in time !!! happy birthday J !

Just an hour ago, after lunch,

I made the last stitch

on "Mandala"

Later this afternoon we will visit the birthdaygirl

who reaches the wonderful age of

70

( our mandala teacher/friend ) 

She will nót be behind her computer at this moment

so I can reveal now the quiltlet I made for her  

(I'm a bit surprised myself that I did finish it in such a short time)

a piece of a flower became a butterfly

......

J had two cats (brothers)

but sadly enough one of them died some months ago 

......

and the Polygonatum (Solomon's seal)

 moved from one garden to another

and the next

...

I hope we have many more years of friendship and drawing together !

in a hurry

In a hurry ?

Yes, I am, with my little "in between"

Why should I do thát !

Everything else finished already ?

No

then ....why ?

Well, that's a bit how my clock ticks : 

I want to surprise someone

with a little stitched something

and that is sóón

some scraps

a bit of weaving ...... and some basting

and YES the magic thread is already there !

More ... ???

sorry, that will have to wait

I'll be stitching

baby stitches

Our days (and nights !)

are still filled with "a lot of baby"

Though we worry about various things

he grows like cabbage

(that's all he has to do isn't it ?)

When I see and smell one of my fresh "New Dawn" roses

I think of our new little grandson

sweet !

And in between all the hassle and bustle

I find bits of time

to do some stitches on the little "lots of love" cloth

little bits of fire for the fireman

this one is for Mo Crow's interest

*

There was also time for some mending and washing

......

someone cut of the ribbons of this woolen baby shirt 

so I put on some new ones that I found in my stash

and ten year old "Maisy" clean again

but still dripping !!!

hurray ! ...a new camera .... !

For quite some time now

I wasn't very satisfied

with my Olympus camera anymore,

though I was happy with it for several years.

But lately I was increasingly annoyed

by the shutter lag,

and by the blurry pictures,

it seemed I couldn't hold it steady ...

But with daughter's Sony camera

the photos were okay

(even if I used the display instead of the viewer !)

So :

last Saturday I finally took the big step

of buying a new camera :

the newer brother of daughter's Sony Cybershot

And no better place to play with it than

daughter's place !

... and the garden !

Mmmmmm ... still a lot to learn

to use that new program ...

and to download them onto the computer ....
they might be way too heavy ...

......

Well I'll keep playing

.....

magic ... hearts ... flowers

Many little stitches are made 

on the little wedding cloth

with nine hearts.

Yes

a nine patch of hearts

on the whitish  woven background

All the hearts are stitched to woven the surface
in a different way,
and in the middle is a "magic thread heart"

a blushing piece of silk gauze covers tiny flowers

I also added some flowers
cut from various pieces of fabric

Some lines in the design
are accented by stitch and continue on other parts

On the white bottom part
- a piece cut from an old embroidered blouse -
I will stitch one of the flowers in colour

Ahhhhhhhh 

it is so much fun to stitch again 

..... YAWN ..... !

Yawn ? for a title ?

YES

That's what it is really like over here !

And that is nót "yawn" out of boredom

but simply yawning from lack of sleep

 this one is just a little baby yawn 

of almost three weeks old now

(but I won't show you his mum's yawns

of three weeks of waking nursing nights,

we're all very tired)

So there's a lot of baby

(a lovely little boy !)

and little else.

I tried to start up the stitching mode again

... but as you can see there is this bit of lovely baby again that interferes ...

(but what a great interference !)

stitching, drawing, knitting

.....

later