Five more bags

I promised you 5 more bags, here they are.......

Indigo and Shibori bags

Where have i been these two weeks. I was in my sewing room, sewing totes and two crossover shoulderbags for the brocante in juin.

Today i'll show you the indio and shibori bags, more pictures are coming because i made another 5 bags.......

The front

the back

the front

the back

the front

the back

the front

the back

this bag was dyed with brasilwood.

the back

To be continued......

Japanese fabric that I bought in Nantes

When I was at the craft fair in Nantes this year I bought lots of Japanese fabric. I wanted to make a Yoko Saito pattern but could not find the fabric with the trees, searched on the www, phoned to quilt shops but nothing.
And YES i found it in Nantes. I started immediately with the applique work.
There are nine panels with houses and some trees. It suppose to be the peaceful countryside, Yoko used a lot of whites. I changed it it reds and greens. I am already busy quilting the panels.......
On the individual panels you can see the fabric i was looking for.

I also bought some indigo fabric with stamped design, so beautiful. I made a bag for myself....

Recycling old jeans and another present

I saw the idea on Pinterest.

A received another present , when she heard that i have some health problems, she sent me this lovely pincushion. Thank you so much my friend. 

(source blog de zondagssteek)

Birds and birds

This birds kit was a wonderful present from oversea. Thank you my dear friend. In the kit was only red and white embroidery thread and of course I wanted more color..... And I also changed the embroidery design.
Here they are, i only need to attach them on twined cord.

Arent' they cute?

Two cute dolls

When I saw acute doll on Jane's blog I also ordered the pattern.  You can buy the pattern and a kit here. I made two , they are for the market in May.

The last one is made with Dutch traditional fabric. I am making a large quilt with this kind of fabric at the moment, i use a lot of blues and some red. I will show you the quilt soon.

Framed Flowers, Free Applique BOM

Gingini is organizing a free BOM, called Framed Flowers.  It is an applique block that you can embellish with embroidery and pearls.

I used felted wool as a background , mine is a bit larger than the original, 15 x 15 cm. I did not frame the flower for the moment because I have no idea how many I will make and what to do with the them.   I made my flower in the Sue Spargo style using her embroidery stitches book for the embellishments.

Toilet quilts.....

In the old days people who lived in the countryside had their toilet outside in the garden.

Some of these toilets even had several ‘places’….. and they were used by several families.

For cleaning afterwards, they used old newspaper and other recycled papers. In the Quiltmania, nr 79 was an article about these toilets and especially about  the ‘privy bags’ where those papers were kept. 

Between 1820 and about 1920 those bags were used in  the region of Lancaster County.

Some of those bags are beautiful small quilts. I really love them more than our modern toiletpaper holders!

I really love this picture, do you imagine sitting there with your neighbours?

IN my garden is also a toilet , we made it into a hen-house. 

Twelve craft days of Christmas...... On the first day.....

When i saw this blog post on my friend Ann's blog i wanted to do the same.

So the twelve days to come i will post an easy craft idea for those of you who are a bit late making Christmas presents

Here you can find the tutorial to make these tree ornaments.

See you tomorrow.