You Belong in Winter

Quiet, calm, and totally at peace...You're happy to be at home, wrapped in a blanket, completely snowed inWhether you're lighting a fire or having a snowball fight, you always feel best in the winter.

What Season Are You?

I am not feeling 100% still, but am at 80% now. Yesterday was a very bad day, but I started in the evening cutting the ninpatches and sewing the first 3. Here is a pic of them. Today I thought I would go shopping at one of the two LQS we have here in town, but it was closed. So I wen to the not so nice one and bought some polydown for the next 4 quilts I have to quilt (Babyquilt, Autumn Harvest, Petraquilt and the minkeebabyquilt). So now only to buy backing for the babyquilt and than I go and quilt till I am crazy.
Also stitching wise I am almost fiished with animal shelf, only still a lot of backstitching to do. Also today I found something perfect for the SBEBB smalls exchange and so I just finished it again, but changed a little thing and tomorrow it will go in the mail.

Feeling not so good

I am not sick, but feel a bit sick. I have a feeling a cold is coming visiting me. I just talked to my mother and she had the same feeling sunday and now she has a bad cold.
I have sewed yesterday 3 more blocks and I have 6 more to go on the babyquilt. Just heard today from my colleagues that they want to give it to her on her last day before pregnancy leave and that is 3 november which is 4 weeks earlier. So I will have to sew a lot on that one the next days.

Some babayquilt progress

Today I have done 6 ninepatches, I hope I will be able to do the other 6 tomorrow and than tuesday the cutting and wednesday he sewing again.
Also a pic of the bag we are going to make at the quiltingretreat at the beginning of november. I am really looking forward to that. Now just have to see if I can find nice fabrics for it.

Received exchange and fabrics

When I came home yesterday late in the evening the crazy cat lady exchange from leslie was already waiting for me. I unpacked it, lol which took some time as it was first in a big envelope, there in was a little envelope and there in was a paperbag and there in where these beautifull things. Sjors has alreay played with the mouse and for him that is unique.
Also I promised pics from the fabrics. So here are the colors I will be using for my next mysteriequilt. It will be a big one again 96 inches square. The blue ones will be in the middle of the quilt, the orange around the blue and the green will be the outer edges and the fabric in front will be used in all colors. Than here also the colors for the bayquilt for my colleague. Cute bright colors which can be also used later on his/her bed. Well at leats I will try to make it that measurements.
Maybe later today I will work on this one, but first I am going to watch the ER episode from thursday, which I taped and stitch on animal shelf.

Bought to much fabric :-)

I am at my parents at the moment, so I am reading only a bit of the blogs, no responding as my dad's internetconnection isn't very stable.
Yesterday I was at the quiltshop in Den Bosch for the meeting of the last part of the mysteriequilt and boy I saw some nice quilts that were a lot further than me. I intend to go to the shop also on the december 2 as there is time to sandwich your mysteriequilt in the shop than. Than there will be 4 finished mysteries and one of them is almost the same colors as mine and it looks now already great.
Now about the fabricshopping. (Pictures will follow later this weekend, when I am home) I had to buy fabric for the backside of a new babayquilt my mother made and found some nice fabric for it.
I have to make a quilt for the new baby of my colleague wihich will be born in december and I found some perfect fabric for it with frogs and nice colors. I think it will be a cutted ninepatch (don't know the english name and this is a translation from dutch). It will be around 140 cm (55 inches) square, so it will be a quilt to play on and later you can use it on his or her bed.
Than I saw the fabric kits for the next mysterie and they looked great too, so with three ladies we have made a nice kit for mine and the 17th I will get the first part of the new mysterie.
Today I will go shopping with my mother for fabric for my nephew his new bog bed. We are thinking of making it also a cutted ninepatch. My mother will make the ninepatches. My father will cut them in 4 and I will make the top and after that my mother will do the quilting.

Recieved Lined seedbag exchange!!

Today mail was great. First I recieved the lined seedbag exchange from Annette today and it looks great.
Also I recieved the last part of the mysteriequilt and boy it will be beautifull when I have finished it totally.

