Progress and stash

I haven't been much around, but that is because my father is here. I have done a lot of patchwork these last days and finished part 1 of "It's summertime"mysteriequilt just a few minutes ago. I love how these boats look. Now I have to go and work on part 2 which are a I believe 24 windmills and I have to cut a lot of pieces for all of them, so first will be cutting and after that sewing. So I think maybe to finish them this weekend. I think I am goig great on my goals this month. Only stitchingwise I am getting behind as I haven't stitched since my latest finish. Was thinking of starting on June stamp-it in a minute.
Today I got the kit from Keepsakequilting I ordered for my colleague, which won't be for her, but for my neighbour. She is also pregnant and her due date is december 2. My colleague is december 5 and I will make her a nice thing to for the maxicozi or something like that. With that package I also got a mysterie medley and you can see it in the pic. So looks like I will have to make something christmas.
Also yesterday I go spring stitches in the mail, I am on a automatic programm for her on a LNS so as soon as a new chart comes out it comes flying to me.

I didn't do anything,..

, but some other people did do a lot. Like I told maybe a few months ago I learned my mother patchwork and quilting last autumn. Here is another quilts she is making since than. She is now busy getting the lines on it for quilting and after that she can start. She took it with her as we have a glasstable and with a light beneath it she could draw the lines very easily. With ordering this kit I learned some french again, I had it 4 years on school, but it was one of my worst classes. I had to order it in France and my mother couldn't understand it even after having 8 years of French. It worked out well and she started it in May. She has done the patchwork by machine, but the applique by hand and it looks very good.

Than I send Loes some embroidered stitching to make into a comfortquilt for Petra, who is sick and here is what she made of it. I have to say I really love it.
Even the back looks great.I haven't quilted or stitched as I was busy with my mother and father. Today we had a horsecontest a few km's from here and my mother was the jury there. So I went with her to be her secretary.
Tonight I am going to work on "It's summertime".

What is it?

Is it that MTM for this month is already out of the way or what that I am in a finishing mood at the moment. Yesterday I finished the fob for the exchange, only have to make it into a fob, but that will happen this week. I loved stitching it, but that can be as it was from one of my favorite designers and I know it is also a favorite as far as I can see from the receiver of this.
Also yesterday I came very far on "It's summertime", I don't think I will have time to work on it today or tomorrow, but hopefully I can finish it monday. It really looks good. But before my mother comes I will clean my desk again, so that she can't say anything about that.
Here is what it will look like, but there still have to be corners at the botton with light and dark blue.
Today I will work on Victoria city sampler again and hope to get that one finished next week some day. Not that much to do on it anymore, so I am sure I will do my best on it. Also I made up the present for a friend that has her birthday this month and I hope to send it of on it's voyage.
Yesterday my package from the silverneedle finally arrived. It took almost 2 months to arrive. I guess it took a very slow boat.But I am happy now and now can start my snappervilles. Just have to order the last two spring charts in the next months somewhere when I have time and money to do that.

Finished purr-turbed and update

I just finished this one late last night very late as I wanted to have it finished when I started the backstitching. I must say that I love the charts, but that backstitching is hard to do. Really a lot of counting, but as you see it looks really great, it makes the design come alive.
Next in line to do for my stitching goals is start and finish the scissorfob for the scissorfobexchange at the rotation BB. It has to be send the 1st of august, but I want to make sure it will be on time finished. So when I start today it will be probaly also be finished today.

About the questions to come and clean at all your houses. No sorry, I still have some other rooms to clean before tomorrowafternoon also because my dad will stay for a few days longer to paint the outside of our house. We have it now blue with cream and it will be darkred with cream when he is finished.
Also I wanted to show you a quilt start I made last month, but didn't have time to make a pic yet. I still have a lot to do on this one. It is a quilt for charity and will look the same as the flower one from last month, but now with this woman from all over the world. Same fabrics will be used, but with this one I will maybe add a border at the end. Just have to see, how it will work out in the end.
Yesterday I also worked on "It's summertime"mysteriequilt and finished 4 more boats. Now only 12 more to go, but first I have to go and cut some fabrics for them for the sails and the sky. When they are all done and put together I will post a pic again. And after that I can start part 2. I decided I hate paperpiercing, but well it looks good, so I will have to get over it. For the big mysterie I also have to do 32 little rows of triangles also with paperpiercing.

