tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34574795438487089942024-03-05T03:47:59.190-08:00Red Knots & FringesMaking miles: one stitch, two stitch, three ...La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-7292478162541852282014-11-10T06:53:00.000-08:002014-11-10T07:05:43.726-08:00Laughing little buzzy bees<div>
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How's that for a change?</div>
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Last Saturday our monthly bee morning was on. This time it was at Daphne's place.</div>
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In my neybourhood, i guess some ten minutes walk, so i decided to walk.</div>
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As it was, Bart carried my bags on the bike and accompanied me to her very doorstep, even going inside, the daredevil!</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lovely sunshine on my nose on the road. So big excuse to wait a bit here and there to catch some more :-)</span></div>
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Josee, Kathleen and Marjolein were already in. Petra and Henny would come later after some important appointments they could mot cancel. This time Marijke had to cancel though. We missed her!</div>
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The moment I arrived I started to smile and make silly jokes. Oh, how I do love these meetings. Everybody agrees! We laugh a lot. But we can also talk about serious life stuff, sure!</div>
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Daphne and her husband Charles spoiled us to the limit!</div>
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Cakes, appletart, cookies - special homemade all. "Roomsoesjes" or cream puffs, oh dear, from the shop.... The cookies with spelt and palmsugar, she made specially for me!</div>
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Olala! Yummie! Treat!</div>
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Spelt ookies and apple tart, nothing wrong with it, Daph!</div>
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It's all hand patch and hand quilt these jolly mornings. Mornings that are more and more becoming almost a full day. Embroidery is allowed, not doing any stitch just as well :-)</div>
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Let's sit and start!</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Several </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">people, little me too, helped with blocks Linda could not finish before her sudden death, last year. We were all shattered, I can tell you! Specially Marjolein, as she and Lin were very close friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">It is a lot of work, still is, but is becoming very very beautiful. When it is finished it will go back to Peter, Lin's husband. It was meant to hang above their table. Felt very special and dear to be part of this special project. It's such a lovely idea to remember Linda. Thank you, Marjolein, for your sharing and caring!</span></div>
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Hello, Kathleen! What are you doing? Your own special project, as usual?</div>
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Just laughing and talking and showing off.... LOL!!!</div>
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No really..... I did some stitches on one of my Sashiko blocks. Almost finished that one.</div>
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Freshen up this WIP. Creating new designs for new blocks. Changing the design as it goes, originally made by Els van de Meeberg. Marjolein and me did a 5 lesson workshop at her home to master the art of Sashiko this Spring. It's an old Japanese stitching method. They used it to mend their clothes for ever.</div>
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I found the oakshot at Carol Cox Quiltshop, Utrecht, this Spring. Lovely shop in the centre of this ancient city. Lots of Kaffe Fassett fabrics too, and almost every colour solid.</div>
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i love the book "Sashiko Handboek" by Susan Briscoe. (The ultimate Sashiko sourcebook) Lots of examples and infos on how-to's and patterns. Every pattern has a symbolic meaning and they are often going back to very ancient religious or royal symbols.</div>
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I love that sort of stuff.</div>
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So al lot of love goes into this quilt. :-)</div>
