Been busy (part 2)!

This is what came home with me.You can tell Blogger won't work with me any more: 2 pics are flipped. You really should bend your head for the first pic (and enlarge it!!) Please do! It's a kit I bought from "de Haan en Wagemakers" I previous posts I told you that they re-produced old chintzes that originally came from the east Indies in the 17th century. I saw this kit in a magazine and fell in love with it. It is very expensive fabric and I thought about buying it for weeks. I never ever bought a kit before, let alone such an expensive one. But now I did and it'll probably take a while before I'm going to cut the fabrics. For now I look at it, feel the fabrics and dream..

The dots are various sizes, fq and fe's. They are for the mutual dots stash Corrine and I have. Just to keep the creative juices flowing :)

The notions fabric will match great with my red/black zipper and buttons fabric I have and they will find a place in a wallhanging or something like that.

Corrine bought me a great fq with red tulips, but I cannot find the pic anymore.

I got a book from the Guild's library called "Quilts with a spin" from "Piece o'cake designs". Ofcourse I had to try a block. I don't want to do a whole quilt but it was a fun experiment!

Especially for Pam(ela) here's my dotted, spotted, spinning wheel :)

I also made huge progress on my propellor quilt but I'll keep that one for another post.

I also got a rose pattern from my trip to the quiltshow and I plan on experimenting with that one this afternoon. Still got one and a half day off!

When we got home after the show, Lotte raided my stash and (all inspired) planned on sewing some cows from a pattern she got last year. Unfortunately it was a pattern in inches and she didn't take my inches ruler. DH was bored and was as kind to drive all the way to Leiden (2 1/2 hour drive back and forth) to bring it to her to get her out of that quiltingcrisis. So you'll better sew a lot of cows dear!!!

Last but certainly not least: DS got a new-to-him motorbike!!

For those who want to know: it's a Suzuki GS 500 E. He's not allowed by law to have acces to all the 5oocc yet, so DH has to tune it down to contain the horsepowers. He's already at that right now so if the weather's good (today it's raining..) we'll take a trip, probably to Leiden (so now you know that there's company coming later this week Lotte!)

Now that he has a much better bike, we will go to Italy by motorbike this summer. We have plans to get to Rome to see if that missing piece of my heart is still there....

Now I'm going to attack that roses pattern.I'll be back with progress pics later this week so stay tuned!!!!