Anne recived the box

I just heard from Anne that she received the box I made for her, you have seen it's smaller sister already some posts ago. I had some fabric left from this big one and decided to make a little one for the dutch stitch together. Cute thing about this box is that the fabrics are from Australia, but bought here and now send made in something back to Australia. I am very glad Anne loves it so much. She really deserved it very much.

I will be having a new e-mailaddress as of today (old one will still be avaiable till end of this month). The new one is judiromi@quicknet.nl

Two post within an hour(maybe a bit longer)

I just got word that my pinkeep exchange was received by Vonna . I stitched her Let May Bloom from Sheperd's Bush. It is stitched on a limited edition color from Silkweaver which I had in my stash and the colors looked great on it.

Than I went to SBEBB and found there that my ABC exchange was also received, that one went to Myrna I have stitched the chart that was with the linenfloss I received this winter from someone. I just didn't like the colors. So I first went looking for a nice fabric for the finishing and I found a nice strawberry fabric and I choose my colors by that fabric. On my sewingclass I found a nice ribbon for it. Well now I am really gone. There is still time to sign up for the drawing.

What a nice mailday

Well it started this morning with the neighbor bringing me a package. I never got a notice from the mailman that it was brought to my neighbor, also don't know if it arrived yesterday or not. Didn't ask her as I was in a hurry for getting to work.

I got a nice surprise from Debbie of BAPXSRAK list. It was a finished piece "High hopes"from Just Nan and I am already thinking how to finish it, but I am sure I will find a nice way. I am thinking of a pinkeep or a hanger, but you will all see later after my vacation.

I was thinking this was another package as I was expecting also a package from a shop, by the way I was expecting two packages, one with fabrics and one with all sorts of pins.

Than when I returned home I had two envelopes waiting for me one was a bill for a birthday package I had send to someone through a shop. The other one I thought was the pin package, but it was also another. First after opening I saw this and that looked already so great. Than when opening I saw this beautifull pinkeep from Chris . It looks like a just nan design, but I don't know which one it is. I just love how she finished it. It is her first, but it is perfect already. This was for the SBEBB needlework smalls exchange and we desided to do a pinkeep. She also included some beautifull goodies.

Last week I also got a RAK from Andrea through the Rak Registry and she got me this nice chart from my wishlist.

Well now it is time to go. Last weekend I finished 4 PIF gifts only one more to go and I hope to send them out right after my vacation.

Well the doorbell just rang and I have now my pinpackage too. It is from the Crafty Elephant ( I believe I have that shop also from Andrea) and I have to say very nicely packed and great and fast service.

Hope to finish page 5 of Little red riding hood tonight and than I will stitch my trip around the world exchange.

Party time!!

It is my 300th post and I have a little surprise for someone. I will have a drawing till the 10th of May. If you send me an e-mail at judiromi@wanadoo.nl with in the subject line "drawing" you are in to win this sewing box. It is amde by me. This is my own and I will make another one in the same colors for you. It is around 5.1"x 6.7"x 2.8"inches or 19,5 x 13 x 7 cm. I will give you all a number and let a randomizer pic a number for me, like I did with animal shelf.

Edited 4 may: You can in the list in the sidebar if I got your name and which number you have.

Update little red riding hood

Here is an update on LRRH. I am finally beginning to love this piece, maybe that is because I am finally seeing something in it.

I have made the pic on our couch which is red, so that is why the fabric looks red.

I am not feeling my normal self

Since yesterday I am feeling like I have been run over by two high speed trains from two sights at the same time. Everything hurts, I think it can have something to do with my allergy as we have lovely weather here and no rain at all. I had a headache all day, but it looks like (knocking on wood) it is gone.

This weekend I didn't feel like stitching on an exchange piece so I finished page 4 of Little red riding hood and am busy with page 5 (I am on 1/3 now). In this page the wolf will appear, well just a little bit of him. Pics will follow later.

This weekend I also finished the quilt for my nephew Job. I have made some spirals in it. Hope you can see them on the detail oherwise I can take a pic of the back, where you can certainly see them. It is all quilted on my normal sewing machine and the size is 1.50 by 2 meter, maybe a little bit larger. After my parents and my vacation it will go to my parents and my mother will put the binding on it, so for me it is a finish now.

