Progress mysteriequilt

Here is one of the blocks I am working on right now. It will come in the border somewhere.

I have to make this block another 3 times, but I only have to add the little triangles at the top corners.

It finally arrived

Just got the word that my lined seedbag exchange arrived. I am glad Mary loves it and also the skiens of Gloriana silk I put in.

Now keeping my fingers crossed that also my small exchanges from SBEBB will arrive.

Today I also got the name for the stocking stuffer exchange and I am already making up a nice package.

At the moment I am busy working on my big mysteriequilt. There is a lot of paperpiercing in it and I am not that good in paperpiercing. I will show pics hopefully later today. Also I stitched a lot on little red riding hood. I will take a picture of that one as soon as the first page is finished.

50 completed projects challenge

The 50 projects I want to finish are:
1. Scissorfob exchange
2. Yvonnequilt
3. Babyquilt for Ypie
4. Take time to Quilt - Spring - JD
5. celtic challenge - Sweetheart tree
6. Backpack
7. Christmas stocking
8. Snowman brown
9. Tom mouse- Butterfly chase
10. Noel ornament - Workbasket
11. Block 19 of NHA
12. Garbage bag pincushion for my mother
13. Garbage bag pincushion for me
14. Block 25 of NHA
15. It's Summertimequilt
16. Block 20 of NHA
17. Minkeequilt
18. pine needleroll
19. Winter snapperland - Bent Creek
20. exchange piece
21. exchange piece
22. Harvest time quilt
23. House exchange
24. Birthday exchange
Quilt for Job
Catnip Kitty Fob - Sweetheart tree
Alphabeth Wreath - JBW designs
Apple Orchard - JBW designs
A Rocky Mountain Christmas - JD
Cape May street New Jersey - Debbie Patrick
Think of me - Elizabeth designs
Dragon's by the fire - Black Swan
Pacific Rim sampler - JD
The Four Seasons - Lorri Birmingham
Appalachian Spring-JD
Take time to Quilt - Autumn - JD
Take time to quilt - Winter - JD
Tour des Marques - Silver Lining
Big Mysterie 1 quilt
A new England Autumn - Jeannette Douglas
Christmas quilt
Lady of Shalott - Teresa Wentzler
Summer snapperland - Bent Creek
Ladybugs and Bumblebees - Country Cottage Needleworks
Great Lakes Lowland Sampler - JD
Take time to quilt - Summer - JD
If I could be a snowman - Lavender Wings
20 flowers - Just Nan
Fleur de Lys Sampler - JD
Toccata Number one - Drawn Thread
Dreamer's High - Lavender Wings
Beargrass Roll - Columbine designs
Learning to count - JBW
Take time to Garden - JD
Garden Wisdom "Sweet Nothings" - JBW
Atlantic Seaboard sampler - JD
Noah's Ark - JBW
Summer at the Ocean - JD
"A Single Rose" Sweet Nothings - JBW designs

What I have done is bold.
1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you" and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an expert
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Eaten fugu (pufferfish)
9. Had a one-night stand
90. Gone to Thailand
91. Bought a house
92. Been in a combat zone
93. Buried one/both of your parents
94. Been on a cruise ship
95. Spoken more than one language fluently
96. Performed in Rocky Horror Picture Show
97. Raised children
98. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111.Ridden a bike
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

Finished top of babyquilt

Yesterday evening late I finished the top of the babyquilt. I love how it looks and all the colors. I showed it also to my colleagues yesterday and they said also that it looks nice. Today my mother is getting me backing and than next weekend or the weekend after I can quilt it and bind it and than give it to my colleague on the 3th of November.
I just decided that today is little red riding hood time. Yes I am going to stitch on that one. Animal shelf is almost finished, but I will have enough time to work on that one on saturday and sunday as I just heard my DH has to work tomorrowmorning as his boss went through his back (LOL I am sure you have to say it differently in english, but I don't know how, shortly he has beckpain) and now can't go up and down.
I also decided what to stitch for the scissorfobexchange on Robin's Nest. I am sure the receiver will like it. I hope to work on that one too this weekend and than I can't work on anymore exchanges as I don;t have any names yet for the other two. One will come after this weekend and the other one at the end of this month. I already have some ideas for the stocking stuffer exchange, but just have to see if I have the time. I also want to make my mother a garbage bag you can hang on your desk with also a pincushion on it, just have to see I can find instructions somewhere or I will work something out first for myself and than for my mother.
Today and yesterday I also added some charts to my wishlist. LOL it is getting longer and longer and I decided not to buy anything new till I at least finished some of the designs I already have in stock and that are already 300+. I can only buy fibers, beads and fabric for the charts in my posession.
Now it is time to go and do groceries as otherwise we won't have anything to eat.

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.