I am very proud

to say that I cleaned out my whole sewing/stashroom. I have made some pictures before. Here is one from the side of the window, this sight wasn't that bad.

This other side was really the most messy side. I just had to go and clean also because my parents come visit us this weekend and I already know the reaction of my mother when she would have see n it like this.

But here is the sight that wasn't that messy.

And here is the very messy side that is now clean too :-)

My DH said yesterday if I would turn it into a palace and I think I did a good job to make it a palace. It is the first time I have got my sewing/cutting desk totally clean.

This winter we will renovating it and it will look totally different, but for now I am satisfied. Now I can go and work on the "It's summertime mysterie". Also here a pic of almost all the fabric stash I have collected and what is not used in quilts I am working on at the moment.

Part 10 of MTM finished and SBQ

Ans here it is part 10 finished. I was so happy that this month was little and no houses at all. I already had 3 of the corners finished yesterday. The last corner took me a long time because of the wet heat of today.
Next to finish is purr-turbed.

What is the biggest mishap you have had with your stitching material(i.e. spillages)?
My DH once put a chocolate cookie on Summer Queen after that I almost killed him. Also with the same queen I threw all the beads on the couch and first my DH laught, but after that he helped and wasn't happy at all.

Hot hot hot

It is really hot here in the Netherlands and I managed to get a cold :-( I have big trouble breathing, but hopefully it will be gone soon. It looks like it will cooldown tomorrow and than thursday som more.
I have been stitching on MTM part 10 and it goes very fast, I almost have the second corner finished and that only in one day as saturday and sunday I didn't have much time to stitch. I hope to make a pic this afternoon from both the corners and than maybe tomorrow also the other two will be finished.
Today I also have said goodbye to my sewing machine, I sold it to someone and a friend of mine is making sure it will arrive there as the new owner doesn't live close to me, but my friend does. So she will pic it up at John his work as that is a lot easier to explain than my home. The new job of John is a nice one. Just have to get used to that he goes to his job very late and comes home very early. He has 2 hours of more time for his own.
Yesterday I got part 9 of the mysteriequilt and wow it is a bog star we have to make for that one. It is a star with 12 points and about 60 cm big. Hope to work on that quilt this weekend when it gets a lot cooler. Now it is just to hot to sit in my sewingroom.

And here is my mothers and update purr-turbed

And here is the one my mother made on the workshop.

And here is another time mine.

Yesterday was very hectic due to work and the bbq. I had to work 4 hours and than I would get the meat and fish for the bbq, but that all worked out totally different. In the morning my boss cut herself in her finger vey horrible on one of the machines and had to go to the ER on first floor of our building ASAP ( we are on the fourth floor). One of our doctors went with her and stayed with her all the time. Than I alreaady had something like well I think I have to stay a little bit longer as work was already hectic before she cut herself. So I called John that he had to get the meat and fish on it's own as I didn't have time. So he did that and than he called again around 3 am if I would ever come home before my colleagues. Well I than said probaly I will, but not a lot. At the end I worked 8 hours and was home just 15 minutes before the rest and even got to take a fast shower. So you can see it was a very hectic day and I really planned to do everything and than go and work on purr-turbed and maybe almost finish the crosses, but with everything that didn't happen. Now he has to wait this month till part 10 of MTM is finished and my scissorfob exchange So that is why I took a pic of him now, to let everybody see how far I already am.

Tonight we will have a bbq with the neighbors behind us from all the leftovers from yesterday as we could borrow their chairs. Also the weather was working with us for the first year in the three times we already organized it as we had some beautifull weather. I have now a bit of a cold, but hope it stays that way and not get worse.

Today I also looked a bit around the blogs to find some more quilting blogs through the blog of Shelina and I found some really pretty ones. I really found out I am still a beginner on the quilts, eventhough I am already quilting for 3 years now.

Goals June and July

SBQ of this week:
What do you do with your charts once you’ve stitched them? Do you keep them or dispose of them? If you keep them, do you organize them in a way that is different from the way you keep your unstitched charts?

I trade the with other people or I keep them till I see that someone has it on their wishlist and will trade than than.
I keep them in a seperate drawer from the rest of the charts (which are organized by designers and the used ones aren't.

