All windmills finished

I had a sewing day. Tonight I will be stitching on NHA. So here you can see how the summertime quilt is looking now. I already added the striped fabroic between some more row. Only 5 aeroplanes are left to do and than a dresden plate in the middle. I am thinking of finishing it this week, we will see what happens.

workshop was nice

I had a lot of fun on the workshop paperpiecen and I finished one aeroplane and after that I just had to finish the first part of the hexagon. I just love how it looks.

Tomorrow I hope to do a lot more on this one.

It's summertime quil

I thought as I will be having paperpierce workshop tomorrow, let's work on it's summertime, so I have completed some more windmills and just wanted to know how it looked.

Next to do is paperpierce some airoplanes (6 of them and on every part there will be a airoplane with also air triangles besides it and on top also an air fabric triangle and when all six parts are sewed together there will be appliqued an dresden plate in the middle and some folded triangles at the outer sides. I love working on it again and am even thinking of working on it some more and get it finished this year, well let's say it is just thinking at the moment ;-)

Workshop also in english

I didn;t get questions about it, but I have done my best to translate the workshop to english, you still can find it here

I designed some cloths

Yeah tonight I designed some new cloths as it is decided that the snowman/doll will go to my colleague as she has become a grandma. I hope her little granddaughter will like it. She will be getting also the brown cloths with it. My DH found her to nude, so I designed also a thing for her neck (sorry can't come up with how it is called in english, but she can also use it around her taille.

Today I also heard that the colleague that is pregnant is in our hospital as her bloddpressure was way to high, now she can watch us all day as her window looks down on our workplace, so we can wave to her.

Yesterday I also finished block 25 of NHA, pic will follow later.

I am feling better

Since around this afternoon I am feeling a lot better and tomorrow I will go working again. Yeah!! This afternoon I made two pincushion garbage bags one for my mother and one for me. The tulip one is for my mother and the other one for me. I have made a little photoshow on my dutch blog to show how I made it. So if you want to see that just go to my nederlandse blog.I loved making them a lot.

A bit sick

I have a very upset stomach at the moment. It started last night and still have problems with it.

I had a very productive weekend, but I can show you only block 19 of nature's home afghan as the rest is all secret.

This weekend I also ordered the software for the DJ, so I can start that quilt in a few months, first I want to finish some others. My friend Jacqueline called me today to ask if I would like to go to a workshop paperpiercing with her and I agreed. I know I do it already in some quilts, but it is always nice to learn some tricks to do a better job on it. So saturday will be filled with fun with Jacqueline.

Now to answer the SBQ of this week:

How many different brands of "complete" embroidery floss sets do youown? How do you keep track of it? (i.e., spread sheet program, indexcards, palm pilot, etc.)

I have a complete set of DMC and GAST and I have a lot of other specialty flosses, but they aren't complete. I also think GAST is not totally complete, but I only miss like 10 colors.

Now it is time to go downstairs again as I am still feeling not good at all. Positive thing is that my book is going fast.

Exchanges are keeping me busy

I just finished the finishing on my stocking stuffer exchange last night and it looks great, just can't share any pics till it is received. It will go in the mail this week.
Also I finished the stitching on a little surprise gift for someone.
Than today I will start the stitching for the ornament exchange on SBEBB, I finally found the right ornament and it looks not so intrique as my stocking stuffer exchange looked and it is from a designer I haven't stitched from yet.
So you all now I am very busy, just not noticeable.

Edited later this day: I just finished the ornament exchange too and it looks really great.

What tarot card is me

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Some more pics of retreat

Here is Marijke showing her bag, It is so cute to see all the different bags.

Wil made these cute animal cushions.

Liesbeth has made these three blocks, that look so intrique and if I would have some time left, I would love to make them, but yeah time that is the big problem.

I am now on beta blogger

I just did the big step and moved to betablogger and as far as I can see now it works.

A Finish

I just finished another snowman. I had a workshop for making it last year around this time and I just wanted to make some more, but time was to little to make them and now I find lots of time due to stopping troostquilts.
Maybe it will be a gift for someone, maybe I will keep it myself. When it is gift, someone will find it on her/his doorstep soon. I just have to draw the face. I did it totally by sewing machine also making the button holes and attaching the buttons. Here is the first one I made. I have still lots of fabric to make some more and I think I will make them as the are easy and cute to make.
Now I have to go downstairs again to get moving on my stitching as I am making something for a friend that has to be finished soon.

All secret

I am just stitching and sewing secret things. LOL so not much showing. I am also stitching block 19 of NHA which I stopped somewhere in march. I had a goal of getting the whole afghan finished this year, but with only 7 more weeks and a lot of exchanges I am in, that won't be happening.
Now I wanted to show some pics of the retreat.


