Easter Bunny Wishes you...

Joyful Easter!!!

If you are interested in to embroider of your own Easter Bunny, you will find the pattern here. It's Bunny pincushion, which is only one of the many Easter projects by Bronwyn Hayes.

BibeloT Story AND Jotain valmista joka kuukausi HuHtiKuu

I know I should have written this story yesterday, because it was the first day of April and the parades
at Sinta Renee and at Sherri are going on...

but better now than never?

 Bibelot story continued on last Friday...
Do you believe, how wonderful it felt to sit next to dearB. and start to sew ;o) after few weeks break!!!
First I added the inner white borders and then sewed the Hunky Dory rectangulars together...
and when I began to sew THEM to the borders... I met some problems!!!!
KÄÄÄÄK!!!! They were TOO long!
(Am I little rusty?)

 What shall I do now? Shall I add one more 'inner' border or...

 I did a decision and sewed green spotty border.
But after that Fenix was already too eager to decide the places for the butterflies!

 See... how focused he is!!!

 After a while he pointed to a new location...
but this time I wasn't sure of his opinion.

Because I didn't want to break the T -blocks too much...

 ... I appliqued only two butterflies to the corner.
Bibelot is now waiting for the batting and quilting... and I'll continue with it ASAP ;O)

Finally, a quick rewiev of...

Jotain valmista joka kuukausi projektini huhtikuussa on
Leanne Beasleyn Butterfly Garden.

In April I'm gonna finish Leanne Beasley's Butterfly Garden.
I started it as a BOM (ordered it from Honeysuckle Gottage) in spring 2008. I did five blocks more or less in time, but then it slowed down...
Last year I got some boost from Hanne and May-Britt. They had a goal to finish it before summer 2011. They managed, but I didn't :o/
I stitched all blocks, except the last one!!! Can you believe THAT?

Joten alkutilanne huhtikuulle on:
yhdeksästä blokista 8 valmiina, yhdeksännen miniblokit ommeltu yhteen, muttei vielä applikoitu eikä kirjottu.
Huh, vuoden ensimmäisiin haasteisiini verrattuna kovin haaste edessä ;o)
mutta haluaisin sen toukokuun alkuun valmiiksi!
Peukut pystyyn, tytöt, että onnistun!!!

Hauskaa pääsiäisviikon alkua kaikille!!!!
Happy week to you!!!

PS. Did you remember Zakka Style Sew along started today?

Again... a quiet week

I have done nothing in this week,

except I have been lying in the bed both in the hospital and at the home.

After several medical examinations were made a thrombosis was found on my leg, so it can happen that there is silent week coming...

The treatment is now started. But my leg need rest and I can't sit steady for a long periods or move too much.

But we all know that sometimes in life it may be more important things than beloved sewing hobbies..

Don't worry I'll be back ASAP ;o)

I have to try to do atleast one important school project first... but sitting at the computer is somewhat painful... but I'll try... I just don't know, if I can... hopeless...

Despite of this, I have something to show you, because recently I have been also spoiled ;o)

 A surpise present from Bev.

The present was VERY beautifully wrapped and inside it was Rosalie Quinlain's book A Stitch in Time.

It's full of tempting patterns with stitcheries. LOVE it!

 A birthday card and cute presents from my dear blogfriend Katrin.

Katrin is very multi-talented lady. Especially her crocheted works are always amazing.

 Isn't that owl SOOOO cutie?

Then I have got inspiring and very useful free motion quilting books...

 ... from my very dear blogfriend Simone. 

She has supported and inspired me during our frienship - a LOT ;o)

 Then I got this book as a gift...

... from my very, VERY dear mother.

It's Lynette Anderson's newest book Country Cottage Quilting. If you are a 'fan' of Lynette's creations, I'll bet you will love this book!!!

I can now only thank...

even if life is a dark moments, there is also PLENTY of glimpses of LIGHT!!!

Thank you my dear friends!!!

I also want to thank everyone else, who posted me warm and nice emails last week!!!

