Stitcher's Pocket received

I just received this beautifull stitcher's Pocket exchange from Melissa and I really adore it.
Also I received a beautifull RR yesterday, but as blogger decided that he doesn;t want me to upload pics that pic will have to wait. Tomorrow I have to work a few hours longer and than as soon as I come home I have to pack my bags, go to appliqueworkshop and get some much needed sleep to get up again early and leave for Marion around 7 am and hope to arrive in Poperingen at the quiltingbee around 12 am. I won't be back till sindaynight late, so don;t expect a message till tuesday.

Stitching pocket exchange

I just got the word that Linda received the English Pocket I stitched for her from Drawn Thread. I loved stitching it very much and I used a nice yellow fabric to line it inside. This one took me awhile to stitch as it is a bit big, but loved every stitch of it.

Have to hurry now as I have to go to sewing class in a few minutes.

Received Halloween exchange

The mailman came just at the door to present an envelope from Nadine with the Halloween exchange in it. She made me this beautifull pinkeep. Don't you just love the back of it with the little fence and everything.

I will probaly be a bit quiet till a week from now as next weekend I will be on retreat and I have to get packed up and buy/make a gift and I also have my applique workshop thursday and off course my sewing class monday. Tomorrow I will pack up the quilty things I want to take with me. I am still debating on that. Probaly the quilt from the workshop at atelier Bep, my DJ, the Cat's Paw Bom and maybe a mysterie. The atelier Bep quilt and the Cat's Paw Bom won;t take that much space, but the mysterie and the DJ will do, so still have to debate a bit. I want to pack some handwork and some machine stuff. Hope some exchanges will arrive before I leave as than I will have something to show.

Phew

The Gratefull Hearts exchange took a long while to arrive almost 3 weeks, so well I got a little nervous and was already thinking about a replacement, but luckily it arrived. I took the pic from Katrina her webpage as somehow my pic of it got lost on my computer somehow. I hope she doesn't mind.

It is Hardanger needleroll from Lorri Birmingham. I had the kit in my stash and as there are hearts on it, it was perfect for the exchange which needed to include hearts.

I am still busy stitching the LHN exchange and than I will have to start looking for a rabbit design for the Rabbit's big day out exchange on SBEBB, hope I have something with a rabbit in my stash, can't think of one at the moment, but it is a nice way to search your stash. Already picked out the best ornament to stitch for the ornaments exchange on SBEBB. I just got the new JCS issue in last weekend.

I know I have been silent a bit, but we have some trouble with the old boss of John, but after discussing the problem with his new boss everything is settled.

Today I finished a shirt, I will try to make a pic of it after I also finished the pants monday, I need some help on the pants from my instructor. Hope to show some other finishes soon as there are more in the mail.

I love it

I just came home and found a thick envelope from Australia on my doorstep. First to day me and the autralian mail or not best buddies, so when something arrives I am very happy. A package from Honeysuckel cottage with part 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the Journey of a quilter BOM still has to arrive and it was send 5 months ago. I also can't get in contact with them anymore as it looks like. So I put the BOM to a rest and we will see what happens, when in another month I still don;t hear from her, I will order the blocks somewhere else and will use my own colors.
But now what was in the package that arrived at my doorstep. This beautifull fall quilt from Samantha . I love the colors she used a lot. It will go on my table this fall. I just put it there already :-)

Than she included some goodies and the pattern Flossies is calling my name very loudly. Will have to look into it to see if I am skilled enough to make it.Also a week ago the PIF gift from Shelina, but as it was a busy few weeks I didn't have sooner time to show a pic.

I think this week I will work on the Cat's Paw BOM from quilthuis lieselotje The first part isn't big and the next part I can pick up next week. Also I want to work on one of the mysteries as they really have to get finished.
Stitching wise I am working on my LHN exchange.

A bag finish

Here I am with a finish. I had lots of them this past week, but can't show any till they are received. The halloween exchange and the Stitchers pocket exchange went in the mail today. Still waiting for the gratefull hearts exchange to arrive at it's destiny, that one is really taking it's time. Connie's Round Robin arrived at Liz and The babyquilt arrived at Michelle in time for the baby. I am glad she likes it. Both were send at the same time as the gratefull hearts exchange.
Here is the bag I was making for a few weeks now. Colors aren't accurate at all, they are a lot brighter is real life.



