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!

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!

Quiltmania Christmas Squares

Do you like to start some Christmas quilt decorations? On the Quiltmania site you will find every day a pattern of a new square, with which you could make a quilt a banner or a table topper. When you make them all you will have 24 squares de 12 x 12 cm at the end. On the site you find a PDF for the pattern and a video (only in French) for the explanations.
For the moment I only have four, i changed them a bit in my own way......

I do not think i will make them all, we will see.........

Postcrossing quilt part 3

Do you remember that i told you about postcrossing? I started sending cards about one year ago and i already received more than 200 postcards from all over the world.
Sometimes in an envelope with a piece of fabric for my postcrossing quilt;
i made 5 new scrappy logcabin blocks this week.

Sometimes there is a beautiful unexpected gift in the envelope. Cvete from Bulgaria, sent me a piece of crochet made by her grandmother!

Thank you so much Cvete.

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)

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.

Do you know Postcrossing

Do you know Postcrossing? The main idea is : send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person in the world.
Maybe you say why should i do that....
Because , there are lots of people who like to receive real mail.The element of surprise of receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises and who wouldn't like that?

I am member since 4 months and I received already 45 postcards from all over the world (Indonesia, Belarus, Japon, Ireland, Taiwan, Russia, Germany , Finland and more).
I have sent 48 postcards. In my profile I asked for a pice of fabric to make a quilt with fabric from all over the world. I asked for fabric special for their country or some used fabric or just a piece. I received old handkerchieves; a pice from a wardrobe from someone's mother, a piece from a scarf of someone's father, a large piece from the curtains which someone's mother made years ago.....

This week i started to make some log-cabin blocks with the fabric.

The center birds are from New Zealand

The center insects are from Germany.

The center panel is from Russia, it was an old handkerchief....

You can read more about Postcrosssing here.

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.

What I bought in Paris

I showed you my favorite fabric shops in paris . At Dreyfus I bought some beautiful fabric for cushion covers.

I made another two with fabric from my stash.

They are all for the market. I am still very busy making small Christmas decorations for the market.

Orvieto Italy day 5

Yesterday it was stitching day, no catherdral or museum, only stitching and picknick in the courtyard.

You can see how the backgrounds came to life. 

Conny is inspired by all the beautiful leather bags you can buy here.

Sue and she are discussing how to embellish the bags...

Kathy wanted to do something with the Vespa scooters. She started too small.

This is what she did yesterday.

My roofs are coming to life too.

Kim was inspired by adesign on the pottery we saw on tuesday.

Today it is marketday . We are going to shop for the picknick,so we need to talk a bit Italien...