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Bit of a search it was into my stash heaps to find the sashiko I was working on, as they were covered by lots of other projects during the Summer. Bit of a chaotic hoarder, I am.... :-)</div>
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Well, anyway, love to do it, although the sewing gets sometimes tough.</div>
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Nothing comes easy, right?!</div>
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Daphne was doing.... What was she doing actually? Busy buzzy bee she was with her kind Charles to get us food and drinks.... Yummmmmm!!!!</div>
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Show and tell!</div>
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She did show and tell!</div>
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She is a real craftswoman, she is, our Daphne.</div>
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Apart from quilting, she has made lots, and I mean LOTS of little dollhouses. Very very meticulous in every detail, precise on different scales too. Even 1:124! Yes, true! So beautiful, real art and awesome! Wow!</div>
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The things people make at home!</div>
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There's a whole new and happy world out there...</div>
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It is so tiny, you can hardly see it, let alone hold it or make it! Scale 1:124. Hand made narcissus cut from paper.</div>
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Another flowergarden. Scale 1:124</div>
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Trunks on scale. Just look at every little detail!</div>
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Here we go with her show and tell.</div>
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You sit back, just relax, cup of tea at hand, and enjoy.</div>
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Daphne and Marjolein went to the broderie workshop from Ingrid van der Harst- Govers (<a href="http://supergoof-quilts.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">here</a>) (Supergoof) at Dorry's quiltshop Quilt it and Dotty, Tilburg (<a href="http://www.quilt-it.nl/" target="_blank">here</a>).</div>
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"Here will come little knots. And there. And there."</div>
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Patchwork with wool.</div>
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Behind you'll see one of the many cabinets with shelf after shelf with dollhouses.</div>
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Just some embroidery hanging about. Home made. Are they not beauties!<br />
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Treating us with love and care. Thank you, dear Daphne! You are a real gem! That goes to her Charles as well!</div>
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La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-55449947061689879432014-10-08T14:33:00.001-07:002014-10-09T02:49:20.638-07:00Busy busy happy bee, that's me!<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Octobre, 9th 2014</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Lately more and more the urge of blogging is itching me. So why not just jump right into it...</span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I never dreamed getting as far as this day, with this ongoing cancer inside me. Life is unpredictable.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lots of things happened of course, too much to memorise all in detail.</span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lets restart this experimental handycraft blog.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lets start with.....</span></div><div><br></div><div>Autumn.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Autumn came trodding in, silently at first, but more drumming recently with heavy raindrops and some lightning and thunder too.</span></div><div>Purfect time to hear my pretty Featherweight purr and running, buzzing like a busy bee, such satisfying zoomzzzzzoooming, happy humming bee she is my Scottish Featherweight, living with me now as Pretty Kitty. :-)</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30xi71SHvzXOGokhNBPu9KcmIZr6aqzNVVL84BHEfeu1VPpD8jROKMWcMZjDu11B_asJooA2Jen6PviRcvRli90Vi1sa5mN-GnebNF1fsEgsAvHVzjhyphenhyphenqnGuGbPOf5LrQRwFOLgbzxgs/s640/blogger-image--44718527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30xi71SHvzXOGokhNBPu9KcmIZr6aqzNVVL84BHEfeu1VPpD8jROKMWcMZjDu11B_asJooA2Jen6PviRcvRli90Vi1sa5mN-GnebNF1fsEgsAvHVzjhyphenhyphenqnGuGbPOf5LrQRwFOLgbzxgs/s640/blogger-image--44718527.jpg"></a></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I have been busy with lots of teeny weeny stitchery and sewing projects.