This past two days I have been sewing up a storm. I have finished up the Halloween exchange, stitching pocket exchange, Harvest time exchange, this bag and one and a half shirt. Did I do well or not. I decided I wanted to have one shirt and a pair of pants finished in two weeks for the quilting retreat, I love going away with some new cloths. Shirt will surely be finished monday night, pants will be a bit harder as they are more difficult than I am used too. They have a zipper and some other difficult stuff. Hope to draw the pattern tonight and cut it before monday.
Next weekend is the first weekend I have nothing planned and I am looking forward to that a lot. That weekend after I will be gone all weekend, so I will need a bit of rest for sure. Hope to make some blocks for the lotery at the quilting retreat the next days too.
Tomorrow I am off to my friend Jacqueline who has her birthday monday and my DH will go to the Sauna which is very close to her home and will spend the day there.

I am back and Goals September/Oktober

I am back. I am not sore anymore only blue. We had a long weekend with rain, rain and rain. I have been invited to the belgium quilting retreat in two weeks and I am sure I will enjoy that weekend a lot. I am still very behind in blogfeeds and e-mails. I hope to show a few pics soon of things I made lately. Also I received a PIF gift from Shelina.

Things that need to be finished for September
1. Finish Halloween exchange due october 10 Done
2. Finish Stitching Pocket exchange due october 15 Done
3. Finish Babyquilt 1 Done and received by Michele
4. Finish Tulip time Done and received by my mother
Other Goals:
1. Work on Harvest time exchange Done
2. Work on quilts in progress No
3. Work on Little red riding hood No

For the rest I also finished another babyquilt that was for my colleague

Things that need to be finished in october.
1. Finish LHN exchange due november 17
2. Finish Harvest exchange due november 1
Other Goals
1. Work on Secret santa exchange
2. Work on Ornament exchange
3. Work on quilts in progress
4. Work on Susans RR
5. Work on little red riding hood.

Job and Hot water

We have continue hot water again.

And the great news my DH got the job and he will start there the 1st of november. Only not so nice thing is that we won't drive together to work anymore as he goes the other way. When he is totally settled in he also has to work on saturdays one time per 3 weeks, but than he has the monday off and on all his other jobs he didn't have that. Minor thing is that I always have fridays off and never mondays.

Blue...

is the color that a lot of places on my body has. I feel broken and hurt. Would love to take a hot bath, but our boiler is broken (they are making it at the moment). I only can fill half a bath with hot water and well that isn't deep enough. My knee, rib and shoulder hurt the most as all my bruises hurt too. Hope after the weekend everything feels great again. Tomorrowmorning we will leave for Belgium and we will be back at the sundayevening. Bikes go with us, lucky for me biking doesn't hurt. Yesterday I bumped my very sore knee again and boy I almost fainted that was a bit to much.
Tonight my DH has a final jobinterview at another place. So please cross your fingers.

Ouch

I fell with my bike today and I am sure tomorrow it will even hurt more. My knee hurts like hell and one of my ribs where my steeringwheel landed hurts.
Tonight I have my sewing class again and w ill go there with my new trolley I just bought for my sewing machine. It doesn;t fit perfectly, but enough for me.

Matrass pincushion exchange received

Friday I received this beautifull matrass from Aniza. It is a replacement as her first dissapeared.

Yesterday we had a workshop with some girls at atelierbep we had fun and others that have blog and where I am sure you will find some pics are.

Caroline, Helen, Simone and Jacqueline. I know Saskia also has a blog, but can't find it at the moment. I will show the little wallhanging I am making as soon as it is finished, but that can take a while as I have a lot of other things to finish too. I am busy making a bag at my sewingclass with a pattern from Lazygirldesigns it is the city bag that I am making. Also I have to finish the stitching pocket exchange, the stitching on it will be finished today for sure as I only have a little part till to stitch. Than I have to finish the halloween exchange in something, just have to decide what. Than I will have to go work on my Secret santa exchange and 4 stitched exchanges. I think I have signed up for a bit to much exchanges.

I am still more than 1000 blogs behind in reading, so if you don't see a comment from me the coming week you know why.

Another babyquilt finished

Here is the finished quilt. I didn't do what I wanted to do and did something someone else recommended. I like it very much and also all my colleagues like it very much. Friday we will make a visit and give it to the new mother. I keep it short as my shoulder hurts big time and I have to go to my sewing class in a minute. I am very behind in my blogreading, hope to get up to date again in the next week.

Life is sometimes very busy

This week life is very busy yesterday afternoon when I am normally have weekend already I had to go to Amersfoort for my work. So I was back late in the afternoon and didn;t do a lot of stitching. Than read all your comments and decided what to do with the baby quilt and hope to do it tonight. Pics will follow later.