Goals for June:
Quilting:
1. Finish Gerardquilt Done, Jacqueline will finish quilting the last two blocks
2. Finish part 7 of mysteriequilt Not worked on
3. Finish part 8 of Mysteriequilt (very difficult part, just got it in the mail today) Not worked on
4. Start Hiskequilt Done
5. Start Anitaquilt Finished
Extra:
1. Finished Poetry in Motion
2. Finished Autumn Thanks
3. Finished the midsummer night mysteriequilt
4. Started "It's summertime"quilt

Stitching:
1. Finish part 9 of MTM Done
2. Work on Animal Shelf Done
3. Work on Purr-TurbedDone
4. Work on Victoria samplerDone
5. Work on Colonial gardenDone
Extra:
Finished May Stamp-it

Goals for July:
Quilting:
1. Finish part 1 from It's Summertime
2. Finish part 2 from It's Summertime
3. Finish part 3 from It's Summertime
4. Finish part 7 of mysteriequilt
5. Finish Hiskequilt
6. Finish Yvonnequilt (only quilting as Jacqueline has made the top of the quilt)

Stitching:
1. Finish Purr-Turbed
2. Stitch on Colonial garden
3. Finish Victoria City Sampler
4. Finish part 10 of MTM
5. Finish my fob exchange for rotation stitchers
6. Finish June stamp-it

Too tired

Sorry girls I am just to tired to blog a lot. I try to go as early to bed as I can, but it doesn't really work. I hope to get some good sleep after friday when we have the bbq from work in my backyard. I have done all the shopping already. Only have to go and pick up the meat and fish friday and than we can have some fun with all of us.
I haven't been stitching much as I have been reading in the dutch edition of this book. I really love her books, just hate it that I are being not so often released in dutch, so maybe I will read one in english and see if I can follow it and than buy them in english.
I have been stitching on Purr-Turbed and I am getting slowly there. Maybe it will be finished this week, maybe not.

2 finishes

Yesterday I had a workshop at the quilterij in Den Bosch. It was a little midsummernight mysteriequilt and here you can see the result of it. I really love it. When my mother has finished her I will also let you guys see that one as it is totally different than mine. We were with 8 woman and the teacher and all 9 were totally different. It was nice again to do a little workshop together with my mother.

Yesterday I first went to meet with Jacqueline and give her the Gerardquilt to finish the last two blocks. I am sure she will make some nice knots on it.

Today when I arrived home around 1 pm I started to get the may stamp-it finished and so I did just a few minutes ago. Now I will go and work on Victoria City sampler or Purr-turbed, just have to see which one calls the loudest.

Today I also find a nice one to stitch for the scissorfob exchange on rotationstitchers bb and I am almost sure that she will like it. I think I will start it sometime this week or next week.

Gerardquilt

Here is a pic of the Gerardquilt. I only have to do two celticknots and than it is finished. I hope it will be at the end of the weekend. I hope to do them both sunday as I will be gone today and most of tomorrow.

Also Jacqueline has volunteerd to do them. Just have to see if I will leave it at her place today or will do tham myself.

Just some talk

Today I got the second part of the summermysterie and it will be nice for sure. Now we are going to make 24 windmills, and we have to cut a lot of parts for all of them. Hope to work on it next weekend.
Today I have been working on the Gerardquilt and got 1/3 of the blocks quilted. I hope to have some more time tomorrow in the afternoon. I relly want to get this one done this month as I have than made my deadline of 3 months. I am doing the blocks by machine, only the celtic knots by hand and I have to say it looks great. My machine is still working great. I really love it.

Some updates

Yesterday I stitched the rest of the day on Colonial garden till I finished the 4th garden. It was our normal LTD SAL day, but as both others are finished, I thought let's stitch on it for awhile. After I finished the garden I went back to Victoria city sampler for awhile and the pink flower is almost finished only a bot of green to do and than the blue flower mirrores to the one on the left has to be stitched again. Than some other stitches in that row and than I have all the rows completed and I can work beck at the bottom again.
Today I started May Stamp-it it wasn't on any list, but I tried to stitch them all in their month, but with april I got distracted and I hope to finish now May and June so that I will be at the right month again.
I also will be quilting on the Gerardquilt the next days and maybe will finish it next week, but that depends if I will find another beauty of a celtic knot to quilt. I will do the squares and triangles in the black and yellow by machine.

