Three Kitchen Fairies

Pure Joy

I'm happy and done with this project. It's my embroidery for the Hand Stitched Embroidery Swap. I enjoyed do much making this pattern, choosing the right embroidery hoop (I'm that kind of picky,) and stitching from a couple of hours at my heart's content.

The making of the pattern brought some other observations along such as my need to get in touch with my drawing skills. And needless to say (but I say it anyway,) I fell in love with it again!!!  I hope my secret partner likes it as much as I do. This piece is going to be especially hard to let go. The good thing is that this is a pattern available now.

Yes! So if you want to give it a try my Embroidery Pattern 1: "Joy" is available at my Etsy store. It's in the form of a PDF file for easy delivery thanks to Jose (Mr. TKF). I hope you love it as much as I do.

 

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes.

When you wake up to a dark rainy day, and still you have to go out with three little girls in rain boots, it feels like is not going to be an easy day. I dropped off my girls at their three different destinations and started with my list of errands. First stop the post office. There I was, the wind blew my umbrella's inside out and I'm getting wet. But to my surprise I got a little something in the mail that has totally made my day.

My teeny tiny quilt made by Hanies arrived from Berlin!! Isn't beautiful?? I thought it will take much longer for it to arrive. It took only one week. Thank you so much Tacha!! I love it. It's about 6X6 inches, really teeny tiny. Look at the back:

Incredible cute, and beautifully design. It's like two quilties in one. I love these little robots doing the head shoulders, knees, and toes routine. Tacha also included some cute hippo fabric in the envelope. I saw this fabric before but I never found it at my local fabric stores, I love it.

Now, I have to go back to my day. In my "to do" list:

 Some embroidery for the "Hand Stitched" Embroidery Swap, and then "Reading Workshop" at my daughter's first grade classroom.

Enjoy your weekend!!
 

Live and learn

Well, here it is. I'm not completely happy about how this quilt is looking. I was confident that the fabric I had for the border was enough and it turned out it wasn't. The sections from my beloved "quilt maker's gift" fabric run vertically instead of running from selvage to selvage, and there wasn't enough, and I already have the blocks sewn together. Then I had this wonderful idea of mixing it with some other fabrics in order to make a border. Do I love it?? Not totally. I had this idea in my ming for a perfect quilt (perfect for me,) and now I feel upset about it. Of course the fabric left over is less than enough...Any sugestions??
  

Quilting, thrifting, and swaping.

The bears paws blocks are coming nicely along. I'm working on them during any tiny spare time that I can find. Although I know that I'm entitle to some sort of recreation or just a break during the day, I feel terribly guilty to sew the afternoon away while the girls are doing something else around the house. Then they go to bed, and I feel exhausted...I guess I'll have to work a bit more on my this issue and enjoy myself a bit more. I made these blocks like one or two per day. A total of nine blocks will be perfect for a throw size quilt, with a nice sashing added, and then the border. So far it's looking very fall-ish and very traditional for my taste. This is the first time that a quilt turns out so serious but I guess that's OK as long as it doesn't become the rule.

In the "findings" category today: not one or two but seven, seven yards of this quilters cotton fabric. I got it at the thrift store for $7. There is plenty for quilt backing, lounge pants for me, and even some for swaping if you're interested...

In the swap category: Yes! I made it in time for this swap organized by Ariel. I got my secret partner and I got to make my mosaic with my favorite pictures from flickr. I'm really excited about this one!! I'm planning on making my own embroidery pattern, and I also want to use a couple of pretty fabrics for this one. I also signed up for the Teeny Tiny Mini Swap organized by the famous quiltinkimmie. I got to swap with Hanies in Germany!! She has a lovely photostream, doesn't she?? I guess I just busied myself in terms of sewing.

I'll soon be back with a sneak peek for my swap partners, and more craftiness. Now, I'm going to get the girls from the bus stop and get started with dinner. Happy sewing everyone!!

 

Bear paws

It's starting go get cold around here in Michigan. This week I've been sorting the girls' clothes, putting away the summer clothes, and taking out their winter gear. We're back to sweaters, woolly skirts and tights. At the same time, I've been enjoying the making of these "bear paws." I'm making a throw size quilt for us with the fabric from the "Quilt makers' gift."There is something special about this quilt.  It took me so many years to get used to this country, to this weather... yesterday I realized that it's been 13 years since I moved from my little beach town to here, and with the years I have learned to love this place. I feel inspired by my Michiganian surroundings, its legends, its traditions. All of the sudden the chilly mornings make me happy.