Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Xmas


to all my faithful blog-readers
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Countdown.....

Here's a super link to many many other christmas related patschwork links:
http://stylesource.chez-alice.fr/modelesnoelpatchcouture.htm
You now have exactly 365 days to sew something special for christmas 2010! :-)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Neckties....

Todays link is for all the neckties collectors, perhaps you will find here an idea to recycle all this beautiful neckties:http://woofnanny.blogspot.com/search/label/Sewing%20with%20Neckties
http://huntsville.about.com/cs/women/a/tiequilt.htm

CU tomorrow, and have a nice day!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The northpole village....

When you have small children or grand-children this will be the perfect link:
http://www.northpole.com/

and another tutorial for a small bag, so cute to pack a little gift for christmas.....
http://www.psiquilt.com/2009/08/friendship-bag-tutorial.html

Have a nice day!

Monday, December 21, 2009

A very unusual XMas tree...



Doesn't it look pretty?...the recycled bottles tree....
you can read more about this tree here:

and another two links with plenty of christmas songs:

To all my faithful blog-readers a very happy and friendly day!



Sunday, December 20, 2009

Snow....



Some pics  I took this morning.....
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Hmmm...that was our dinner today...
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Christmas ornaments...

Do you need some more?
http://www.cddesigns.com/PaperPiecing/index.html#EPP-FreeProjects
http://www.elsiemarley.com/pattern-for-a-half-eaten-gingerbread-man.html

4 days left to do them! :-)
...or 369 days, because next christmas will come for sure....

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Do you like hexagons?

Here's the next link:
http://www.sewingandbeyond.com/tutorials.php
with 2 pdf Tutorials
- cutting equilateral hexagons
- needle and thread approach to the folded hexagon

Take you time to explore Mary Anne Ciccotelli's great site!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Snowman door-hanger

Todays link is a cute little snowman. Plenty of time to sew it until christmas:
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projects-ideas/bags-pillows/snowman-door-hanger_1.html

Have fun!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Some interesting links.....

I will try to post every day, until Christmas, one or more different interesting links with free pattern in the www,
so come back to check out.
Today some links for messenger (laptop) bags I found yesterday:
Corinne has on her blog a tutorial for a beautiful messenger bag:
http://pinoyinoz.blogspot.com/2008/07/tutorial-messenger-bag-with-zip-top.html
Here is another one from weeken designer:
http://wkdesigner.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/push-the-envelope/

Have fun and drop them a note when you used their patterns and tutorial.

Back in my studio....













......after all this sad time.
I try to come back to my daily life.
This is the beginning of a small wall-hanging........
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all my different self-dyed blues....
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the design needed a little bit more colour....
red and yeallow spirals and some tiny bars....
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some hand-quilting... I will try to sandwich it today and to add some more machine-quilting....
I will post the result.... :-)

I don't know what happened that the pics are not clickable to enlarge....Picasa changed something???
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Give away

On GETA's blog you can win a wonderful little christmas quilt in shadow trapunto technic.
Visit her blog and comment to have a chance to win.