This week I want to finish 3 quilts.... number 3

Today I finished this country baskets quilt.

I am sorry for the bad photo's, but it was raining ......

Have a good New Years Eve and I 'll be back tomorrow!

This week I want to finish 3 quilts.... here is number 2

In number 58 of Quiltmania I saw a beautiful quilt. If you were in Tokyo in 2007 for the international quilt festival you could have seen this quilt....

The quilt is called : the Amish checkerboard baskets crib quilt, it's made in 1930 and it's from the Wooden collection in Ohio.

I made my version :

The colors are darker but with the sun shining it's not easy to get the right blue's.

The quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted. The fabric is Kona cotton. I LOVE the Kona solid colors, as a Christmas present I bought myself 2 FQ bundles of Kona cotton, one in reds and one in purples!!! 

I hope to finish the third quilt tomorrow........

This week i want to finish 3 quilts.... here is number 1

Finally,  I finished my grandmother's flowergarden..... The hand quilting was so long and in the end so boring. And the choice that I made for the back fabric wasn't a good one. In the thriftstore I bought 6 meters of linen for 1 euro!!!
I used that linen for the back, but it was so heavy and stiff, so hard to quilt by hand. That's why I machine quilted the borders. I am so happy i finished this quilt and I am very satisfied with the result...

I want to finish 2 more quilts this week , so stay in touch.

Merry Christmas

I wish everyone a merry and peaceful Christmas.
Here I found some cute vintage Christmas cards...... enjoy!!

See you next week.

Do you need some last minute Christmas decorations?

This morning I saw this beautiful handmade angel on Ingthing's blog.

 There 's a very good tutorial, so come on....... make one or three for your Christmas trees and some more as a lovely handmade present for your family. Because everyone needs an ANGEL .

I aso love this origami flowerball. The tutorial is on this blog You have to scroll down untill the  27  november post.

I made one flower yesterday with some japanese origami paper....

Happy crafting!

Handmade Christmas presents

Last week I made a lot of Christmas chocolates. With my two garden clubs we had several chocolate afternoons.....

As you can see we were very concentrated....and we also had a lot of fun.

This a part of what we made:

Yesterday I made this bag for my niece Alda , I hope it will arrive before Christmas. (I made a second one for the summermarket next year!)

My friend Lucienne is always crafting, look what she made for her children and grandchildren....

It's more than three weeks ago that I showed you a finished quilt. Did I abandon quilting? 

NO, not at all, I am working on 4 project. I will show you more later this week...... 

And the winner is......

Thank you all for the comments on my SMS Giveaway . I shall visit all your favorite blogs in the next week, there were a lot that are completely new for me!!!!!

And the winner of the FQ bundle of designers fabric is :jojoebo, she said:
I don't think I have one favorite, I have about 200 in my reader:

I already have send jojoebo an email.

The winner of the Indonesian sarong fabric is Jane, she said:

Thank you for such a nice giveaway! I think the sarong fabrics are beautiful.:) Right now my favorite blog is Attic24. She crochets, has 3 cute little kids and pots wonderful photos of her house and the surrounding countryside. fun stuff!
Jane and I are already in contact.