Sunday we had a nice bikeride in the far northwest point of the Netherlands, it was around 45 km and there was a lot of wind, but we have seen the sea, the tulips and also visited the flower festival in Anna Paulowna and that did make such nice peices. I was very sorry of not taking my camera with me, so I can't show you any pics. It is only 3 weeks till we go on vacation, so we have to train some more as we go on a bikingvacation again and we will have to bike around 300 km. Hope the weather will be nice than. We are going to the Provence in France just a little bit above Orange.

Also my e-mailaddress will change ad the end of this month, will let you all know more when I know when it is going to happen.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I can do a little workshop for cartonnage if you want, but that will be after my vacation.

I am addicted

I am addicted to cartonnage since my workshop. This one was planned to be a PIF gift, but I just like it myself to much. So it stays here. I already put a lot of addresses and phonenumbers in there.

Received ABC exchange

Today I received the ABC exchange from Heleneon the SBEBB forum and I just love it.

I also finished the May Flower exchange and next week I going to send out 2 exchanges, probaly around thursday.

Finally Found

I had to look for beads for a design I will stitch for the garden themed exchange and I thought well just look for those for "take time to quilt - spring" too as I am now busy with the beads and well finally I found them. I have it marked down already as finished, but still hadn't done the beads. But now I can go and finish it and start the next season.
Also have the design ready for the trip around the world exchange and found the fabby and floss for it. I finished the pinkeep exchange and I am getting better in making them everytime.

Where was my head...

when I signed up for the exchanges. The pinkeep and may flower are ready to be finished, so they aren't the problem, but both sending dates for the trip around the world and the garden exchange fall right in my vacation and so I only have two weeks to get them stitched and finished both within two weeks. Can you see me stressed now and just me thinking I could relax and stitch on little red riding hood this weekend won't work. Well the garden themed exchange is due after my vacatio, so maybe I can prospone the finishing till the week after my vacation.

I also thought about going and finish quilting the quilt for my nephew, but it looks like that has to wait. Positive thing is that I have bought everything for the 5 PIF gifts and I hope to send them before my vacation too, but that isn't the most important thing. I am now of the computer and going to do the finishing on the pinkeep exchange and after that stitch the trip around the world exchange.

Life is going great. I just had some bad days this past week as I was very very very tired from the weekend, but well I survived and this weekend is very long as monday is queensday and that is a national holiday.

Mysterie exchange was received by ...

Svenja and she likes it :-) It was my first Tie on pillow and I loved making it. I am certainly going to make more. Tomorrow I have to do a lot of stitching on the ABC exchange as it has to go out no later than saturday. I am 3/4 finished with the stitching now. After that there is no time to relax, but I have to stitch and finish the pinkeep exchange right after that and than the may flower exchange. After that I hpe to have a week to stitch on little red riding hood again.

Had a great weekend

Just a short note to say I am back and to show a pic of the box I made as a gift for the dutch get together (quilts and stitching) saturday.

It is a small kartonnage box which I loved making.

The bikeride was great today, but I am now vey exhausted. That is why I am writing a short message.

Received mysterie exchange

Yesterday I received my mysterie exchange from Outi and she stitched a design that will be avaiable next month and it is just so lovely. She made it in a gorgeous needleroll and included some great goodies.

I won't be around this weekend as tomorrow we will be having a dutch stitch together at Jacqueline her home with dutch and belgian people. First I had to go by train there as after that we will be going to my parents home and Jacqueline lives half way between our home and their home. But I talked hime into going to the sauna. There is a big saunacomplex in her village and just around the corner of her house. So he and I both will have a great day. My present is ready and packed, pic will follow sunday or after the weekend depends on how late we will be returning. Saturday we will go out for diner with my parents to a restaurant where they serve some nice food from India. Sunday we will take a bikeride of 50 km.

Mail to Finland was very fast I posted the drawing price wednesday and today it already arrived at Sari her doorstep and I hope all those finnish ladies are saying nice things about it in the comments section as I really can make anything out of it ;-) My finnish is a bit gone after 4 years when I was there on a holiday and we already had the difficulties of understanding some.

There will be another drawing in a few posts, but I won;t say what it will be, but I saw that my 300 post is coming soon in 9 posts. I am going to make something and the winner will get it, but that will be in a week or two I think.

