Indigo, Shibori and some Sashiko

Met de indigo en shibori werkstukken van vorige zomer heb voor de markt een viertal kussens gemaakt.
Ik verf altijd met oude lakens die ik koop bij de Emmaus kringloopwinkels. De oude Franse lakens zijn vaak gemaakt van een linnen-katoen binding , soms zelfs met een hennepdraad erin. Mooie stevige lakens , vaak nooit gebruikt en geel op de vouwen van het in de kast liggen.  Veel hebben nog geborduurde monogrammen.
Soms zonde om te verknippen.....
Je kunt ze natuurlijk ook als tafellaken gebruiken of er een dekbeddenhoes van maken , zoals ik gedaan heb. Als je in Frankrijk bent  deze zomer ga eens rondkijken bij een Emmaus. Er is er altijd wel eentje in de buurt. Op de site van de Emmaus kun je ze vinden.

 

 

 

 

More cute things

Ik maakte nog wat kleine knuffeldingetjes voor kinderen, dat loopt altijd goed op de markt en ik vind het zo leuk om te doen.
Het gebreide poppetje is een gratis patroon van Little Cotton rabbit.
Voor het doosje heb ik een luciferdoosje als patroon gebruikt en ze zijn gemaakt van oude kerstkaarten.

 

 

Het patroon van de muisjes is van Ann Wood, ze heeft ook een gratis leuk kippetje op haar site...

 

De kussenideetjes komen van Pinterest .

 

 

Gisteren heb ik ook stof voor drie tassen geknipt. Ik had even geen inspiratie, maar na gesnuffel op Pinterest en in mijn Japanse tassenboeken is de inspiratie weer terug. 

En ik heb wat nieuwe canvas stoffen gekocht dat helpt ook altijd om nieuwe ideeen vorm te geven. Ik heb natuurlijk stoffen genoeg maar soms heb je gewoon iets nieuws nodig. Ja toch? 

Deze week kan ik ook mijn tas gaan pakken voor mijn workshop (stage noemen ze dat hier) volgende week in Feleltin. 

Daarover volgende keer meer.

So cute

Zo leuk om te maken, deze brochjes. Zonder patroon, gewoon beginnen.......... Gemaakt van restjes stof  en vilt . ER komen er vast nog meer.

 

May I present you........

May i present you the mice family. When I saw Finnegan on Sandra's blog i was in love and i wanted to make him.

But as usual when i make something i want to make more than one......

So i made a whole family, here they are.

As you can see father has put on his new scarf and is almost leaving for the pub.....

Mother asks him to stay.... why do you always go to the pub on saturday.....

But father is a very macho mouse, he wants to drink something with his mouse friends....

So even on saturday evening mother is alone at home...

The little one does not like his parents arguing again, he also feels alone....

They were, all three, sold at the Christmas market, seperately.

Maybe not too bad, there family life was not happy at all......

Ecoprint scarfs for the Christmas market

The Christmas market is already on the 13th of december. I need to finish some small things and then I am ready. I am really proud of the things I made this year!
Th scarfs that I show you today are printed with eucalyptus leaves and some other leaves.  I made ten in all. They are 2 meter long and 40 cm wide and made with a wool/silk blend that i bought in a small weaving mill near St Etienne.
I already bought several times by telephone, the old weaver does not have a computer. Some weeks ago my friend Lucienne and her husband , we went to visit the weaver, such an extraordinary experience. We made lots of photoos, i'll show them soon.

Postcrossing quilt 4

I still do Postcrossing, I send postcards and I receive postcards, sometimes with a piece of fabric  for my postcrossing quilt;

Early this summer i made some blocks, as colorful as usual with fabric from all over the world....

And there are more pieces of fabric waiting. Yesterday I received some beautiful pieces from Scotland and some from Finland!

We stitch.......

Next sunday is our Easter market

THis year we will have an Easter market in stead of the yearly mother's day market.
For me it is too close to the market in december, i only have some new bags and scarfs.
And i made some decorations.....

I found the idea on Etsy.

This pattern is from the Purl Bee.

This idea i saw on Handwerjuffie's blog. 

 

My craftclub in Sarzay

On the first and the third saturday each month , we meet in the small hall next to the municipal hal. Normally we are 12 woman.
 In France almost every village has a festive hall , where take place al the meals that are organized in the village.
Sarzay is a beautiful small village about 20 km from where i live.
Yesterday I gave an applique workshop, this was already the third applique meeting.
There are 8 of the members who join the workshop, the others continue knitting , crocheting and talking......
We are making an owl wallhanging , made by one of my friends.

We worked with freezerpaper and all the small pieces were cut .

Yesterday almost all the pieces were appliqued.

You can find more information about our club here and here.

Back to normal?

IS it possible to go back to normal after the 7th of january?
I was in Paris a week after the murders , the banners and flags were still hanging at the statue on the Place de la Republique. Everywhere were flyers with 'je suis charlie'.
In the metro i was looking at people while thinking : are you Charlie or are you not Charlie.....
I heard on the radio that teachers have l problems to talk to children who said: 8 murders was not necessary but Charb needed to be killed because he insulted Mahomed.....
I think we have to live with these problems.....

I'll show you a logcabin quilt which i made last winter and finished quilting these days.
I used old and new Dutch traditional costume fabric from MarKen, Staphorst, Scheveningen ,Bunschoten, Spakenburg and Zeeland. The quilt is for Thom, he choose the blues and because I also had lots of reds, i used reds with blues to make a nice border.

I quilted a pencil ,  I saw the idea on the blog 'Crayon and Pencil', she wrote:

For the unspeakable and to remember

Let our needles go

Reaction to what happened these last days, against obscurantism of any form

But also for girls to go to school everywhere in the world.....

Let us sew, embroider, quilt a pencil on each work this year.

An indigo bag, a cushion, two knitted friends and a telephone case

Tomorrow is the Christmas market and I am ready.
These are the last things i made......
A Christmas cushion with a stitchery pattern that I found in the Quiltmania winternumber 2012.

An indigo bag with new and recycled jeans fabric and vintage kimono and futon fabric from Japan. I also did some sashiko stitching.

A telephone case with some sashiko stitching on vintage futon cover fabric .

And two knitted friends, Jacobus and Karel.

Weather is not bad tomorrow so wish me luck!

Postcrossing Quilt, 3 new scrappy logcabin blocks

Do you remember that i talked about  Postcrossing? I received more pieces of fabric to work with and  I made 3 new blocks with fabric from all over the world.

this one has fabric from Indonesie, India, Norway , France and Holland.

Fabric from India , pakistan, France and Holland; The three pieces of jewelry are from India.

Fabric from Norway (the center ), Holland, Ukraine, Finland and Holland.

Another scrappy poststamp quilt and some flowers

I made another scrappy poststamp quilt. I only need to do the binding....... I don't like doing this, but I NEED to finish this quilt before the 24 th of february because it goes to the Netherlands . Maybe a challenge for this week?
The quilt is machinepieced and handquilted with perle cotton .

I have a small veranda against the frontside of my house, there is no heating but when the sun is shining , immediately it is warm inside, even in winter. I showed you before that a pelargonium is blooming. Here is another one.

I have a lot of cuttings growing there. Most of them are pelargoniums but also several salvia's. 

I LOVE salvia's, this is the pine-apple variety with those red flowers, when you touch the leaves they have a smell of pine-apple, you can use the leaves as decoration in a dessert.