donderdag 31 oktober 2013

zondag 13 oktober 2013

Breidagen Groningen



Gisteren was ik met vriendin C. naar de Breidagen in de Der A kerk in Groningen, waar we moeiteloos een aantal uren aangenaam doorbrachten met kijken en - kijk maar naar de laatste paar foto's - met kopen. Ik kan weer lekker breien (en spintol-spinnen) de komende tijd. 

 En behalve mijn eigen Steps (die ik om had) waren er nog meer Steps-en te zien, wat ik natuurlijk wel erg leuk vond. Er was zelfs een stukje Steps te zien bij de tentoonstelling Glas en Breien (met glaswerk van Tanja de Heus en Johan de Vries)!

vrijdag 4 oktober 2013

Tadaaa, Mexican Tree of Life Cushion finished!

Yay, my Mexican Tree of Life cushion is finished! Last December I bought the Mexican Tree of Life kit by Emily Peacock from her Etsy site and I absolutely loved working on this project. I finally finished it this week, and in the photo's you can see what I did next in order to complete the cushion. First off I bought a white 50cm x 50cm cushion cover (with a zipper closing) at Hema in Utrecht. I also bought some DMC embroidery floss in all the colours that were used in the Mexican Tree of Life, and I used this floss to embroider some information onto the cushion cover. I then pinned the embroidery and the cushion cover onto each other (right sides facing) and stitched along all borders, except along the bottom side which I left open. I then used this open space to turn the work inside out (right sides were now facing out). I folded the hems to the inside, and then stitched along the bottom side to close this side too. Finally I stuffed a 50cm x 50cm cushion inside (via the zipper opening) and tadaaa, finished! And then today our new living room couch arrived (Fifty Nine, by Per Weiss, bought at Anno in Amsterdam) and I love how the Mexican Tree of Life cushion looks on it. And I figured that since I loved this embroidery project so much, the best thing for me to do was to just order another Emily Peacock kit. So my next project will be her Stars over Corn kit. Again I love this project, the image is unusual, and a bit mysterious, love it!