I just thought I would give you an update on my log cabin fall quilt.
I'm using every free minute to sew stripes into blocks.
Each block has a brown, orange and red diagonal on one side and on the opposite
a green and blue green side. So far I've managed to sew 16 blocks.
Still 20 blocks to go!
The other day I saw a lovely quilt in a hoop right here.
And you know how things are..seeing a quilt in a hoop works sooooooo... contagious.
I made this quilt using fabric from moda. The fabric is called 'recess', I used a 5" squares charm pack. I added orange/ white checkers and red/ white polkadot fabric. For the back I used polkadot also.
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!
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 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
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.
