SBS fabric and a pinkeep

Yesterday we went to Jacqueline of  The Log Cabin to get my fabric for the SBS (Sylvia Bridal Sampler). She had orderd it for me. She had a roll of 10 meter for me and from another roll I bought another meter, so now I have a total of 11 meter (12 yard)

Its a white on white fabric with tiny twigs and leaves

I bought some other stuff too I needed, such as blue quilting thread and I bought some hexagons to make some pretty flowers. Never done that before.

I also bought some red/brown fabric for my potpourri quilt. This is for the binding. I'm almost done with the quilting, just some stitches in the border and then I can sew the binding.

Last week I stitched something for Jacqueline of The Log Cabin and made it into a pinkeep. I gave it to her yesterday when we where at her quiltshop.

I stitched all kind of quiltblocks and in the middle I stitched her logo with the name of her quiltshop.

Did you know she also has a weblog and shows new items at her shop and she writes about the rebuilding of her new quiltshop.

Hot summer days and a basket

We have had some realy bad weather overhere and there is alot of damage in the Netherlands. It looks that we had a little tornado over the land. The only good thing about is that the temperature is lower, because it was to hot the last 3 weeks. But I have hear that the temperature is rising again over the weekend.

Even Bowy doesn't like the warm days. He constantly sleeps ...

and sleeps ...

and when he wants to cool down he goes into the .............. swimmingpool

He was with my husband visiting friends of us and they have a large swimmingpool in there backyard. Bowy liked that very much :-)

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On tuesday (july 20) my husband must go to hospital for a arthroscopie, this time on his left knee. In 2007 he had one on his right knee. He has osteoarthritis in his knees. So he will be home for a couple of weeks after the surgery. I don't want him to get bored in this time so I bought him the Nintendo DSi XL

I'm still busy with quilting the potpourri quilt, but in between I made one little basket block. I have now a total of 4.

EQ7

I'm busy with quilting on my potpourri

It's very hot here in the Netherlands and I stay all the time inside the house.Outside it is just to warm, so I have alot of time to quilt the potpourri

Last night I made a photo of the papaver in the garden, thats why the background is black

Yesterday the postman brought EQ7 which I had orderd in may. It is just been released and I love that program. You can easely design your own quilts. I had EQ5 but now I wanted the newest version

Potpourri quilt top

Finaly my shoulders are alot better so I could iron the quilt top and make the photo.

And now I can sandwich the quilt and start quilting !!!

My next large project will be the SBS (short for the Sylvia bridal Sampler). I'm going to make this with a white background fabric (which I have orderd and will arrive soon) and combine it will all sort of blue fabrics.

But I still have to wait for the white fabric to arrive, so till that time I have began te make some little basket blocks. 

This is for a little wall quilt with a total of 12 blocks. The blocks are only  4 inch.

And YES .... The Netherlands won last night and there are going to play in the final of the FIFA world cup in South Africa on sunday !

New books arrived

I haven't been posting much because of the weather here.

It is so hot and the sun burns when you are outside.

My potpourri quilt top is finsihed. I have sew the border around so I can sandwich the quilt, but before I do that I want to make a photo of the top. The problem is that I can't iron the top right now because my shoulders are giving me problems because of the fibromyalgia.

So I hope to take a picture of it next week and can show you how lovely the quilttop is.

Last week I orderd the latest two books of Kathleen Tracy:

Prairie children and their quilts

and

Remembering Adelia

Her first book: American doll quilts, that I also wanted was out of print but then I read a message from her and she was saying that her publisher still have the book as a digital version (PDF). So I bought that one and printed it out myself (total of 82 pages)

So now I have her 3 books and can make some little quilts with a "antique" look

The fuchsia on the table in the garden is blooming so beautiful

I love that color and the shape of the fuchsia

I hope you enjoy the summer !

Potpourri quilt row 6

Yes ... I finished row 6. This was the last row and all 30 blocks are done !!

I liked working on these blocks, they where so much fun to do.

In this row there was only one stitching piece;

a sewing machine

On one block came some lace

Here is the last row

A picture of all the 30 blocks together

Currently I'm working on the border. Thats alot of work because the border are many, many little strips sew together. The next few days I'm also going to work on the July ornament of LHN because June is almost over and I want my calendar to be finished at that time.

My summer jasmine is blooming in the garden and it has so many little pink flowers.

And the smell ..... Ohhhh ..... pure jasmine scent is hanging in the air.

Look at all those little pink flowers

And here a photo of Bowy who is enjoying the sun

Potpourri quilt row 5

Well ... I still have the flu but in between being sick, I also have been working on the potpourri quilt. So row 5 is finished now.

In this row where 2 stitching pieces;

this one had bobbins (do you call them so?) and buttons

On the second one there is a border. In this border I'm going to sew some antique buttons, after the quilt is completed, because otherwise the buttons get in the way when I'm quilting this quilt.

And here is row 5

Here a pic how the quilt looks with 5 rows

Now I'm working on the last row (row 6) and there is only 1 stitching piece in it.

Potpourri quilt row 4

I hope you all had a nice weekend, we didn't do much besides pay a visit to a friend on saturday.

Sice yesterday I have been sick, I got the flu, so I don't think I can stitch much.

I did finish row 4 of the potpourri quilt

 and in this row there where 2 stitching parts;

first a ABC

and a little sampler with a applique heart

here the complete row 4

and ofcourse I sew row 4 for together with the other 3 rows

Only 2 rows to go :)

Potpourri quilt row 3

And row 3 of the potpourri quilt is ready, in this row there where 3 stitching pieces;

first some lace stitching

This one I have change. In the original quilt I had to stitch a house with two people but I didn't like that one, so I stitch these flowers from the pattern Boite a boutons from Tralala

And then there was the heart that I showed you yesterday

And now the complete row 3

I sew row 3 together with row 1 and 2 and this is what its look like right now

I'm half way whit this quilt, 3 rows to go :)

Hearts

The last few days we had very sunny days so I didn't do much stitching.

I did stitch a heart for my potpourri quilt so I made a photo with other hearts that are hanging in my house

This weekend we go to a spring fair and there I bought 3 hearts;

the red one, the one with the roses and the tin one with two birds in it.

The pansy's are blooming in the garden

Bowy is enjoying the sun

My campanula punctata (cherry bells) is also blooming and I have made some close-up photo's

June calendar

And then its suddenly June, so time  for a new calendar

June is full of bees flying around the fruit and flowers

I love the dyed threads of crescent colors, esp. the blue, red and green one

I hope to start the next ornament red house in winter (from LHN) by the end of this week.