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Like my ongoing Cathedral Window project. Sewed all Summer most happily in our secret sunpatched little garden. I ran out of the red and white dotted fabric (That was in the workshop starters packet I bought at the wonderful Dotty weekend in March. What a treat that was! Met so many wonderful cheery people! It is realy a happy gathering quilting world.)</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rbhwX6fJPuro5yHNzOBw9QUPWRYhW3A46JxZKt-kQYJU6kANfT69UKVcyaw_B_KC4Gzy6gqGNIsiQTpT4BtUEXskniVe5l_MCIkZ9khr76PilZ6xhPoSfDEpkcv_LcFBQVSqUtVmWEw/s640/blogger-image-660037961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rbhwX6fJPuro5yHNzOBw9QUPWRYhW3A46JxZKt-kQYJU6kANfT69UKVcyaw_B_KC4Gzy6gqGNIsiQTpT4BtUEXskniVe5l_MCIkZ9khr76PilZ6xhPoSfDEpkcv_LcFBQVSqUtVmWEw/s640/blogger-image-660037961.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>So I decided to make it also scrappy in red. First you have to cut a 15 cm square.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Then you stitch the seam at 4 sides a scant 1/4 inch. Yes, I like a scant 1/4 inch seam allowance. It is just a teeny weeny more than 1/2 cm seam. You make kind of wee cushion bags, leaving a tiny opening so you can turn it inside out. Tada! Step 1. That's the machine part of it. The rest of the sewing is all done by hand.</span></div><div>More detail you'll find under chapter 'Cathedral Windows'.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0GHXxf2wZwpj-i4ouxEYBh_U447raHvBkkWKTNQU_u31Tjrfl4qMqy1xgg8ez5NvVegtnLBhAMkoIYietwJSmxT-yuYBuPIw9VUW8uyXzcn_nLsCi1NLUGc8CKVhzOH1qEWXETHTC_Zc/s640/blogger-image-534987751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0GHXxf2wZwpj-i4ouxEYBh_U447raHvBkkWKTNQU_u31Tjrfl4qMqy1xgg8ez5NvVegtnLBhAMkoIYietwJSmxT-yuYBuPIw9VUW8uyXzcn_nLsCi1NLUGc8CKVhzOH1qEWXETHTC_Zc/s640/blogger-image-534987751.jpg"></a></span><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6uTX47eTgrC7PZZJw8yKZAUHHCTWAnyZiQF5CJCRtv-wZs9VK0R5OzgM0ISwUhio31MrXG1RIG8l0USdXQ8FtL8vn77-R_Y31-TSfUHj-vwrbrYt5OYIiIMqHzxCKv2KmgixLwFOJwg/s640/blogger-image--2031704283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6uTX47eTgrC7PZZJw8yKZAUHHCTWAnyZiQF5CJCRtv-wZs9VK0R5OzgM0ISwUhio31MrXG1RIG8l0USdXQ8FtL8vn77-R_Y31-TSfUHj-vwrbrYt5OYIiIMqHzxCKv2KmgixLwFOJwg/s640/blogger-image--2031704283.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>...And after those, the ears of my teeny weeny pink felt eliphant, i found hiding in one of my boxes. Bought her years ago. She was beggng me for some broad day light. Here she comes...</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0nEk8QWI2Yfv_E4Ql-z7SA7T2gA6CAAUvJyQL3JwucOzlI5JBJlOaljuGz2vsiveQDJhCXBpF5xkn1iwIF586GW0hiJPWz2xugeru4o_wbnVTp44iaqxWutMgX-jMGytmXKOi_yZz48/s640/blogger-image--1493486517.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0nEk8QWI2Yfv_E4Ql-z7SA7T2gA6CAAUvJyQL3JwucOzlI5JBJlOaljuGz2vsiveQDJhCXBpF5xkn1iwIF586GW0hiJPWz2xugeru4o_wbnVTp44iaqxWutMgX-jMGytmXKOi_yZz48/s640/blogger-image--1493486517.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>...And the second log cabin, teeny weeny block in blues, red and whites.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfmSXpFZMTIedDNqUC_EzTILjahzgw33OI46pcxKB1xtK31PSt67-gsDHfKQdE_mBYQzuYou2zFsf8XTlG22wBxac50RoNaPZhy1DD8v0vQq52N15B7_tDfHufGXdEvpgXZKCBabnByM/s640/blogger-image-209586504.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfmSXpFZMTIedDNqUC_EzTILjahzgw33OI46pcxKB1xtK31PSt67-gsDHfKQdE_mBYQzuYou2zFsf8XTlG22wBxac50RoNaPZhy1DD8v0vQq52N15B7_tDfHufGXdEvpgXZKCBabnByM/s640/blogger-image-209586504.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This was Monday.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday it was third log cabin block time.</div><div>Here it is, in contempory fabrics. Last years birthday present from my sister Ruth.</div><div>This time I precut the strips the exact length they needed to be. Find this tutorial by modafabrics on my pinterest cupboard.</div><div><i>Here. (Don't know if this will work in Blog App on ipad.)