Christmas Reindeer Panel by Moda

How do you like these...there are still a couple of those cute panels left, so in case you wanna have one, don't hesitate to message me ;0)!!

So exhausted...

There are days that could be skipped...today was one of those.

I wanted to finish a baby quilt, the only thing left to do was the binding and guess what...it's still not done. I finally gave up and decided to do it tomorrow. I dropped everything, the kids were yelling and shouting and so was I and now I'm just glad I finished the day without major incidents :p...The neighbour just knocked on my door to bring Flynn back home who had escaped and I didn't even notice...What's still to come? Hope we're done for today!

My first followers

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited about my first 2 followers!

Julia and Minette...so nice to meet you here :0)!!

We have summer holidays here with pretty much rain so far and when it's not raining we are heading out to soak up the little sun we get. No risk to get sunburnt at the moment.
On the other hand we have no lack or excess of water, no fires, no earthquakes or tsunamis either, so I think I shouldn't complain...but I always have to remember those catastrophes as I tend, like many others, to long for the things I don't have. But does that make me any happier?? Sure not, I prefer making the best of what I have and that's not bad at all right now: a loving family, good friends, a nice place to live...what more can we expect from life?

Perhaps making new friends here and sharing ideas of what we like doing so much ;0)!!

So, have fun and happy sewing...

The Diva is in a good mood

My Bernina 820 is finally quilting in a way that satisfies me. But OMG what a way to get there, we almost split up!!

But after her makeover at the doc's she's running smoothly now, quilting Zoé's baby blanket and Christelle's Batik dragonfly quilt IN A ROW...no problems, no bitching :-).

Guess the love story is about to begin...

 Baby Blanket, machine pieced and quilted by me and myself :-)

Quilting detail

Doc

So, the diva was to the sewing machine doctor today...hopefully she's better now.

Wish me luck!!

Friend or foe...

Bernina 820 and I

It's something between hate and love, at the moment my feelings of hate are definitely stronger and I could kick her for being such a diva. There's always something about this machine, right now we are having tension problems again!!

Bernina's intentions when planning this machine were probably the best but to me she's not running as smoothly as she should for a baby in that price range. I spend more time fixing problems and trying different tensions, threads, needles in order to get a nice result than finally quilting - which was the motivation to buy her. As I'm always questioning me first, I thought it was my fault, that I was treating her bad and therefor she was grumbling and we were having quite an ambivalent relationship. But after a couple hours of internet research it seems like I'm not alone...there are more out there having trouble with this species. perhaps we should found a group like 820s Anonymous...would you be a member? Let me know!!

Hope you're having a nice day and I'll go and give the diva another try...never give up ;-)!!

Hi folks

Welcome to my brandnew blog, so excited to meet you all here. 

I was hesitating about making a blog for so long...do I really have a lot of interesting things to tell, will anyone be willing to read what I have to say? Yeah, I know, a little more selfconfidence you will suggest and you know what...you're right :-)!! Let's just do it, there are so many blogs in the net and everyone's free to subscribe or not.
So...if you think it might be worth trying come visit me.

I'm not so sure yet what will be the content of this blog...probably a big part will consist of patchwork and quilting, funny kids' stuff, my point of view on different things, cooking, books, TV, travelling,....just don't wanna be too restrictive in the choice of my topics here. Variety makes life interesting, doesn't it ;-)??