Pictures.....

Take care and happy stitching,

Helena

My waistcoat

Here are pictures of what I´ve made so far. A waistcoat with my logo on the back. There is a little more stitching to do and then I will layer it and quilt. I´m busy because it has to be finished before next Saturday.

Take care and happy stitching,

Helena

What´s going on?

This is my project for today, or a part of it. There are a lot of blocks waiting for me.When I´m finished I hope there will be a table cloth and two pillows, a gift for......secret! But I have to finish this project today, always busy.....that´s me!

Before I start I want to show you some other pictures.....

These beauties were waiting for me when I came back from our vacation......

.......20 blocks from all over the world! It´s part one of a swap that I´m participating in. Now I have to make 20 blocks before Tuesday, most of them are already cut, so that´s OK. You can read more about Four Seasons Summer Block Swap here.

This one is a very special one, the first hexie I made for my big hexagon quilt. I promise you that it´s not a weekend project, but a lot of fun. I´m addicted. There´s a post about it on The Great Hexagon Quilt - Along.

More hexies! These are for a competition on The Great Hexagon Quilt - Along blog - Pot Luck!

Stitching time!

Helena

It has arrived!

A very special, very soft and cozy, wonderful bag has arrived in my mailbox! I really love it! But you have to wait until tomorrow for some pictures and more information.

At first I will show you the pictures I forgot in the last post.

This is my angel fabric, I think it will become a dress for an angel softie....

And here are som Japanese fabrics. I fell in love with the small dots.

Now I´ve collected all those, and together with this book,

for my inspiration, I will have a really nice time....

All pieces are sewed together, now it´s about the border. A colourful one or will I choose a more natural-coloured flower pattern. My biggest problem is; Where can I buy more of these fabrics? "Isn´t it romantic?" by Northcott.

This afternoon I couldn´t resist start making cups for my black and white quilt.

At first a sketch...

Then it became templates...

The cups were cut out in fabric....

Placed on the "chess board".... and the handle will be on the left. I´m left-handed and it´s my quilt. (My husband has another opinion, if you ask him!)
.... and finally stitched in place. Two done, fourteen more to go.... and then I will put on a red border! It will end up as a wall hanger on my red studio wall.
Many pictures today, and more will come tomorrow. See you then!
Helena

Finished!

My stitcery is finished :)

The thread I used is a mixed one with green, blue and turquoise colours in it.

It´s difficult to see that in the picture, but I think it came out very nice.

The next step is to find fabrics for the border in these colours.

I think it will become some kind of a wallhanging.

The triangels I made some days ago look like this nowadays:

After moving them around into different designs I decided that this was the best.
Tomorrow the rest of them will be sewed together and then I will look for border fabric.

Perhaps I will found my fabrics in "Quilt-köping", a quiltfair that I´m going to visit next Saturday. I don´t think I will come home with empty hands :)) An empty wallet maybe....

I´ve got a mail today telling me that my bagswap bag is on its way to me, how exiting!

I think I will finish mine tomorrow and send that parcel far away to.....guess who!

Some sneak peaks of that colourful thing!

Just now it´s raining, very much, very very much, like a shower, or worse....

Is it this they call autum? I think so...

Time for a little stitchery? Yes, it is....

Happy stitching,

At last I had time to sew!

Today has been a productive day. At last I had time to made something out of this.

I have had these charmpack squares pinned on my design wall for quite a while now. Today they first changed into triangles and then I had to decide how to put them together.

This was my first try, but I didn´t feel satisfied with that look.

Changed it into this instead. That´s much better, I think. Or.... perhaps I will try to arrange them in another way. What do you think? I´ll made that decision tomorrow.
I have also finished my "Quilting is my life" stitchery, the pictures will come tomorrow.
And I´ve almost finished my bag swap-bag.
And my little "peace stitchery" will be ready tomorrow, it´s a part of my stitchery quilt.



Here are the fabrics I bought last Saturday. Any suggestions how to use them? Perhaps they will become a bag or something like that.
Time for some sleep, it´s a new stitching day tomorrow.....
See you then!

I will congratulate x 2

To the first person I will say "Happy Birthday"!

Actually her birthday was yesterday, but I wanted her to see this birthday card IRL before it showed up here. As you can see, altough the picture is not the best, here name is Carina and she is an old friend.





To the second person I will say "Congratulations, you are today´s winner"! My daugther helped me with the draw and this is the result:
This little thing will go to Norway and the winner is:

elin -"the quilt maiden"

Please send me an e-mail with your snail-mail address and it will be yours.

Tomorrow I will draw the winner of the pot-holders, so welcome back!

Tonight I´ve planned to finish my stitchery from last weekend, there are not so many stitches left. Perhaps there will be a picture tomorrow.

Have a nice weekend, see you!

One week left!

Next friday it´s time for my little studio opening, one week left. Today I´ve worked on some secrets for that, I can just show you a little bit of it. Next weekend, friday-sunday I will show you everything, so don´t forget to visit my blog then. There will be a lot of surprises... :))

Another project get finished today, this one:

A "door hanger", it will hang on my quiltstudio door. In the frame I will put messages about what´s happening in there and other things I want people to know. My homepage is not ready yet, but very soon it will be..... I hope! And "Lapptäckesverkstad" is the Swedish word for quiltstudio.
I found this paper at our scrapbooking store today. I liked it very much and it will be nice in the quilted frame.

It was difficult to take a picture of it, but the design is beautiful!

Now I will go on working with another little secret thing, I have a lot of work to do these days. But fun and exciting.... So untill next time...

Helena

A kitchen and a butterfly...

The little red kitchen in my studio is finally finished. I´m very satisfied with the black tiles.

And I like the red colour, I think you already understand that!

At last I can get my coffee break!

A very red wall that needs to be decorated....

......and here are the fabrics I will use for my "Coffee cup-quilt", already designed in my head....

I´ve done some handquiltning on my butterfly, and added some strips around him...

This is how I´m planned the quilt, I just have to go on..... When it´s ready I will tell you in what way I will use this one!
Now I will do some stichery for my bagswap bag, and then it´s bedtime....
Take care,
Helena

Just another day...

Today the Butterfly stichery get finished. I have worked all day, but what have I done? Perhaps some secret things that I can´t show yet....

The stichery became nice, but not the picture.....

Yesterday my daughter made this for me and my new studio.

Isn´t it cute? And she is too.... Thank you Josefin!

Take care,

Helena

A frame and a butterfly

I´ve been working in my studio, but just for a while, because it has been to hot.....
A few pieces of fabric, some scraps and a butterfly, what will come out of that?
A lot of squares, some stripes, wings, red spots. Add som thread and...

...it will became a frame and a butterfly application! It think I will finished this project this weekend, the temperature is expected to be more normal then.
What it will be? Just come back and see!
Hugs,
Helena