</i></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">http://modafabrics.blogspot.com/2013/09/two-tricks-for-perfect-log-cabin-blocks.html?m=1</span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjnHaWTNNdVkCoWbdHIUdlrwPnn2SNudSKVQfHwX2Q20yqiD4Xb9sHc2CwZcmmMqOC8xn0teg3hTOa3rSO3Gl-5nNXyjy1PSJmU6vBOy7Zp4jF21OWWKlJ3BPFMGWs-rfh3Z1iH94Mg4/s640/blogger-image-1539448831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjnHaWTNNdVkCoWbdHIUdlrwPnn2SNudSKVQfHwX2Q20yqiD4Xb9sHc2CwZcmmMqOC8xn0teg3hTOa3rSO3Gl-5nNXyjy1PSJmU6vBOy7Zp4jF21OWWKlJ3BPFMGWs-rfh3Z1iH94Mg4/s640/blogger-image-1539448831.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This one has made it into a teeny weeny pincushion. See? Almost there...... Just need to do some filling and embellish it with a crochet loop.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpB_FLPQgByvbaHXsW8ibR25KaPEMRHZn96Gr385OaPwJsszXmClfOJtUeo2pou9H7xoOjJNXAh5BsKU7X5jBkFq08CSPF1c5E9L5vOXz0N39EFrRNYS8vffJ5fQsTre5trUKKH7MMT8E/s640/blogger-image-1166209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpB_FLPQgByvbaHXsW8ibR25KaPEMRHZn96Gr385OaPwJsszXmClfOJtUeo2pou9H7xoOjJNXAh5BsKU7X5jBkFq08CSPF1c5E9L5vOXz0N39EFrRNYS8vffJ5fQsTre5trUKKH7MMT8E/s640/blogger-image-1166209.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div>Soon I'll have three teeny weeny log cabin pincushions.</div><div>What will i do with them? Ah! Here comes a teeny weeny secret, not telling you yet :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Three teeny weeny pincushions to beee....</div><div>Wait and seeee!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV86RUmLIDCiSnYjimNwe96ntEoiTALEAYhcpyL9QH1jyFfI14GazqmpWvC7s36K18lJPgUXhgkspyVCneEI0e6m8KOpZM__fn0WUJnAnwJ4kdqviN_Un0zrLPDv-4qfdr5hU_mRiHhc/s640/blogger-image--1362614514.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV86RUmLIDCiSnYjimNwe96ntEoiTALEAYhcpyL9QH1jyFfI14GazqmpWvC7s36K18lJPgUXhgkspyVCneEI0e6m8KOpZM__fn0WUJnAnwJ4kdqviN_Un0zrLPDv-4qfdr5hU_mRiHhc/s640/blogger-image--1362614514.jpg"></a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You know, I think I get the hang of it... These log cabin blocks. I do like the precut mode. It is a bit more effort before you actually can start sewing, but once you have measured and cut it all to your liking, and start actually sewing, it runs like a smooth train. Slow one, that is. Only one wee mistake this time.... sewing on the wrong line.. Funny!</div><div>A wee lay out of strips on card board.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZflKQwFTDlh5wtPkKAoPk4W0mgh1f3kGssirgaWUL4xnngglFmv8XzaRoLATbfWQEuXS5I7iY3tgWMqGEqQ3RY9DL9-YTBYqHU57LLgnAigBG97e2c-xkpiVvg5ubV7bFkmw-ESDQx9Q/s640/blogger-image--1997167656.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZflKQwFTDlh5wtPkKAoPk4W0mgh1f3kGssirgaWUL4xnngglFmv8XzaRoLATbfWQEuXS5I7iY3tgWMqGEqQ3RY9DL9-YTBYqHU57LLgnAigBG97e2c-xkpiVvg5ubV7bFkmw-ESDQx9Q/s640/blogger-image--1997167656.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgw2hcHjMeEF8Z494VFMrV0casUjZjwCeHDVaKxUxp1v3ZcGTOqsAsE6lIqdQhU4J8BERDt8iqSwIJM5RCkw7z05toryrvntKCRR5lsMquXSDg4_xevo0RMqOy27Er9wfv4a7xWY3VzBY/s640/blogger-image-768255110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgw2hcHjMeEF8Z494VFMrV0casUjZjwCeHDVaKxUxp1v3ZcGTOqsAsE6lIqdQhU4J8BERDt8iqSwIJM5RCkw7z05toryrvntKCRR5lsMquXSDg4_xevo0RMqOy27Er9wfv4a7xWY3VzBY/s640/blogger-image-768255110.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My mr B was also wandering around in the house. Had a peri-apical inflammation that bothered him, (wortelpuntontsteking) and he went under surgery this Wednesday morning. Auch!</div><div>He captured me, his happy cutting girl..... What will he do without his camera, I wonder....</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ePX0dQRujwPFMJPXNB1JTCP7XEUkNAPNSMTz8QGKmWc178wg88m7qC-CbQ_22lBcMWSOo37Xm-ASDAK3L9Ucg4y1_WNOe0zJvaNrvkY1fiYS2siu0e2oU3WyBqeh4_kkiAamNXqED_s/s640/blogger-image-952121742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ePX0dQRujwPFMJPXNB1JTCP7XEUkNAPNSMTz8QGKmWc178wg88m7qC-CbQ_22lBcMWSOo37Xm-ASDAK3L9Ucg4y1_WNOe0zJvaNrvkY1fiYS2siu0e2oU3WyBqeh4_kkiAamNXqED_s/s640/blogger-image-952121742.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">After all this teeny weeny happy sewing, this lady was so tired, she decided to give it a rest. You know it was only two days ago I did have my 6th chemo treatment of Caelyx. But I had to roam on the quilting track. I simply had to.</span></div><div>It is such comfort and gives so much feel good, healing if you like, seeing something beautiful growing right under your nose and own hands.</div><div>It creates this teeny weeny happy bee. Me!</div>La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-53618071576248996822013-02-01T04:03:00.000-08:002013-02-01T04:03:30.711-08:00SpiderwebbingSnow melted and the sun was shining again lovely. Fresh winds were blowing all dust nests away. Blew me in the mood to do some nice talking to my sewing machine, opened it up a bit and acted like the winds, with a little help from a tiny brush.<br />
