Kaleidoscope and a present in the mail...

I haven't been working on my kaleideoscoop today, but I may have some time later. It is my husbands turn at work to supply the fridayafternoon cookies and cake. Funny isn't it...it is for him and his collegs and somehow I end upp baking the whole evening...*lol*


Today I got a present in the mail from a friend in Holland. She sent me these beautifull fabric which are 30% Linnen and 70% cotton. Just lovely..

I had a look again at one of my favorite sites www.quiltville.com and fell in love with a Ocean Waves pattern. I just love this pattern but all the triangles scare me. So now I have started a search for the best ways of making half-square-triangels. So if you have some tips for me...please mail me. I am allready thing about colours and fabrics. I am thinking about doing it all in scraps as Bonny from Quiltville did.

Lost A Quilt?

As I wrote some days ago I was going to do some decorating for the 1st advent. But I lost a quilt!
I had a big box with christmas stuff...some quilts and some dolls..but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

We moved last summer and threw a lott of stuff away but I hope I will still find my box soon, but it seems that I have looked everywhere now....

wish me luck!

Barbara

cats and gingercookies

The day is finnally coming to an end, and I have found some time to sitt down with a cup of tea and freshly baked gingercookies and write something about my day.

I have been working on my kalleidoscoop quilt I am making with Wuthering Heights fabrics from Moda. I will post a picture as soon as it is finished. I was at my LQS this afternoon and worked on my A Gardners Journal from Anni Downes here is a link: www.hatchedandpatched.com.au
After that I went into town and bought a new wallet with a orginazer in it. I always seem to forget to take my orginazer with me which results in double booked dates and stuff. Mostely because I am at home at the moment I get the days mixed upp.


I just finnished baking the traditonal Swedish gingercookies. Normaly the are shaped in the form of hearts and stars. I maked mine in the shape of a cat. .....Talking about cats. I am getting a cat in about 12 days. His name is going to be Zingo ( my husbands idea). He is only 8 weeks old now, so I have to be a bit more patient.

Barbara

Starting my own Blog

Today I signed upp for my very own blogg. What an interesting forum to write to everybody who wants to reads about what I am doing.

I am Dutch but living in Sweden so this will be a nice way for people to read about what I am doing here.

My big passion is quilting. I am member of several sewinggroups and on-line lists, so I will be also writing about that and what I am doing at home.

Today I will be trying to sort out my sewingroom. I went to Holland to my favorite quiltingstore Petra Prins Patchwork www.petraprinspatchwork.nl and bought a lot of fabric. I have just finished washing it all, so now the ironing and making room in my stash is the only thing left to do.

Today is something we call in Sweden the first advent. So only 3 more to go before christmas. So today everybody starts decorating everything. I mean garden, house even there offices and so on. So I will start decorating this evening and put upp some quilts and stuff.

Barbara