this and that

this lovely jacket is made by Annette it is mine now ,she makes more wearebles and sels it to go and check here site Annejeu
Today it is a wonderfulday the weater is lovely and it is the queens birthday so I wil wear it today

and a little more embroidery to show it is not going fast the only thing that is going fast is the sitemeter maybe it is time for a little giveaway when the number comes to 100000

lovely day at the Zoo

A day at the zoo with our granddaughter it is always a pleasure to go there

It was warm and sunny we had a great time

the butterfly garden was Emily,s favoriete we took lots of pictures maybe I let you see some more later .

this weekend our grandson is comming to visite us so not much time for quilting and embroidery

but we love to have the grandchildren and they grow so fast .

this is the time to enjoy en treasure together

to cut and put together again

here is the piece with the metal I cut it up first and with aquafolie and freemotion embroidery it is a hole piece again
it hase to dry and than I can work on it some more

broken needle

an other experiment on the embellisher this time I incorperated metal to wool silk sari yarn fantasi yarn
on top organza workend on with the heatgun and than cut in pieces
I realy dont no what it wil be it is after al an experiment
I forgot to tel you I broke one needle on the metal I was going to fast

Happy easter

Happy Easter to you all

embellisher

working on ideas for a quilt the fabric is worked on with the embellisher

the first 2 pictures showing the same fabrick the last picture is a diferent fabrick

using the embellisher on this fabricks is great you get a very different look of the fabrick

these are just experiment

great day in the sun

It is so wonderful in the garden 20 degree the sun is shining and I am working on a quilt
what do you want more
trying out a new stitch from the class of Sharon b ,,encrusted crazy quilt ,,

Brave new world

this is my last quilt for , Around the World in 20 quilts ,
There are so many things I want to do and so little time
For me it is time to make choises that is why I wil leave this group to create more time to do other things .

here I found my idea for this quilt ,

"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world!
That has such people in't!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Background

Tapestry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42ZLm0n04o
http://tasaraindia.com/
you must see this

Colours of Africa,

Laura Liebenberg is busy with the project Colours of Africa.
I made a little quilt for this project.
The first picture is the finished quilt but I was not so happy with it
so I painted it a bit with trapsuutje paint and it looks much better now ,, I think it is ,,
here is the link please join in it is for a good cause
http://colours-of-africa.blogspot.com/.

A price for Willy

My dear friend Willy won the third price with this quilt congratulations Willy
you deserve it
The quilt is so beautiful

Assisi Embroidery

Stitch explorer

This month the challenge is Assisi Embroidery
Here is a little example were I am working on at this moment
not finished yet ,I found more assisi work on this blog
http://borduurblog.blogspot.com/
A very nice blog with lots of embroidery and lovely links

bobbin lace

here are some of the little treasures I got today .
Al lovely pieces of bobbin lace my mother made
as you know I made a quilt with here lace before but she hase so much more lace and I can use this in the crazy quilt I am making at this moment .
here is a link for more info about bobbin lace http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/BeginGuide.html
I tryed making lace but it was not a great succes my mother is so much better in making lace she stil is making little pieces of lace hoop she can go on for some time .

More stitches and it is not easy to say it is done, every time you see some empty spots and think about the stitches you can add .

This weekend I finished the Quilt for Emily and I also finished some knitting

I have more yarn and for a new project to knit but my mind is on the stitching and beading for the CQ .

My Mother found more lace for this quilt so I must visit here for al these lovely treasures

hope to let you see more soon

Crazy Quilting

the first block of Crazy Quilting is almost done some more stitches I want to add
and I found some more bobbin lace my mother made and there is more to come
she made so much and I love to put it in a quilt the first quilt ever I made was one with
al pieces of lace my mother made http://www.flickr.com/photos/cramzy/121879037/
I made many mistakes and but it was my first quilt and my mother loves it .
and I am stil learning a lot .

wonderful link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrc-dKzy6Q
Tribute to the Women of the World
thanks Pat

Green

green embroidery yarn al in one box and some details this is what I am working on

trading and painting fabric

there are so many projects I can finnish ore begin but I have a art block !!!!!!! what ever that is
so here are some tryouts of fabrick paintings with trapsuutje paint love to play with this paint
want to stamp on it but this week I have to work a lot so at an other time
and I recieved some lovely ATC,s the green one from Mags and the blue one from Alis
thank you ladies I love them

embellisher experiments

My embellisher was standing in a corner of my room not used at all today I wanted to work with felt this is the first result .

on black felt I irond painted bondaweb on top of this I irond some folie then with the embellisher wool silk snippets of fantasie yarn

on top of this al some little pieces of bandaweb to add some more folie for a little shinning

quilt for Emily

yesterday we went to the quiltkabinet and my granddaugther Emily pict the most beautiful fabricks for here quilt ,so here I go again making a big quilt .

This one is also a wonky logcabin quilt .

And at last I got my quilts and my fiberbook back from Susan Lenz It was not here fault it took so long but the hole lot was waiting at costums they wanted to know how muts I payed for the things I bouht in Amerika

after a 2 letters to them I finely got my own things back ,,,,,

Susan was so kind to include the news papers and other magazines with al the articles about Cyber Fyber .

Time

working on a quilt for the DBL the theme is Time I got a lovely present from Corryna and I used it in this quilt the colors are very good for this quilt there are also some beads I can use .

So Time goes on .

this one is for me ?

this quilt is almost finifhed and already taken as you see














and some lovely flowers just to let the some color in the house I love these flowers so delicut
the dutch name is -ranonkel-

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Thank you anyway a lovely gift

Biscornu

I found this lovey little gadget on this blog and I just hade to make one

http://own-two-hands.livejournal.com/4186.html

Little things

somtimes it is so nice to make little things so I made some ATC,s embroiderd a piece and cut it up to make these ATC,s

They are for trade so if you like to trade let me know