Grandmother's Sampler

Good evening,

while stitching my thoughts easily go back and around......... to anyone, anyplace, anytime.

That's how I came to 'meet' my grandmother today again.

My grandmother made this sampler when she was only ten or just eleven years old. 

 It has a place of honour on my livingroom wall.

She was called 'Jeanne' and I am named after her.

It is in the genes, I think :>)

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!

Houses numbers 19 and 20

Hello :>)

And these are the numbers 19 and 20 of my Homespun Houses:

 Their roofs are made from a new chequered fabric, so two of a new kind can be added to  my Homespun Houses Project.

Twenty houses, all different, unique and all made from real Dutch folklore fabrics.

 It was great fun doing the sewing and it is not finished yet!

 I'll keep you updated about the continuing story of The Homespun Houses Project.

 Till soon,
 Cheers!

House number 18

Hello everybody,

 Autumn has arrived, dropping walls of water blowing them forcefully over the country. I do not really like that...

It also brought me a tough cold that makes me feel sick and sad.

 But, it keeps me inside, sewing :>) and enjoying my Homespun Houses Project, which is nearing its final patch and stitch.

Number 18 was finished yesterday:

Maybe a bit tricky, the red and green combi, but in the Zaanstreek, a region in Holland, the (historical) wooden houses are traditionally painted green and in case of tiled roof tiles are (orange)red. This may be an explanation for my tricky yesterday's action.

 There's an old Dutch saying: "Rood met groen is boerenfatsoen", meaning you better don't wear / use green and red together,   I don't care....
This Dutch House deserves a place in my Dutch fabrics Houses Project!

 Time to start sewing the final two houses!

Thanks for stopping by, have a good day.

Cheers!

House number 17

A very good day to all of you!

 Number 17 is ready:

 Cheers!

 

House number 16

Good evening,

 House number 16:

 

 

  

House number 15

Hi there,

 the more I sew, the faster it goes, delivering the 15th. House already now:

  

 Did it take half a day to sew the first ones, now I manage to finish the job within three hours. I love the work, sewing by hand, at ease, so relaxing!  But still almost flow production :>)

 Enjoy your 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!

 

Houses numbers 12 and 13

H@llo friends!

 

Proudly presenting Houses numbers 12 and 13:

 

 

 Have a nice day, wherever you are and take care.

 

 Cheerio!

House number 11

Hello!

 Today House number 11 was delivered:

 Together with the other 10 it already makes a nice wall decoration, I think:
 

 Cheers!

House number 10

Hello everybody,

 House number 10 is a green house, or is it a greenhouse, or a green greenhouse?

 Each Tuesday afternoon my house is opened for a quilting bee, welcoming every busy quilting bee who wants to get or share ideas, joy, lessons, tea, etc.

 At today's quilting bee House number 10 was sewn.

 Have a nice evening and till soon.

 Cheerio!

House number 9

Hello dear friends,

  the first Homespun Houses nine-patch is completed by this one:

 I pinned them in the wallpaper, creating the nine-patch:

  above the settee, in my and everybody's sight when in or entering the livingroom.

 That makes me feel G :>) :>)D!

 Another little thing I sewed for my granddaughter Nine yesterday (so a real Zondagssteek it is) is a ribbon for a soother, teething-ring or little toy, that can be clicked with the brace clip to a baby's hood or blanket. 

 Today is a lovely, sunny day with nice temperatures, which means the BBQ is on duty tonight in my  backyard!

Enjoy your day, evening and meal.

Thanks for stopping by!

Feel free to leave a message. I'd very much appreciate it.

Till soon

Cheerio.

  

Roof renovation.

Hello !

Today has been a day of hard work, renovating all the roofs of the so far sewn Homespun Houses.

Yesterday I posted about the 8th. house, with its new chequered roof and after today's renovation job there are eight new houses to show.

Here they are:

 Together they make a nice Zondagssteek-hamlet, I think :>)

 Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

Hopefully BBQ can be poked up on Sunday.

Cheerio!

 

 

 

House number 8.

Hello friends,

 Hope you are fine and enjoying a sunny day('s evening). After many rainy days it was

  L O V E L Y

to see the sun again :>)

  

And my sunny news of today is: 

House number 8 is ready!

I love this one; yes, because it's red, my number one favourite colour.

 I've decided roofing every following house chequered over a flowered façade. 

I also made the memoboard for Martine:

And the two 'Winnie the Pooh' duvet covers for Loni Marije rolled from the sewing-machine yesterday evening:

Aren't they cute?

Now I'm off to sew House number 9.

 Have a nice evening.

Cheerio.

House number 7.

Hello everyone,

 Tadaaaaaaaaaa, House number 7:

Another benefit from this rainy day :>)

Summer holidays?

Hello friends!

Where is the Summer?!

After two rather sunny days last week, which I used to clean my house from floor to ceiling, windows and garden included, we have to deal with loads of rain and wind again.

My stamp-size backyard looks like a parking lot after all the rain. It has bloomed for a while

 but all the beauty has gone with the wind and the cats and dogs..........

