Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 October 1 - It´s a wrap!!!

I did it, I finished the baby quilt for my baby girl last week.
And as you would probably guess, I´m pretty proud of myself.

First attempts to sew a baby quilt happened in February, actually I started three different quilts, but I´m so very glad I decided this one would be the perfect one for little A.

I guess this will not be her last quilt, but for sure this one is really special, I hope one day for her, but for now at least for me, because I stared this one while I was pregnant, while I had not met her, while I was curious what she would look and be like.
So far this journey with her was pretty good, and I´m looking forward to all the miles to come...

And now, no more boring or pathetic stories, let the pictures talk...

 

Three generations love this quilt

If you are still reading, and if you are interested in the story of this quilt:
This and this are the other to attempts.
Here, here, here, here and here are different stages of this quilt journey.

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com, 

Today I really have to thank Jessica and all the fantastic ladies over there for the big motivation every week, it´s so great to share progress with them and all their nice and warming comments with every post really kept me going! Thanks Jessica for this platform!

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 September 2

Soooo...

One can never have to many projects in line, am I right?
Especially if it´s quilting.

I was able to quilt my baby quilt, now only the boarder has to be done, so hopefully there will be really good pictures next week. Now just a few sneak peaks...

The circle quilt for my mothers birthday is coming along quite well. So far there are 16 circles and I hope 21 full ones are enough, I will see how many half ones I need for the border, or if I will try something else.
I have started to join them with white triangles. My boyfriend helped me to choose the colour for those, and I have to admit, he has a good eye with this. Looks fab I think.

And then there is another one. (There always is, right?)
Last week, at about elven o´clock in the night, the new-project-bug bite me and I had to start a new one. This will be a pillow-cover for my midwife, she was a real angel and I was thinking about a good present for her a long time, I´m quite pleased with it. It just needs a simple back, no quilting or epp there, this will for sure help wrap up this one till next week.

This is it, enough for one week and for sure enough for a new mommy :)

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com, I´m really curious what the other ladies are up to...

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 August 2

We are back from a two weeks staycation from my parents house. We were housesitting while they went off to croatia, which isn´t the greatest or coolest vacations I ever did, but we had a garden, 150m2 and three cats, so it was really nice after all.

I´ve been quite productive this last week...

I have sewn two new circles, which makes a total of seven so far.
Thought about how big this piece is going to be, and I think I need at least 14 more circles, which at the moment sounds managable till october.

I lately found out the finishing-up part is  where I totally lack at the moment, see my baby quilt and nearly no progress there again (I have sewn the epp piece to the white boarder fabrique with the sewing maschine and cut the yellow boarder fabrique, but this isn´t even worth taking a photo...), but I´ll try my best.

I was able to baste two white hexagones, six triangles and 36 squares yesterday evening while watching TV with the man and the baby was asleep though, I think that is quite a progress and a good base to start the sewing week.

 A whole stash of squares and triangles is cut and ready to baste, which I would also call big progress since cuting can be really time consuming I think.

And, to finish this post, I tried something new and worked my way around a proper label for the baby quilt, all thanks to selfsewns great tutorial! I have to admit, I really love this one!

Lets all hope for long naps again this week so mommy can make some progress again :)
(Even though I enjoy every wake minute with her, there is sooo much new every day!)

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com, I´m really curious what the other ladies are up to...

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 August 1

I've started a new one...

Since I still have enough time to sit down and start finishing my baby quilt with the maschine, I desperatly needed a new EPP project.

This one will hopefully turn into a birthday quilt for my mom in october.

I went to the fabrique store with my dad, with was kind of funny because somehow he just didn't suit in there, and he helped me choose the colours, so this one will be really special.

These circles got my eye a few month ago, and I really enjoy the pattern so far.

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com, I´m really curious what the other ladies are up to...

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 July 1

After nearly six weeks of baby-caused EPP absence I try to get back on the track.
Okay, it´s not actually EPPing, but I working on finishing my last EPP-piece, my babyquilt for Anna.

Yesterday I started to applique the white boarder, it´s small progress, but at least it is a start.

After appliquing the white fabrique all around, there will be another borderstripe in the yellow fabrique seen below.
The lilac polkadot will probably be my binding, and the darkviolett one is for the backside.
I orderd these three online (www.butinette.at), and I´m pretty pleased with hoe they look in real life, the colours are as vibrant as I hoped they would be.

Hopefully next week there will be more progress to be shown, lets see how this week works out for little A and me...

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com, I´m really curious what the other ladies are up to...

At the moment...

Taking a lot of naps during daytime - hej, when being a mum to a nearly 6 weeks old baby one has to take every opportunity to get sleep she can!

Loosing weight like it's my job - Thanks breastfeeding!

Eating, taking a shower, use the bathroom whenever I can - See first one...

Trying to squeece in some diy-time as often as possible - I really miss my projects...

Gaining really strong arms from carrying around 5,5+kg a lot - best workout ever.

Reading three books at a time - See here.

Enjoying co-sleeping - It´s easy, it´s convenient, it´s a pleasure.

Getting around by feet a lot - One good walk for this little one and I every day.

