Or Finally a Finish!. I handquilted this to dead at first and last week I pulled out half of the quiltwork, quilted the border, did a binding (yeey me) and even printed a label.
My family still has to get used to the more colourfull and less traditional stuff. Their reactions were"Mmm different" and "unusual isn't it?" Btw, it's machine-pieced and not all the seams are were I wanted them to be but enough excuses: I rather like it myself and that's whats counts!
Sunday, November 08, 2009
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Ikea....
Ever since my FIL passed away and we had to empty his house, I'm busy with my own cupboards/cabinets etc. I'm a reader and I have books in every corner. I do own a bookcabinet (made by my own dad) but it has been too small for ages. So DH and I went off to...Ikea (ofcourse) First time the bookcases were sold out (they were 25% off) so we bought a new bed with sidetables, since we were all prepared to buy something heavy and bulky and planned to get us a new bed anyway. When assembling we saw that one sidetable was damaged..
2 Days later we went to another Ikea store and got the bookcases with 2 small cd racks in the middle. Nice!
Assembling: the cd racks were both damaged.
Then I got all the books out, put them in the new bookcase..bummer...I need 2 extra shelves! DH went back to the Swedish friends with all the damaged goods, changed them for undamaged but no shelves: sold out. (remember the 25% off? The whole nation went to buy new bookcases!!)
DD on the phone: she was about to go to an Ikea nearby her place and DH was going to deliver her Granddad's dishwasher....so she bought 2 shelves and DH brought them home. Meanwhile I decided 1 cd rack was better..
Now we have to go back a fourth time to get the glass doors for the bookcases to keep the dust out. They were to heavy to take along together with the rest.
I wonder how many Swedish meatballs with fries DH can stand..?
And did I already mention that I'm having the whole week off? It's Autumn holiday here! Woohoo!!
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
More machine adventures!
Last weekend we (DD,C and I) went to a craftfair:embroidery, crocheting and ofcourse quilting. The trip came out of the blue. Usually we plan way head but now we decided to go the evening before. It's not that we saw new things but it's always good to walk along fabric booths :) Since C hadn't seen DD's new appartment yet, we drove DD home afterwards and had dinner there. All in al a good sunday!
We also found that it IS possible to blend in with your hobby....beware:before you know it you might become a quilt :)
Yesterday C and I planned a day to play with the new machine feet and I wanted C to experience how difficult it is to meander on the machine. While my meanderfeet happily bounced up and down, C's did nothing of the sort. She broke needle after needle, made some interresting thread loops at the back etc. After hours of trying all kinds of settings on her Husqvarna we gave up, loaded everything in the car and drove to the dealer. We both have Huskies but C's is more elaborate and it turned out that hers didn't need the bouncing meanderfeet on our practice piece. It works on a really thick quilt but not on our regular thinner Hobbs batting! Now she has an expensive foot that doesn't work :(
We headed home again, a bit older and wiser.. We still went ahead with the plan of me learning C to sew a disappearing ninepatch and later that evening she got this!!
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Machine quilting
I searched the internet and watched countless you-tube videos on machine piecing and quilting. My eyes are squared, really! It all LOOKS so simple and easy-peasy but after trying myself I must say: I will never ever look down on machine work ever again. Those who master it: you are all artists!
One video is really great and everyone who wants to learn should watch this one, 'cause if she can do it, so can I!
I do hope this link will work. Watch it, it'll make you smile big time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2wz58hGAA&hl=nl
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Testing!
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Screw(ed)
First: pics of a gorgeous New York Beauty I saw at the quiltshow. I do have pics of other quilts, but apparently one's not allowed to publish those on the internet wiyhout written consent. I have consent from the NYB quilter, in fact I donated a few inches of spiderfabric to her that she put in :)
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Disaster!!
My old laptop is making weird noises and electrical cracking any time I expect the final big crack along with some smoke and that'll be the end of my days ping laptop. Fortunately DH's hobby has to do with computers! A Colleague gave him his laptop 'cause it "crashed" but DH got it up and running again and it'll be my new one. All files are allready installed but my faves are all mixed up so I have to spent an evening to get it the way I want it again and find my favorite blogs. Now it's one big endless list ..
My camera memory card passed away too. It fell into 3 pieces. It can be glued together so I can put the pics of the quilt show on the new laptop, but I have not found the time to do so yet. Every time when I want to spent a few hours to fix things I wanted and get interrupted by unwanted phone calls, etc. ...
Like today, when the car dashboard showed a disturbing orange light. Instead of ME time, I spent more than an hour at the garage * sigh * Luckily it could be fixed with no costs!
But now the big disaster that really really gave me a big headache.
The "Skulls and Bones" quilt I made for DS was very dirty (he sleeps under it every night) and needed a wash. Oh yeah, you've probably allready guessed: when I pulled it out of the washer I had a QUILT PINK!