Me working

My mother working in the brown.

Me working

Here one of the other bags in progress

He passed

I just heard from my DH that he passed all of his exams today with great numbers. So I am ver proud. I haven't done any stitching or quilting yesterday, I think I will work a bit on little red riding hood tonight, not sure yet and finish my stocking stuffer exchange.
Also I am on a fabric diet. Here is the badge Peachquilting made

Back from retreat

I got back from the retreat late last night and didn;t do much when I got home than sleep. This morning I worked half a day and this afternoon I have finished the bag we made on the retreat. I didn;t bring buttons with me and so I had to do them still the rest f the bag was already finished saturday evening. I was the first to finish, so yesterday I helped everyone with their bags and it just felt like I was the teacher :-) So here is my bag.

Also saw the message that Jenna got the scissorfob exchange. It took a long time to arrive. I also finished the stitching for the stocking stuffer exchange and also decided how to finish.

Now I am going to read everyones blog that is updated.

SBQ

I just got a pic of her finished christmas trees. Aren't they beautifull.

How did you decide on the title of your stitching blog? Was it random,or does it have a special meaning to you or about you?

A lot of people have asked me that already. As some already have found out I am a quick stitch and Nancy and some ohers start calling me smokey (due to my smoking needles). Eventually Nancy called me smokey dutchess to refer to my dutch heritage, but I have shortened it to Smokey from the Netherlands. And than next I first had judiromi, that is a simple one and my brother has come up with it as I got my first internetconnection from him. My full name is Judith Romijn and so you leave out the last two letters from both and put them together and have judiromi.

Now it is time to get away behind the computer as this evevning I am going on my quiltretreat and I still have to clean the house, do groceries and pack my bag.

finished take time to quilt spring

I finished the sitching last night and would have loved to put on the beads today, but I just can't find them and at least to stashlist I have them in my stash, now I am wondering where LOL.

It is stitched on cream cashel, but it looks grey on the pic.

Today my scissorfob exchange from Ish landed on my doorstep and she made a cute little fob. It is stitchex over one and really, really small, it is not even a inch square. Also got some beautyfull fabrics from her. Thanks Ish, I love verything.

Pay it forward

I saw this on Shelina's blog and thought it would be a fun "Pay it forward" kind of treat...

The first five people to respond to this post (via the comments section) will get some form of "art" made by me. Be sure that I can email you to get your snail mail address. Think of it as something to look forward to getting in the mail. It will be original, made by me (sorry), but it may not be immediate, as I haven't made them yet. I am about sure what it will be.

There is a catch, of course, the way this works is that if you sign up, you have to blog this as well and continue sharing.

1. Taken a quilting class
2. Paper pieced
3. Hand quilted
4. Hand pieced
5. Created your own pattern
6. Published a pattern in a magazine or book
7. Gone on a quilting retreat
8. Gone to a quilting convention
9. Met someone who wrote a quilting book
10. Combined your quilting with some other craft
11. Done any three dimensional quilting - like fabric origami?
12. Made something using Thimbleberries fabric
13. Made something using batiks
14. Dyed your own fabric
15. Made a landscape hanging
16. Made a New York Beauty quilt
17. Made a baby quilt
18. Made a wall hanging
19. Made a journal quilt
20. Submitted your journal quilt for viewing
21. Made a fabric postcard
22. Made a artistic trading card (ATC)
23. Exchanged artistic trading cards
24. Mailed our your postcard?
25. Made a lap quilt
26. Made a twin size quilt
27. Made a full size quilt
28. Made a queen size quilt
29. Made a king size quilt
30. Donated a quilt to charity
31. Sent a quilt out to a quilter
32. Thrown away a UFO
33. Given away a UFO
34. Cut up a UFO and made something else with it
35. Ripped fabric instead of cutting it
36. Made a quilt exactly like the pattern, with no changes whatsoever
37. Done any Sashiko
38. Quilted your own quilt
39. Did free motion quilting
40. Put any embroidery or beads on your quilt
41. Given away your quilt to a stranger
42. Swapped fabric
43. swapped blocks
44. participated in a round robin
45. participated in an ostritch round robin
46. kept a journal about your quilting
47. written a letter to someone who made an antique quilt
49. kept a blog about your quilting
50. participated in a gift exchange
51. sent a quilting random act of kindness
52. joined a newsgroup about quilting
53. made a quilt using a pattern from [ http://www.quilterscache.com/ ]quilterscache
54. joined an online block of the month
55. made a block of the month quilt
56. subscribed to a fabric of the month club
57. bought fabric at an online store
58. bought fabric from ebay
59. own more than one sewing machine
60. have a room dedicated solely to sewing
61. hide a fabric purchase
62. finished making a holiday gift before July
63. made a landscape quilt
64. made a quilt using a book from the library
65. worked with someone else to make a quilt
66. joined a quilt guild
67. become president of a quilt guild
68. taught a quilting class
69. helped someone else get the quilting bug
70. taught a child to sew
71. made a Dear Jane block
72. Made a miniature quilt
73. watch QNN - quilters news network
73. subscribe to a quilting magazine from your own country
74. subscribe to a quilting magazine from another country
75. buy fabric from another country
76. swapped completed quilts with someone else
77. asked for quilting help online
78. gone to a quilt shop to ask for quilting help
79. bought fabric at a local quilt shop
80. travelled more than 100 miles to go to a quilt shop
81. used nontraditional fabric for a quilt - something other than cotton or flannel
82. made a quilt using instructions given to you on a blog
83. make comments on someone's quilting blog
84. meet a quilter in person after only having talked online
85. had a quilting retreat in your home
86. own quilting software
87. made a quilt you designed on your quilting software
88. done any quilt research - history, interviewing quilters, etc.
89. had any quilt related subject published anywhere
90. donated a quilt to a museum
91. bought a quilt from a thrift store
92. made a quilt using fabric from a thrift store
93. made a quilt using photos
94. made a pastel quilt
95. made a quilt using brights
96. made a quilt using ethnic fabric from another country - African, Asian, etc.
97. made a quilt using leftover blocks from other quilts
98. had your quilt in a magazine, newspaper, newsletter, TV, etc.
99. submitted your quilt to a quilt show?
100. won any ribbons with your quilts?
101. had more finished quilts than UFOs
102. made a quilt using reproduction fabrics
103. took a break from quilting that was longer than a year
104. made money with your quilting
105. had a job in the fabric / quilting industry