Finished part 9 of MTM

Yes it is finished part 9. Now on to part 10, 11 and 12 which will fill up the corners between the rows of houses. I am happy to be done with the last houses as those middle buildings and long buildings all the same on all sides where a little to much.
Now I am going to work on my sewing machine to get some stitching nicely finished. So more pics will follow later.
And so Autumn Thanks from Sisters and best friends is finished in to this little quilt/wallhanging. Can you see that I just love my new sewing machine, maybe I will do some more sewing later today, but I think first I am going to stitch again. Just have to decide on which of my projects.

The new sewing machine

And here it is. My new sewing machine:

And with it I got this beautifull box of sewing thread in a lot of colors (55):

After working on the sewing machine the whole afternoon I worked on MTM in the eving and here the pic of that one so far. I hope to have it finished this weekend not a lot of houses anymore so keep those fingers crossed that I will survive.
Today I was looking at how many finishes I had this year so far and I found out I have had 11 quilt finishes and 12 crossstitch finishes..
Today we have been away on the bike for 45 km and it was nice and hot. We went to Medemblik and had a nice lunch there between a lot of germans how where on holiday there as it is next to the water.

Yes yes

I just bought my new sewing machine and I have to say that I really love her/him. I am very busy quilting poetry in motion on it and looks like it will be finished today. I laready done 4 of the 9 blocks. I just can't get myself to do anything else at the moment. I bought the 750Q and it is just perfect. Pics will follow later. Now I am back to quilting again. I have to update this. I finished the quilt already. It is a real crazyquilt as I used a lot of the stitches on the machine. I will make a pic later. First I am going to look at soccer as the Netherlands have to play again.

Update MTM part 9

Still stitching on part 9 of MTM. I am hoping to have it finished this weekend. On the middle house only the Specialty stitched and the backstitching has to be done. Hope to have that finished tonight and that I will do some stitching on the next houses. I will be glad when those houses are done. I don't think I will manage to finish a lot of my goals this month. Hopefully next month some more.

Today was the last day for my DH on his job, now he has more than two weeks off before he starts his new job. He felt a bit sad, but also is happy that he is going to work so close to our home.

Tomorrow my mom and aunt are going to visit us and we will go to the city to shop till we drop. And than friday I am going to buy my new sewing machine if I like one of the two I am going to test. http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/uk/391_611.htm
This one I want the most and also I am going to test the 730. http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/uk/391_610.htm

Update MTM and a gift

This is a pic of MTM as of yesterday eveving. Not a lot of progress, but weather is hot hot hot.

This time I do the backstitcing as I go. There isn't a awfull lot in this part, so I thought let's do it on the go. Today I will work some more on the middle house.

Today I loved my mailman as he was bringing a nice present from Lyne (the one from the fob) and I love both of them a lot. It is "4 Wishes" from Just Nan with the beads and charms(a very cute umbrella) and "ladybugs and bumblebess" from Country Cottage Needleworks which I also love and she included a skien of Crescent colors that is needed for this one. I am still waiting for a package of silver needle I ordered and that was send the 15th of May, that is really taking a long time to get here.

A future project

Today I heard that one of my colleagues is pregnant and I decided I would make a quilt for her. I just ordered the kit. It was a nice thing that I just saw this quilt this morning, but didn't know anyone that would get a baby. So it was a nice surprise that she was pregnant.


Yesterday when we arrived home our view at the front is this. Yes the Netherlands are in the FIFA worldcup and already won there first came.

Update MTM and Can it be the nerves?

Here is a pic of MTM. This is how much I stitched on it friday and today till ow. I still have a evening left to stitch, so Hope to start the big house in the middle now.

Also here is what I have done for the summertime mysteriequilt. I still have to make a lot of sailships, but probaly will do them in the next days. There are 80 cut squares in this pic and 6 cut triangles which we will use in another part.

LOL I think so that that it is why I forget to tell about the dutch stitch together where I did a little workshop. The get together was very nice and we have a lot of fun and a lot of people carried a lot of WIP's and UFO's and finished things with them and I loved everything. Also after some thinking I decided to do the Rainforest afghan as a quilt, so I will make the blocks seperately and finish them in a nice quilt, which won't be impossible to do for me. I just can't see me stitching again on the same afghan fabric and I only would be able to stitch it when it is cold, not like now when it is hot. Nature's Home Afghan is laying still again.
The workshop went great and I think everyone loved it. I am really thinking of doing another workshop soon.