Finished bag

I started the front, back and side of this bag last weekend and yesterday I put it together on sewingclass. There is even a zipper in it. First it was mend to be a present, but now I decided to keep it myself as I just love it. It is from fabrics I had left from making a comfortquilt last year around this time.

Little red riding hood progress

Here is my progress of little red riding hood. I have stitched this past weeke and weekend on it and have finished more than a page. When I finish this page I have finished 4 so far.

You can find a whole pic here You can see now something from where I am.

Tonight I am having sewing class and I hope to finish a bag I am making from stash only.

I will be stitching on Little red riding hood another week.

Our love of needlework exchange received

I just received the our love of needlework exchange from Myrna. A beautifull needleroll and some nice goodies. I am very happy with it.

I will put up a pic of little red riding hood tomorrow after we have done our big bikingtour as the weather is just very very very beautifull at the moment.

And the winner is....

I just let a randomizer programm choose a number. I had 36 people for the drawing and the program choose number 11 and that is Sari . I will e-mail you right away for your address and than it will go on it's way next week.

Kartonnage

I just love doing kartonnage, but the victorian sewing box wasn't my first project. The first one was this box I made for the Our Love of Needlework exchange at SBEBB. For this one I stitched "For a special stitcher" from Elizabeth designs. It had to be something which had to do with stitching and as I wanted to make her a "1001 things" box. I had to have a design which was the correct size. You see on this pic how lovely it looks open, also I did a great job on using my stashfabrics as both fabrics are from my stash.

Tuesday I had my last lesson for the victorian sewing box, but as I didn;t had time to put on the cats already I did that this afternoon . I had a nice chat with the ladies of the group tuesday evening and also today with only the owner of the shop it was very nice chatting. I already want to make some more. I saw a box for putting your quiltblocks in and that was a nice idea too. I am almost ready with page 3 of Little red riding hood, only 50 stitches left so probaly a new pic will come this weekend.

Also two more days to sign up for the drawing.

Finished Animal Shelf

I just put in the last french knot a few minutes ago. Now for the drawing. Just send me your name in an e-mail to judiromi@orange.nl with your e-mailaddress and I will draw a name from a bowl next weekend.

Game

A little game will be coming on this blog soon. As my nephew doesn't care for bears anymore I have been thinking of getting animal shelf in a little drawing. I have to thank how I will do it. If I will let you call numbers or just let you e-mail me and I will draw a name after a period. You will see later.
I want to wish everyone a happy easter. I have a long weekend. I was off from work like every week yesterday noon and won't be back there till tuesday. I am intedning to stitch a lot this weekend. Finish animal shelf, sandwich the quilt for job and start quilting that one, maybe work on one of the mysterie quilts, sew some cloths and try to decide what to stitch for the ABC exchange which is due at the end of this month. I have just to much ideas. I found a cute freebie, but no idea how to finish. I found some nice designs in my stash, but I am doubting if I will have enough time to finish it. The two next weekends are very busy for me as the 14th I will be having a quiltingbee and the 21st I will have a stitching/craftingbee, both will be the whole day, also the 22nd my parents will come to take a long bikeride in our province together with us.
For the pinkeep I have already an idea for very long as soon as I knew who my partner was :-) Also the Garden Themed exchange and the may flower exchange aren't a problem as for the garde themed exchange I knew what to stitch when I saw my partners name and for the may flower I already had a good idea and now I can go and make it, but the ABC one stays a bit of a problem.
This past two weeks I finished reading cross country quilters and the runaway quilt and loved both a lot. Now I am busy in the quilt legacy if I am not mistaking.
Yesterday I pieced the first block of a quilter's journey from Leanne's house and I am busy with the stitchery and just love it. Pic will come when the block is finished.
I am still keeping my fingers crossed that my "Our love of needlework exchange"will arrive at it's new owner soon.
Speak to you all later. It is really time for some luch now.

I am sewing like crazy and...

I just love doing it here. Here is the shirt I made second, but now in my body and the new project I made the pants. I am very happy with how it turned out. Now I have to decide what to make next.