Started a new one!!

Well it is one from my 50 list, so I am good with that. I have started Take time to quilt- spring from Jeannette Douglas designs and as my husband was behind the computerdesk the whole afternoon for his study I had all the time to stitch.Blogger isn't working with me very well with publishing pics, so here a pic through photobucket. So it is a small pic. It contains of 18 boxes and 8 are already finished.

Forgot to show the pic and my goals

I just saw that I forgot to post the pic of the finished Yvonnequilt. The one that asked the quilt for her will do the handwork on the binding.

I know I am early, but I won;t complete anymore goals I think.

Goals for October:

Quilting:

1. Finish top, quilting and binding on babyquilt for Ypie
2. Finish binding on Yvonnequilt
3. Quilt and bind Petraquilt
4. Work on the big mysteriequilt
extra:
Worked on 3x3=9 quilt

Stitching:
1. Finish animal shelf
2. Finish scissorfob exchange
3. Finish page 1 of Little red riding hood
extra:
Worked on stocking stuffer exchange

November goals:
1. Finish Stocking stuffer exchange
2. Finish Ornament exchange
3. Finish Animal shelf
4. Start take time to quilt spring
5. Work on 3 x 3 = 9 quilt
6. Work on first mysteriequilt

First part of first part finished!

I just finished the 4 blocks of the first part. Also we had to cut the orange triangles in the middle another 64 times for part 5 of the mysterie. We will use them than. Today I also finished the first part of the stocking stuffer exchange, but there will be more in it and will get busy the next weeks for that.
Also I signed up for another smalls exchange and the house themed exchange on SBEBB, but they won't have to be ready till the end of january, so enough time to make them.
Tomorrow my parents will visit and we will go out shopping for the batting for the quilt for Job and also backing fabric and than I can go and quilt as soon as I find some time, but first some other things.
Next week we will also get the partner for the ornament exchange in SBEBB and than I can go and choose my ornament that I want to stitch, wel one thing is sure it won't be disney as everyone put that in their dislikes.

What have I done.

Yes I have been a bit quiet, but tuesday I had a very bad headache and even went home after two hours working. Yesterday I was doing better, but was busy doing other things.
Monday I finished the first page of Little red riding hood. So still 55 to go.
Than last weekend I quilted the babyquilt. I think it looks great and hope my colleague will love it.
This week I worked on the first part of the new mysteriequilt and I have to make this block 4 times. It is now done 2 and a half times. Also we have to make a paperpierce block.

Needleworks small exchange is received

I just heard from Juanita that she received my exchange. So here is a pic of the pinkeep I made her.
Also today I have send my scissorfob exchange from Robin's Nest and hope it will also arrive soon.

Some pics of the european quilt championships

First if you want to see all the members please go here www.eqc.nl And this are the quilts I liked much, also the colors.