I was so happy that everything went ok at the dentist that I really had some good nights sleep after it. The dentist was even surprised as to how relaxed I was. Lucky for me that day wasn't that hot yet. Yesterday we had the familyreunion and boy that was hot, above 30 celsius. First we had to pic up my brother from the airport. We were a bit late, but nothing to worry about. First we went to his home so he could take a shower and refresh himself after such a long flight. Than we went to Nijmegen to meet the whole family of my mother, we were with 37 people. We had a nice walkingtrip through Nijmegen and than we went on a boat were they served pancakes. I am sure the kids loved it, only my little nephew was sick, but he even was a bit happy sometimes. As my father had his birthday we had a nice bbq later that evening just with the 6 of us. My brother just didn't had time to get a present and I forgot to bring it. So he will get his present next sunday when we see eachother again.

A little finish

Finally it arrived this little fob I made for my friend Lyne. It took a very long journey to the USA, almost two weeks and I did send it priority.

It is a little chart from Needle's content and I loved stitching it.

This morning was the big dentist appointment and everything went well. Even the dentist said I was finally relaxed.

A lot of updates

I know I am not much around these last days, but life gets in the way a lot these days. First I wanted to show a pic of the finished Anitaquilt. Hermie, a woman from a dutch quilting group I am on, has quilted it and did that so fast, I am really amazed by her speed.

And here a detail

Than I wanted to show a pic of MTM part 9 how far I am. Not really far, but I didn;t do a lot of stitching these last days. I have been busy with patchwork and reading. I think this part stitches up nice, but I already discovered I like those left and right sides the best as it is more in the line of my stitching as I stitch from left to right.

Than I wanted to show how far I came with Animal shelf.

Than in the weekend I have been stitching a lot on Purr-Turbed as I have to get this one finished before the 1st of August and so far I only stitched on it on the go. So I am guessing it will take a while before it is finished. His little legs are now almost done and than on to the rest of his cute body.

Also I have been patchworking on the new mysteriequilt "It's Summertime". I love this little boat and have to make it another 17 times. More pics will follow from this time tomorrow or sunday.

Tomorrow I will have to go to the dentist again and so I am already on medication and hope it will help this time. I have to take some more than last time.

Saturday we have to pic up my brother from the airport before we go to my parents. He flew away yesterday morning to Chicago for his work. I really love him as he called me if I needed any DMC from Michaels as in the USA the DMC is very cheap compared to here. But as he already brought a lot last time in December I didn't need anything as of yet. His plane will land early in the morning, but we live very close to Schiphol/Amsterdam, so we only have to drive for 30 minutes to pic him up and than drive to my parents to have a familyreunion and after that a bbq as my dad has his birthday saturday.

Here is a pic of another comfortquilt. The quilt is done by Annelies.

Anitaquilttop finished

I was very tired today and I thought let's do some patchwork and so I did. I have finished this quilttop and I like the look of it very much.

So you can see also what I have done with the fabrics in my previous post.

Today I also worked on MTM, but I am not going very fast. I did however finish the first house.

All quiltingfabrics pics

LOL yeah just pics of fabrics I bought and that came in last week. First the fabrics I bought for two charityquilts. One will be with little woman from all over the world and the other one will be with flowers. I think these fabrics will look good for both and the upperfabrics are for the behind of both quilts.
Than I bought fabrics thursday for one or more childcharityquilts. Which I think are very bright and happy colors.

Thanks I bought some extra fabrics for my big mysteriequilt as the maker of it said that it could be that we would run out of some.

And than I bought the fabrics and pattern for the mysterie "It's summertime" Which I think look very summery.

From the east

Hi from the east of the Netherlands as I am at my parents.
I had a great day today. Work was great as the most terrible colleague on my job resigned yesterday and we are all very happy she did do that.
Today I went to the mysteriequiltbee and saw some beauties there. Part 8 is big, but very nice. Also signed up for another mysteriequilt. This time a mysterie in 4 times for summer. Already got the fabric for it and I think it will look yummy. Also got fabrics for a charityquilt for a kid. I will show pics sunday when I am home again.
Tomorrow I will see my little nephew again and saturday ir is time to the workshop specialty stitches. I hope everyone will like what I have made up.
Have to go now as my bed is calling very loudly.
Today I worked on Purr-Turbed.