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It’s getting colder outside. More time to spend indoors. And guess were my favourite spot in the house is??? Yes, upstairs in my lovely, cozy craftroom. Most of the time it’s a mess up there, but I don’t care one bit. It’s my mess.
I just close the door and the mess is gone!
…You know I tell a lie here, right!



I do care, I do care a lot. I love working in a tidy place. I love things to be in there place. I don’t want to search for my scissors for hours
So I can use some help. Do you have any suggestions are tips?? Please let me know. Tell me your storage solutions, what works for you?



In exchange I’ll have a giveaway. I’ll make one two lovely surprise packages by filling a cardboard box with all kind of “Dutch blue” material. Including some pretty fabrics, band, lace, buttons, magazine and lots more.
To enter all you have to do is leave a comment and I will draw two winners next Friday. Hopefully you will have good tips for me on how I can keep my sewing place tidy!

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In Last post I was just teasing you... ofcourse it's an angel!
I stitched a few...Two are on the front of a small bag and will go into the shop.
Two are still in progress....



And this little red angel bag likes to go travel.....She has not found a destination yet and so she´s looking for a place to stay. Maybe you can help her out by letting her stay at your place? If so please let me know by leaving a comment on this post. She will draw a name somewhere next week and I will happely send her off. You would make her sooo happy!



Have a wonderful weekend!

Rabbits and a winner

Wow...I was stunned by all the comments I received on the giveaway post. There were so many!!
Thank you each and everyone of you, you all make my day!
So this morning was the big moment. I put all the names in a box and asked dd (she's expecting her first baby) to pick out one name.


And the winner is: Katherine from sew me something good
Congratulations Katherine, there will be a package sent of to you somewhere next week!


Now, let me show you my little project for upcomming weekend. I decided to join the stitch-along Noah's Ark BOM from Lynette anderson designs. This is my very first attempt on making a stichery, I like doing it so far.
I choose the gingham fabrics to use between the stitchery blocks. I hope to show the result next week!



Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Happy stitching!!

more tea cozies

Easter was cold, snow white, hail and sunshine...we experienced it all!
But it was warm inside so I spent some time behind the sewing machine to make two new tea cozies for the dutch sisters shop.



They were lots of fun to make and for a special touch I gave each one different curtains.



The one in the middle (above) is not finished yet.



And I made a little basket to hold teabags in. It's from the same pattern as the one from my previous post.



The post on which I received so many lovely comments, I feel overwhelmed. Tomorrow is the last day to enter this giveaway and the drawing and announcement of the winner will be on thursday.
So if you want to be in for this drawing, please feel free to leave a comment.
I'm of now, have to finish the pink flower cozy!

1 year anniversary

Hip, hip, hooray....my blog is 1 year old!! A year sure goes fast, doesn't it? I learned so much trough blogging, such as writing better English (lol) but best of all...I met you and so many other wonderful people!
Thank you'll for coming by and letting me share a little bit of my creative thoughts with you. It's so inspiring to visit your blogs too!
I really want to celebrate my blog's first anniversary with you so I made a little gift basket ( with suprise) to giveaway and I also made a tutorial on how to make one.
If you want to enter the draw all you have to do is leave a comment before wednesday march 26.
So feel free to join in also if you don't have a blog you are still very welcome!


Tutoriol "How to make a gift basket"

Step 1.)

Draw a basket like the one in the picture. You can make a larger or smaller basket by changing measurements.
Cut the pattern out.


Step 2.)

Pinn the pattern on the fabric add seam allowances and cut the pattern out.
Place the pattern for the outside basket on the fold.



you'll have three parts.

Step 3.)

place both lining fabric pieces on outside fabric piece with the right sides together and sew the top left and right, see picture.


This is how it should look.



Step 4.)

Fold the fabric with the right sides together and sew all around leaving an opening on the side of the lining fabric, see photo.



Step 5.)

Turn the basket inside out and sew the opening closed.



Push the lining into the outside fabric piece.



Step 6.)

Add cord, string or ribbons and sew them on the basket as you pleased.
Buttons, beads, you can use anything to make it a fancy basket.


For those who want to give this pattern a try, I hope you enjoy and please let me know how it turned out, I really like to know!

50th post

Well today is the day....Today a little milestone, my 50th post! If you would asked me a year ago what a blog was, I would say; "excuse me...a what"? It was purly a coincidence that I discovered this amazing world of blogging! And I never expected how much fun it could be! I've met some wonderful new friends and recieved the most warm and supportive comments.
Thank you, thank you'll for that.



So....for celebrate my 50th post I have wrapped a little present for a lucky winner. Just leave a comment and I'll draw out a winner next tuesday.

p.s. I would also like to invite the non comment readers to feel free to join in too!

I finish this post with a wonderful book I want to share.
It's published in 2003, but I just recently found it!
The ISBN number on the back is: 2-84831-004-9



It's full with the most gorgeous quilts and quilting projects.







Lots of pages full of inspiration! Myself....I like the teapots applique!