MY SOUTH AFRICAN TERRASSE

Im the spring I decided to make our terrasse a little more nice. I had some fabric my nice bought in South Africa for me and I used it to make some platemats and some pillows for the chairs.
This is how it looks when it is sunny weather:

ANGLEPLAY

I have bought Margeret Millers ruler for Angleplay and I really enjoyed to use them. On her webside http://www.millerquilts.com/ there are good instructions for everything and I have learned a lot from them.

I also have her two books belonging to the rulers:

I have made 6 platemates for our dining table and it was very fun making them.

DYING MY OWN THREAD

For a time I have been facinated by thread so I wanted to try to dye my own version.
I bought some cotten thread and started.

First I unpacked the thread and prepared some small wodden sticks. I also had some small plastic jars to dye in.

I wrapped the white thread round the sticks using a big bucket as a help.

 Then I started to make the dye baths.

Here the wrapped threads are ready for dying.

I made some yellow to all of the stichs. In the other end of the stick there had to be an other color: Blue, red and brown.

I hoped that the colors would blend with the yellow, but it didn't happen.
I washed out the dye, dried the threads, and in the end I had 3 tupes of colored thread.

Hope you like it. I am looking forward to use it.

Stamps with rubbers

I trie to make some rubberstamps and used it like an expieriment to make surface design.

First I found some rubbers.

Then I draw a patteren om the stamps.

I carved the stamp so that there were ups and downs. I used some knives i have bought.

 

Then I paintet the stamps with different colors and sone acrylic paint for the use of fabric painting.

This is how it looks in the end of the experiment. In fact - It worked very well. :-)

Presents for my granddaughters

YES. I have had a new granddtaughter. EMMA.

Here she is.

A wonderfull little girl, who makes me very proud.

I have made some things for her, and I hope she will enjoy them.

Here you can see what I have been working at:

As a quilter one have to make a baby blanket. This one has the heart as a theme. In the fabric collection, in the applicee and in the quilting.

For both my girls I have made a ball.

This one for the oldest girl, Olivia:

I had the pattern from this quilter: http://bassebufas.blogspot.com/2011/01/diy-pa-babybold.html

The ball for Emma is called a Boubble Ball. I bought the pattern from this webside:
http://www.vanillahousedesigns.com/patterns/fun-for-sewing/

I used some of my self dyied fabric and a lot of different scraps. It was really fun to make and as Emma gets a little older I know that she will like it.

The Oak Three

Round our summer house there is a lot of oak threes. I took a photo of them and especialy the leaves vere interesting. I used the photo in the EQ7 and thought the colors blended vith the snow dyed fabric I made some time ago.
I decided to make a small quilt with the theme Oak three.


Broches

I am more and more into embroidery, and here I mean free embroidery on my sewing machine and some times also by the hand.

Resently i had some ideas from the artist Linda Miller and her book "Creative machine embroidery". The book is very recomendable for those who embroider this way.

I bought two copies and gave one to my friend Hanne Goetske who is a painter. You can find your way to her webside here: http://www.goetske-art.dk/

Together we have made the 5 broches shown below here. Hanne has given me the

motives and I have done the embroidery. Super teamwork. :-)

I have learned that you have to fill your bobbin with the tread you use for the embroidery. One of the broches is not so clear in color because I used some white thead in the bobbin.

ATC

For the first time I have made an ATC - Artist trading Card. I joiner the group in Stitching Fingers and accepted a swap. We had to make an ATC about the wildlife and send it to an other person on the list. I nce have tried this with Fabric Postcards and I liked it so much.
I think that an ATC is smaler than the FP and it was more difficult to do it.

Here is my ATC:



Summer quilt

Last summer I started sewing a quilt inspired by the way Alicia Merrett does. http://www.aliciamerrett.com/

She has shown how to cut and sew on tre videos on you tupe. Find them and learn.

I wanted to make a small quilt for our terrasse in pale colors, but it took some time. I learned that the binding has to be sewn in hand to make it right. Not on the sewing machine. I will remember that in the future.

I gave the quilt to a little girl I know.

          

HANSEN

Our neighbours has had a small dog called HANSEN. They were so kind to bring back a PW book from the USA for me, and of corse I had to make HANSEN a carpet to sleep on.