mix and match fall colors

This plant gives me an autumn feeling.
Warm colors like orange, brown and earthly green. Such a pretty colors.



I went through my stash and did a bit of mix and match in search for that warm autumn feeling and eartly colors. hmmm, I think I need more green.....



And wouldn't it be lovely to make them into a fall logcabin quilt.



One like this. Oooh yes... It would be lovely indeed!!!



Just like this winter log cabin quilt from 2007.
but......

 Pssst, don't tell anyone this one is in progress, still!

this past weekend....

I had a lot of fun exploring photoscape



I also made an angel pattern. I'll add a link in my sidebar soon.



I made some new and finished some old birds.



On Saterday I came home from ikea with a new seat in the trunk of the car.



And while a was there I spotted this crocked flowers decoration set.i don't have a purpose yet



But think I'm gonna glue the red one on my red bag.

 Well,I had a lovely creative weekend, I hope you had a great one too!
Have a good start of the week you'll!

Friday's post

Hello, first a big thank you for your comments and kind words on my last post. I feel very honored by them all, thanks!
Friday already...is it just me or does time flies!! I had today off from work and went shopping. And a trip to the post office to send of two parcels.



And of course I couldn't go home without fresh flowers for the weekend. I love tulips. Maybe not the perfect flower to have in a warm central heated house, but I enjoy them while they last.



I also had to buy some magazines.



I can browse for hours in these magazines. look, I even found my perfect cooker.


picture from: country homes & interiors
Ooh and I want a cozy corner like this one....


picture from: country homes & interiors

And isn't this a charming chest for storage?


picture from: country homes & interiors

Mine is from Ikea.



Here a picture from my cleaned up cutting table.



I wonder how long it will stay this way?!
Happy weekend!

blogger's quilt festival

Amy from park city girl is hosting a bloggers quilt festival.

 
Here is my contribution to the festival. You might have already seen this 'vogeltjes quilt' before, I posted about it in 2007. But because I still get questions about this quilt I like to show it here again.



The quilt is inspired by work and books of Jean Ray Laury.
I love her drawings, so wonderful to use for applique.



I made this quilt in the late nineties, I just had followed an appliqué course when I found these lovely birds in one of J.R.Laury's books. I started of making one, and another, and one more. And before I knew I had a stash of funny apliqued birds blocks.





I made an appletree for the center. I draw the design for the tree myself. The fabrics I used for the triangles and the border are a replica from an old dutch chintz bought by Den Haan & Wagenmakers



Now I had all those lovely birds sewn around an appletree. I thought it would be perfect to complete the quilt with a beautiful border. I chose this drawing also from J.R. Laury's book als my starting point and went from there.



I did all sewing, applique and quilting by hand. It took my a few years to complete. In 2000 I finaly did. The quilt was a gift for our daughter. I made a cross-stitch label for the back.





Today the 'vogeltjes quilt' still hangs in her livingroom and is often used for Luca's favorite game 'hide and seek'.

flowers, winners and a summer mini quilt

Thank you, thank you, thank you each and every one of you for visiting and commenting.
Boy, o boy…did you have some great tips and solutions for my storage and tidying up problems!! You must be the tidiest people I know.

 
I tried to make a top 10 of the most workable tips that will work for me.

1. Close the door! Ha,ha, like this one…
2. Move to a bigger room. I would love to move but I think I’ve the largest room already!
3. lots of shelves.
4. Make tidying up fun with all kind of pretty boxes, tins, baskets.
5. Keep everything grouped together in pots and little dishes like needles, pins, buttons, pencils, scissors....
6. Store everything by colors.
7. Use see through boxes.
8. Put things away when you are done for the day. Wish I had more discipline!
9. Throw away what you don't use. I rather giveaway.
10. Don’t buy new stuff.…What!! No shopping?...how about my fabric addiction??

I can’t show you the after photo’s … I haven’t finished the job yet.
But I have two winners drawn for the giveaway. I used the true random number generator.

The winners are:: Virginia And Nina. Congratulations! please send me your snailmail adress and I'll send you your package. Summer swap update:




See this little beauty, how lucky am I? Barbara made this gorgeous mini quilt for me! I love it so very much! She noticed I love pink and flowers...so thoughtful of her.



And she wrapped the quilt in some lovely red, blue and white fabrics!! Thank you again Barbara……!

 Have a marvelous weekend everyone!

Sandy's girl

She said goodbye, I said goodbye, kisses, followed by a few tears.....
and there she goes!



She took her quilt along.



Thank you Sandy for your patience!

ps. I made a good start on cleaning up my craftsroom. I've folding up fabrics and sorted things out. Thanks for all your wonderful sugestions and tips. I put some in good use allready!! If you like you still have time to enter the giveaway.

giveaway

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!

Annie came in October

The month October startet of very well for me!!



Look who traveled all the way from Sandy's place to mine, and is on my mister chair right this minute!



It's the lovely Raggedy Annie made by Sandy from "Raggedy sandy"
I'm so happy! Annie is the cutest doll ever, I absolutely love her! She's wearing a beautiful dress and has pretty curly red hair. She also wears cute little bloomers under her dress. Sandy, your little Annie is so adorable, you have such an eye for detail. Thank you so much!!



Sandy send me also these wonderful presents. There are some great projects in that magazine, my fingers are itching!



But first I've to finish of my part of the private swap, Sandy and I are doing. I've a free weekend ahead of me so lots of time to sew....
Have a lovely weekend too!

what's up

Well, nothing much really. Yesterday we had a lovely walk in the dunes. It was peacefull and quiet.


Clouds filled the sky but the temperature was still nice although October is just around the corner.

 My friends little doggie, here on his search for rabbits,  had a great time too!



Quilting is going slowly. I used recess from moda for the triangles and orange checks for the strips. For the squares in between I used the red and white polka dot.



Talking about polka dots..........



She's a little handfull but always so cheerful and funny, just like her granny!