Little red hill

Yesterday I promised you to show you a detailed picture of the little red hill on the table runner.Well here they are, a set of three little christmas gnomes, one male gnoom is sitting behind the other two, so you can't see him. I made them a couple off years ago.

It is a design from Pop en Plank from the Netherlands. They are made off home made felt off merino wool and the shoes are made from bee wax.

Another nice project is finished

Also just before Christmas I finished another project.

Three snowy christmas pillows. They look very nice on my couch.

A couple of posts back you saw the pictures of the work in progress.

But now they show off on my couch.
And of course the table runner is also finished, and maybe you ask yourself what is that red little hill at the end of the runner? Well read my blog in a couple of days to see a closer look.

Christmas Angel

Just before Christmas I made a lovely Angel by the design of Tilda. I made her together with 3 quilt friends. We bought two boxes with all the materials an paterns for two dolls. So there were 4 dolls to make. we all make one off our own.

It was al lot of fun to make her!

Isn't she adorable??

Christmas Swap Inchie ornaments

First!!! Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, one to bright and the other to dark.

A couple of months ago I signed up for the Christmas Swap Inchie ornaments. But time flies and last friday I received an e-mail from Michelle from Quilting Bloggers to remind me of sending my inchies to my partner. Oeps I didn't do anything.......so last sunday I started to work on the inchie ornaments. Luckily it wasn't a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun to make them and today I send them away to Australia, to my partner for this Swap.

Last sunday I finished the first block of the table runner for Christmas.
And even for the better, before you know it, it is Christmas.

Inspiration....

Last friday at my work, at the quiltshop, there was an Inspiration morning. The theme was magic numbers. A friend of mine maked a beautiful pillowcase of nice christmas fabrics, making use of the technique with magic numbers.

She was laying out her sewed blocks and we looked toghether what was a nice way of stitching them together. I came up whit the idea of laying them in a way so they become smooth lines.

My friend Toos was verry happy with this idea an another course member Ineke noticed that a table runner was also a nice design when you put three pillowcases toghether.

I immediatly was very excited about this idea, and the same evening I designed the table runner and figured out how much fabric I will need for the table runner and two pillowcases.The next day, when I was at work again, I bought the fabric.

Above you can see my choise of the fabrics and the first results.

I have been painting

For two weeks ago I have been painting with two friends of me. We have painted that day with acryllic paint onto aquarelle paper. First I made the background ( with the use of an old credit or phone card), you can see the original colour in the middle of the mandala. Then I draw the mandala with the five pointed star and the flowers and fill them in with another colour of paint. I gave the mandala some accents with a golden marker, and I added some more red paint surrounding the mandala.
I was so nice and fun to do!!
I hope to do it again soon.