Bees and Challenges

There are a lot of bees and challenges going 'round the Internets at the moment and I am always tempted to join. Usually, I am afraid of completely over-loading myself with projects and work and tend to shrink away from them to save my sanity.

However, this one sounds so simple and relatively non-committal that I will make this my first:

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I may not do strips but blocks and not one per day. But I like the idea of being guided by weather / light / momentary sense of being. Let's see what happens!

3 home-made blankets each

Last night, as I was tucking in my girls, I put three blankets I had made myself on each kid. That felt wonderful!

Carola was covered by her sampler, Crocheting Madness and her Princess Quilt.

Paula was tucked into her her sampler, her Dotty Princess Quilt and a blanket I knit in 2002 in expectation of my first babe.

Next Projects

Tomorrow my sewing machine will return from its week at the "spa" (aka repair shop), I am planning my next projects (instead of working ...)



1.) A quickie baby quilt for Lucia, my third "quilt in a day". Lucia is the second child of our Argentine-Italian-Spanish friends living in London: white fleece bound in white-ish left-overs of my Moda Quilt Pink stash plus a few circles in darker colours from the same range, one to incorporate an "L". I will time the time spent on this and we shall see whether this is the quickest project yet.

2.) A plane pillow for Theo, little bro to Harrison of the Dragon Quilt. Theo is not my godson but because I started making things for non-godchildren, I figured that he needed something of his own as well. It'll be based on Sky Dreams

Top in the mountains

Having finally finished the two samplers, I went to work on this new project: hand-quilting and binding a Bassetti Gran Foulard panel which is to be a quilt for my god-mother's 75th birthday in 2011 (yes, I needed a hand quilting project to take on holiday with me and that was the only one lined up.)

Samplers finished and showing off!

Finally, after roughly six and a half years, this - my first quilting project - is finished! The girls are very excited about their samplers and looking forward to playing with them and their dollies, once the quilts have been washed.

I like this shot because of the contrast: yellow-red-blue vs back-n-white.

Very little activity here ...

Sorry about that! I've spent my evenings being exhausted and trying to catch up from weekend before last. Hence not a lot of quilting happening ... which is also due to the tedious job I have to do: finishing off the two sampler quilts.

Sometime this week I will have to take my sewing machine in for a service so that she'll get the well deserved holiday while we are gone and I won't have to miss her as much.

I fell off ...

the no.fabric.this.year wagon :-(



But it was worth it and I did try! Close to my hubby's work week apartment is a little craft shop that I decided to check out. I made a point of leaving my wallet in the car. And all was good in the "discipline department" until I came across a small-ish pile of quilt fabrics that hadn't even been set up for sale yet. They were new arrivals of the first Tilda line the shop owner had ordered. Now she has no more because I bought all 6 metres. Oh well.