Opam project,

Although my sister and me are very busy, trying to get our swap in order for matching the partners, and sending all partner information..
I'm making up the balance from the ‘one project a month’ challenge (OPAM).

And the last little project I finished in Januari is this matroushka,



A sweet hanger




Only a few more hours before our Dutch sisters spring swap entering is closing!
We are over a 100 participants!!!
Next week everyone will receive partner information.

I wish you all a good start of the week!

Groetjes,

Books and bags

Whauw, time flighs when your having fun! (or being very busy)
When I was at the library my eye saw these books in a little corner,



Now most of you quilters are probably familiar with all the story's and books she wrote. But for me they are new and after finishing the first, I am curious what will happen in the next 'Elm Creek' quilters! But I only allow myself to read before sleeping or my new bags will not be finished before autumn.
Here a peek of the new bags....



I want to make three bags in this style.

And at last I want to show you this,



Because there was a discount of 50% I also bought this,



They are great to complete my matroushka collection! Altough, is a collection ever complete?


Have a great week everyone,

Ingredients

No I’m not going to share a recipe for a great meal. That can wait for another time.
I’m going to share the ingredients that keep me busy at this moment.

Ingredients for a new bag I’m making,



Ingredients to make new drawings from ‘Teun and Pleun’.



Two little figures that walk around in a school method for developing technique skills. The publishing deadline is coming up real fast. (So I better start drawing, in stead of blogging)

Ingredients to keep the family in good health,


I went to the market early this morning..

Ingredients to spoil myself,



Bought these beautiful flowers at the market too.

And Ingredients.....



to finish the border of this matroushka quilt!



Well enough ingredients for a busy weekend!

Have a great weekend everyone with lot's of good ingredients!

Matroushka addiction?

This is what I made for Michelle from Gingham world for the Russian doll swap....



I made her a matroushka magazine bag.
And it was so much fun to make this matroushka bag... I couldn't stop and had to make more...



I made a bag for a friend and put the other one in the shop.



And ofcourse There was somthing else...
The give-away for the 50th post, thank you all for your nice comments!
The winner is.....



Eileen from Eileen's Attic if you mail me your adress .............



This is comming your way!

Oh yes, matroushka addiction, I painted these too..



Don't they look great whit the Oilily crockery! I made one for my niece, who is having a baby very soon. I hope it is going to look good in the baby room. The other one.. don't know yet?

Have a great weekend everyone!

Matroushka quilt in progress

Although it is not finished, I do want to show you how my matrouska quilt is developing.



It's not going to be a large quilt, but it will be a cosy one! And I'm using only old Dutch Sits fabrics.



There are three more pieces that need to be finished and sewn on the quilt.
I have to buy more fabric for the binding and for the backside. And after sewing it al together I want to needlequilt it of course.



My mother gave me this sits fabric ones with these beautiful borders. As you can see I used the smal borders in between. I'm going to use the large border as a finishing border. So to be continued again!

The continuation of my matroushka quiltje

Besides working, doing all the usual house keeping and re-organizing my sewing-room (which was verry necessary) I worked on my little matroushka quilt and made these.....


Three in a row,


Twin sisters,


Mam with her two rascal kids,


Mamie and her tiny, big, girl,


We are best friends,


Baby inside.

The next one are schoolkids,


I'm planning to make 12 or 16 little square blocks, so there will be more...
But first I'm going to work on my easter-bunny-swap!

Have a good week everyone.

Sweaters and vests

I wonder, 'why were there so little comments on my last post?' (LOL), hi,hi,hi
It seems nobody wants to be tagged...

Since I'm making bags from vests and sweaters, I always search for nice (old)new ones. And people around me collect them with me!
And I'm starting to get a nice second hand collection!Sweaters to make new fantastic bags!
And as I showed in my last post, I made this bag from an old Oilily sweater.



This bag gives me a springtime feeling! And today it felt like spring is on it's way! Oh, I can't wait... we had enough grey days! We want to feel the sun!

And yesterday while I was going through these....



To start a new bag-design...
..it seemed I have the "matroushka disease" Instead of making a bag from another sweater I made this....



I made something else but that remains a secret!

A fast week

Sometimes a week has gone by before you know! This is one of those weeks. I planned to do a lot of sewing on my matroushka's but it didn't work out!
There were long day's at school, the art-exhibition (about African art)....



Here you see a few things the younger kids made.
The whole school has been working on this project and it's too much to show, but it was a great succes!



.... helping with homework and I had to help my 11 year old doughter a little, she made her own carnival costume this week! (Madame the Pompadour)



The front, with the make-up on looks much better, but she didn't want her face on the blog.

But somehow I did manage to get started with these fabrics,



And made these...





Wel I'm going to fetch my kids from school, they have their carnival feast this afternoon. I hope they had a lot of fun being Madame the pompadour and a soldier.
Have a good weekend every one!!

Matroushka's

Becouse my youngest had the flu, I couldn't do much else than make little matrouska's and stay near by.
By the time he was a little better I had a full box with little matroushka's.



I know, I told you (in my last post) it would be a little quilt....
But it turned out a little different. As you can see!



While I was making them, each little matroushka got her own purpose.

There is the little messenger matroushka:



The little perfume matroushka:



The little key hanger Matroushka and a brooch matroushka:



And there are the gift bottle matroushka and the cabinet doorhanger matroushka:



I stil want to make a little matroushka quilt! My mom gave me these beautiful old Dutch sits-cotton.



(Den Haan en Wagenmakers)Which she bought in the store by Olga Prins.

Don't you Think they'll look gorgeous as little matroushka's.... to be continued!