day 14 ... and a birthday ! (14 - 10 - 14)

Yes,

there is a birthday boy !

Ahhhh nice age : 37

(or .... was it the other way round ???)

Anyway we had a rather quiet day,

with all the grandchildren

and pancakes in the end.

But the real party is this Sunday.

Because Jude, in her small journeys, is talking

about the "her" nine patch

it apparently rubs off !

Here is my Pink Ribbon mandala for day number fourteen

"for the love of nine"

Karisma colour pencils on fine watercolour paper  (A5)

The mandala is  12 cm  (5")  in diameter

If you love stitching you might want to have this original artwork.

Please send me an email to fiberrainbow@gmail.com

It costs  € 14, - (+ postage €1,28 in Holland and

€ 2,10 anywhere else)

The money all goes to Pink Ribbon

(see you tomorrow)

and :

(daughter's present : homemade carrot cake : mmmmmm !)

day 4

When I started my drawing this morning 

I was thinking of Tammy 

and how she said there was a moment of sitting still

required before starting.

(I told her it was the same with me ...)

I started with a square,

like a window

or something like a painting on the wall,

but then I made it into a
nine patch

...

There came a person,
who was looking through the window

or at the nine patch.

Then a bird

and another one,

Things, thoughts, streaming, flowing in the wind

(when I'm drawing like that I don't know where it all will end :

my hand has a mind of it's own)

Here is Pink Ribbon mandala number  four

"thoughts about nine"

(I called it ... )

Karisma colour pencils on fine watercolour paper (A5)

mandala 12 cm (5") in diameter

If you would like to have this original artwork

please send me an email to fiberrainbow@gmail.com

It costs  € 4, - (+ postage)

HA .....  FUNNY ...

right before I was starting to write this post

I looked at Jude Hill's blog

(like I always do when I start up the machine)

there was a new nine patch in indigo and white :

a new beginning in her new series "small journeys"

,,, hmmmm ... I might have picked up the vibes ...

*

An envelope came in the post with a new felted piece in RED

from Pauline of the felting exchange

With lots of slits and loops to hang it  ;-)

Thanks Pauline

*

These were the goodies I brought home yesterday

(see you tomorrow)

blue and white

Blue and white

or white and blue ?

I think I have enough nine patch stars now.

Yesterday I spread out the big ikat cloth with the moon

and while I was stitching the nine patches

there was someone waiting patiently

till I had time for some TLC

( his sister is not as demanding for attention as he is ...

dear house guests again for a few days )

After I had all the "nines" I wanted ( for now )

there were still little squares left

I just couldn't resist :

what this may be ???

.....

A biscornu in the making !

two nine patches sewn together :

the point of one, to the middle of the side of the other

What if ... I use only two little ones        turning with a clever forceps ...

top and bottom              or              bottom and top

an old and two new ones

( It always surprises me how much batting you can stuff in such small things )

When you go over to Eva Nerling's blog
( that's where I dicovered the biscornus )
you'll even find a tutorial
for the beautiful embroidered ones she makes !

lucky girl !

That's me !

in more ways than one I would say

but I'm not telling you all of them, that would take ages !!!

But this one I'd like to share with you :

some time ago I got this e-mail from one

of my blogging-world stitching friends : Jacky

who lives in Australia.

She asked if I would like some scraps of fabric from her.

Well, what do you think ?

Ofcourse I said yes to this lovely suggestion

I was honoured by it.

Today I recieved an envelope from far away "Down Under"

Along with the stash was a lovely card with some sweet words on it ...

and look at that !

All those wonderful pieces of fabric !!!
A real treasure

They will easliy find their way into my little or bigger quilts.

I'm a VERY lucky girl, I think

THANK YOU

JACKY

*

Because I almost ran out of little blue squares

I started cutting and ironing again ...

( the folded size is 2,5 cm / 1" square )

so I could sew new "star" nine patches together.

some sunny days

The last few days have been really sunny autumn days

with a bright blue sky.

The days were also bright in the events they brought :

...

some good news

...

man's quiet but joyful birthday

with presents for new creativity

...

a very nice and very crowded Stitch'n Bitch coming together

...

the very last stitches on the "Feathered Star"

(only the sleeve on the back is still missing)

...

and the follow-up on the stitching plan for a big cloth

I'm using up the little already folded squares,

that were planned for something completely different

that never got any further than pinning them on this piece of plastic.

I'm first making nine patches,

which I think look like stars,

then add bigger squares in between

I want to use them on the red brown ikat fabric

on which I stitched the big moon.

( but that big cloth needs some REAL good thinking

about how to continue ... )