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I was going to have a tutorial on Spiderweb Quilting, the first steps of creating a star point, the next morning.<br />
It was sheduled at The Stitch Cottage, The Hague, and Jantine Urban was going to teach and tell us all about it.<br />
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It was fun and not too difficult. Can't wait to take it a step further, but my schedule of commitments is rather 'thick' these days. Too much going on, not only nice things. Like playing music and going to some other music. That was and <i>is</i> the nice part of it all, folks!<br />
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Anyway, this is what I came up with. Most scraps and fat quarters from my stash, but some greens from the shop longed to come along, couldn't resist it. Weak!<br />
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Haven't had time yet to bicycle all the way to the other quilt shop in town to get some more dark blue batik for my QAL. Maybe tomorrow. Fingers are tickling to go on with it.... (Sorry if my English is sometimes a bit (!) double Dutch for you. I am learrrning, that's the whole point! ;-))<br />
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Thinking of doing also some like this:<br />
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And I am sure on the go I will come up with some more exciting combinations, like some kind of red and more golden stripes, maybe blue middle points in the spiderweb. Even golden ones. Just anything what catches my eyes and makes me happy. The big star in the middle is going to be in two shades, greenish and blue-ish, you can just see a wee bit under the right wing. There will be also more darker blue and lighter blue combinations. At least that's what I am thinking now. This is definitely a project where everything will and can change during the process. Don't you agree?<br />
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Jantine is great in explaining and letting us do our own thing. I totally forgot to picture the choices of the other girls. Next time, new chances!<br />
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<br />La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-91921268620528227352013-01-29T07:11:00.004-08:002013-01-29T07:11:51.185-08:00Starburst Star QALIn the spur of a moment some major decisions are made. So when I came along this Indie Starburst star pattern I skipped all other projects I had in mind and started going along. Contacted <a href="http://happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.nl/">Melissa</a> Corry who made the pattern asking if I still could join. Wouldn't be a problem, so there I was looking through my stash, searching and deciding what fabrics and colors would do for me. I wasn't going to buy new ones. Good idea to start with...<br />
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This is what I came up with. Don't you think it's pretty beautiful? A combination of Java Prints and Batiks.<br />
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The reds and blues are quite difficult to catch for my camera. Imagine them a bit darker in the 2nd row from right, and the reds brighter. I am not quite settled on the 2nd row, there might probably some changes during the process.<br />
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For the backround I changed from black to dark blue to black again and then I found this dark blue & black batik in my stash. Super! Not enough though, so soon this will be followed by a short (;-)) visit to the batik quiltshop...<br />
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I like to think it to be a kind of tribute to my early childhood years I spent (with my parents and 2 sisters) in Indonesia in the late fiftees. In Bogor on the beautiful island of Java to be precise.<br />
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On the special tab page on top you will find all about the QAL and the on going process, I'd like to share with you.<br />
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You may like to see also more of it on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zil3lion56lis/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/zil3lion56lis/</a></div>
