a finish

Yay - Vicotry ... I always love finishing the last two stitches of the binding. Now you will have to excuse the crappy pictures but the weather here is rather un-sunny in the last few days and it's not looking like it's changing so when I decided yesterday evening not to take pictures with a flash I didn't want to wait another day to take a few pictures.

So let me introduce my newest finish:

 "Walk the Line" it's 47" x 67" (or 120cm x 170cm)

a quilting detail (and much better colours)

And that's it I need to go back to my papers and in between try to memorise plays ... and iron binding for the other quilt ... maybe more of the black I have a lot of black binding left over....

 Leo

being busy

So I start to feel a little bad posting so much - but hey I finally have some real "time" on my hands so I need to suse it right?! Well I did - Thursday was a holiday and Friday was turned into a "bridge day" so I finished quilting my D9P.

Well some details - try not to see all the loose threads I still need to take care of - I really should look into those meandering-endless designs. Uhh yeah when do I ever do what I should be doing ... why take the easy way if there's a complicated one.

Oh yeah and I think Imentioned using a sheet? bed cover? hmm I can't be bothered to look it up - anyway it's alovely rosé with rosé white flowers and brownish leaves (mind it's NOT pink - I don't do pink - except for very very good friends who know how to make me feel guilty if I refuse)

Well and as I was at the sewing machine - and needed a quilting break I took out a handful of scraps I got in the post that morning and - there it was a pre-cut flower, which I deemed perfect to give my sports trousers a "Ladylike" touch. I would have prefered a red or green and blue striped shorts - but I couldn't find any without pockets so I got stuck with the blue soccer shorts. Well I should have chosen a more girly sport like hmmm volley ball or tennis or badminton and I could get my colourfull shorts/skirts ...

And here a complete shot - ehh and yeah that's the next quilt waiting for the basting pins so I can quilt it - the weather is really miserbale - The "ice holies" start tomorrow and they really want to do right by their name.

And that's it - wll until I finish quilting the next quilt - I just need to settle on a "design".

 Leo

quilting at last and other things

I finished this top a really really long time ago - I think it's my first "big" quilt top ever. I made it using my first giveaway winnings - a charm pack. Well I was out of batting for the last 2 or 3 months and finally got a load last week, but couldn'T start anything as I had to prepare for my sister's confirmation - lot's of nice food and an interessting field study on the reaction of my catholic grandparents (both in their late 80ies) to the protestant service.

So anyway that's my quilting/sewing corner (I should clean up a bit before quilting errr taking pictures next time) so far it's been stitch in the ditch-ing for me. But I already started on the big triangles. [here's a picture of the top] And if you wonder what the backing is - yes it's sort of a rosé coloured fabric with flowers printed on it - well a vintage sheet - cut open on one side, was just big enough for the back. Now you could probably say it doesn't fit - well I'm not one to worry too much about such things and I like the front and I like the back so they work together.

Oh and I think I haven'T shown you my April bee blocks yet? I was in such a hurry to get them send off that I forgot to do a post about them - I need to work on making more individual posts instead of one big post with a ton of things in it - I know that the attention span of humans has limits.

And as a last picture to cause an overload on your end - I finished that quilt as a Christmas present and never took a picture so while visiting for the confirmation I snuck up on my sister and got a shot - she's not into having her pictures taken, though it's gettign better she doesn't hide anymore on group shots. [Not that I'm any better]

 
 Leo

some sewing at last

Well I had planned to get more sewign done yesterday - but lucky for me today is a holiday so I have time to catch up and take care of my blue / purple knee (nature does have some pretty amazing shades of colours. But I said I did get some sewing done - it's a mini quilt for a swap and it should have been done in March and I feel terrible for being late, but (contrary to me) my swap partner is a very patient Lady.

We had a pretty beautiful sun set yesterday and I snuck out taking a few pictures - I'm just glad they (Dortmund and Real Madrid) didn't make any goals.

 Leo

I got mail

remember?  a few wekks back I send out some bee blocks? or maybe you could call it swap blocks? hmm well desn't matter mine arrived all. Well my mum is taking care of them for me. Aye well I'm not exactly a patient person, so she opened them for me and took pictures. (And uhh yes that's a brigth red carpet in "my" room - well it's not really mine anymore there is just a lot of my things there)

 Leo

The usual suspects that I link to

an unproductive week

I didn't do any sewing - I went a whole week without touching fabric - well it was the first week of classes so I guess that's ok. My classes are probably irrelevant to the general audience. So what else did I do to keep me from sewing.

Well I did some ballett - though I look much less graceful than the young Ladies on the picture - but it was interessting to do something that didn't involve running or a ball or any other major sources of injuries.

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Then some singing - I'm really really really overjoyed that I didn't have to audition for the Choir. auditioning is a major put off for me. The choir has the healthy attitude - if you join then you probably know what you are doing. So I'm in the soprano rehearsing Haydn's Creation.