Than today I went on a shopping trip with my mother and her sister as my aunt asked me to make her a quilt and here you can see the fabrics we have picked out. Also just found out I have a perfect very dark fabric to include if I want to. All fabrics are bought at Petra Prins in Zutphen which really is a lovely store and it was very busy also. I will make a medaillon quilt, but how and what I still have to decide.

I need your help

Here you see the next babyquilt I am making, which willbe for a colleague of mine. I want to make a small border around it of 2 inches at the max, but can't decide which color. I am not going to tell which I like best and it is possible that it will be a totally different one after all. Hope you can give me your opinions please.

Also I just got a call from the owner of the Veltropshop if I wanted to help as a quiltangel this weekend at the big quilt and stitching exhibition in Enkhuizen and off course I said yes. So on saturday from 9.30 am till 1.30 pm you can find me there.

2 Finishes

Well I have been busy this weekend, but first Spooky Row from Bent Creek which I finished already last week, but hadn't posted a pic yet. It is stitched on a piece of handdyed linen I had in my stash, where it comes from no idea.

It is a scrappy stashquilt and I like how it turned out. In reall life the colors look a bit softer I think.It is again a pattern from Lori Smith, like also the tulip one and the fall one. I changed this one. Official where now the dots are should have been Sunbonnet sue, but I didn;t feel up to that applique, so I decided to do Dots and well they are really round too which is shocking to me as I am very good in getting other forms than I wanted to. This will go in the mail to a friend of mine. Hope she will ike it.

I started this one friday by cutting all the pieces for back and front. Yesterday I did do all the piecing and applique (applique again done by hand) and today I did do the quilting and binding. Also went to a quiltexhibition in the church of Oudendijk and met someone whose blog I am already reading for a few months now, but didn't know she lived so close, lol well where was my head. It was a nice exhibition with some beautifull quilts of that bee. Margreet has put pics of the quilt on her blog. So you can see some pics there.

Booked a short vacation

I just booked my vacation. My DH and me will be going to Belgium for 4 days from 27th of september till the 30th of september. The hotel is in Lo. We are taking the bikes with us and hopefully do a lot of biking, but I will also take a book or two for when the weather is bad. You never know.
This past weeks I also booked my skiingtrip which will be the second week of January together with my family. Looking forward to that too.

Tulip time finished

I jus finished the binding on tulip time.

I really loved making this quilt. With this rainy day it looks so sunny. I also made a pic of the detail of the quilting. Just click the pic so you can see even more setail. I love doing the meandering very much and per quilt is goes better and better.

Today I also finished the Halloween exchange for SBEBB. I loved stitching every minute of them. My next project is already choosen for the stitching pocket exchange and I will start the stitching today.

Tulipquilt

The past 3 days I have been busy with this little quilt. The piecing took me saturday and the applique yesterday and today. The applique is done by hand, the rest is done by machine.

Now onto sandwich it and than go and quilt it. I will do a little meander on it.

Goals August/september

Things that need to be finished for August
1. May Flowers exchange (replacement piece) Send and received
2. What's the buzz exchange due august 30 Send and received
3. PIF gift for Simone Send and received
Rest of Goals:
1. Finish page 12 and maybe 13 of Little red riding hood Finished half a page
2. Work on the quilts in progress. Cut some pieces for one of the quilts

Other thing I have done are:
1. Finished and send Doll quilt swap
2. Finished Gratefull hearts exchange SBEBB
3. Finished Round 2 of the Round Robin (this date was due 15 november)
4. Finished Crazy exchange return gift for Virpi

Things that need to be finished for August
1. Finish Halloween exchange due october 10
2. Finish Stitching Pocket exchange due october 15
3. Finish Babyquilt 1
4. Finish Tulip time
Other Goals:
1. Work on Harvest time exchange
2. Work on quilts in progress
3. Work on Little red riding hood

Great day!

I had a very nice day yesterday. I went to the quiltexhibition in Deventer and saw some beautifull quilts. I am more in the traditional quilts and there weren't that much of them, but all by all I had a great day. I have done some shopping for a few little quilts (16" x 20"), I only need one more background fabric and than I will be set to make 8 little quilts. So watch this blog the coming weeks/months on some cite little quilts.

The bright ones are for two babyquilts for a friend and one for a colleague.

Today I decided to change my Halloween exchange, I think the design I was stitching was a bit to big. It is spooky row from Bent Creek and today I got the threads for my stitching pocket exchange and decided to stitch the freebie that was with it. Spooky row will now be for myself.