Crazy cat lady exchange was received...

by Renee today. I just got the word. So here is how it looks. It is a little flatflod and the design is from Brittrcup designs and is called Sunshine kitty.
Today I posted the next exchange, which is the lined seedbag and probaly it will be received next week.
I haven't done any quilting yet this week and probaly won't as I will be gone from thursday till saturday late in the eveing.
Stitching, I am busy finishing animal shelf.

Quilt for Yvonne finished

I didn't expect that I would finish, but I just did. Now I have to go and e-mail Jacqueline if she has some fabric left for binding as I don't have any.
So now I will have the whole month of october to work on my own mysteriequilts. Yeah!!

Annemarie, I have it in a sort of a scrollframe, but it is on a stitchingstand that my dad build, but I am thinking of buying a scrollframe for my HEAD pieces as they are huge and don't fit the stand. I love working with them.

How did I do on my goals for september!

Goals September:

Quilting
1. Finish Gerardquilt Done
2. Finish Yvonnequilt Done

Stitching:
1. Finish Crazy Cat lady exchange Done and on it's way
2. Finish lined seed back exchange Done and on it's way
3. Finish MTM Done
4. Stitch on animal shelf Done
Also I have finished the stitching on the needlework small exchange and finished it in a nice exchange, at least I think it looks nice.

Goals for October:

Quilting:
1. Finish Yvonnequilt
2. Work on the big mysteriequilt (this month we are getting the last part)

Stitching:
1. Finish animal shelf
2. Finish September stamp-it
3. Finish October stamp-it
4. Finish scissorfob exchange
5. Work on Little red riding hood


Finally I am quilting the Yvonnequilt and boy it will look great. First the sewing of Jacqueline was fantastic and now my meandering looks also very good. I will show a pic as soon as I can let it alone for awhile. Hopefully it will be done this week(end) so that I can take it to Jacqueline the 7th to show her and than put it in the mail, so it will be on time at Yvonne for her birthday the 15th.
Blogrolling isn't working very well at the moment, but I hope that in a day or something it will work again.

A quilt and stitching post

Well here I am again. Exhausted and happy. I just went to my LQS for the quiltshow and everything looked so good, but why I am exhausted and happy is that it was nice weather and so I went there by bike, which is about a bikeride in total of 25 miles. I try to loose some weight and this looked like a good way. So I thought I had earned some fabrics as they also were 10% off. I think I will make a doublesided quilt from them. One sight orange and the other side green, but you never know.
Also here a pic of animal shelf. As you can see I am making great progress. Only a little bear/rabbit and that the little quilt and do all the backstitching and than I will have a finish.

I am still around

Work is so busy that when I get home I am totally exhausted, so I try to rest a lot and not be behind the computer all evening. I try to stay on track with all of your blogs, but mostly looking, not much commenting.
With the relaxing I am stitching up a storm on animal shelf. I really hope to have it finished in the next weeks. Than I can get everything to the framer and have all my christmas presents that I want to make ready before christmas.
Also yesterday we heard that in March of next year there will be another quiltingretreat of some dutch quiltinglists I am on. And off course I want to go as I just loved it last april.

I hate this

I had 3 finishes this week also have finished them in very cute things and I can't show anything as they are all for exchanges. But it also means that I am totally finished with the first 3 exchanges and the crazy cat lady exchange will go in the mail tomorrow. The lined seedbag has to wait a few days as I still have to get a nice color ribbon for that and the small needlework exchange have to wait a lot longer as that is to be send around the 15th of october. Now I only have to make a scissorfob and than I am finished with all the exchanges so far and I have to say I love doing the finishing a lot.
This week I will have to look if I have enough Hobbs to sandwich the Quilt for Yvonne, so that I can start the quilting on that otherwise I will have to go to the LQS to buy some.

Finished Gerardquilt and a finish from my mother

First I wanted to thank everyone for looking at my blog and leaving such nice comments. Sorry that I don;t answer them all seperately, but since I am home from vacation I have been running around and this is the first time I really sit behind my computer for longer than 5 minutes.
Next I just did the last stitch on the binding for the charityquilt for Gerard. I like how it looks, but not totally satisfied about it, but that is because my old sewing machine wasn't a really good sewing machine.
Next to quilt is the charityquilt for Yvonne, but I think that will have to wait till next weekend as the next week will be busy with stitching on animal shelf and maybe working on my mysteriequilts.

