My red work

 

 

 One more done. Mr Rabbit took only last night and a few hours today.

And without the hoop! Didn`t have time to sew the star round it, 

but the next one I do need to sew fabric onto before I stitch it.

Hanne-Kristine

My Santa block

I`m happy as can be.....

.....my Santa block is done.....

This one was a lot of work, and it is amazing how much dmc tread I used to finish.

I have already started on the next one, too small for the hoop.. I`m trying to stitch without

the hoop. Did not have time to sew fabric around it, just had to stitch and stitch.....

Hanne-Kristine

Shopping at Siw`s

I needed 2 more red DMC nr 221 for my Wish quilt, that meant shoppingtrip to Siw`s store.....

I did bye the 2 reds, and some more fabrics...... 

They will look good with rest of the fabrics I have chosen for the quilt.

Some have asked me how the quilt will look like finished, 

I`ve snapped a photo from the magazine.....

I will do some changes: remove some off the check boards with just larger piece off fabric.

I`ve got two stitchery's left, I need to sew fabric on to them before I can stitch them. 

So I`m truly looking forward to lay it all out on the floor to decide witch fabric goes where :oD

Hanne-Kristine

Strings attached....

I can`t remember how the song from the movie Pinocchio goes...

...but it ends with something like: "there are no strings on me"...

...mine has got his strings attached.....

Hanne-Kristine

Slow stitching...

For three days now I have given my red work more than a thread a day....

.....it is coming along....

And I have managed to stitch a rabbit sitting on two gifts, a doll on a ball

and filled three spots on the giraffes neck with satin stitch.

Satin stitches are just killing me, and on these blocks there are a lot of them.

Hanne-Kristine

Todays stitchin....

I stitched the word Wish today....

.....and I had a conversation with Santa....

....he really would like to have a face.... So I stitched that too... :oD

Hanne-Kristine

Easter stitching.....

It has been strange to do Christmas stitchery at Easter....

I`m a SLOW stitcher ...and it has taken me all of the holiday to stitch this:

Cat stitchery Still needs satin stitch in nose, middle of bow,

harts and in the middle of flowers.

Baby birds are all done.

Wish stitchery is one of the large ones. I`m really happy about getting this far...

Hanne-Kristine

A Sundays work

I`ve bees stitching on my Angel all day and when I finished my block, I stitched the name tag for JI. This is now ready to be sewn on, and in my small loop there is a new red block, but it`s not in a hurry, I`m doing something else for the comming week........ Yes I am!  yippee....

Hanne-Kristine

All day long.......

All I did today..... this is taking too loooong! Must do some more tomorrow.... ugh! 

I`ve got the ballerina shoes, the candy sticks and the berries left, I need to hurry because I`m overflowing whit ideas, I`m writing them down so I wont forget them.....ha ha ha

Hanne-Kristine

This week....

This week has been a slow one. With my youngest sick with the cold and my self also, there has not been much energy around. I vent to a preschool meeting at Tuesday and the quilt meeting at Wednesday, and that is it.....

But I have been stitching on my The Wish Quilt block. The Angel..... She is coming around quit nicely...

This has taken me three days to stitch! Yes, I`m slow..... but hopefully I`ll get there tomorrow..... I have allredy found another wisp to finish.... it needs a litle handquilting and then the binding... I will post it when I`m done with my Angel, the prittyest I`ve ever stitched...If I may say....

( She is a Bronwyn Hayes of Red Brolly design).

Sleep well 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

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