Progress

Hi!

Here is my progress for the weekend.

This is a new CQ box I am making for the LQS to promote my lessons. Here are the panels:


Here is a picture of the fist finished panel were I used a Feather Stitch Circle that CrazySeoulsister explained : Please check out her blog, she does some great work.



I finished my Round Robin quilt that I am going to sent off soon to the first person in line. It doesn't have to be ready until the 30st of September...I think I have never been so early with anything in my life...*s*
Here are a few pictures of the Round Robin package:

A close-up:



Well that is all for today!

happy stitching!

The strangest place you have ever....CONTEST

Uhmmmm you probably know that you sometimes get inspiration at the strangest times or just have an itch to stitch, but there are not enough hours in a day..
I find myself sometimes trying to find time to do some stitching while doing something else...still haven't found a way of stitching in the bathtub.

yes I know...I am a strange girl, but I would like to convince myself and those around me that I am not the only one...(know the feeling??)

So I was hoping to get you to tell us the strangest place you have stitched on or maybe the most inappropriate place you stitched. But since it might be hard to persuade some people to tell me I thought of this: A Contest...So the person who will post the strangest story on her blogg or sends me her story will get a small quiltinggoodiebag in the mail!

So...tell me your story...

Barbara

Fabric in the mail

Hi,

I got some great fabric in the mail from my favorite store: Petra Prins Patchwork for my Dear Jane.

I also bought a new digitalcamera today. I am still trying to get it to work probably.

Haven't done much stitching today..so I am going to try and do something tonight!

Barbara

Baby quilts

Hi!

I been away this weekend to our cottage, and had some great weather. The cottage is located in the area were I grew up in Sweden. My dad was there with his girlfriend for a 3 week vacation, so it was nice to see him and her since they live in Holland. I had the ribbonwork book with me so I tested making some flowers and I had a lot of fun!

My friend Erika came with us from were I used to live to were we live now and we spend 2,5 days together. She is going to be a godmother in August and asked me if I wanted to go shopping with her for a present. Buy a present?? Doesn't every baby deserve its own quilt?? So on Monday afternoon we started making a baby quilt. I used 2 charmpacks that I order from Fatquatershop a long time ago. I quilted it with stars. It was finished, washed and dry, just before she was going to leave..;-)) I had no batteries in my camera to take a picture, so I thought I would post some old baby quilt/children's quilt pictures. I have made a picture of the quilt "the old" way. *s*





Yesterday I was at the LQS and we decided what classes I am going to give this autumn. So I am going to give some new classes which is fun! Now I am going to make some class-samples. So I will teach: The Crazy Quilt Box, How to make your own pattern for handpiecingquilts: like my diamondsquilt. In this last class they will learn how to draw a pattern, mark and prepare the pieces, and handpiecing over several days.
I am going to take a class in Holland in September of Japanese Applique, which I will teach here later if it is a good technique. Ofcourse I will teach my normal classes like: Handquilting Amish style, hand and machine applique if people want me too. I had these classes the last 3 seasons so most people know this now.

Well, I am off to make a new CQbox for the shop..

Hope you have a great sewingday too!

Crazy Quilt Box

 
 

Hi!

Here are 2 photo's of my Crazy Quilt Box front and back. I am almost done with it but thought I would allready share it with you. I ran out of the red strip of cord that is on the sides, which should also go on the lid of the box. I had a piece left but it was missing 2 inches to complete it....Isn't that ironic...somehow that is what seems to happen a lott of the times! So going to the store today to buy some more!

Yesterday I bought a great book that I thought I would share with you. It is called Ribbonwork The complete Guide by Helen Gib. I haven't read all of it yet but ..wow.. It has great pictures of antique ribbonwork...techniques in detail and some great projects. I am totally in love with it. So when I bought the book I bought some more ribbon too, so I am all ready to go! This book has really inspired me.
Here is a link to her website:
http://www.helengibb.com/welcome.html
And this is a link to the book I bought http://www.helengibb.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=hg&Product_Code=107&Category_Code=100


This weekend we are going to our Cottage, so I am going to try to prepaire a little piece of patchwork to do some ribbonwork on.