Yesterday I got the first BOM from Leanne's house "A Quilter's Journey", which is block 6 and I a already looking forward of starting it, maybe thursday afternoon. I had a question for that and I hope you all will be reading still. What is weaveline? She says to put it behind your stitcherie, but me and also not my LQS/Sewing store don't know what it is. So if anybody can telle me please do so. Maybe we have something similar here.

some progress and fabrics

Today I cleaned up my fabric boxes and put them on two shelfs as they were to much for the boxes. I have been going through all the fabrics and it just gives you so much energy.

Here is a pic of the victorian sewing box till now. This is the outside box.

Than here also a pic of the animal shelf, don;t know when I last worked on it, but hope to work on it the coming week to get it finished. Here you ca find a pic of it when I made the last pic what was in september.

sewing project two

Here is a pic of the shirt I finished just a few minutes ago. Next to sew is some pants. I hope to choose some fabric this weeken.

My mom and me are a busy couple

Today I finished the Nantucket Pincushion from Indigo rose and I just love how it looks. Also love doing specialty stitches and there are a lot in it. Here is also a pic from a side. It is little. There is also some over one stitching in it.

Today I also got the fabric for the victorian sewing box, it is a workshop I will do next tuesday. The yellow fabric is for the whole box and you will see the cats on all the side and the top.

I just got this photo from my father from the pillows the made for my aunt, who has her 48th anniversary this weekend and this is their present from my parents. I bought this fabrics 2 years ago in Canada

and now my mother has used them. Off course my dad has done the cutting again.

Yes I did it.

I am so in awe as I just finished the stitching chair. Getting everything prepared was simpler, but making it into a chair is a little harder. Well I love how it turned out.

Now I started a little one from Indigo rose, son't know the name.

Nice mail day

First I want to thank everyone for the nice comments lately. It makes me always very happy to know so many people ready my blog and like what I make.

Today finally my birthdaypackage for Robin's Nest arrived on my doorstep. Natty made me a nice bellpull. Now I have to find some bellpull hardware for it. When I made the photo I found out why my pic of the quilt is so blurry the camera was standing on the wrong installment.

Also just a few minutes ago our mailman Wim (who always brings our big packages in the evening as he knows we aren't home in the day, we really have to keep him :-)) brought my book package with 4 novels of Jennifer Chiaverini. I bought them in English as I hope they take me a little longer to read.

Back again

Since last night I am back from my retreat and had a great time there. Lots of chatting with old and new friends and also got some great sewing tips as I was making some difficult blocks for my mysterie. I decided a name and it will be called "lentekriebels", don't know how to translate it to english, but something like "spring is coming" says the same. On the pics you see that I don't have that much to do anymore (sorry for the blurry pic) and I hope to have it finished soon. I did do the midlestar en the roundblocks at the weekend and got some great tips from two ladies as those blocks were really hard. Yesterday I started doing the round corners and as youcan see I finished two of the outer rounds. I hope to do some more today as I just want to have it finished.

I had my camera with me, but forgot to stick in a memory card so no pics were taken by me on the retreat :-(

Beds were fine only I didn;t sleep on mine a lot the first night as I stayed up till 2.30 am and was up around 7.30 am. The second evening I was so tired that I went to bed already 10.30 pm and I even didn;t notice the other 5 ladies coming in as I was in some sort of coma :-) I woke up the next dat very well rested.

Finished Summer Snapperland

Here is finally the pic of the finished summer snapperland. I really love the look of the snapperlands. Now only Autumn is left to stitch, but that one has to wait at least a month as I have some other things to stitch.

Next to stitch is the stitchingchair. Now I am really gone to pack my bags, but before I forget thanks for the nice comments on my first shirt.

My first sewing project

Here is my first shirt I made on my sewingclass. I love making this kind of things a lot and so cheap compared to bought cloths. Now what will be my next project????

I am still alive

I know I am a bit silence, but Iam busy preparing for my quiltingretreat this weekend. I will leave friday around lunchtime and come back sunday afternoon. I have cut a lot of blocks from the mysterie that is solved now. Just have to do still a lot of sewing. I hope to cut some more the coming day and than I am sure I will be finished soon with the whole mysterie and I can start quilting it.
Yesterday I have finished summer snapperland and there will be a pic later this week or next week, just when I have time to take the pic. I am in a hurry right now as I have to go to my sewing class in a few minutes.
Today we had some beautifull weather and I love it very much. Finally some sun.
Bye for now and see you all soon.