Bagging quilter's and lace-worker's stuff

A Sunny Hello to you!

 How are you doing? Enjoying a lovely, sunny day like I do? It is so good to see and feel the sunshine, which is promised to last for the next two days here in Holland....

I have been stitching, ofcourse, what else am I busy with every day again?

To create order in quilt stuff that has to be taken to bees or lessons, I sewed these bags:

  

 Fabrics are from my little Walhalla. I bought the beads at the Kruidvat sale, enjoying 70% discount :>)); they were sewn for decoration to women's belts. I took them off to make my own new creations.

 As you can see the inside of the bag contains eight compartments for yarn, needles, scissors etc. 

And look what I made and put in the centre...

a pincushion!

 The paisley-print fabric is from the sale at Kwantum's curtain department, a couple of years ago

What would the other bag be without a pincushion for itself?
 I made the largest pincushion I ever did until now, size 5XL, using an old button I got from my old (in every way) landlady.   I think I'll use it for my many curved basting pins.

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Look at the mess in my 'crafting area', which in fact is my dinnertable :>)
 Every day I sweep the whole lot off the table to another table or the settee, so I can enjoy my dinner the appropriate way.

 One more bag I made; this one is for the lace-working lessons I am to attend, to organize and take the bobbins, etc.
I like the lace-like fabric print; think it's suitable

 Adding a(nother)............?
Pincushion!

Well, that's it for now.
 I am going out for a bikeride in the sunshine.
 Have a wonderful day!

 Cheerio!

Stitchings, Sayings and Blessings.

Hello on this lovely Sunday morning!

 Today I'd like to share some pictures with you; pictures from things I enjoy, cherish, that cheer me up or that I feel blessed with:

 So true!

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And this one......

 ..... isn't it?

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My kitchen window

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 Last week I've been stitching these alphabet pumpkins:
 

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 Wishing you a wonderful Sunday.

Almost forgot this one:

 

Cheers!

Old love reviving

Hello dear friends,

Since I was seven or eight years old I made many samplers and other cross stitch works. I loved it and I still do. 

 After I finished the  X-stitched centre block of my Houses quilt my old love revived! 

 Because I am out of quilting spirit for a while I started yesterday evening a new little X-stitch project, another pincushion for my collection, and it is already finished as well :>)

 Isn't it a cuty?

 I saw it on the internet and I think it is awesome.

 In the pumpkin model you can read the alphabet.

Fantastic!

 And I've made myself another cute and special pincushion.

On to the next! More pumpkins to stitch.

Bye for now, thank you for visiting my blog.

 Cheers!

A new Sunday's stitch...

Hello visitors of my blog,

Today I added some personal words to the cross stitched centre block of my Homespun Houses quilt

  

 

  

pinned it to the wall amidst the other twenty, to get accustomed to the composition and to think about if, how or what I shall stitch in addition

  

 

This was today's Zondagssteek / Sunday's stitch (news).

 Have a nice evening and a good start of the new week!

Cheers!

 

House number 21

Hello everybody,

 after the twenty patchwork houses I started to make the centre block, house number 21, and I do it in cross stitch, using yarn in colours matching those of the Dutch fabrics I used for the other houses.

Have a look, it's just the first part, but you can get an impression:

After a cup of coffee I'll go on with the stitching, while my darling granddaughter Loni Marije (16 m.) is asleep, staying for the first time with me in my house; just for one night.  I enjoy it so very much!

 Today there was no time for stitching ofcourse, with that little sweetheart around. We had a lovely bikeride this afternoon with Loni Marije sitting in the little bikeseat on the handlebars.

Then I cooked a healthy, lovely meal of carrots, broccoli, potatoes and chicken, with custard and fresh strawberries for dessert.

A quick bath for the little lady and eight little teeth were brushed. After that she was taken to bed and fell asleep almost immediately.... worn-out as she was.

I'm tired, not really worn-out, but I can feel I've got  less energy compared to twenty years ago, when I was running all day with, for and after my children :>)

This was a very joyful day.

 Have a nice weekend, 

 Cheers!

House number 14

Good morning,

 

 Yesterday number 14 could be pinned to the wall:

 

 

 Four more houses are waiting, cut and ready-to-be-sewn, to sofar finalise the Zondagssteek Hamlet :>)

project.

 

To keep haberdashery on my sewing table organised I invented this:

 

 

A wooden rotating board. In the middle an egg-stand turned into a scissor-stand:>)

Cheers!

 

Creations of all kinds.

Hello everybody!

Today I'd like to show a little variety of my last year's creations. They were Xmas-, or birth(day) presents, or just meant as gifts to others, but also to myself :>) :

Besides these socks for my friend Noor in The Hague I knitted cute pink babysocks for my granddaughter  Loni Marije, who was born on April 2nd. 2010. Got no picture of them, but cute they were!

 To pretty up my front door:

Pincushions.......... I'm an absolute pincushion addict:

 Time for tea!

Baby sleeping bag I sewed for my dear friend Yvonne's grandson Laurens:

Did not forget to take a picture of this. Cross stitched for my granddaughter:

I sewed for little darling Loni Marije, this Spring:

 Made for play-pen and bed of my granddaughter Nine, born May 21st. 2011:

And 105 bridal sweets for Niels & Desirée, who got married the 2nd. of May  this year:

                                                                

     Have a nice day!

My walk-in quilt closet.

Good morning!

The smallest bedroom / biggest cupboard in my house has gradually become Mrs. Zondagssteek's walk-in quilt closet; I think it's lovely to be there once and again, to sit down and enjoy my wealthy stock! The activity centre is downstairs, at the dining table in my livingroom.

This is my little walhalla:

Enjoy your day!

Home-made, the continuing story of.....

 Hello everyone, 

as I promised you earlier today here I 'm back to show and tell some more about my patchwork and quilting activities and projects. The first patchwork top shown is made from batic fabric small left-over-rolls I bought at the Quilt Expo in Vijfhuizen, few months ago:

One of my first quilts:

 And so is this one:

My first Attic Window, little quilt:

This one represents the historic centre of Dokkum, with its four town-gates, surrounded by the moats and pastures. I knitted de borders in matching colours:

A nice top in Spring colours:

'Scrap Boxes':

'Deidre', I won the pattern in a giveaway at Jeanneke.com
neatly and safely kept in my blockbook when under construction, as you can see:

Hope you enjoyed your visit, leave a message if you like. You're welcome!