All of the strips for the toddler quilt are cut into squares now and the machine is put away – ready to sew Quilting on Court Jester from Friday night. A little more than usual got done One more long strip attached to Noriko’s Star linking to Kate’s Life in Pieces, Cynthia’s Quilting is More […]
read moreYesterday morning first thing I put more tomatoes in the crockpot for the Marinara Sauce – while it was simmering away I was able to sit and sew and got all the blocks done that I had cut out – now today I need to cut more strips and cut the squares with the Accuquilt. […]
read moreYesterday we celebrated the 4th at home by ourselves. We had no plans and it was pretty much just another day for us. Grass was cut, regular jobs around the house and I got down to work on the toddler quilt. I made a bunch of 9 patch blocks and got them cut in half […]
read moreYesterday I started to work on the toddle scrappy quilt – well scrappy in a way – the fabric line is a bunch of fat quarters that were in a bundle – so they are coordinated but yet this is a scrappy quilt if you know what I mean. I am cutting one strip to […]
read moreI finished the binding yesterday and got the doll quilt washed and dried and pleased to say it only shrunk an inch on all sides – it is now 23×23 inches nice size for baby or doll. Linking to From Bolt to Beauty — Wendy’s Quilts and More — It was another hot one although […]
read moreThe binding on the doll quilt was put on now to do the hand stitching – it shouldn’t take real long it is small. I don’t usually pin the whole thing in place I don’t know why I did this time but it is now ready to work on. The section I was working on […]
read moreI really don’t care for machine quilting but I can do it. I do not do free motion I have tried a couple times and the back of the project always looks horrible so I stick with straight lines or a wavy line that I can set on the machine and that is what I […]
read moreI decided to get my fabric ready for the disappearing nine patch toddle quilt – I still have the doll quilt to finish up but I needed a change – these creases were so bad – I have had the fabric bundle for over a year without opening it so I thought washing it would […]
read moreI really need to get the doll quilt finished and then move on to the toddler quilt and get that one done but I find I did nothing but look at fabric and designs. I am thinking of a one block repeat for the toddler quilt and pulled out the fabric bundles that I have […]
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I present you my new hobby : crochet for my grand children. My crochet soft toys had so much success in the family that I decided to crochet as well for my etsy shop.
So happy for being rewarded and becoming Top Seller!!
You can find all my creations at yayaCousette
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On its way to baby J is this new knitted suit.
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For me, as for everybody, life was not easy lately... and all those events brought many changes in our way of life.
However good things also happened : I now have five wonderful grand children, four boys and a girl and I mainly sew for them and for the family newborns. There are so many pleasant projects to create for babys, and they are so quickly done! It's such a pleasure to have a quick result. Therefore I am not working on big quilts anymore.
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