The quilt hung at a show in 2002 ! I found a picture and thought it is nice to share it with you. Because you can see the quilt better !

Lucy

oldie

Because I have a busy time with my dad , a few birthdays , Sinterklaas etc.etc. I do not have a lot of time to sew right now. So I will show you an oldie. It is my second quilt. I made it for my daughter Purdey . I was inspired by a cheque advertisement in a quilt magazine .. It was a very small picture of just the lemoyestar but enough for me to make this quilt.

Lucy

pieced by hand, quilted by hand, I even did the binding by hand :-)





update:

As you all know I can brag.... This evening I took Purdey to bed. And I looked at the lable on her quilt. Hmmmmm I read that I finished it in 2002 . That means that I started this quilt as my second quilt.. But I didn't finished it as my second :-) .... Because I started quilting in 1996. And I don't think that I finished two quilts in 6 years !!!!
I think I have to refresh my memory.*LOL *
Lucy

Update about my dad....

For those of you that follow my dad's health.....

Last time he had to go to hospital for a day or two every month because of his kidney. The kidney doesn't work for 100% and is giving a lot of trouble !

Yesterday we got the result from the scan. That wasn't good. The cancer is back and they are not able to help him. An operation is too difficult, the doctors expect too many problems.
At the moment he has very much pain in his leg.And this has been going on already for weeks. He cab hardly walk . We heard that the tumor is growing in the left side of his back in a musle close to an artery and nerves... That causes the trouble with his leg...
He cannot have chemotherapy because of he only has one kidney left, ( the other kidney has already been removed surgically) They can only give him radiotherapy to shrink the tumor and lessen the pain. It is not for recovery ....

This is so hard t hear .. It was so painful to see my dad and my mom when the doctor told him this news . My heart is broken ...

Lucy

sometimes you don't want to do.......

Sometimes you don't want to do shopping,cleaning,ironning,cooking,reading even sewing ......... and you see your son doing a game...
I only can say try it :-)) draw a line and see what happens

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

Lucy

ps.... it is addicted to make a longggggg perfect line

..oeps wrong order

I wanted to show so many pictures from the antique quilts (and with a high resolution ) .. that it didn't fitt in one post.
I had to make two post of it .... and I did it in the wrong order :-/

Lucy

Next quilt is also from the 30's... A beautiful scrap quilt with so many different pieces of fabrics. You keep looking at it :-)
On the back you can see that it is also beautifull quilted!



Last but not least. It is the quilt I brought with me from the smokey mountains. It is a 40's string quilt .




Lucy

retreat 2

It was so great that we had 4 antique/old quilts at the Show and Tell.

This is a nine patch from the 30's . It is a beauty in simplicity I think . And the quilting is very interesting!

Next quilt is from 1880... On the quilt are blue marking lines. We try to find out why? I heard that it could be that the quilt is quilted by a another generation in the 20's because the blue markers were populair at that time ( thanks kathie :-)




The owner found this quilt in a shop in Canada.It was under a pile of ... "something" And she could take it home with her for a very low price :-)
We don't know the date. It looks like that it was made from pyama's and shirts. The blue border is perfect I think !

Retreat

I am home from a great weekend . It is always fun to sew with a group of woman together!!! It is a treat to sew and that you only have to stop for a meal .... not for housekeeping not for groceries not for.... etc.etc.


As you can see I am a woman who is afraid to have something at home while I need it.. This is the stuff from two quilters. Karin, my friend , and me :-)

This was a sample from the pattern we all have done this weekend.


....and some results.....



Me, promoting my sewing machine .... I thought like in a special kind of brochure. But if woman see a picture like this, they don't buy a pfaff anymore :-)) A stupid picture from myself , but we had so much fun !!

And this is what I made !




Lucy

Thank you, thank you

Thank you all for your positive words about my UFO !! I am impressed that I got so many comments and that I inspired so many woman. I hope to see one day your reduced Ufos :-) .
I spend my week most with my nose in all my quiltbooks.. enjoying the beautiful quilts and new inspirations . By the time I will make a desicion what I am going to do.
This weekend I am on a retrait. When I am home I show you a new top!
(I hope ;-)

Lucy



~a tulip block inspired by a antique quilt on ebay~