Part 9 home sweet home

These are the two new parts of the mystery. This is the last house in the row. Next time I will show you my own row....I start thinking now about stitchery and quilting....

Summertime Swap

Today I signed up for a summer swap! I like to see how this works. It is only a small quilt, so I find some time to make it. I will show you the progress after the start. I have to wait if my partner (not in crime, but in quilting) has some special wishes.

Little blessings

Two weeks ago I started with a gift for as a birth present. The little girl is expected in August, so it was time to start. I do not think that the parents will read this, so I can show you some of the machine appliqued pieces. The moter saw a quilt like this at a shop in Las Vegas. She just knew that she was pregnant when we visited this City. I bought the book Little Blessing from Nancy Davis Murty, see: www.beecreativestudio.com and I promised her to make her a quilt.

A few weeks ago I asked for the colours of the nursery: red, pink and a little orange. I picked up some fabrics and hope the girl (and her parents) like the quilt.

Not finished yet, I have some weeks.....

I did the applique by machine, the stitchery by hand (lovely to do...)

mystery part 8

Here a picture of part 8. Not completely finished. Days are to short and the weather was to nice to sit behind my sewing machine. Instead I was outside, working in the garden and playing with sand and water! But this work gives me the opportunity to think about future projects, like the next mystery.

Finished top

Last week I showed the fabrics and here is the top. Made of 192 squares and a nice border fabric. We made some nice rolls to use for the squares. Maybe you know the Jelly rolls from Moda? We made Bossche rolls (like a Bossche bol, a specialty of our city Den Bosch with a lot of chocolate and cream), one big roll contains 20 fabrics, each 10 x 110 cm. Enough for this quilt!

The small bossche rolls contains 10 fabrics, each 5 x 110 cm. Very nice for a log cabin (big or small). I started to make small blocks from my scraps as a cover for my fabricwonderland sketchbook.