Also here a pic of my mothers next finish. It is a little quilt for a new born and can be used in the carseat for babies, It is not very big, but looks so nice.

It is finished!!!!

Yeah MTM is finished. I just put in the last bead and boy it glitters all the way. I just love the finished result.
Now I am going to get busy on the stitched lined seedback exchange. Finally decided on what to stitch.

This week I am also going to finish the Gerardquilt and crazy cat lady exchange. So I have to keep busy.

I am back

I am back from my great vacation in Italy. It was very warm, between 30 and 41 degrees (86 to 105 F). We have done a lot of biking the first week and that week it was 38 and 41 (100 and 105 F). Meeting Lyne was great, she is also if I am correct on one of the pics. We had some nice hotels espicially the second week in Toscane. I really love italian food. here some pics
For stitching or quilting I haven't done anything as the weather was so hot and the light in all the rooms wasn't great.

Well as I am on vacation tomorrow I am already doing my goals post today. As you can see I did great on my stitching anf bad on my quilting. Well now to think for next month.
Goals for August Quilting:
1. Finish part 8 of mysteriequilt
2. Finish part 2 of summertimequilt
3. Finish quilt for mother
4. Finish Gerardquilt
5. Finish Yvonnequilt
6. Finish minkeebaby quilt
Stitching:
1. Finish part 11 of MTM
2. Stitch on Spring snapperland
3. Find design for seedback exchange
4. Finish Crazy cat lady exchange
5. start little red hiding hood

Goals September:
Quilting
1. Finish Gerardquilt
2. Finish Yvonnequilt

Stitching:
1. Finish Crazy Cat lady exchange
2. Finish lined seed back exchange
3. Finish MTM
4. Stitch on little red riding hood

Not much goals, but as I will be on vacation till the 16th I won;t have that much time left to finish my goals. I will take the stitching goals/deadlines with me on vacation and the Gerardquilt. Now I am off for a 2 week vacation to Italy. See you all back around the 16th of september.

All stitching goals finished

I just finished part 11 of MTM. I will take a pic later this week as my batteries are down. I think this week I will do some beading on MTM so that I only have to do part 12 of MTM next month and it will be finished quickly as I have had it with MTM totally. It is a good thing that it is so gorgeous.
Stitching I think will be on little red riding hood some more as I don't want to stitch on my other wips at the moment.
Quilting I hope to find out how to knot a quilt and do that with the minkeequilt as soon as I am home from vacation. Also I want to finish part 7 of the big mysterie and cut the last pieces for part 2 of the little summer mysterie. Also drawn the last two celtic knots on the Gerardquilt, so that I can take that one with me on vacation and do the sewing for the binding this week, I think doing that by hand will be a nice thing to do on vacation.
Now only 3 days of work and than it is vacation.

Finished spring snapperland

Here it is. Charts are up for trade for some WDW and GAST that I need. Just e-mail me. I stitched it with the WDW and GAST they asked for. Now it is time to go and finish part 11 of MTM.
And here a pic of the fabrics that arrived yesterday. Now I have to go and think how to use the tulips.

Exchanged Gifts

My mother and me exchanged gifts yesterday. I gave her the road to Ireland and she gave me this one. Isn't it nice?

I haven't finished spring snapperland yet, but I hope to finish today or tomorrow and than start the last 3 corners of Medieval Town Mandala. Hopefully I don't have to work wednesday so that I can go and quilt that day.

SAT

We have a stitch-a-thon at Robin's nest this weekend. I don't have a pic of far I am with spring snapperland, but I had the first design and border finished. I started the second, third and fourth design this morning and hope to get a lot done today. Tomorrow won't be a real stitching day for me as we go to my parents as my mother has her 55 birthday today and as she wasn't home today she celebrates tomorrow. So we will be in the car for 3 and a half hours a part of the day and the rest we will be at my parents. Hope she will love the quilt. I hope to show pics of spring snapperland, pine needleroll and MTM next week. I think I will take pine needleroll with me to my parents to stitch on that one.
Goals for next week will be:
1. finish part 11 of MTM ( as soon as I can print the chart another 3 times)
2. finish spring snapperland
3. work on one of the myusteriequilts