I made this notebook cover for a dear friend of mine. It was her birthday, and she recently started her own writing blog, and I wanted too encourage her to keep up her writing sessions, as I love her writings very much. You can read her pieces here, remark: the blog is written in Dutch.

The cover is made for an A5 Hema notebook, and I used the Eline’s Winterhuis happy & bright fabric, and a piece of twill tape for the embroidered text. The elastic for the closing, is made with a small hairband.

If you would like to make your own A5 notebook cover, please feel free to download the instructions.

En hier vind je de Nederlandstalige beschrijving.

This time the book will have a wintery theme, and I also contributed with a few projects. From two of them you see here a sneak peak.

On Eline’s blog the progress of the project can be followed. Last week the photographs were taken, you can read about the photoshoot in this blogpost.

> PDF Nederlandse werkbeschrijving

> PDF English Tutorial

The days are getting darker, that means for me that the creative juices are flowing more. Last weekend I made this patchwork cushion cover. I’m very pleased how the back side turned out, maybe I will promote it to be the front side :-) I only have to deal with button prints on my face afterwards…

The fabrics I used are from Paris, Antwerp and Japan, so it’s full of memories as well.

I started this quilt back in 2008. The pictures below are from September that year. A year later I finished the top by sewing all the blocks together. And today I finally made a decision on the backing, and finished the simple quilting. For the linen fabric backing I was inspired  by the French book ‘Esprit de famille‘ by Audrey Fitzjohn. I love the red combined with all the natural linen.

Now I only have to decide on the binding and sew it on…. maybe next year?? ;-)

I hope not, as I see myself on an August summer night in my hang chair with a book or crochet project with this strawberry and cream blanket for some comfort.

I thought of a red and white checkered binding, but the fabric I found today, the white was just too white. I think I first have to dig in my stash again to find out if I still have enough of the checkered fabric I used for the top, so I can use that for the binding. Or maybe you have any suggestions for me?

Below some pictures of the work I did in September 2008, when I had the house for myself during a whole week. So I could keep my crafting stuff all around the house whole the time :-)

The pattern is by Heather Bailey.

This fabric basket is a prototype I created last Sunday. If you want to make a fabric basket using these same fabrics, you can buy a fat quarter bundle in my shop. Of course you can use the fat quarters for any other project you fancy… ;-) (p.s. I ship worldwide, if you are interested you can send me an e-mail: info(at)bypetra.nl)

The crochet project in the picture is a scarf, from this book which contains a lot more projects I’d like to try. The scarf is now almost finished, only after I had to take out half of it because I didn’t read the diagram right…ahum..

I made this Easter bunny last year, with the help of the pattern by Revoluzza.

I’m so proud that I actually finished a crochet cushion cover. The cushion cover top left, I made with the help of the instructions by Yvonne of Yvestown. The cushion cover is a present for my mom, but I have to make one for myself too, because I miss him already…

The cover for the floor cushion, an 75 x 75 cm IKEA cushion, I made for my best friends birthday. Two years ago I made an other version with pompoms on the side, but now I wanted to try an crocheted edging. And I love it :-)

Yesterday I finished row 11 of my crochet blanket, today I start with row 12, and then I might need to add an extra row to side… but then…. the edging!! I haven’t made a decision on the edging yet. Anyone seen nice edging on internet, or made some herself? Till now I only can come up with the simple shell edging I also used for the cushion cover.

Last sunday was fun!! We had a great time and I learned a lot. Everybody gave useful feedback, and I now know that the room suits for this purpose, yeah!

At the moment I’m very busy preparing for the coming christmas themed workshops, and working hard to get the webshop up and running.

Below you see the projects that were made last sunday, everybody was very proud with the result. You can see that one of the Aspegren ribbons was very popular.

I have finished and send my summertime quilt, I hope so my swap partner will love it. I’m so pleased with the final result with the crocheted border and the name tag at the back. I’m still not sure about the crocheted flower I added. but hey it was the first time I made my own design.