zondag 31 juli 2011
Inchie Sunday 3
zaterdag 30 juli 2011
Basket of Bloom
A few months ago I started a watercolor quilt. I bought the fabric years ago, so I don't see it as a new project! When I arranged the squares it didn't turn out right.
I sewed the 2 bottom rows and added a matching fabric with sunflowers. Then I made a new layout, this was much better.
It's my project for our weekly quilt meeting. It's simple enought to sew and talk at the same time! As usual I sew the squares together by hand.
This basket is a pattern from the book 'Quick Watercolor Quilts' by Dina Pappas.
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vrijdag 29 juli 2011
35 blocks
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donderdag 28 juli 2011
Reply to Good Morning
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woensdag 27 juli 2011
Purple
Last week I made another collage in my studio journal. I used the same technique as the red one I made some time ago.
This was fun again. I'm pretty sure I'll try other colours too!
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dinsdag 26 juli 2011
Woven trellis pumpkin tutorial
When I made a woven trellis pumpkin on my quiltie Harvest, I took a lot of photo's to remember how I stitched it. I figured some of you want to give it a try too, so I wrote a little tutorial. If you're not familiar with the woven trellis you can find a tutorial at Pintangle. I used yellow perle 8 and green perle 12. The size of my pumpkin is 1 inch or 2,5 cm.
I started at the left and made 3 long straight stitches in the shape of a banana. I just made tiny stitches over the straight stitches to do that. I started weaving from the bottom to the top.
Then I made 3 straight stitches for the second woven trellis a bit to the right of the first one. I secured the left straight stitch with tiny stitches through the first woven trellis and the fabric.
After weaving the second woven trellis I made 3 straight stitches at the right side in the shape of a banana and secured them with tiny stitches.
This is how it looks after completing 3 woven trellis.
Again 3 straight stitches at the left side of the third woven trellis. I secured the straight stitch at the right side with tiny stitches through the woven trellis and the fabric.
This is how it looks after completing 4 woven trellis. At this point you could put a piece of felt between the woven trellis and the fabric. I didn't.
For the last woven trellis I made 3 straight stitches and secured the left and right one with tiny stitches throught the woven trellis and the fabric.
For the stalk I made a few straight stitches and made satin stitches over them.
The curl is a whipped backstitch. At the bottom I made a few detached chain stitches.
Take a closer look at my pumpkin here.
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maandag 25 juli 2011
TAST fabric book page 9 & 10
This weekend I finished the last 2 pages of the fabric book for the TAST 2010 challenge. Page 9 has the stitches for weeks 34-37. Kiko's flowers was the last sampler I made in 2010.
Page 10 has the stitches for weeks 38-44. I added one extra stitch: the houndstooth.
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zondag 24 juli 2011
Inchie Sunday 2
This was the first inchie I made, almost 2 years ago. The edge is an organza ribbon.
I made a few inchies with this background. It was a leftover of this card.
zaterdag 23 juli 2011
Fairy garden
It was nice to tangle a fairy garden after 2 Saturdays working in our garden. One of the FlutterBi's wanted to be a dragonfly!
I made this tile for challenge 31 at I am the diva.
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vrijdag 22 juli 2011
Doorknob hanger
I turned my needlepoint vase into a doorknob hanger. At the edge I couched some knitting yarn. The quilt at the background is my unfinished trapunto pillow.
I found a matching fabric for the backside in my stash.
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donderdag 21 juli 2011
Zentangled Z
The zentangled alphabet continues. I made this Z for Kathy. I used Zedbra for the letter . . .
. . . and Janine made a zebra Z for me!
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woensdag 20 juli 2011
25 blocks
This week I added 2 more rows to my Groninger blanket. It was sunny, so I could take some photo's in the garden.
To make things easy, I just crochet the blocks together. Most blocks fits nicely.
dinsdag 19 juli 2011
In my hoop
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maandag 18 juli 2011
Harvest
I made this 8 x 8 inch quiltie for Yvette. The green fabic with the button cluster is a velvet. The brownish red at the bottom is a linen from an old dress. The others are quilting fabrics.
It started with this block.
The button cluster. The pumpkin button was a gift from a friend.
I already wrote about my woven trellis pumpkin here.
The needletatting was the last detail I added.
There's a bigger photo of this quiltie at my Flickr-page.
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Labels:
CQ,
crazypatchwork,
embroidery,
frivolité,
tatting
zondag 17 juli 2011
Inchie Sunday 1
zaterdag 16 juli 2011
Fabric ATC's in my mailbox
I've swapped some older fabric ATC's. This cute fish is one of the ATC's I received in these swaps. Linda made it for me.
This ATC with running stitches is made by Emily. I like the movement in this ATC. Be sure to visit Emily's blog, she wrote a great tutorial for making a window in an ATC.
vrijdag 15 juli 2011
Gesso, sequins, tulle & watercolour
I had fun with gesso in my studio journal again. First I put some big sequins in the gesso and then a piece of pink tulle. Of course I wanted it to be interesting, so I made some folds in it.
This is a detail of the page.
donderdag 14 juli 2011
TAST fabric book page 8
These are the stitches for weeks 30-33 of the TAST 2010 challenge.
I already wrote about the making of the samplers on my blog, just follow these links if you want to know more about them:
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woensdag 13 juli 2011
Initialize
Christina was the guest for this week's zentangle challenge at I am the diva. It's another string theory exercise, drawing your initials overlapping and use that as a string.
I played with my initials on the computer, but didn't like the complete overlapping string. I printed it and traced it in my A5 sketchbook.
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dinsdag 12 juli 2011
15 blocks
My Groninger blanket is growing fast. These are the first 3 rows.
I knitted 40 blocks, so my blanket will have 5 more rows. Almost halfway!
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maandag 11 juli 2011
Fabric beads, buttons and a charm
There was another birthday girl in our quilting group. I found my inspiration in the Japanese quilt she's making for her son. I used the same tutorial again, but this time I made flat beads and didn't use knitting yarn.
The string is a piece of organza ribbon. I added some big buttons between the beads and a fan charm at the bottom of the string.
zondag 10 juli 2011
Inspiration in the kitchen
It was fun to take my camera into the kitchen. I bought some Saturn peaches for the first time. They are yummie and fun.
I also bought a pineapple for my husband. I don't eat it, but I like the patterns on the leaves . . .
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