Changing my cloths about 20 times a day - Or at least it feels like it, thanks milk explosions...

Dreaming about future sewing projects for this girl - I see a lot of pretty dresses coming.

Marveling how quick six weeks can pass by and also feel like a whole lifetime.

Loving this new mommy job!!!

July Reading List

"Wow, you are reading a book while having a six weeks old baby?!" Ähm, yes, I do.

Infact, I'm currently reading three books, akways using the one which is in reach while I'm nursing or trying to make little A fall asleep or whatever. 

I need this to stay sain. To have some conversation, or aka words, from a grown up. Or else soon I would forget how to speak in whole sentences when being alone the whole day with the baby ;)

So here is what I'm reading in July 2014:

Stupid picture, why are you always the wrong way ´round, I don´t get it...

Das goldene Ei / The golden egg by Donna Leon
I HAVE to read the new adventures of Commissario Brunetti every summer. Without it, it wouldn´t be a real summer for me. I read the first one while being on vacation when I was 14, so this means nearly 20 years of this routine.
I know the are not high poetry, but I like her writing style and the way it´s always not only a story about a crime, but also a story about venice.
(Funny fact, did you know these books are translated into 35 different languages, but on her demand not into italan? Leon wants the venetian people to meet her without prejudice and reservation, because she gets her story backrounds from them. I think that is really funny.)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
What do I have to say about that, probably not a lot. I´m reading this for the forth or fifth time, still loving it. This is the first time reading all the books in a row, so far I always read the new book when it came out or the prequel right before the arrivel of a new one to get into the mood.

Where have all the boys gone by Sophie Kinsella
I think I got to read my first book (Meet me at the Cupecake cafe, also very good) of Sophie Kinsella by amzone recommendations.
At the moment I´m reading all her older books via the kindle app on my iphone, for one they are cheap, and for two I always have my phone on hand while being awake at night breastfeeding.
These books are funny, simple chickflicks, the story isn´t new or very complex, not at all suprising, but I like them anyway...

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 June 3

And then it all went pretty fast... 

On  Thursday the 18th I went into labour. For sure I would not have told you it went fast if you asked my that evening. I was already 8 hours in hospital when everything stopped and the pain kept going on. So in the end I ended up having a secio. No dream come true, but this way everthing is allright with my baby girl, she was delivered with 52cm and 4068g. Pretty big, pretty good, pretty sweet :)

And her name is Anna.

Even though my new life is simple just baby right now, I quickly wanted to share my last progress with the EPP babyblanket with the world, I'm quite sure there will be no progress in the next few weeks, but we will see...

I added all the white parts. I wasn't completely happy with the result. I thought about adding one round of whites all around so that every coloured piece is surrounded with white. But that would have ment a lot of filler pieces and a lot of corners again. So I decided different.

So this is the plan: I will applique all on white boarder stripes. Anyone knows a good tutorial for that?

In my mind there is also a second boarder stripe in orange spinning around, and propably a purple back.

How does this plan sound to you?

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 June 2

Tick Tack Tick Tack....

It could start any minute now, amazing...

I´m really tired and lazy these days, and hardly anything is done anymore, but thats just fine. I´m loading all my batteries for the big new adventure whicj will start oh so soon.

But I got a little EPP done, started to add the white fillers, thought about a boarder in the future, ans basting whites like its my job. I really like the look of this so far.

Thanks for all your nice comments every week, I´m getting excited and happy reading every one of them.

Have a nice week, we will see how I´m able to blog my EPP progress :)

I´m linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 June 1

Whoop whoop, three done, only ONE flower to go. And then it´s all neutrals, neutrals, neutrals. This sounds good to me now, we will see how soon I´m bored...

I´m starting with the last one any minute after finishing this post, since I want to achive as much as possible in my last few days being kidless (I can´t believe how fast time flew and how soon is the due date, less than two weeks...).
Doing much more then sitting and sewing (or else knitting) has become nearly impossible in the last few weeks, but I´m pretty fine with this situation, I´ll have to be up on my feet the next few years so this short periode of doing nothing is really welcome!

Don´t think this is my final outlay, I´m quite sure I will change up the flowers up a little bit while connecting them with the neutrals (I think I´m going with whites...).

Any suggestions how to join the flowers and the fillers? Should I sew small neutral flowers first and then combine the coloured ones around them, or should I just bast the neutrals and conntect them with the flowers each on it´s own? What do the experts think?

I´m linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com

Monday Morning EPP Count 2014 May3

This week I´m pretty proud of myself, four news flowers, not that bad.
(And since I originally planed to upload this on Monday, I have another one completed, but so pics, so I´ll leave it for next week...)

You can see on the next picture my layout at the moment. I plan to add one more  row, so the total flower-layout will be 4/3x5. I think it will be a decent size for a baby blanket, especially if you have in mind that there will be a boarder and a binding.

As always, I´m not sure how much I will be able to complete till my due date, especially the white fillup-pieces will take some time, but we will see when this baby plans her arrival, I´m not sure if it will really take till the 14th of June...

I´m linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com.