A Happy Handful - the last theme for this year from Persimon Dreams. This was just perfect for me, as I will have few hours to sew this week. And I needed a mini pincushion to bring with me. Perfect in a little box with embroidery floss.
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Saturday, 14 March 2026
Spring forward
I have combined two challenges this last week. I'm taking part in Ann Wood's 100 day stitch book challenge. Then I saw the challenge for Art Journal Journey, and made a spring themed page. It's spring here, and the small lambs are soon out on the grass. And the first spring flowers are already here.
Saturday, 7 March 2026
Project Quilting 17 - 5
My Complements is this week's challenge from Persimon Dreams. I chose two complementary colours and made a little one block quilt. Then I turned it into a sweet pincushion, as I often do. I really love how this one turned out.
Friday, 27 February 2026
Stitchbook
This year I have started a stitch book, a challenge from @annwood. I've seen those books for years, now I jumped in for 15 minutes of stitching every day. It's supposed to last for 100 days, and end up as a stitch book with 20 pages. I'm already at page 8. Here are all my pages until now.
Friday, 20 February 2026
Project Quilting 17 - 4
Of another era, the theme from Persimon Dreams this week. I took some duvet covers from the 70s, made some 16-patches, and wondered what I could do with them. As I needed some project bags, I went for a new drawstring bag. And as I found it so fun to do, there were suddenly two new bags on my table. All fabrics here are old fabrics from the 70s.
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Fancy Four patch Challenge
A new challenge from Taryn @reprequiltlover is started. I hope to sew four blocks every week for this project. At least I've started out really good, and the first twelve blocks are done. They are so small, only 5", and will be 4 1/2 finished. Those even smaller HTS blocks are a bit tricky. But as I'm taking them as they come out, without thinking much about the points, it's going quite well.
I'm trying to use up my blue and white scraps for this quilt. Aren't the mini butterflies sweet?
Friday, 6 February 2026
Project Quilting 17 - 3
Year of the Horse is this week's theme from Persimon Dreams. I sorted through all my fabrics, hundreds of different animals, but no horse. Suddenly I got a glimpse of a horse. It might be a donkey, but anyway, I had to use it. Then I made a little quilt out of it, and transformed it into a pincushion.
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Project Quilting 17 - 2
The theme this week from Persimon Dreams is Scads of Plaid. As I never throw away old fabrics, I had lots of old shirts to cut from. This was a great opportunity to use some of it.
First I cut squares to make two ninepatch blocks. Then put on borders around and quilted the piece. I've made many drawstring bags before, so this went fast. I will be without a sewing machine the next days, so I'm happy to finish this in time.
Thursday, 8 January 2026
Project Quilting 17 - 1
As every year this first challenge for Project Quilting is my first finish of the year. You can find the challenges at Persimon Dreams. Every other Sunday the first months of the year we are challenged to make a new quilt in one week. I love this, as I get some finished items at the start of the year.
This week the challenge was "A clean slate", or actually the Pantone Color of the Year, white or Cloud Dancer. I tried to keep my quilt as white as I could, and on top of that it's snowing so everything is white here just now. It's all hand quilted. As you can see I made a little needle book out of it.
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Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Lupine & Laughter - part 7
Part 7 of Bonnie Hunter Mystery was new blocks. She called them Kitty Ears, and I can understand that. They were fun and easy to make. Here I've also tried to compose a block. I'm waiting for the reveal soon.
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