Charity Quilt Update

The pieces for four more blocks are ready, whilst I'm waiting for the background fabric to arrive:

Made with fabrics which I received from my Mum and Ineke (thanks!) and from my own stash.

Charity Quilt

Something cropped up that I just could not ignore: a fellow quilter is organizing a project to make 41 (and later 70 in total) quilts for orphans in an orphanage in Poland.

I just had to offer my help, even though a whole quilt was a bit too daunting. The result was a joint-project with the organiser, to make a Sunbonnet Sue quilt for a little 6-year-old girl named Ola.

The next thing was that I needed lots of scraps of fabrics for the frocks, bonnets and pinafores and other pieces of the blocks. The postie is a busy person and yesterday the first envelope arrived (thank you, Ineke!) and I had fun yesterday evening preparing the pieces for the first block, using Ineke's fabrics:

Today the postie brought an envelope from my Mum (thanks Mum!) and there is another one on the way from the owner of the Dutch ONS which I frequently order from (thank you Magda, owner of Magdaleentje).

This should keep me going for a bit, but [beware: shameless begging coming up!] if you have any quilting fabric scraps - which are suitable for frocks and bonnets - that you are willing to part with, please let me know. Bear in mind that you will be helping a little girl, who has nothing at all to call her own. Hard to imagine when you are lucky to live in a country like ours. Thank you for your help.

Snowbound block # 7

Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs released this block a day early, in honour of the 4th of July.

Another very pretty block. Finding the right fabrics and embellisments is so much fun.

Back to Vintage Valentine block # 2 tomorrow. All the pieces are ready to be fused and blanket stitched.

Vintage Valentine block 1 & Sleepy Furry Helper

What a lovely project this is to work on. This afternoon I completed block #1 of Vintage Valentine.

I'm using the kit supplied by Shabby Fabrics. The fabrics are absolutely gorgeous.



Just had to show you a few details:

The flower centres are made of fabric covered buttons which I made, using little button kits. The idea is not mine; a clever person from Shabby Fabrics came up with this great idea.

And - as promised - here are the fabrics for block #2 of this project:

As for my Furry Helper, he's been suffering from the hot weather and is still trying to squeeze himself in 'Kruimel's Nest' which is part of our big scratching pole in the living room.

A rather tight fit for our 18 month-old British Shorthair tomcat.

Thanks for all your lovely comments. They certainly are very inspiring and it is so great to find other people's stitching blogs, and gaining inspiration from them.

Leanne's House # 5 & Vintage Valentine

Leanne's House block #5 was completed on Saturday evening:



And then of course Vintage Valentine had to come out of hiding and I started block #1!

There are so many pieces of fabric, that I will show them to you before I start each block. Here are the materials for block #1:

And a few details:

All the pieces have been cut and the flower petals all have edges of blanket stitching made up of that pink thread. Now I'm off to measure and cut the background for this first block!

Leanne's House, Elvis & Aquilegia

More work on Leanne's House block # 5 is happening here.

This is the middle portion, which is also the middle block of the whole quilt:

I also pieced one of the four corner mini-blocks of this block. Those hearts are tiny!

And here are the boys (Kruimel on the left and Elvis on the right). It is not often that we see them together like that. Yesterday was Elvis' 5th birthday. Of course this is a 'chosen' birthday in cooperation with our vets, since we do not know when Elvis was born. We rescued him from a shelter in september 2005 when he was still very tiny.

Look how tiny he was on the day he arrived here, five years ago:

The aquilegia my MIL bought me for my birthday has started flowering again. This could be considered a miracle, since I am far from green-fingered ;o)

These little flowers are so intricate, I just had to show you both sides of this beautiful flower:

Hopefully next time I will be able to show you block #5 of Leanne's House all finished and maybe also a picture of the fabrics for Vintage Valentine.

Cat Chiropractor & I Caved

Anybody know of a good Cat Chiropractor? I fear our furry boy Kruimel may need one when he wakes up from his snooze.

And yes, I *did* cave and ordered the kit for Vintage Valentine. It is just too gorgeous.

So watch this space: you will probably witness another new start very soon :o)