Appliqué

The workshop of saturday was a big success for me. I enjoyed myself so much!

Not all shapes are round enough, but I'm sure I will practice the techniques a lot. This was a basic workshop with traditional application. In the fall, ther will be a longer course and I'm sure I will go to it, my heart is captured by it.

Now I have to think how I will finish it, I'm thinking of some enbroidery to complete it and then make it into a little wallhanging.

But first I will go with a bunch of ladies to the European quilting championships in Veldhoven on friday www.oecq.eu I wonder with what treasures I will come home. Of course my camera is an absolute must that day!

SAL's and finishes

The snowman is finished, I cut the fabric too short, so I had to modify the snowman, he is 40 rows shorter than in the chart. I don't think he is out of proportions, though.

The cushioncover of the sunflowers is ready, I think it came out beutiful. Those Regenboog cushions are so nice to give to people who need them.

The first part of the two banners are ready, except for the backstitch. The first one is a mystery Christmas banner, the second is a chart called 'our readingroom'.

I also finished the Lizzie Kate chart for this month.

So all of my cross stitch projects are finished, nothing done though on patchwork or quilting. On saturday is the appliqué workshop, if will involve hearts, I'm looking forward to it. It is a short one with the very basics, but knowing the teacher it will be tough enough to tackle.

Finishes

Two finishes to show this time. First there is the kit 'Kites' from Michael Powell. The cross stitching is done, the Kite buttons are temporarily atatched for the picture. I'm going to search through my fabrics for a nice one to match with the stitching, so it will be a sunny wallhanging above my desk.

The second one is a sunflower, for the Regenboogkussens charity. The receiver of the cushion has the same type of cancer as my late hubby, I just had to stitch my part of it.

The snowman of the SAL I love snowmen is nearly finished. So I will have time to start to stitch on the next ones, there are two banners waiting and the 2nd part of the Lizzy Kate SAL.

End of the month is my appliqué workshop, I'm looking forward to it.

And I'm doing 4 aquarel workshops this month. They are subsidized by our local government and really fun t do. The teacher gives us free hand and all the advice we want. I hope to place some pics the next time.

The weather is sunny and warm lately, tomorrow is another day to rince fabric, yippee!!!

Another Lizzie Kate SAL is going on at the Cross Stitch Lovers Yahoo group. As it is one of my favourite designers, I jumped it. There will be one design in a month, so not too much pressure. The first one is a very nice one, I definitely will frame it to remember me if I work too hard, LOL!

The cushioncover for the little boy for which I stitched the Lego logo is finished. As always it came out ver well. Regenboogkussens is such a good cause!

I stitched some more pincushions, the come so quickly and it is so nice to finish a project. Perfectly for having a good feeling about your work.

And the fishes quilt is going again too. I finished the 4th one and stitched them all together, now 6 more fishes to go, but I'm sure they will come along well.

The quilt course is finished, but I didn't finish the piece yet. I will have to do more about it the coming weeks.

Stitching is fun again!

It's a while ago since I blogged, not much stitched neither.

I started going through the clothes of DH, thought I could start to do some of them to a charity organisation. And there was the pain again, unexpected and very hard. I'm going to see a psychologist next week, I think I'm not ready to cope with it myself alone.

My stitching was reduced to almost nothing.

First there is a pic of my youngest grandson, it's Carnival in his school and he will go dressed as Mega Toby, a character that is hughly popular in Flanders. I hope he will be able to go to school next week as he is with me, sick with chicken-pox, at the moment he has very few dots and isn't too itchy.

I did purchase various templates, I did some diamonds and made a pincushion from them. The backside colours are the opposite of the frontside coloursand also the button is white at the other side too. I'm pleased with it. Now I want to make a cathedral window pincushion.

I didn't make a single stitch on my quilting project for the course, so nothing to let see for the teacher!

The lego logo was stiched for the Regenboogkussens, for a little boy.

The heart was made for a Valentine exchange. I love the paper piecing technique, so I made it this way. I received a beautiful cross stitched heart in exchange.

I did some more hexagons flowers, want to stitch them onto the previous ones to make the piece a little bigger. This is therapeutic stitching for me.

I hope to blog more often again in the future, the sun was out this week and I felt it did so much good for all people, the mood seemed to change from one moment to the other. So hurry Spring!

Pics

Lots of pics to show, it's a while ago since I blogged, times were hard, missing DH so much during these days.

The first pic is of the Christmas table, DD and her family came on Christmasday. Nothing special for food, but a festive table is always something nice to sit on. In the back you can see my youngest grandson has had a creative moment with the wallpaper. Christmas was quiet as will be the end of the year.

The second pic is my first attempt to snowpaint (a colander in a bucket, fabric in the colander, a big pile of snow on the fabric and paint on top of it, waiting for the snow to melt, drying and ironing the fabric to fixate the paint and a lot of rincing). As there was a big pile of snow and I had an old bedsheet, I tried to make some 'personalised' fabric. You can't see it very well in the pics, the blue/green/yellow fabric is the best, the red/orange/yellow was the first attempt and is less interesting. I used ordinary acrylic paint, which I use for my paintings, I should go search on the internet what paint is right for it.

The little turtle is filled with cherrypits, it can go into the microwave and the warmth is so lovely for little pains.

I did some work on the hexagons, have another pile waiting to join these ones. And a lot of little pieces of fabric to make into new flowers.

Stein has a second fish for his quilttop, the third one, a red fish, is in the making.

I also managed to finish the Lizzie Kate SAL, I want to make ornaments from them, so I can exchange them each month.

These last days of the year will be spent quilting, I'm way behind with my homework!

Merry Christmas

A merry Christmas to all of you!