Bag for Sylviane,

Months ago Sylviane asked me to make a bag for her. I hope she'll love it....

Blogger's quiltfestival

In blogland there's the Bloggers quiltfestival going on. Although I am just a novice quilter I want to participate. If you love quilts go to Amy's blog and you'll find lots of gorgeous quilts.

I only made 2 quilts, one for the dog's bed. There were so many old shirts of the dog's master, and the dog's bed was a bit worn out. So I started to cut squares out of the skirts..... I discovered that cutting squares with scissors and a centimetre was not as easy as a thought. You can imagine the (not)squares, which was the result. However I love my first quilt and so do Rosa the dog.

But my favorite is my second quilt, that I made for the cat's bed. In the meantime I bought a cutter,  a cutting mat and  some rulers. And I am very proud of the result.....

But I still need some lessons to learn cutting because the problem with cutting is still there. i don't know where to start, how to use the rulers and so on. That all keeps me from going on. 

My blogfriend Dorien wants to give me  some lessons, next time  I 'll be in Holland.

Maybe you could gave me a link that should be helpful.

Here is my bloganniversary-giveaway,you can enter till the first of november.

8 Weeks till Christmas

This week I found Ann Wood's blog. She  make such beautiful birds, I  never saw such stylish birds.

On her blog you can find a tutorial of a horse, they are gorgeous, I am sure this will inspire you to make one...or two.

She also has a tutorial of a boat, made of paper-mache, this would be a lovely present for a child.

Happy crafting. 

Zipper pouch

I made some zip pouches for the shop last week. They are all lined with lovely coordinated fabric. The last two ones are made of Dutch folk fabric that i bought this summer in Staphorst.

Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY.

New bag

Here is the new bag that I made this week, I am very happy with the result. The colors are not exactly
the same.....

9 weeks till Christmas

This week I'll show you some cute houses ornaments, easy to make and they'l make a lovely present.
You could even hang them in the Christmas tree.

The tutorial is here.

Here you can find how to make them.

And how cute are these mushroom houses......, here is the pattern.

And of course you could make a gingerbread house.

Like this one:

Or this one:

Or this one;

You can find everything you want to know about gingerbread houses on this site.

Happy crafting!

Off the needles

I made Carolus number 7. The pattern is really addictive, so clear and quick. I knitted a friend for him, Suzie the mouse. You can find her pattern in English here. Aren't they cute?