A new addiction

I saw the ripple project on the
possie-gets-cozy blog and really liked it. I hadn't crochet since I was 13, but it is all coming back to me now! This is what it looked like after my first day yesterday and I am totally addicted.



I bought new yarns for this project and chose Silk Alpaca. It was a bit more expensive then I had planned to spend, but I fell in love with the colors and softness of the yarn.

I showed the ripple to a very good friend of mine in Holland, so she is going to start one there, and I am going to start one in Sweden, so that makes the project even more special...

Today I need to really work on this nursingbag I told you about a couple of days ago. My friend Karin is coming in a couple of weeks and she told me she can take the bag and small quilt with her back to Holland. I never really feel comfortable with sending my projects by mail...plus it is expensive...

Bye!

Spring chaos...anyone??

Hi everybody!

First I would like to thank everybody for the comments on the ocean waves quilt!

But...does anybody, like me, has these spring mood swings where you just want to to change everything in your house, colors, furniture, but mostly just turning all the furniture around.

I have had this feelings all week and I have started the turning of all the furniture... and,yes my husband is very happy with all this since he has to do the moving *lol* I just mostly stand there and point where it has to go.

Anyway, we are going to go to IKEA Wednesday and get a new desk and some other things, so I am looking forward to that. My husband has this old desk, which is gigantic, very good because there is lots of room in the all the drawers but it might be a bit to big in this apartment...

Well, I have started changing and cleaning things in the bedroom and in the sewing room, so today will be spent putting everything back into place, because it is chaos now. I am hoping that we will be able to fit our old bed into my sewing room because we are getting a lot of guests the next 4 months.

At the moment I am sewing a nursing bag for my best friend who will have a baby soon, and I think I will have enough scraps to make a small baby quilt of it as well. I also found a pattern of an apron that I really like and would love to make.

well I'll keep you posted on the moving of all the furniture, and am hoping it will be soon be over, so I can sew again...

bye!

Finished my Ocean waves top!

hi!

I just finished my Ocean Waves quiltop. It was a lot of work but so worth it! I couldn't wait to put a picture online and share it with you... I didn't think it would become this large, but it did: 70x 80 inches

I made it using Triangles on a Roll, which worked great for me. I used my stash and scraps to get a nice mix of colours together with muslin.

I was planning on doing a pinwheel border but when I started with it, I thought it would look a bit to messy, but I still had a lott of triangles left. So my Dear Husband started playing with the triangles last night and came up with this design. The outer border is 6 inch right now, but will be cut down to about 4 inches, but I liked to have a bit of a margin for attaching the hoop on when I am hand quilting.

So, please let me know what you think!

Barbara

The green monster sewingcaddy

Some time ago I posted about a green uggly sewingcaddy I had bought from a garagesale.

It looked like this:
As you can see it was just in need of a new fabric and some paint. When I was working on my japanese bag I fell in love with the fabric. So I orderd more fabric and put it on the sewingcaddy. So one day I got my brushes and fabric out and this is what it looks like now.

It now has it's own place with all my handsewing and quilting stuff besides my chair with my day-light lamp. I love it!

Today I am going to take a nice walk outside, it is really such great weather outside. Also am I going to put my blocks together from my Oceans Waves. Looking forward to see how the blocks will go together. It is always a very exciting stage of the quilt....

Computers are great.........................

when they work. And when they don't work there isn't much you can do without them. So now the problems are solved and I am back again.

I have done some cool things and even been on a cool quilting retreat, so check back soon and I will be updating this with some older events that I never got to post about...

One thing I did is this japanese bag. Isn't it cute? It was quite simple to put together and I hand appliqued, pieced and quilted it.

At the moment I am feeling really happy, since the snow has melted away and spring is in the air. It is really sunny, so I will go and sit outside for a while in the sun I think and enjoy my morning cup of tea! In the afternoon I will take my bike out for the first time in 4 months and take a trip to the local quiltshop...