 

BBQ is no option with this weather

 

 so I made a tortilla wrap dinner yesterday, 

wrapping after dinner the present for my sister Stella's birthday:

...the benefit from bad weather...

Cheers!

 

July - Month of holidays and birthdays.

Hello everyone,

 How are you? Enjoying the Summer holidays?

 I am and I must say that in the last two weeks there has been only a little bit of sewing and quilting here in Zondagssteek House; just a few stitches...

The Homespun Houses project is sent on a Walk-In-Quilt-Closet-Holiday.

 For my granddaughter Nine I sewed a baby sleeping-bag:

Son-in-law Gerben had his birthday on the 17th.
My dear Aunt Lidy was born 86 years ago on the 22nd. 

A present for my sister Stella's birthday ( 25th.) is almost ready and wrapped:
Can't tell anything about it yet, because she might read it here.

There's a quilting friend's birthday, also the 25th.
And my son Hans is growing 27 on the 26th.

A couple of small projects are waiting on the creativity shelf: a memoboard for daughter-in-law Martine and a Winnie the Pooh duvet cover for my granddaughter Loni Marije.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!





 

House number 6

Good morning! 

 Only at eleven o'clock last night I finished House number 6. By that time I was finished as well :>).

After I had a good sleep first thing I planned to do was 'archiving' number 6 and show the picture:

I hope it is clear enough, because the batteries of my camera are finished too; no recharging possible any more, so I'll have to buy new ones.

  I'll be off until Monday, which means there will be no blogging for me.

 

 Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers!

House number 5

H@llo everybody,

 how was your day? The weather ok?

 Maybe you think I am a silly girl and maybe you're right, busy as I am race-sewing houses, but I can tell you it is great fun! 

Not dangerous at all, however I can not promise you it is not contagious.......

 This is House number 5:

 

Have a nice evening and I expect to be back by tomorrow with number 6 :>)

Cheerio! 

 

House number 4

Hello!

Jetspeed I wanted my Homespun Houses project's start to be; I think I succeeded :>), because I can proudly present House number 4:

 Enjoy your evening!

 

Third house in a row.

Hello everyone!

 How was your day? Mine was fine. The weather is Autumn-like; rather confusing after the extreme heat of last Monday and Tuesday..........But alright for a bike ride, so we toured through the countryside around Dokkum for about one and a half hour. That was good :>)

 

 

 Back home I finished House number three. This one is made of chequered fabric and I doubt whether it's good enough, because some templates were just not exactly covering the chequers. What do you think?

  

  

 I think I'll leave it this way for the time being.

 Till soon, cheers!

 

Award.

Good morning to all of you,
 

foto permanent verwijderd

 This is the award  I received from Stella.

Thank you very much, sissy my dear, I feel honoured!

I understand there are some accept-the-award rules I have to follow, which means that I should:

 1:  Send a thank you to the person that awarded me, mention her on my blog and include her link.
Did I do it right, this way, Stel?
( And all by myself! )

 2:  Tell seven random facts about myself:

 - I feel blessed living a happy life, in a lovely house I can call HOME

 - I feel so blessed being a mother and a grandmother

 - another blessing is that the (grand)children are all in good health

 - every new day is a precious gift to me, always has been so, but particularly after I was diagnosed with colorectal  cancer in July 2010.

 - I feel blessed with five sisters and two brothers and with dear friends.

  -  It is a blessing to me that I can count my blessings

  -and last but not least: I'd like to share this verse with you; it highly inspires me:

 

 Count your garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall

 Count your days by golden hours, don't remember clouds at all

 Count your nights by stars not shadows

Count your life by smiles not tears

 And with joy on this your birthday count your age by friends not years.

3:  Pass the award on to at least eight other blog buddies.

 

 That is not so easy for me. May I pass this award on to all my blog buddies? You have been so kind to me, sending nice words in e-mails and comments. Thank you all so much for the joy, the sharing and the friendship!

  

 It is time to make myself  a nice extra large black coffee!

 Wishing you all a lovely Sunday!

  

 

House number 2.

Good evening,

 the second house in the block is ready too! 

Before I get to lean back with a drink a picture should be shared with you, I think.

Tomorrow there won't be any time for sewing, because unexpectedly and surprisingly my son Jan, who two weeks ago got his driving license, will take me for a visit to Nunspeet, where my daughter (his sister) and her husband and their newborn daughter Nine live. Grandma and uncle can have a lovely little sniff at and cuddle with that gorgeous little darling!

 Enjoy your evening and till soon!

First house in a block.

Hello everyone,

With pride and joy I present the first result of my Homespun Houses Project:

I made a start with the project using the best leftovers of a sixty years old pillowcase.

And with that in mind, I  wondered how many heads would have been lied down on this cloth.....

feeling happy, tired, worrying, dreaming, waiting for someone or something.....

  It feels a bit like I sewed some kind of soul in my quilt with this first block.

 There is some stretching of fabric here and there, due to the fabric's age and history ;>)

 The following blocks will be made of brandnew cotton, I bought at De Boerenbonthal in Amsterdam.

As you can see I keep the fabric pieces and blocks in my block book.

Wishing you all a joyful start of July!

 Cheerio!