Wil iemand nog restjes? - Looking for scraps?

 

 Welkom!

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Welcome!

 

 

 

 

 30 Lapjes van ongeveer 10 x 10 cm.

 

   Als je hier een reactie achterlaat, 

of een email stuurt naar:

musselkanaal55[apestaartje]knid[punt]nl

loot je mee in de Give Away.

 

Je kunt meedoen tot zaterdag 8 september, 16:30 uur Nederlandse tijd.

 

( Dan is het precies een jaar geleden, dat ik met een quilt veiligheidsspeld in mijn vinger prikte...)

 

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  These 30 10 x 10cm.  scraps I am giving away.

 

Would like to win them? 

Leave a comment below

or send an email to:

musselkanaal55[at]knid[dot]nl

The Give Away runs till Saturday, September 8th., 4:30 pm. Dutch time.

 

( Exactly one year after the curved basting pin hit my finger...)

 

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Groot nieuws:

 Morgen en overmorgen is het feest bij Jellie Jonker.

Ter gelegenheid van de opening van haar atelier De Quiltkoffer in Dokkum. 

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 Fijne dag verder en graag tot ziens!

Groetjes!

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 Thanks for stopping by; have a nice day!

Cheers!

 

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Te Geef / Give Away

Goedemiddag / Good afternoon,
  

Terwijl het jaar ten einde loopt en ik mijn quilt projectjes aan het (af)maken ben, kwam van de week ineens het idee in mij op, om een Give Away uit te schrijven, die ik in goed Nederlands 'Te Geef' noem.
Eerst wilde ik wachten tot ik 50 volgers zou hebben. Daarna leek het mij leuk om het te doen als ik evenveel volgers als jaren in leeftijd zou hebben ( dat is nu 56, maar 57 op Valentijnsdag ), maar eigenlijk vond ik dat allemaal maar kolderiek, dus doe ik het gewoon nu, meteen, vóór het eind van dit jaar.
Je hoeft er niets bijzonders voor te doen; een reactie achterlaten, waarin je laat weten mee te willen loten, is voldoende. Ook kun je mij een e-mail sturen: musselkanaal55[at]knid.nl
Wat valt er te winnen?
 Een door mij zelf ontworpen speldenkussen + een doosje met 75 kromme quilt veiligheidsspelden.
Hoe 'handig' die spelden zijn , daarover kun je meer lezen in eerdere berichten vanaf september.
Meedoen kan tot en met 27 december.
Op 28 december zal ik de uitslag bekendmaken.
De verloting is wereldwijd, dus waar je ook zit, doe gezellig mee!
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 While this year is coming to a finish, and I am finishing some small quilt projects too, I suddenly got the idea last week to offer a Give Away.
At first I thought it would be nice celebrating 50 blog followers, as I have 45 now. 
After that it seemed nice to me to do it when I would have as many followers as my age counts years
( which is 56 at the moment, 57 by Valentine's Day ).
But after all I just wanted to do it right now, immediately, before the end of this Quilt-year.

You don't need to do anything special, except leaving a message, telling me you are in!
Or send me an e-mail: musselkanaal55[at] knid.nl
This is what I will Give Away:
 A multi-purpose pincushion, my own design, and a box with 75 Curved Basting Pins.
I told about how 'handy' those basting pins are  in updates beginning in September...
 Give Away will close at midnight, December 27.
The winner's name will be drawn and announced next day, December 28.
The Give Away is accessible for everybody, anywhere on this globe.



Een fijne zondag verder en tot ziens!
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 Enjoy your Sunday!
Cheers!

Handy update

Hello friends!

 More than one whole week without posting; quite unusual for me in normal circumstances but, since I am handicapped there's not so much left to post about.

However, today I can Show and Tell a bit about The Hand, if you don't mind.
If  you do, please quit this blog and hop over to quilt-blogs you like :>)

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 My hand is on the mend :>)

 New skin is now covering palm and finger, antibiotics and their anti-allergic medication are swallowed to a finish; the only medication I still need are painkillers.
Without that stuff I feel like hand-stuck between the door.

 And that's a horrible pain  I really can't cope with.

I don't bother about stiffness or limited power or suppleness, but P A I N ... I hate that, especially that kind of pain.

  Twice a week I go for physiotherapeutical treatment, which means  massage and applying lymphdraining tape to reduce the swelling.

 This is what my taped hand looks like now, five weeks after surgery: 

Next  picture was taken after two weeks, when the surgeon had removed the wound drains:

 ( the colour is bad, too blue-ish )

  I think you can imagine how glad and thankful I am, that all has come to such a happy end, with my finger still where it belongs; could have been much worse if I had come a little later...

 And I think you can't imagine, like I couldn't, that this is caused by
one simple curved basting safety ( !! ) pin.
And nasty bacteria giving a hand.

 So, I think you can also imagine that quilting and stitching by (that) hand have to wait for some more months. I'll see what comes and when, and in the meantime I do my stinking best to sew with my left hand and with my dear friend the sewing-machine, which already had some surprising results; not to Show and Tell about yet, because it's for a swap I joined :>)))
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 To show you something nice I made and bought before the Big Sting, look at this:

 The peace of cake is a p........n,
yes-guess-yes,
a pincushion!

 The biscuit that looks so real that you'd like to take a bite, is a coaster I bought at Blond Amsterdam, when I was there, shopping for real Dutch presents I wanted to take for my friends in Australia, two years ago.
This funny biscuit was a present for myself.

 Well, I think the pictures of this deli stuff give this post a happy and tasty end, don't they?

 Wishing you all a blessed and sunny weekend!

 Cheers!

Quilting fever

Hi friends,

 

 eight days of silence on my blog,  rather unusual for me, but the reason is a similar unusual story that started on Thursday last week with sandwiching my batik quilt

using those fantastic curved basting pins that appeared to be S H A R P .....

because, when I wanted to pick up pin number eighty-one something happened that made the pin end up in my right middlefinger tip. Arrrgh. I took it out and finished my sandwiching job, to start the quilting.

 Thirty six hours later I woke up, bathing in sweat and suffering severe pain in that finger and a 38,6 C.degrees fever.

 Consulting the weekend doctor's service next morning at 11:30 a.m. I  was immediately sent through to a surgeon, who operated me policlinically, 'hung' me on bottles with antibiotics and kept me in hospital.

 Monday afternoon another operation (under total anaesthesia this time) was indicated as my hand was swollen, infection levels in the blood were rising and the aspect of the hand was no less than horrible.

 The surgeon did a very good job and my finger could be saved.

 After four more days filled with painkillers, antibiotics (and an allergy for one specific kind of them :>((, a problem that had to be solved as well), wound draining baths and all that, finally I could be sent home after six days.

Recovery will take a long long time, think in months............, in which I can not even think of holding a needle or using scissors, I'm afraid. So, no quilting for me for I do not know how long and that makes me feel sad, so sad.

  Really hand-icapped.

 But I keep up hope and  I will keep on blogging, as one finger is enough to use the laptop for writing updates :>)

 Wishing you all the best.

Till soon.

No Cheers for now, I am sorry.