Sunday, August 27, 2006

A scrapquilt in a day

Hi,

Yesterday I made this scrapquilt of my scraps and think it looks really nice! I am so happy that I finally found something to do with the scraps and now have more room for new scraps again..!




On Thursday I made this sampler for a class that I will be having next weekend. It is a small class for a friend and my MIL. But it is going to be a lott of fun! I have taken time on how long it takes to finish it, so I hope they will be able to do it in a weekend. I have tried to get all elements in. First Irish Chain for the strip piecing technique. Second logcabin blocks to learn the paperpiecing technique. Third Applique by machine. Forth a block called beginners delight to learn HStriangles. I made it from my reproduction scraps.


As I wrote last week I finished my kaleidoscope quilt...or stack and wack-quilt. I quilted it by hand...here are some pics:





Today I have been quilting the surprise quilt, nr one on my to-do-list, so only the binding left. I am so looking forward to showing you it, but you'll have to wait a bit longer! But I was aloud to borrow my friends Helena's machine. Her machine has an extra large space for the "arm of the machine" so it gives you more space to turn the quilt.
But she also had a really nice present for me...a nice sewingbox..


So you can see I had a great weekend!

Bye!

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Back from Holliday!

Hi!

I am back from my holliday, and boy did I miss my sewingroom. We came home a couple of days earlier then planned because of the bad weather. Since we have no electricity in the cottage, there are no lamps just candle light, therefore it is hard to do something in the evening. DH is a bit sad...he wanted to play golf on his holliday and was only able to get out once, due to all the rain. We were also planning to do some painting, but didn't get any further that sanding and the first basic coate of paint, but it already looks much better...

Then:



Now:



This is me sitting outside, quilting my kaleidoscoop quilt, on the only day without rain!



I finished quilting the whole quilt and have stitched on the binding last night. I am going to do the label embroidery today and then it is done!
Also going to sew on a sampler quilt I am making for a miniclass I am giving to some family and friends here in Sweden next week. They live in another city and there are no classes there, but the wanted to learn so...

Bye for now!

Friday, August 11, 2006

Pictures, Pictures and more Pictures

Hi,

Here are some pictures of my CQ quiltbox;






Here are some pictures of my Dear Jane some people asked me about that some time ago,
I have all my blocks in a folder and organized like this. I am making block 50 at the moment. You can also see a picture of my blockholder, the pages are made of wool. Like a needlecase...so I pin the blocks on there and I am ready to go...







And here are some other pics...
My cat always lies in front of the computer everyday...



Well that is all for today...going on vacation for 2 weeks...

Bye!

Monday, August 07, 2006

Can I really do this??

I just need to vent for a bit and share some quilty thoughts with you:

I have been thinking for a while now..remember my post way back in the beginning " what is your thing?" I have been thinking a lot the last few days about my quilting. Mostly about my UFO's in that sidebar with my top10 on my blog that keeps mocking me.

I really like the Blackbird Design things and have started a few: Home Sweet Home, Friend shipgarden, Quilting the Garden and the last book Sweet Summer. I have exactly 1 block of every book finished. So they are now all UFO's...

My thoughts started running around while doing the Crazy Quilting. When I do things like that (being very creative) I feel so excited. And so proud of the end result. Also the Diamond Quilt give me great satisfaction. It was then I realized that the applique strictly by the book doesn't do that for me. That is probably why I got stuck on just the one block.

So ...Get ready for this... I have cleaned out the 4 projectboxes I had with the fabric in it for all the quilts, patterns and most of the time already some more blocks prepared. The fabric is going back into my stash, the blocks and the prepaired blocks are going into 1 small box, in case I change my mind in the next year, or I find myself without something to do (lol that will never happen..*s*) Now I am going to update the sidebar and just forget about these UFO's.

It feels a bit scary and wrong. I think about all the time and the money I have invested, but is forcing myself to go through making 4 of these enormous quilts better??

Don't get my wrong..I love the designs and the applique, but maybe some quilts are not for me to make but just to look at...

I must say...this feels realy good...I feel so liberated!



*sorry still no new pictures...blame Kodak!...and blogger doesn't want to upload any old pictures either today*

Saturday, August 05, 2006

It has been a while

I am not blogging as much as I would want to, because I bought this great, expensive camera to make photo's with and it is not working!! I have been talking to a "support department" for more then a week now, they make me download stuff and nothing seems to anything more then screw up my normal features and computer files. Once the whole computer stopped working. Is that support or not??

So since I have made loads of new pictures on the new camera and can't get them out, there is not much to show.

I finished the box and it turned out great. I even liked it...and I am my own worst critic.

I am working on finishing some things before we go to the cabin next week, so I can do the handsewing there (since we have no electricity I don't have my normal machine)
So this is on the list:
I am making some bags made upp of small pieces, so cutting out all the pieces and but them together so I can quilt it, and finish the bags when I come home.
Preparing Dear Jane blocks, of the nice fabrics I showed you last week.
Making a Crazy Quilt quiltblock
Machinequilt the surprise quilt so I can handsew the binding on.

Some of you asked me about my Dear Jane, well I have some photo's, so when the camera is working I will post those pictures too...

AND THE WINNER IS:

The winner of the contest is Su Bee with this story:
We have a HUGE ladies room at the clinic where I work - designed for wheelchair access and plenty big enough to layer a queen sized quilt. LOL -- it was clean, and I didn't have any other room large enough!

Su if you are reading this, of you know Su Bee, let me know your details so I can send you something!



Well, gotta sew...