It`s up on my wall!

Yesterday evening I hung my Japanese inspiration up on my living room wall, it gave me a gooood felling...

Yesterday morning I gave it a wash in the bathtub! and then I hung it in front of the fireplace to dry. 

I brought it with me to the Quilt meeting (see Trondheim quiltelag button or blog on my sidebar). I love show and tell, these ladies makes a lot of really beautiful quilts and other crafts. And I enjoy to be able to bring something for show and tell too.

Give me that microphone! ha ha ha

I`m a happy girl! It`s finally done. I have all ready found a new old! wisp to work with.....

Have a look what I bought from Siw at Quiltegaården.

Yammy yammy. Hand dyed in Australia. I bought the colors: Ixia, Damask Rose and (on the bottom) Nutmeg. I have not desidet what to sew yet, but it will be something really small, easy to finish.....

And Yes! I wore my new nametag....

Hanne-Kristine

Happy February

My Japanese Inspiration is done, Yes I`m smiling......

I started on this one 14 September 2007 and finished 1 February 2010, a class with Bente Tufte. It has laid on a shelf about a year before I started to hand quilt. I put it in the quilting frame strait after I removed my "Butterfly Garden" by Leanne Beasley, about 23.30 at night and quilted for an hour! (I was inspirited...... hi hi hi).

I`m going to give it a wash, to remove the pen lines.

Then I`m going to make a lable, I`ve already started to draw one.

The back look so cool, I like the quilted effect.

I`ve also finished the to Wish quilt blocks and have made a new one ready to be stitched.

Hanne-Kristine

Still, still handquilting.....

Have you ever started something, and when you think you`re finished your not! Well, I thought I was done last night.....but then when I had a good look at it I decided to quilt some more... But it looks good though... :o)

I`m quilting in the triangle borders around the middle piece.

I also think I`ll need to have some stitches around the "star" too, to make it show better. It kind of vanished in all my quilting.....hi  hi    hi.... yay!

What do you think?    Please let me know.... :o)

Hanne-Kristine

Still handquilting

I`m still handquilting in the middle, slowly but I`m getting there...

Hanne-Kristine

The binding is done!

The binding and pocket row on my Japanese inspiration is done.

Now i can enjoy to hand quilt the rest of the weekend....... yes  :o)

Me sewing the binding

Pocket row

Pocket row and binding is done....

Hanne-Kristine

The binding

This is what 168" or 426 cm of binding can look like!

Corners, pinned on binding and sewing in the dark! My light in the sewing room is not good!

The binding is on.... Yes Yes

Now I can enjoy stitching the binding and pocket row on by hand on the back.....

Hanne-Kristine

Focus project for the comming week

I now need to make some stitches on "The Wish quilt".

I have got two done and......

two well started on.

So I`d like to finish these two this week, and then spend some time on this one, it may be a finish for february.....

This is called Japanese inspiration. I`ts from a class with Bente Tufte in fall 2007. The original model had four stars with applique and the small square framing  (like a window!), but I wanted something smaller... this is about 33" x 33"...not small at all........ It is almost done hand quilted  (the middle is left!). So i need binding and pocket row on the back, then finish quilting in the middle....... hopefully I`ll be done by the end of February....

Hanne-Kristine