My Early Bird journal

I have finally finished my Early Bird Christmas Crafting journal.

I`m very satisfied with the stitchery and the assembly of the whole journal cover,

but I missed one important detail.... enough  seam allowance.....

So the journal got a bit to small, but i squeezed it on!!

I have already written a "to make" list, and now I can start to fill it in on the pages.

I`m also going to keep copies of patterns I`ve used in here for easy assess later...

Hanne-Kristine

More quilting

Today`s quilting took about 6 hours! But then again: I`ve got 3 children to watch.......

I quilted the wide outer border. I used Border Made Easy nr 111.
(the thin one in previous post is nr 115).

Yesterday I cut the border and placed them.
The borders has tape on the sides, but I used some pins too.

So I spent today quilting... It`s getting big and harder to handle!

It`s 6 laps to go! It looks great :oD

Mona asked where I buy them and I buy all my borders at Quiltegården. 

Give Siw a call or send her a mail and she`ll let you know if she`s got the one you want. 

And if she doesn`t, I`m sure she`ll order it for you :oD

When it`s about the length of stitches, here I use a bit more than 4.
I read in Rie Norums book, Quiltegleder page 12 to do so, so I did :oD.........
(It`s to give it a more soft look! like hand quilted...)

Later I will rip of the paper and tomorrow is binding day :oD
(I still need to quilt in the blocks, but I`ll do that another day...)

Hanne-Kristine

I`m so exited....

 More progress.... oh yes!

Border made easy.....

To sew....

To peel off.....

Oh yes! It`s  a bit like Katate Kid (the movie..) Wax on, wax off.....

Tomorrow it`s sewing down tread ends and attashing the wide, outer border...

Oh yes!!!

Progress in deed....

I LOVE THIS QUILT!

I do....

Smiling good night

Hanne-Kristine

Progress...yeah!

I did good yesterday.... I machine quilted for 3 hours!

Today I sewed down the ends and have started attaching border made easy.

Tomorrow it`s back to the sewing machine.....

Hanne-Kristine

Happening right now!

Last monday I finished the quilttop for "the secret" (hemmeligheten).

On Wednesday I bought backing fabric, batting and binding fabric.

Quilt tread and "border made easy" also.

Now I`m ready to roll!

(I`ve found out how to change color on the text! And enlarge it!!!!ha ha ha!!!!)

Hanne-Kristine

Gardening....

The garden earlyer today...

I`m the queen of the lawnmower..but...

I`ve been putting the mowing of, now it`s knee high...

I love these flowers, since childhood they have been my favorite garden flowers.

Two hours later....

7 full wheelbarrow trips to the compost area...

All done.

I`s a dirty job... but mom`s got to do it.... ha ha ha

(You can`t really see it, but I`ve got green fingers.....ha ha ha)

Hanne-Kristine

Finally!

Right now I`m finally found time to stitch...

Hopefully I might be able to finish the Journal later today...

Hanne-Kristine

The drawings for the Journals stitchery is done.

Will hopefully find time to stitch this weekend.....

Hanne-Kristine

Journal is in the making.....

Found some goodies in the sewing room....

Now back to the drawing board, I would like a stitchery on this one. 

It`s going to say Julen 2010 (Christmas 2010) and my name.

I`m very into Lynette Anderson at the time, so I`ve had a reed in Lynette`s:

Rainbow Cottage and I`m doing just a small piece of a larger design...

my way....

Hanne-Kristine

I`ve joined the Early Bird Christmas Crafting over at Judith Tetley`s Creative Studio blog.

Just what I need to get the Christmas gift-making started, and hopefully finished in time.

The challenge starts to day and lasts for 4 months...... 

......and the project pile should have grown a lot by the time it`s done..... 

........I hope.... lots of gifts to give....

We start with making a journal, then a gift list. 

I will add a "to do! list as well... things I would like to make for Christmas.

Now I`m headed downstairs for the sewing room to find fabrics and other things I`ll need to make me a journal.

Hanne-Kristine