Book cover

Yesterday I felt like taking out my sewing machine and do something completely different from crocheting. I wanted to make a fabric cover for a book (in this case my bible).

First I measured the width (front and back cover and spine) and height of the book.Then I cut out two pieces of fabric. One for the outside and one for the lining. Add some cm's on the left and right for the flaps and for the hems.

I ironed on some interfacing, to stabilize for the embellishments.

Then I added some ribbon and lace, buttons and a little charm. You can also add embroidery, or stamps. Whatever rocks your boat.

Then I sewed a small hem on the left and right (while sewing on the ribbon my interfacing was folded, but oh well, no one will ever see that :-)

I folded the fabric around my bible, book closed so it would fit nicely, and ironed down where the flaps had to come.

Then the part where I almost went wrong. Put down the outer fabric, right side up, but flaps inside out (so, right side of the flaps on right side of the cover). On top put the lining, right side down.
So the lining is right side on the right side of the cover, and on wrong side of the flaps.
I my gosh, I hope this makes sense ... 

Then sew the top and bottom. Turn the whole thing. 

And then put in the book.

 

~ lazy sunday afternoon ~

shawl (south bay pattern)

I made a shawl using the "south bay" pattern.
I wanted it to be kind of big, but then I run out of white cotton. I had to use white cotton same brand but from another batch. And now you can see there is a little colour difference. I do not like that.
You can also see a hole, something went wrong there ....

But when it is over my shoulders no one will notice :-)

 

I used this pattern:

 

You can find the written pattern on the web. Just search for "south bay shawl".

"Human, you always say you do not like blue envelopes.

You like what I did with this one??"

(that blue envelope is a tax envelope)

flowers for a bike

Daughter nr.2 had an old fashioned bike.
What we call a 'granny bike'.
And I made some flowers for her.
I got the patterns from this book:







I also had some patterns from the internet.
















*shoes for my employee, box for me. Superdeal!*

granny blankets

I like to crochet. And in the months before my girls moved out I made them both a granny blanket, to fit on a double bed. Hundreds and hundreds of granny squares I had to crochet. For daughter nr.1 in neutral colors and for daughter nr.2 bright colors.

First I had all my coton in a basket. But I did not want two granny's in the same color combination. So I made a schedule and put all the skeins in numbered baskets. Now they have blankets with hundreds of granny all different!

I loved the colors and the feel of the coton

The stacks kept growing, but sometimes I wondered why I started this project?!

It would take me years and years to finish!

Lexie was always a big 'help'...

And then they all had to be joined! We laid all the squares out on the bed, to make the most beautiful layout. And then I thought I was done, but miscalculated how much work the joining of all those squares was...

And then they were finished! Finally, after almost two years (with a break of a few months after my father died, I did not feel like crocheting then).

*I am getting so tired of all that typing*

The graphics on my blog

In 1997 we got internet and I loved to surf the web, visit homepages and read about the life of others, most of them living thousands of kilometers from here. The world really became a small world. I was on MIRC en ICQ (I still have a little notebook with the names and numbers of my friends). After a while I thought it would be nice to make a homepage for our family. Back then we were still a family; mom, dad, 2 girls and lots of pets. I learned myself HTML and created a page for every member in our family and more, typing all the codes in wordpad. No nifty program to do that for me.
Hahaha, and everything in 'comic sans MS' font.

The satisfaction when I uploaded (with a FTP-program) my first page with one (!) icon to the server just to see if it worked and it did! It was trial and error but it was so much fun when I succeeded to add music to a page, or creating pages using tables with 3 (or more) borders with different backgrounds. Learning about colorcodes and 'no right click' codes etc. It was fun to surf the web looking for matching images to add on those pages. And I collected hundreds of them. Lots of different folders are on my old external hard drive.
I even had an image for every guinea pig :-)

Popcorn

Punkie

Peanut (=son of Punkie)

On every page I gave credit to the artist who made the graphics used on that page. I looked for some of the sites, many of them do not exist anymore.

Now about the images on this blog; I really do not remember who made them. If you come along and you see an image and think "hey, that's mine". And if you want me to give credit for them, I will do that. Just let me know (if you have a cute little button to go with the link that would be nice too :-)

"boooooooriiiiiing!"

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog.
I am going to post here about my life, my hobbies and of course my cat!
My cat Wizzie.
He is always around, whether I am at the computer, folding laundry, doing dishes, always. I think he simply does not like it when my attention is on something else.

And MA, that's me.
I am a 'ma', I have 2 daughters. But actually MA are my initials.




"Why are you typing? I need some attention!"