Booming with creativity

I've been on a creative high lately...

I made this omelet, with eggs from our chicken and home grown radishes.

It tasted as good as it looks!

Then I made this pretty bouquet.

Chives, forget-me-nots and lady's mantle.

The beauty of a raindrop on a leaf...

Happy jumble.

I made one more for our bedroom, and one for my mother and grandmother each.

Our bedroom is almost done: freshly painted walls, new curtains, ...

...beautiful skirting boards, floor re-varnished, ...

... my little writing desks finally fixed, ...

... the bed painted ...

... and made with my favorite Libeco sheets,

... the dresser from my great-grandparent's farm renovated ...

... and this beautiful lamp ready to hang! Willem and I have been working hard on this room!

Sunday afternoon, I made a kite...

... and flew it in the street, for Felix to ride under.

It's very pretty and flew quite well, despite the fickle wind.

I also finished Pieter's wild shirt.

He really likes it, but doesn't like posing.

Almost there...

I have eighty blocks sashed...

... and I bought my batting. Now for the final haul to get my Splendid Sampler basted!

Splendid Sampler™ Spin Off - Full Circle of Friendship

Full Circle of Friendship mini quilt.

When I was making block 59, Circle of Friendship, designed by Michele Muska, I couldn't stop at just a section of the circle. I had cut sections of all the fabrics in my quilt and joined them in a very pretty rainbow, and couldn't bring myself to trim away a part of that to fit the block. So I kept my full circle and made a new section for the block. I have started making a Splendid Mini Quilt using the full rainbow circle. It's not quite finished. I still have to do some hand quilting and binding. But there is a Splendid Sampler™ Challenge going on, so I have decided to enter it as is. Maybe I'll win something ... ?

Not quite finished ...

Partly because I got some pretty thirties repro fabrics for my birthday, and started making Sarah's Sampler from "The Quilter's Apprentice".

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love hand quilting!

Lovely pebble structure!

The block that will go into the Splendid Sampler.