Dancing umbrellas

Look what the postman brought this morning

All this  from Laundry Basket Quilts, as a prise for participating 

and winning in

 "The Heart's Content Thread Box Contest" 

at Fat Quarter Shop in February.

Love every single piece. 

Here we have the Dancing Umbrellas.

Top finished - next step is quilting.

And also this Spool top. 

Both from Edyta's book.

"I asked God for LOVE

and he gave me Troubled people to help".

Enjoy the day

Paula

Quilt, knit, dye

This beautiful yarn from Pickles in Norway 

is 100% wool and silk mohair

And this is what it turned into,

a coat with a twist at the back.

I'm rather happy with the outcome.

This is a quilt top for my grandson (the pianist), 

was supposed to be Christmas present, but will be a birthday present.

No time to finish it before Christmas.

This block filled my chart, (on the right) JustTakes2.

Making dye for wool.

Birch, Wild thyme and Mint.

I've  signed up for New Years Day Mystery Quilt - Time Flies.

It is free at Craftsy.com but one can

donate to fundraising for cancer, which I think is a good thing.

Have you watched Downton Abbey?

Well, I bought the series at Amazon and just started on disk one,

 and I must say, I'm loving it.

Have a lovely week

Paula

Mini quilt

Just finished this Mini-Quilt.

It is a photo of my daughter walking the dog near the lighthouse Grótta on Seltjarnarnes.

The fabric is from my hand dyed stash.

Broken Star

Hi every one. This is a picture of my Broken Star, quilted and finished at last, and a close up of the quilt.

It is 260x260 cm or 100"x100" inches. I'm very happy how it turned out.

Birgit at http://www.creativebits.biz/ did a very good job quilting it for me.

It is though a strange feeling, having someone else do the quilting. Is the quilt just half mine and half hers?

No it is mine I paid for the quilting. But she did an excellent job.

Click on the picture and see for yourself.

Dear Jane

When I got back from Portugal this was in my post. This summer I signed up at Twiddletail doing Rainbow Jane and this is my first month.  But I have already started my journey with Dear Jane. -  25 blocks and 2 triangles done, using my hand dyed fabric.

This is a beautiful fabric from Twiddletail, bright colors. I guess I will be doing two DJ.

I have heard that some ladies do more than one DJ quilt - even up to five!!!!

I just love doing these tiny blocks.
I post then on: http://www.paula-dearjane.blogspot.com/ 

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The picture in the middle of this wall hanging is from

a golf course in France printed on a muslin.

Next step is to quilt this wall hanging.

This is a little landscape.

Broken Star

My Broken Star is basted and ready to be quilted. It has been waiting for over a year like that. I was going to machine quilt it myself but I keep postponing it because it is so large (a king size) and I don't have a "long arm".  I will just have to find someone here in Luxembourg who does quilting for others.

Does anyone know of one?????

By the way, basteing was easy, I followed Sharon Schamber's technique which I found on her network.  Take a look at her network: sharonschambernetwork.com  on the left side you see a Free Area.

Thank you for stopping by

A Day in the Country

The year 2001 I took this class at QU called A Day in the Country with Ruth Blanchet. It was the first time for me to do machine appliqué. It was really fun and Ruth is a very good instructor. I have taken some other online classes with her. I believe that one can buy this pattern and many others on Ruth's website: academyofquilting.com. Now this quilt keeps my darling grandson Ofeigur Geir warm.