OMG! I always pre-wash fabric, quilts and wash with every possible care and HOW I was going to bring this to DS? He's very fond of his Skulls and appreciated it SO much that I handpieced and handquilted it for him.
No I did NOT take pics of the pink disaster, I could not. The pic is a "before". In the end I washed it 5 times with all the chemicals I could find on the internet. The Skulls are white again but theswear swearborder fabric (from Alexander Henry) still has a faint pink glow and the black / white quilting thread is a bit brownish here and there. DS does not want me to make a new border, it is what it is, he says, and it's okay as long as it keeps me warm.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Pictures!
Frustrated because i STILL couldn't upload pics, i looked for other options and found Blogger has a new updated message editor that does allow uploading pics. Problem with me and Blogger is that half of the features i either do not use or i do not understand. I'm a computer and blogdummy, and I don't take the time exploring and learning. I should! The new message editor is different: has different fonts e.g. so I'll see what works for me.
To try if things work 2 pics of things I found at my FIL's house. Most of the stuff we threw out or gave to charity but these found a new home at my place..
These are antique copper pudding thingys (don't know the correct term and since I've been at the Quiltshow all day I'm too tired to get a dictionary *lol*)
And this old Delft Blue vase. With tulips (and unusual find at the flowersshop this time of year, so I couldn't resist) always a pretty pic! It is a bit chipped but with a leaf in the right place that's a problem solved!
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Friday, September 25, 2009
comments....?
AAArgh!!! Blogger still doesn't let me upload pics. I hate this!!! i can stand hickups for a day but NOT 2 days in a row. That's my impatients nature I guess. But however frustrated I am, there's nothing I can do but wait. Anyone else has the same Bloggerproblems???
I got quite a few comments on different posts from Disa. Apparantly she's japanese or chinese (?) and the comments are in such a language. I tried to translate it on several translatesites and this is what i got:
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Uhh, as you can see I can´t even determine if it´s a serious comment or not. The number of times it says `adults` among other things worries me a bit.. *lol* but I'm also curious. I tried japanese to dutch and got nothing there either. So...Disa, if these are serious comments: thank you (I think) but I really can't figure out what you mean. I'm sorry but could you comment in English? Or something?
Have a great weekend everyone!!
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Men...??
Still not in the quilting mode but in the cleaning and funeral mode. After FIL and my neighbour, one of DH favourite aunties passed away. 3 Funerals in 4 weeks is a bit much, but we'll just go with the flow.
Coming saturday oldest DD and I plan to do happier things like visiting the Guilds anual quiltshow. Nice quilts and fabric booths are perfect for lost mojo.
Sunday DH and I will pick up neighbourfriend Corrine and her Dh from the airport. They're coming back from their holiday in Florida and she already mailed me that she got quilty stuff in her suitcase. Can't wait to talk to her again 'cause I absolutely missed her this time!
Speaking of emails...every now and then DH sends me a mail when he's at work. Mostly it's something that he could tell me at dinner like the date of a companyparty.
Sometimes a companyjoke that not even brings a smile (but apparently his whole company thinks is hilarious)
He also sends pics of bikes that are for sale and yesterday a big advertisement of travels to Egypt.
Now I do want a new bike someday and I also would love to visit Egypt but the funny thing is that he never talks about his emails when he's home. So I'm puzzled; does he want me to go to Egypt? Is he bored with me and needs me out of the way for a while? Is it a surprise and is he planning to buy me a ticket? Is he going to buy me my dreammotorcycle? Does he want ME to buy it for myself or for him?
Women would say, later in the day, something like: did you get my email? and then talk it over. I know I would! But not my DH...so I open his mail, read it and delete it. I guess I should be happy he thinks of me once in a while when he's at work. Who said that women are hard to understand?!
Blogger refuses to upload any pics so the only quilty pic I had will have to wait. Only blabla this time but at least you know i'm still alive :)! Perhaps they're emailing their wives too at Blogger instead of paying attention. I hope they're done by the time I get back from the quiltshow!
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Back in Blogland..
First of all: thank you so much for the warm comments and emails. I read them all out loud to DH and it sure made us feel better knowing that other people were with us in their thoughts and prayers. Meanwhile we sorted everything at my father-in-law's house. Relatives will come by in a week or 2 to see if there's anything they'd want and the rest will go to Goodwill, or perhaps DD's and I will rent a booth at a fleamarket. After that there will be a lot of tax forms to be filled out and then we're done.
At home I made a start to clear my own drawers and cabinets. Now I emptied a house and found how much stuff people keep, I thought it high time to take a good look at my own things. Why keep a pile of t shirts that I don't wear anymore or keep plates that are chipped?? Towels with holes? Out it goes and it feels better with every closet I go through!
With all things going on and a DH who's having a hard time adjusting to the fact that he's "alone" from now on, I kind off lost the patch and quilting mojo. Another thing is that summerholidays are really over and 2 days after the funeral I had to go to work again :( So nothing much was sewed or quilted: I just went to bed early, after all: I'm not an 18 year old anymore!
