While he is sleeping (or eating)

Yet another thing I found I can do while feeding my son of having him sleeping on me, besides reading or going to sleep myself is knitting and crocheting and I like it.
Especially in these last days of the summer beginning of fall when we can still sit in the garden en enjoy the sun.

In the summer I crocheted some baskets for baby-carriages. one pink for my niece and one white for our own baby-carriage.







you make it small because it stretches and holds lots inside.

I don't feel that old

When I cycled today to the post office, the sun above, the wind in my hair ‬ I felt almost like a teenager again. Then I passed near a parking car and saw in my reflection the child seat on the back of my bicycle and recalled I became 34 today. A mother of 2 (handsome!!) boys.
Funny I don't feel 34. I don't feel 19 (luckily ), 25 or 30 for that matter.
I was just happy today. Not usually to my birthdays..

First publication

My mini-quilt has been published in an Israeli patchwork magazine!
"Bad va-od" (translated: fabric and more) is a new patchwork magazine in Hebrew. The only one as far as I know. I participated in the challenge "In my shoes closet"
my first publication.





I wrote: Being an untypical woman, my shoes-closet, if I had one, would have been very boring. Therefor I decided to design my fantasy pumps. The mini quilt is called : "I wish"

As I wrote in my Etsy profile : My grandmother was sewing custom dresses for living and had 100 pairs of shoes, all colors, mostly very-high heels. She walked on high heels when she was 80 years old!

Techniques:

• vlisofix applique
• machine quilting
• beading and 3D sweetheart roses.
  

Last weekend of summer

I tried springing from one end of the path to the other, tried walking on the side breaks and still everytime it rains I get water in my shoes.
It doesn't look best but it works.


In a few weeks it will be cold all the time, the trees will be naked, everything will be gray and I will have to go back to work after my maternity leave ended. It actually ended last week but I managed to get 6 more weeks..
I took some pictures today of the last weekend of summer:

dry Clematis

last grapes

last rose

Crosses and circles blanket

First I get an idea and than I look for a way to work it out. That is how it went this time too. I had the idea of quilting a circle in every cross. Every circle with a thread in the color of the cross. That is a lot of thread changing...
I found a round dish exactly the size of the circle that I needed and drawn circles on a A4 sticker. Thank cut the circles and stick them on the fabric. I used 6 stickers and at the end they didn't stick anymore.
I used green fleece for the backing and no batting because the fleece is soft and warm as it is.



At the end the back looked like this:

And the whole blanket after binding it this weekend (binding, yet another thing to the list of things-you-can-do-while-breastfeeding) is already in use at the moment while Shaun takes a nap in the baby carriage.


This week I also got the new "Quiltnieuws" the magazine of the Dutch Quilters Guild and the themes for the 2 quilting exhibition/competitions are known: Blues and Climate. I started working about ideas.