Scrap Quilt

I've finished my scrap quilt!! It's quilted in the ditch, so it was a BIG job! The quilt measures 44 x 65" and since I used wool for battting, it will be perfect in my favourite chair during wintertime.
For some strange reason, the drawers where I collect scraps, are nearly filled up again........

ABC i Ord og Bilder - G

This week Petunia says G, and for me;
G is for Garden journal and a Garden center in Greece.

These pages are from a garden journal I made last year:

When on holiday in Greece this autumn, I spent some lovely hours at the local garden center. The only problem was that I couldn't bring one of the topiaries, or other goodies, with me back home!!

I love the way this pot is decorated!

You'll find more G posts here.

A Rainy Day and a Pair of Old Jeans

The weather is perfect for sewing: cold and wet. This is the result after a day like that - plus an old pair of jeans! And there is still fabric left for a box or two.........

ABC i Ord og Bilder - F

F = Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura is one of my favourite places for a holiday. It's the second largest of the Canary Islands, and has a long and interesting history, and of course all one needs for a holiday: sun (the sunniest of all the islands), fantastic beaches (152 - 50 km with fine, white sand and 25 km of black volcanic shingle), lovely food (shrimps in garlic oil is one of my favourites), great temperatures (it rarely falls below 18 C).

Villa Winter is one of the interesting places to visit on the island. It's a lonely place on the south-west coast. One can only reach it on a bumby road which is very dusty!

Don Gustavo (a German engineer called Gustav Winter) built the place, when the southern parts of Fuerteventura was declared a military zone after Hitler "helped" Franco in the Civil War in Spain.

It's said that the villa was built by war prisoners (there is a mysterious cemetry near by), that there were plans to build a submarine base in the village, that Nazis sailed from the small harbour over to South America after the 2nd World War - and a lot of other stories. I don't know what's true, but I've been there, and the villa is still there, and there's the most fantastic beach there. Well worth a visit.

My favourite place on the island is a small fishing village called Morro Jable. a beautiful beach there as well, some 30 km long. Parts of this beach is called Playa Esmeralda and is one of the top ten beaches in the world.

Of course I had to make a fabric postcard from Morro Jable!

You'll find other F posts here.

ABC i Ord og Bilder - E

This week's letter was an Easy match:
E is for Elvis
I made these fabric postcards a while ago for a postcard swap with the theme Elvis - and had great fun finding song titles I could use!

You'll find more posts with E here.

Very Happy!

I feel very happy (although I'll miss the flowers on the blue background)! A company had theese quilts for a while, and I hoped they would buy one or two. They bought them all!!

ABC i ord og bilder - D

This week's letter is D. My first idea was Diamonds - but that was Difficult - only a Day Dream.
Therefore my choice is Doreen who lives Down under. I belong to a group called Fibre Fever. Each month we swap a mini quilt (size 6 x 6").
Doreen is my swap partner this month. Her theme is butterflies, and I sent her this crazy quilt earlier this week. This was my first crazy quilt ever - and I think it will be the one and only - I haven't made any hand embroidery for a long time.........!

You'll find more D posts here.