Mini Quilt Retreat

Hi!

We are having a mini Quilt Retreat this week, me and Weronica here in Sweden and Cathi in Ireland..

Weronica was working on a Storm at Sea with the Square in a Square ruler, and is now working on a quilt from the CoffeeTable Quilts book, called decaffinated. In blues, greens and whites.


I did a test with the Square in the Square ruler to make Half Square Triangles. It did work, but it creates a lott of waste, a bit to much for my taste, plus that the sides of the HST are on the Bias. So it was nice to try, but I won't do it again. This was the result. The pieces are 1,5 inches.




I am now working on the Home Sweet Home Quilt from Blackbird Design. So I am tracing the flisofix pieces, so I have nothing to show so far...but will update the blog when I have something to show...


So we will be having this retreat today and friday too!

Thanks for all the tips on my redfabrics, I will start testing this weekend!

Barbara

A Garden with things to show you

Hi,

It has been Midsummer here and we went to our cabin, we had some great weather! Also my niece 12 years old has been here for a week, so I have been very busy. But now I have made some pictures and have a garden of things to show you..


I started making a wallhanging called Making Tea by Ani Downs featured in the Australien Homespun Magazine. The wallhanging is 42 x42". The magazine's wallhanging was just 20 x 20", but I found the applique pieces just to small. I made it for the Afternoon Tea party and by a miracle I finished it just on time. Here are some pictures.





















I won a quilt on ebay an antique on for just 21 dollars with help of Cathi. Here are some pictures:

















I have been working on my Kaleidoscoop and have 5 more blocks to quilt and then I am done!. I started some time ago with quilting a block a day...that worked quite good for a while anyway :-))













I also finished piecing my Diamonds quilt by hand..here are some more photo's





Somebody asked for a close-up of the pincussion we made..here it is:


I made a test-caddy for my quiltingprojects and am now testing it to see how it works. Here are some pictures:






I was working on a Seven Sisters Quilt in red and white, but I had some bad luck with washing my red fabrics (this was allready their second wash) and one of them bled and now all my reds are ruined, so I am quite sad about that. I am now doing my 7th wash of the same reds and they are still bleading and I am now soaking them for a night a special mixture of something...hope this will work
Now I am stitching my Polka Dot Girls and trying a technique that is called square in a square with a special ruler...I will let you know how that works..

bye for now!

AfternoonTea

Hi!

Yesterday we had our AfternoonTea Party. We had so much fun. We were also very lucky because it was 27degrees and no rain! We were 7 girls. My friends Helena and Weronica as always ;-)), My friend Lisselot from Highschool, she lives quite far away but came to me for the party, Lena the very talented artist and Ann-Christine the LQSowner and her daughter Jessica.

The party started at 15.30, with tea, coffee and ofcourse cake. Here you can see a picture of the table with the food.


I used to have a net over my bed against musquito bites and I used that to have over the table so we wouldn't have to worry about insects on the food. I found these great butterflies in a craftstore that I attached to the net.

I used the same butterflies as napkin rings:



This is how the table looked:


As you might remember of my last post, we had a mystery project. We made a pincushion. The pattern comes from an other blogg that had a lott of links of different pincushion. I don't know were the pattern comes from since it was a PDF file, without an address..and I printed it out a long time ago.
I did all the preparing on the sewingmachine so the only thing left to do was to stuff the dolls and decorate them. The nice thing was that everybody got to take a finished project home!

This is what they looked like:




Here are some pictures of us at work:



Well, as I hope you can see from the pictures we had a lott of fun! I will be uploading some of the quilts I did for the show-and-tell soon too...

Bye!

In case you are wondering

Hi!

In case you are wondering what I am up too.. I am working on some projects for the Afternoon tea on Saturday. I am also preparing the mystery project we are making together and some of my own things for show-and-tell..

But since some of the people who are coming are reading my blogg, I don't have much to write about.. So,..

I promise you on saturdaynight or early Sunday morning I will be uploading a lott of pictures of the mystery project...the party...the show-and-tell and my projects...

So please come back Sunday...and keep your fingers crossed hoping for good weather since we are going to be/have to be in the garden!

Hugs Barbara