This package cheered me up today! An addition to the notions quilttop I made a while ago. Not sure if I'll make some more blocks or use it as a border, but we'll see about that in time..
Doesn't a fabric delivery with a bow make you smile!? (and the fact that it was 25% off..)
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Quick post to say...
....that I won't be here for (hopefully a short) while. 8 Months after his mother, DH's father quite suddenly passed away. Lots of thing have to be taken care of: funeral arrangements for starters and lots of other things later on. Since DH is an only child, all comes down to us and blogging isn't a priority right now as , I'm sure, everyone will understand.
I'll be back when all is taken care off and life is less hectic!!
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Last ones!
If you do a google search you can all see how things like that look like and although I really REALLY love Rome and Italy, I don't want to bore other people with my holidaypics. At least, not in too many posts. So i've decided to show some things that are different from the well known tourist thingys and be done with the summervacation.
So....in the Vatican Museum, in the room where you can see "the Greek school" from Rafaël (the "Stanza from Rafaël"): look at the floor! It makes you wonder what was first: the patchworkpattern or the floordesign??
They did such a good job although they're oldies :) They brought us more than 4500 km through France, Italy, through the mountains to Austria and Germany. We traveled the south coast of France, all the way to Rome, Venice, lago di Garda, Verona. .They made our butt ache, took a lot of petrol and mine swallowed some liters of oil.. but we made it back home safely. Don´t know if I would do it again: 3 weeks of helmethair is enough for now, but probably i forgot all about that next summer *lol*
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Rome
We finally landed at the lake of Bracciano, 50 km north of Rome. You could go with public transport to the city but we decided to attack the Roman traffic ourselves. Well the traffic was oké, but the numerous one-way streets made it almost impossible to find your way. I've been in Rome for 7 days, 3 years ago with Lotte, so I knew where I wanted to be, which direction, street etc. but back then we flew to the city and did everything on foot.


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Travelling!!
Oké! First post about our biker holiday! We (DH, DS DD and me) drove approx. 4500 km in almost 3 weeks..
To get to Italy you first have to drive through Belgium, perhaps Luxemburg and ofcourse France.
First casualty happend in Luxemburg, at a tankstop. Unfortunately, I didn't put my jiffystand out properly and when I wanted to get off, the bike fell down. Only thing damaged was the plastic of my direction indicator and ofcourse my pride. I fell down in the middle of the tankstation for everone to see and i did NOT do it elegantly..
First night we spent between Lyon and Dyon in France.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Quo vadis?
Yes, where WAS I going these past weeks? Definately not in blogland! Can you guess?
I'll tell all about it when the laundry is done, the camping stuff is cleaned and put away again, the frig is full with groceries etc.
The first pics will tell you where I went, along with DH, DS, DD, 2 Honda's and 1 Suzuki..:)
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Friday, July 24, 2009
It wasn't me..!
I guess someone else took over my blog yesterday. It wasn't me, really!! :p
Seriously, I absolutely did NOT feel like myself. The numbness was gone around 4 pm and then ofcourse the pain started. I had my first meal and drink of the day around 6 but, thank god, things got better after that.
I even managed to go out to do some shopping with DS and look what I found after wanting these for 2 years! (they never had the correct size or model)
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Whining
One of my wisdomteeth had become sensitive to hot and cold and I noticed things started to become a bit infected in the back of my mouth. That's not what you'd want during your summerholidays so I quickly made an appointment with my dentist.
8.00 am this morning he was expecting me. (did you know I'm NOT a morningperson!?) The verdict: it had to come out, but I allready had figured that out. My dentist is a very nice person and he absolutely didn't want me to feel any pain so when his first attempt to numb my mouth didn't work, he tried again with another shot. And again. And again. I was home at 11, one wisdomteeth less, unable to speak properly and, due to the overall numbness in my mouth, drooling..
I skipped breakfast, and now at 1pm I still can't drink, eat. I can't smoke either to relieve my inner pain over not being able to feel my own mouth. Can't go out either to do some comfortshopping: my mouth looks funny and people stare. Besides I still drool from time to time.
I hate this. I hate dentists, toothache, the feeling when your teeth comes out. I hate that it rains all day, that I have a bad hairday and I don't know what to cook for dinner today. I don't feel like sewing and I hate that too. I hate commercial telephone calls espescially when you can't speak properly and i hate that i don't know how to spell espescially.
Oké, I guess I'm done now and I think that I might feel the tip of my tongue again and now I'm thinking off it, the left corner of my upperlip.
I wish you all a happy sunny day and perfect teeth..
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Stash denial
Neighbourfriend Corrine keeps her fabric in boxes; colour by colour, theme by theme. Her polkadots are at my place because I was busy cutting and sewing polkadotted propellorblocks and we share our dots. She does visit them often.
She noticed that boxes get too small if you keep adding dots and last week she came by to bring a bigger box; the one on top is her old one.
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