A new project

Now that my Jacob’s Ladder top is finished (and I haven’t started quilting her) I have started a new project on my regular sewing machine, a project that was long overdue.

My daughter Eline (15 years) has been asking me for ages now to make her a quilt, only rather than the more muted colors I usually like to work with, she prefers bright colors and modern fabrics.

So last year during our summer holiday in the US Eline and I hit the quiltshops we happened to pass and bought lovely bright fabrics. Also my fellow bee members assisted with giving me brightly colored scraps. Most notably Anita, where Eline and I spent a lovely afternoon going through boxes of her scraps. We came away with a bag full of colorfull stuff, a big ‘thank you’ is in order here.

Eline chose wonky stars as a pattern she would like, such a fun and easy pattern. I am using this tutorial. So now I am chain-piecing, chain-piecing, making stars, making stars.

 

 

 

 

I am enjoying it very much, it is great to be working with such different fabrics than I have been using up till now.

Together with the crochet project I started a few weeks ago and which is coming along nicely, it will be a colorful summer I think.

 

At the moment it is hot, at last, but the weather has been really nice lately anyway. That makes all the little animals in my neighbourhood come out, especially early in the morning when I walk Whopper and before our roads are filled with children and parents on their bicycles going to school. In the early morning we have more bicycles than cars on the roads here, which doesn’t scare these animals away.

 

 

 

These two little friends can always be found in the little playground (which I now call bunny hill) in the morning….

 

 

 

Sometimes the larger white rabbit is with a little black one these days….. his/her baby??

 

Hopping with us to the next corner each morning is this little friend,  making a lot of noise too, I think he/she is trying to protect his nest which must be nearby, the little birdies have not flown out yet, maybe this week.

 

 

I love these early mornings with the sun just out, don’t you?

 

Enjoy the upcoming summer days!

Phyllis