We are all ready to go for our Crazy Quilt RR so that is what I will be sending out today...! Then we can get started...:-)) 

Batting Problem solved

 

Thank you all for replying to me with tips on the batting problem! I since put it in the dryer after spraying it a bit with water. I then placed it flat for the night. It worked out quite well, with the exception of one small area. Well, you can see how I solved that problem. I had to cut a piece out...the acces bulk to be exact. So the quilt is now ready to get quilted...

But I am not really that enthusiastic about the quilting anymore, so I will let the quilt rest once more...

So today will be Crazy Quilting Day... 

BATTING???

 

Hi,

I am really really frustrated at the moment. After I wrote this morning I started to think again, and thought I might better finish something then start something new again. So my choice was to do the quilt that has to be done by September..I am sure you all know how frustrating it is to have to finish a project at the last moment with a deadline fast approching.

So I prepared the backing...then took the batting out...so I could start the sandwiching process...

Can somebody please tell me how these manufacuters after stretching this batting so much to fit in their tinny plastic bags expect us to UNSTRETCH IT??.
As you look at the picture you can see that there is like a midlane that is puckering but not the sides...If I pull to take the puckers out I will pull to hard on the places were the batting is flat and it will rip...very frustrating...
(I am using a expensive Hobbs Batting so no cheap batting on a roll)

Some help please? 

A Stitch Sampler

 


I wrote last week that I was organizing a Crazy Quilt Round Robin and I am happy to say we are now 7 members and we will start soon.
But I started to do a lott of research about CrazyQuilts and found some great projects. I also found a lott of different stitches, so I got the idea to make an old fashioned stitch sampler, to collect them all.
I will keep adding stitches for a while, but this is the result so far. I will probably frame it.

As you can see I changed the way my blogg looks yesterday with the help of my friend Cathi. It turned out great, it was a bit to pink.

I also subscribed to Bloglines. I really enjoy it. It feels like I am 1) Enjoying reading the bloggs so much more 2) Leave comments more since I just read one or 2 at the time instead of going through the entire ring. After a while it feels like the only thing you write is: Nice quilt...or Good work! 3) Saving time!..so I read more blogs and still save time :-))

Today I will make some test blocks for the CrazyQuilt RR, I'll post some pictures later!

Have a great weekend... 

Sewingroom Make-over

Well...I was quite happy with my sewingroom. I had the right furniture, A comfortable chair and all the right tools, but still it felt like something was "off". I had planned to re-upholster my old chair that I took with me from our cottage and spend a long time looking for the right fabric. When I had found it there wasn't enough left to do the whole chair, but since I couldn't life without it I had to buy it anyway. But being the lucky girl that I am I found more of it. So I started to think about how to tackle this "re-upholstering" since I had never done it before.

On Friday morning at 03:00 I woke up and knew what was wrong with my room! To much color! I had an old table in a bright wood color, a chair in a dark wood color with black...there were simply to many colors which made my room look messy all the time. I had a hard time picking out fabrics for project and getting really inspired. I had this nice corner were I could sit and stitch but couldn't really relax. Also you didn't see all the nice things I made and had in my room.

Well this is the way my old stuff looked:





And This is the way my room looks now:





You might think that I spend a lott of money on this, but actually I was on a very tight budget. The most expensive thing was the fabric since, the deskchair, the big chair, the curtains for my cuttingtable, the normal curtains and the bulletinboard were done in this. Second came the 2 shelves I bought and third: the ribbons for the curtain and the bulletinboard.
All the other things like the boxes and stuff were already in my room..you just didn't see them...

Well, I hope this might give you some inspiration to get your paintbrush out and see what you can do with some old stuff....

Going Crazy!

Hi,

Well after our retreat last week I was a bit done with quilting for the weekend. I did some things in the garden and went on a trip to a very old town called Sigtuna. Here I bought some great fabric for my old chair which I want to re-upholster. But they didn't have enough for the whole chair, but of couse I wanted the fabric anyway!

Well..After looking at some other members blogs I came to Hanne's blogg and saw the wonderful Crazy Quilt Round Robin she was a part of.
I have been thinking about organizing a Round Robin/blockswap for some time and was looking for the perfect block. Because we all know what it is like to receive blocks from a swap were people didn't know how to messure a block and you had to trim of all the points of the stars etc to make it go together...

So anyway now I am waiting for people to reply to the invitation, and started to explore the world of Crazy Quilting and there is so much to see! I will be making some testblocks and audition them...and ofcourse into town for a good fabrichunt!

Well...I am going to keep on surfing now...

Barbara