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Ahh yes - I couldn't quite resist a sport with running, a ball and likely injuries - well I chose the "light" version. Flag Football you don't actually have to throw yourself on someone to stop them you just have to catch a "Flag" (the red and then yellow bands around the waist). Now I just need to learn all those names - Quarter Bakc, Receiver, tight right, slot left - well I guess you know all about it. But for me that's complete gibberish - fun gibberish though.

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That being said I had some majorly sour muscles today - and couldn't really move so I read a lot - but maybe my shoulders and arms won't be complaining that much anymore tomorrow and I will be able to cut some fabric. Celebrate Sunday with some sewing. On another note - it's cold again, Temps dropped below 10°C so not fair.

 Leo

200 and nothing special

You know there should be some programming on blogger that sends you a card or so for "round" numbers of posts - yes and a birhtday banner would be nice too, well seems as usual we have to do all on our own.

I never woudl have thought I  made it this long in blogworld - and have soem people that seem to actually be reading (well ok I know they do) what I write. Last week I said I would do a give away but well I'm not really good at those kind of things. And can never think of something to give away.

So for the moment you will have to do with a few nice pictures of this weekends catch-up sewing. Yes the first one needs trimming, the second is a tad boring, the blue one I'm undecided the rainbow one I love:

Hmm yeah that'S it - I still need to take pictures of the other two bee blocks, but my SD-card was full so I need to give i a thorough clean-out and order processing first.

Oh and amazing news - it's sunny. Yes I have been seeing the sun for more tha 3 hours today and it's actually warm enough to leave the window open (if you sit in the sunny spot and leave your sweater on). But hey it's sunny!

Leo

almost 200

I just realised that I have almost reached the 200st post - now if I had a sponsor they would probably hand over something nice to have a give away. But yeah I sponsor myself - so I will wait until I figure something out to write the next post.

I had a lovely easter time at home - I even did some sewing, but do you think I remembered to take pictures?

I got rid of our cherry tree though - and dug out that old windowsill - and just left it there until "someone" finds the will to place it as path for picking raspberries.

As far as my plan goes - this is going to be my new sewing place, there is just the tiny problem that I'm too scared to fill the rack with fabric - because it might be a little to heavy for my DIY-rack and the hangers. Well I won't risk it - time will tell what things end up in it.

I finished putting my name on the lists for the lectures - let's hope I get in everywhere. So now I have time to start on my "I moved - here is my new address"-mailing, unorganised as I am I still remembered to get stamps after registering at the town - that makes my now an official resident of "Rhineland-Palatinate" (I wonder how you pronounce that one).

UDATE: I just realised I'm never ever going to be a fan of Hershey's Milk chocolate.

Leo

dozen in one post

uhh yes I have been quiet - didn't read a single blog, barely read any mails, but I read a thousand books and had lot's of chicken soup, I could effectively refuse the offers of warm beer. Now after a week I reduced my tissue usage to hmm 2 packs a day, I almost used up a honey jar and there's no thyme left on the spice rack.

So I did promise some potholders - because yes I did finish them on the train.

I even started quilting something - no idea what I thought when I started apart from "I want to work on my tiny stitches"

Ok the circles are far from round - storing the project squeezed in a tiny bag didn't really  help with the wrinkles. For comparison that is a circle:

And that is a lunch that's composed of food sins - not really healthy at all but tasty and yes perfect to scare off a lot of people - they just don't appreciate it.

That's some "Münster", deliciously smelly cheese at the left, half a bread with "Griebenschmalz", lard and greaves, "grobe Leberwurst", liver sausage with chunks in it, not the finely ground kind then there's some "Bauernbratwurst", well hmm no idea how to explain that one then there is "Schwarzwurst" (black sausage) that wants some mustard to go along - I won't tell you what's in it because then you might not ever give it a try if you come across it.

Don't be afraid you can get some simple plain cheese or a salami here if you want- much more common actually. Well yeah most people don't like the "traditional food" because they want to firmly believe that meat grows on trees and that chickens are made up completely of chicken breasts and cows only consist of tenderloin and the occasional steak.

So that was todays excursion into strange German food - maybe I should introduce more of that. Some "Szegediner Gulasch" (which is not German at all but my Grandpa used to cook it a lot and there's Sauerkraut in it)

 Leo

what I start with

That's what I did last time I was playing around in the mudd (that was between the years) - well I dug some new beds, and also finished that one - it's now wating to get some sort of path laid through it - big stepping stones (I'm sitting in fron of the gate to the back where the wood shed and compost heaps are) as a short cut - sort of.

And I thoroughly I cursed whoever put in those metal stakes to hold I don't know what - but they did a pretty thorough job at making sure it wasn't easy to dig them out again.

but hey I got them all out - no chance getting me to defeat in the garden

The post is scheduled so still no sewing - but as my train travelling home usually takes quite a long time I should be able to show something, well at least a pair of potholders.

 Leo