Civil War Bride block

A little progress, one more block for my CWB quilt, I finished last night,

by laying them out together the thought passed my mind that I could stop now, nine blocks and it is not to big for any wall.

But then I decided - I will do them all, just one at a time.

Sweet Nostalgia 

Started a new top, this one is stitched and my first block July, 

is called "Fun at the Beach".

The pattern was a free Block of the Month from Dorothy Baker Designs some years ago. You can see a picture of the quilt  here

New books

I purchased three books, one is Masters Art Quilt,  it was published 2008 so it is not quite new but there are over 400 pages of beautiful pictures of art quilts from all over the world.

The second one is Wildflowers, designs for appliqué and quilting by Carol Armstrong, I thought I might need it when finish my Flower Garden. 

The third one is Jelly Roll and charm quilts, if one day I  buy a Jelly Roll.

Until next time - happy stitching

and thank you for stopping by.

Paula

Flowers and CWB

These flowers are ready to be added to my Flower Garden.

I have 67 flowers joined together.

It is still growing.

If you like to see some beautiful flowers, 

visit One Flower Wednesday and have a look

what the Ladies in this Flower Club are doing.

Thank you Karen for hosting this Club.

This is my 8th block for The Civil War Bride Quilt,

going very slowly there!!!

If you like to see more blocks from this quilt 

visit The Civil War Quilt blog 

Two very pretty cushions my mother made many years ago.

This is a Snowball quilt I made, using fabric 

by "Den Haan & Wagenmakers" in Amsterdam.

I'm not very pleased with how it turned out, the fabric is very nice though, 

I should have chosen another pattern.

Well next time I will.

Thank you for stopping by

and happy quilting.

Paula

Birch

Last summer I collected leaves from Birch and dried them. 

Now I have dyed some wool using these leaves.

(The fabric in this DJ block was dyed with Procion MX

the leaves are underneath) 

The yearn prepared

Here you can see the wool waiting and the Birch dye.

In the pot on the stove slowly heated up to 90°C

Slowly cooled down.

Washed and dried

And ready for knitting.

My seventh CWB block in progress.

I have not yet started my DJ again, after all this traveling back and forth, south and north, 

but will do that soon. 

The European Dear Jane club is preparing a DJ Quilt Expo in Brussels May 2013.

Now isn't that just groovy?

I plan to have mine finished by then.

Happy stitching.

Paula

The bride is here

Now the bride is here. This was my third block in the Civil War Bride Quilt.

All three together, only seventeen more to go.

1st block

My first block finished, and boy did I have fun sewing it and listening to a audio-book at the same time.

But it takes a lot of time. Now I will  prepare the second block and take it with me to Iceland over the Holidays.

Civil War Bride

This weekend I started the Civil War Bride quilt.

My first block is being hand applique. I'm not very good at applique but it will get better as the quilt grows.  I'm needle turning and using silk thread. I find the Desk Threader a must have, it really saves time.

This is the desk Threader from Clover. I got it in September in Alsace, France. It really works, but for how long I do not know!!!!