04 July 2009
in my mailbox
02 July 2009
fabric paper

Yesterday I made a new piece of fabric paper. I have got old music-papers from my SIL and nice paper napkins from Maureen (GB)
Now I have to iron it, cut it up to postcards and atc's and add some embroidery or something else. If you scroll down on this blog you find the receipt how to make it at my first piece :)
01 July 2009
Album Amicorum pages
29 June 2009
part of my WISP quilt
This is again a part of my WISP ( work in slow progress) quilt. the size of this block is 6x8 inch, 20x40 cm. When all the blocks are done and set together it will measure 120x120cm. and hopefully becomes a nice lap-quilt, soft and warm. I do only embroidery on this quilt, no lace, no beads. It is a challenge to use as many different seams as possible.I made all the blocks from old wool clothes, 2 blouses, 2 skirts and a dress. Never trowed them away because of the good quality and the nice colors. My fave colors for my clothes!
26 June 2009
Gerry's RR block "Gypsy Rose".
25 June 2009
Round Robin block home
24 June 2009
Spring blooms swap received.
This lovely mini-quilt came in my mailbox yesterday. It is made by Holly Elam. AL, USA. The size is 20x16 inch, 51x40 cm.
21 June 2009
Fathers day ~ Hurray :-)
AA swap
17 June 2009
in my mailbox
15 June 2009
fabric book page
06 June 2009
in my mailbox
04 June 2009
fabric paper postcards
31 May 2009
Whit sunday
28 May 2009
Comforting heart
In a little group I belong too , crazy quilters around the world, we have the habit to send a cq heart to each other when we go trough a sad time in our life.It was my cq friend and swap-sister in 2008, Hideko who lost her mother a few weeks ago, so I made a comfort heart for her. Most of the others in the group will do that also. When Hideko likes it, she can make a little memory quilt of the hearts.
This heart-block is 15 cm. 6 inch.
25 May 2009
Pincushion swap

The pincushion which is on its journey to the USA. There it will find a new owner within two weeks. I made the naked pincushion a while ago and embroidered the sre roses and added the flowers in the weekend when I learned that the receiver likes blue :)The diameter of the pincushion is 12 cm. 4,5 inch.
Silk ribbon embroidery roses and needle-lace flowers. ( oyas from Turkey)
There is enough empty space left to stick pins in the cushion.
I made a little package with fabrics which are nice together and put in also an fabric-paper atc, which is not on the photo. I hope the receiver likes what I sent her.
24 May 2009
fabric pc
23 May 2009
Mini quilt swap
20 May 2009
fabric book pages
Fabric book page made for Helga, for the Fibre Fever group.Helga's theme is "Angels among us". The fist idea when I read Helga's theme in January was to use a person's photo, like mother Theresa or Florance Nightingale.
Helga received the page today and she wrote to me that this was her idea too.
She was very happy with this page. ppfff..... :-)
the size is 15cm, 6 "square. Below the back.
And below that, the page I received, have a look, beautiful made!!
At the same time I made Helga's page, Mieke in the Netherlands made this page for me. My theme is a country garden. Mieke made a page with strawberries, I love it! Not only flowers in my garden book, but also fruit and vegetables.fabric paper
18 May 2009
Stitchery
When I saw this stitchery a while ago on a blog, I immediately felt in love with it. The whimsical clock has so much humour, wish it was truth, 28 hours in a day :-)The pattern is from "mĂ¡s telitas" it is for free here.
I have made the clock in outline stitch (the reversed sister of stem-stitch).
The size is now 14x17,25 inch, 36x44 cm.
As always you can click on the photo to see it large.
I have made this for myself to hang it in my studio!
12 May 2009
Quiltie
09 May 2009
AA page
Album Amicorum page, 15x20 cm. CQ style.Marianne likes to work with flowers and she makes the most beautiful Ikebana arrangements.
I thought a touch from Japan is nice for Marianne.
We did a private swap.
On the back a Haiku ( Japanese poem) in Dutch made by me.It says:
Internet friendship
photos, flowers and handwork
attention to each other.
With the translation the 5-7-5 rule doesn't work but in Dutch it does.
08 May 2009
Fiber book page
CQ work, size 15x15cm. 6x6". This is a fabric book page made for Jeanne.Jeanne and I are in the group Fibre Fever and we do a book page swap this year.
Although Jeanne had to drop out because of serious an eye disease I felt so sorry for her and made a page all the same. She has received it now so I can show it to you too.
Jeanne theme is ' the four seasons' and I made 'summer'.
Summer is for me: humming insects, strawberries and flowers.
07 May 2009
received AA page

Yesterday I got this Album Amicorum page from Janny ( the Netherlands).A lovely cottage and nice CQ work on it. A little poem on the back.
We did a private swap.
Thank you Janny, I like it very much!
04 May 2009
Today's tittle is.. Empty jar
today's title is... Empty Jar.Those jars are in my window pane for years now.
They stood in my mothers living room for years also.
When she died 14 years ago I got them.
I like to see how the green colors change in the different light from outside.
They are both green, the one on the right is very old.
30 April 2009
received atc's
28 April 2009
Lisa's RR block
This is a RR block, it belongs to Lisa B. (USA)The size is 12 inch, 30 cm. square.
Lisa wrote in her booklet : " Think Spring " !
We are in the Yahoo group Crazy Quilt International.
When the block arrived at my home I felt in love with the colors and the fabrics Lisa used to patch this block. Therefore it was not difficult for me to work on it.
First, I stitched all the empty seams with different threads and different stitches.
After that I made the apple blossom branch in the corner on the lace piece.
Then I sewed down the pink needle-lace flowers. This are "oyas".
I bought them from Rengin's Etsy shop. ( which you can find in my sidebar).
In Turkey are ladies who made this nice work to use on the edges of their shawls.
Then I added all the beads to my seams and two glass butterflies.
I didn't want to embroider too much on the fragile old lace. It is so nice that the pink plain fabric comes through.
Now the block goes to Gerry K. and I am convinced that Gerry will do her magic on this block and add some birds and bees and other creatures which fly around in the Spring.
Below the block how it came to me.
As always you can click on the photos to enlarge.
27 April 2009
Album Amicorum page
This Album Amicorum page came today from Willeke in the Netherlands. A little piece of Holland , she wrote on the back.The size of an AA page is 6x8 inch, 15x20 cm.
Thank you Willeke, it looks lovely!
25 April 2009
Fabric collage
Fabric wall-hanging for the renovated guest room. The size is 24x20 inch, 61x51 cm.Photo taken outside, in the sun on the ground.
That's why it doesn't look straight ;) But it is !!
This winter my DH has renovated a guest room.
Painted, new wall-paper and I sewed new curtains and a new wall-decoration.
23 April 2009
AA page for Janny
21 April 2009
AA page for Willeke
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