SECOND BLOG ANNIVERSARY

It is already 2 years ago that I started the blog. And my 100th post was 2 weeks ago. Time flies.

If I look back at what I did this year, I notice that my interest has a bit shifted. More wool, less fabric. It does not mean that I don´t like quilting anymore, I do! But knitting and dyeing yarn have come on top of that. Where do I ask to have more than 24 hours in a day?!

Anyway, to thank you all out there who are reading my blog and leaving nice comments (it is just my sis who leaves silly comments and she won´t take part in the draw because she would not know what to do with what there is to win!) I will organize a give-away.

But first I would like to thank the first 2 persons who commented on my blog: Bea and Carol. Both of them are still regular readers and don`t appear to get fed up of my quilting and knitting ramblings.

I knitted Bea some socks and she seemed to like them. Carol, I will mail you for the details.

For the rest of you, you have one week to leave a comment to take part in the give-away. I won´t show you what there is to win as I don´t know yet! I will decide according to who wins, wether she likes more wooly things or more fabricy (!) things or both.

This week some more yarn got colours. I had ordered new dyes and I had to try them as soon as I could.
I stitched one more block of Bea´s BOM. I have now 12 of them and I think that´s enough.

I will ponder a bit longer to see if I get more ideas to sew them together. At the moment I am thinking of some kind of off-centered log cabin blocks.


I wish you a nice week and I keep my fingers crossed for the draw.

AARRGGHH!

I was quilting along with quite a lot of pushing and pulling as the backing is a coarse old bed sheet when I had a look at the back!

AARRGGHH!

After 2 hours of ripping and some of these (well quite a lot actually!) to calm my nerves,

the quilting is finished.

I will send the quilt back to my mum for her to put the binding on.

Even the back does not look that bad anymore!

This week the temperatures are back to normal, the snow is gone. No more mopping the floor twice a day to get rid of all the dirt. That means more time left to quilt and knit!

I wish you a nice week. I will ignore the comments on the nice weather on some other parts of the world, they would only make me jealous!

IT IS FREEEEZING!

It snowed last monday and the snow is still here and it is freezing cold!

Fortunately I had knitted a tam for my DH for Christmas.

The children are having fun with their slides but can´t stay outside too long as it is freezing cold.

This week I did not have to go to work everyday. Instead I enjoyed dyeing some sock yarn.

I could not go outside as it is so cold ( oh I have already told you that, well never mind!).

Do go and have a look at the new BOM Bea is having. It looks very promising. I wonder when or if that woman sleeps!

Next thursday we are having our monthly quilt group meeting and I plan to machine quilt my mother´s top. Some things to look forward to instead of that **** freezing cold weather!

I wish you some warm place for this week.

P.S. : I think I forgot to say that the temperatures were playing crazy here and that I have to put on 5 layers of clothes when I go outside!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

This was a very, very cold week and it seems that tonight will be just the same. That means we won´t stay very long outside at 24.00 to fire and watch the fire works!

My parents spent some days at our place and my mother brought along her last works to show me.

I thought it would be the right thing to share these nice works with you to give you inspiration for next year.

The apple core quilt is hand-sewed, hand- appliquéd and hand-quilted. I love the colour combination.

The second quilt is machine-sewed and is being hand-quilted. My mother was inspired by a pattern at Quiltville.

I wish you a very happy new year and a lot of finished works (wether they are sewed, quilted or knitted)

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish you all a peaceful and very happy Christmas.

NEW TEMPTATIONS

How is it that Christmas is already in 10 days and I haven´t seen anything of December yet?! What with bad weather, ill family members (DS and DH both sick with fever and heavy coughing), getting and/or making presents,...

Anyway, yesterday I took some time off to get some quality time going with a good friend of mine to the opening of a new yarn and quilt shop.

Christiane has made it! She now has a very nice shop with gorgeous yarn and fabric.




Of course I did some retail therapy but could not take any picture yet.

This week I knitted some presents for my dear sis: some mitts (modified version of Evangeline) and knee socks (my own pattern).

I just hope that they arrive on time in England. It is supposed to be so cold there (especially inside the house, isn´t it Sis? ) (Private joke!).

Now my DH has discovered a tam he would like to have for Christmas too so you know what I will be knitting next week!

I wish you all a nice third Advent.

WINTER AT HOME

The weather forecast was right, this is what it looked like here at the beginning of the week. Now the snow is gone and it is only cold.

I finished another of Bea´s BOM this week, only two to go and this year´s stitchery project will be complete. Now to sew these cutties together in a top will last some time as I am still pondering which setting will enhance them the best.

In the meantime I have something else to do, not that I would get bored or something!

My mother sent me a top to machine quilt. I like it very much, very scrappy, just my colours. It will be a pleasure to quilt as it isn´t too big and my mother had already put the batting and the back to it. I just have to switch on my sewing machine and off I go!

This picture shows a detail. It is a very easy block made of 2 squares and one rectangle. Either one dark square with one light square and rectangle or one light square with one dark square and rectangle. The squares are 1,5" finished.

During the week, I dyed some more sock yarn. It seems the color combos turned out nice as some skeins are already gone to become Christmas presents.

Tomorrow night will be the time to prepare my DS´s advent calendar. Fortunately Playmobil and Lego exist!

I wish you a very nice first advent sunday and a agreable week.