, but it isn't the first one we grab when we want to work on that one. Merel is going to grab her logcabin every month to get it finished, I am going to grab the sbs to work on blocks and Marion is still deciding which one to work on. I have now 13 blocks finished (They are all in the pic) and I hope to finish at least 2 a month (I will already be happy to work on it at all). At the end of the month we will show what we did that month.
Today it was bee at birdblocks. We had a lot of fun and I stayed a lot longer than I planned this morning. Lucky me my DH was also in Amsterdam for his job and he picked me up at the shop when going home. Merel, Marion and me started a challenge. We all have quilts we love, but it isn't the first one we grab when we want to work on that one. Merel is going to grab her logcabin every month to get it finished, I am going to grab the sbs to work on blocks and Marion is still deciding which one to work on. I have now 13 blocks finished (They are all in the pic) and I hope to finish at least 2 a month (I will already be happy to work on it at all). At the end of the month we will show what we did that month.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Was at my parents
Ik was bij mijn ouders en heb deze quilt afgegeven bij mijn ouders om gequilt te worden door mijn moeder. Mijn moeder vroeg of ik nog wat in de kast had liggen wat gequilt moest worden en ja hoor weer wat gevonden.
and I gave a quilt to my mother to get handquilted. My mother asked if I had a quilt in my closet that needed handquilting and off course I had one.
and I gave a quilt to my mother to get handquilted. My mother asked if I had a quilt in my closet that needed handquilting and off course I had one.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Another 2 finishes
En weer zijn er 2 aangekomen. Morgen hoop ik er weer een paar te kunnen laten zien.
And another two arrived at their new owners. Tomorrow |I hope to show some more.
Some more finishes

Another 2 scissorfobs have arrived at their new owners. I loved making them and it is off couse nice that are so loved by their new owners.
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