under water world

at last I hade some time and the spirit to work on this quilt and I like the result
and there is the challenge Sandra gave us I am working on this one to
and my mother is stil not at home so I have to visite her she is recovering but it goes very slowly
I hope you al have a lovely weekend and thanks for visiting my blog I try to keep up with al the lovely art you are al making and I hope to have more time to go and see al of the blogs again

some chiffon ,beads ,fantasie yarn ,silk rods , and felt .

I loved the colors and I want to make something of it I am not sure what to make ...

I went to Hawar and I must buy something when I go there

so now I have to play and if it is done I let you see it

having fun

My granddauhter Emily was here this weekend.

she loves it in my little room .

making things .

this time she made stamps .

we hade a great time .

Ierland

lovely song recorded in a nice pub in Dingle Ierland we want to visit this pub when we go to Ierland ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwaPv1rZiQ

A day with the girls

Yes here is Sandra kleening the screens we where using for breakdown printing

it was a lovely day as always when we are at Willy,s home she spoils use with cookies and other yummie food

the result of my printing is not so good I have to try again

but I learned a lot thanks to Sandra .

Slowly

My mother is recovering very slowly I go and visit here as much as I can
that means there is little time for my quilting and embroidery
yesterday I found some time and I added some more on the quilt I am working on
what do you think does it looks like a under water world ????

coral reef

working on the new challenge , under water world, al little pieces of fabrick al sorts of colors

my punch machine is my friend again in this challange and again I found out more to use on the punch machine

and if you know my work there wil be also embroidery in this quilt .

this is a little part of the quilt to be , my journey under the water

needle case

this lovely needle case is a gift from Yvette thank you It is lovely

My Mother needs my care at this moment so there is not much room for anything else

I hope she gets better very soon

memories

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind

Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine,

Memories, memories, sweet memories

Dimensional Embroidery

I love this dimensional embroidery so I used it for this CQ block

no not a quilt

for my grandchildren a play house you can put it around a table and it is just a little house I wil make more

the tree

a piece of printed fabric and dyed fabricks made into a little quilt
one the left side I put layers of organza some freemotion embroidery and then with the heatgun melting the organza
I wil hangt it on the wall to see if there is more to be added

much much better

I feel so much better almost no pain and almost no painkillers your comments made me feel so good ,thank you al so much ,,

as I am so much better I got the mood for a day of dyeing .

I orderd some velvet from Stoftotverven and here you see some first examples

there was also some embroidery yarn I hade to dye and I love the result

there is more to come and I am thinking of more velvet dyeing tommorow

it is great to feel good again,

so much PAIN

wel this ment to be a great weekend we wanted to go for a short break in a hotel
but it did go very wrong my last day of work I got this pain in my shoulder first a little bit but it got so bad that I hade to see the docter .
now I am on heavy painkillers and I can do not much
I have Bursitis wel I am not happy.
the only thing I can do is some embroidery it is my left shoulder
we canceled the trip and we are sitting in the garden the weather is beautiful and with the painkillers and taking is slowly it is oke .

here you see some of teh embroidery done a little snail and a little bee , some flowers .

working on Time

Time ,
WHAT MAKES A SEED INTO A FLOWER GROW, TIME

WHAT MAKES A RIVER JOIN THE OCEAN'S FLOW, TIME

AND HOW WILL WE KNOW WHAT WE REAP IS WHAT WE SOW, TIME

WHEN WILL WE FULFILA DREAM OF TOMORROW, TIME

EVERYTHING TAKES TIME

JUST HAVE FAITH IN TIME

WHAT MAKES US GROWTO HAVE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING, TIME

AND HOW WILL WE LEARN TO GIVE AS MUCH AS WE ARE DEMANDING, TIME

EVERYTHING TAKES TIME

JUST HAVE FAITH IN TIME

WON'T YOU PUT SOME TRUST IN TIME

EVERYTHING TAKES TIME

THE ONLY WAY THE FEELING IS GOOD ENOUGHIS WHEN WE TAKE A LITTLE TIME

THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN GET HIGH ENOUGHIS WHEN WE TAKE A LITTLE TIME

TIME BETTER BELIEVE IT,

TIME

THE ONLY WAYTHE FEELING IS GOOD ENOUGHIS WHEN WE TAKE A LITTLE TIME

THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GET HIGH ENOUGHIS WHEN WE TAKE A LITTLE TIME

AIN'T NO NEED TO WORRY JUST TAKE IT SLOW SO BABY WHY THE HURRY LOVE JUST WON'T GO

AIN'T NO NEED TO WORRY

JUST TAKE IT SLOWLY

NO NEED TO CRY

LOVE JUST WON'T GO .

Yesterday

we hade a great time yesterday Sandra Willy and I we hade no special plans just to show and tel and so happy to be together again
And as always when I get home I am so full of plans and ideas so today I got a lot af work done , my first idea of my time quilt was in a corner of my room
I did not no what to do with it , wel today it came to me and I got a lot done
I still need things to do some beads some embroidery but at this point I am happy about the result ,
so after a great day an other great day

casalguidi

working on the casalguidi stitch first I painted the fabrick and embroiderd the casalguidi now I have to work the surounding
over at pin Tangle you can reed al about the stitch and the challenge stitch explorer 2009










this littel bag made on the embellisher wool and velvet
is for a friend

LITTLE PRESENTS

These little presents are for Yvette and Patricia
I made it on the embellisher I hope they like it
the little elefants are for luck

and the winners are ,,,,,,

there are 42 responses on this post and this is more than I expectet, thank you al for the kind words it is very nice to read it al and there are some new blogs to read to and that is always very great

as you see on the picture I took to names
Yvette and Patricia

dear ladies if you send me you snail mail I send you the present .

give away

I want to thank you all for visiting my blog there are so many and I would like to do a little give away my way to say thank you

If you leave a comment I wil take 2 names and send you a little present

lets say next week on may 8 I wil let you know how gets the present.

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