You are treasures ,o)

FNSI in March 2012

It is a long time since I last took part in Friday Night Sew-In. But this week I decided to sew something at Friday n... oh, my night was exactly afternoon.

The project, which I choosed to make was March's Another Year of Schnibbles - Bibelot.

My goal was to finish all the T-blocks, which I need for the top.

The progress was slow, because I sewed one block at time... and I thought, what kind of changes I'll make to the right down corner. I had a nice idea, but I didn't realize, how should I implement it.

Shall I sew only white square there... 

or a bigger T, which would be a nice background for the appliqued b... ;o) 

Shh... I won't now tell you what those b's are...

Fenix also came to think this 'problem'...

 in fact, he came to purr-say, that it's his feeding time.

So I did a quick solution...

... and here is BibeloT ;-)

Now it's time to think about the borders...

Hopefully your Friday night was fun too!!!

I'm glad that you visited... happy weekend...

A New Pincushion - Cathedral Window

Maybe you have already sewed your own version of this...

 ... Cathedral Window pincushion!

If you are not...

you'll find tutorials at Moda Bake Shop or here. 

More lovely pincushions you'll find here at flickr.

 

 Ages ago I did my first cathedral window pincushion (blue one). It looks little bit different and it's smaller than a new one, which is about 4" x 4" finished.

I sewed the pincushion of the same Hunky dory fabrics as Bibelot.

 

 

So far I have made (only) eight blocks for it. There is 7 x 7 blocks in the pattern. But I know, that I'll make (again) slightly different (atleast smaller) kind of Bibelot. So I ventured to use few charms for the Cathedral Window.

I'm planning to continue Bibelot on Friday Night Sew-in.

Shall you join us?

till Saturday ;o)

A quiet week...

 ... not much has happened...

I did the next appliqued block for My favorite things - quilt. It's a HOME block.

Only the stitches at the other tree are irritating me... because I was too lazy to search for a thread, which would have been more invisible. Better not to look so close... ;)


In March issue of Suuri Käsityö I saw lovely easter decorations... knitted Easter eggs and balls. And guess what... they are patterns by those famous norwegians Arne & Carlos. ;o) Do you remember their Julekuler?

 

Of course, I had to knit one for myself...

Because I like flowers... I knitted a yellow tulip.

... and we are knitting one for Fenix.

Can you guess, what is his favorite egg pattern?

Satu, I think this yellow is purr-fect for the...

SUNNY Sunday and the beginning of the week!!!

Jotain valmista. Osa3 - March

 Purr-relief... finally finished!

I'm so tired of all this work after... I just want to cross my paws... and pur-sleep!

 but Satu is only smiling and...'

Pur-WHAT I see! 

... carrying the CAMERA!!! purOh- pur-NO...

Fenix, come on! 

We must take some pictures now and show to all our dear quilting friends, 

what we have done ;D

 Purr-purr!! Let me just little wash my face...

After minutes!

... and minutes!!

Fenix, you are clean enough! Just take a more representative position!

 Purr,purr!! Is this good enough?

Fenix, please, concentrate on this session! 

What are you doing now...

 Look, Satu!

Have you noticed... there is birdies on that tree? Purr-fect!!!

Oh my, poor catty, hopeless! I'll finish this without you...

 few photos of details...

 ... and then I'm trying to take one at the outdoor. Yesterday I saw very beautiful blanket on the snow on Ulla's blog.

  

Very difficult! Too many shadows...

 

... mutta Jotain valmista maaliskuussa ;D! 

Nyt pääsen valmistelemaan huhtikuun projektia, joka onkin sitten taas suuritöisempi Leanne Beasleyn Butterfly Garden. Siitä yksi blokki kokonaan tekemättä jne.

Ainiin, pitäisi varmaan tehdä niitä koulujuttujakin...

Gardener's Journal finished and first OPAM (or PIP) done ;D!

Now I can concentrate on the project in April, which is Leanne Beasley's Butterfly Garden. It demands more work: one block unstitched and so on.

Oh, and there is the final school projects ahead too...

 

SUNNY WEEK to YOU!!!