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<br />La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-70030949862996963772012-11-29T05:21:00.000-08:002012-11-29T05:41:29.556-08:00Something newPatch & quilt season in full swing, so definitely high time for some new post. Been attending some classes ('workshops' we call it in Dutch - don't smile!). Had some great times while doing the stitches and great laughs and .... learning some new exciting things on the go.<br />
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First of all: Free Motion quilting class (1 day and 1 morning) by <a href="http://www.urbanstylejantine.nl/">Jantine Urban</a> at <a href="http://www.stitchcottage.nl/nl">The Stitch Cottage</a>, The Hague. (It was in the month Octobre....)<br />
Under WIP you'll find the New York Beauty class.<br />
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My dear Mr. B (husband)'s jeans needed some more stitches..... Great stuff to practice on. By the way, the foot is a special one for my Pfaff from the Eighties.....<br />
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And here is just another pattern. Still practicing on some more fabrics. Just wait & see. It is great fun!<br />
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grey and grim day, even rain came this afternoon. So I decided not to go
outside making miles by walking, but instead stay at home and make the miles with
needle and thread, maybe even pass the finish line with the stab stitch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sitting in my conservatory, listening to the tick-tack of the raindrops falling
on the glass roof, to the wind beating the windows, it felt much like camping
in a translucent tent. To complete the picture, I choose my new cd with Liszt
Cello Sonatas (present from Mr. B for my birthday recently) on Itunes and
started to stab, stab, stab into the cloth. It was so lovely to sit & stab feeling warm and comfortable, the stab stitches going like they were running the marathon.
Tea cup near at hand. Music singing in my ears. Forgot almost the time. And so I finished the double
square, at last! Hooray! Looks quite nice, if I may say so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complete the design by drawing with the blue (washable) pencil and start
quilting the ordinary stitch, one at a time in the beginning, after a while
trying to get more stitches on the needle. It’s all about learning and
improvement, that’s the idea of course.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />La-Isahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08923322901819552672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457479543848708994.post-28378327493892802302012-04-10T04:41:00.001-07:002012-04-10T04:41:56.076-07:00Making miles... and learn to smile<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Making miles, that is what you are supposed to be doing when learning the stabstitch. In the beginning it was like learning to swim or to skate. More falling than menaging, but after going on stubborn and strong, and also getting some good advice from my fellow stitchers - they told me so! - I now can say: Yes, I can! I am there.... I think.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is starting to look nice and even the stitches are becoming more and more like little hyphens in the row.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is the place to be for that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let me tell you from time to time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">about the discoveries and inspirations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">encounters, small & huge, on this exciting path.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Every inch a mile stone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Making miles with a smile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You already have been sharing a lot,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let me share with you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Did you know a Red Knot is a kind of bird, a 'Peep'. It is not so big in size, but it is a huge flyer: it migrates up to 150.000 miles for its breeding grounds. From here all the way to New Zealand. In Dutch this peep is called 'Kanoet'. Say that quick enough and you end up in the word 'Knoet'. In Dutch that is something to do with knitting and also knot, but perhaps more tangled up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And 'KNOTS' is kind of 'Crazy', with the K sound (in Dutch), so I guess I am kind of crazy... ;-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyhow, now its time for a bite!</span></div>
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