Saturday 24 January 2009

embroidery.

This is a picture of a friendship sampler I have joined the past 1 1/2 year
with 7 people we worked on each others sampler.
My choise was a sampler with trees
I have to make a few more trees and the sampler will be finished


Monday I leave for 3 weeks to india ,
Hope to post pictures of the trip when I come back,
so no post till 17 februari
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Monday 19 January 2009

I found another one in my Houston pictures
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Obama


this picture I made in Houston there was an election corner,
where this quilt was hanging,
I thought it a nice idea to put it on the blog.
I hope that he will be a good president for the hole world.
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Thursday 15 January 2009

india

This picture I made in India afew years ago
I used it when I moved to my new house,
for the mailing with my new address.

the 26th of januari I go to India for 3 weeks
together with a friend we both love textile
so I think our suitcase will be full when we
come back.


( I had a lot of internet problems , that is the reason
that I didn't posted for a while)
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Wednesday 7 January 2009

embroidery

the picture I posted is from a Kantha.
made in West bengalen ( india)
It is embroidered and quilted I have a collection of them,
new and antique.

The message it says : cooking is made more tiresome for girls because the source of water is far away.
the size is 26"x 39"
I have it in my kitchen.
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Sunday 4 January 2009

I want to wish everyone a verry good 2009.

I had a lot of troubles to put a picture on the blog but now I have done it, don't ask me how, but you will see the next week id I can do it again.

I had a question about the scrap quilt the size is 15x15 inch

At the moment I am making scrumbs with 3oth fabric and are working on friendschip cross stitch samplers


this cross stitch cirkel I made for a friendship round