My Dad´s Bird-Quilt Is Done

July 2008 I have started with this quilt - it supposed to be my Dads birthday present in December 2008. He loves birds and was spending hours to watch the birds at the bird feeder, listening to their chirping aso.

August 25th, 2008 my Dad has died after a 5 month hospital stay. I thought about what am I going to do with this started quilt and I have decided to finish it. In January 2009 I start working on this quilt again and sometimes it was a bit emotional for me. The last stitch was made last Wednesday, the size is 63" x 94 "- I´m sure my Dad would´ve love this quilt and I´m sure that his eyes would´ve been watery also.

(Somehow I can´t get a good picture of this quilt)

That´s how I fixed my snip in at the backing fabric. Carla came up with the idea to use fabric glue (thanks for the tip) and actually put a label on it - I used a patch of the backing fabric



and I still had the guts to enter this contest - it was good that I havent seen all the beautiful quilts of the contestants before - I would´ve chicken out

Butterfly Rescue

I was on my way back to the house when something dark inside the hyetometer (is it called like this? This thing were you measure how much it has rained?). I stopped an looked and saw an butterfly traped in this rain-measure-thingy and there was a bit of water in there - enough for this butterfly to drown. I got him out with some shaking and this poor thing was so exhausted that he was sitting on my hand for at least 5 minutes - he flew off and landed again, got some more rest before he finally took off. So here is a pic of this beautiful butterfly I guess they are called peacock butterfly (german: Tagpfauenauge)

Friendship Bag Swap

Woohooo I finally managed it with all my projects - sewing and non-sewing - to get this little bag for the swap done. I think it turned out soooo cute - but I guess it´s because of the size - I already saw some of the other gals in the flickr-group and they are all sooooo cute. I used fabrics from my Dads bird quilt and its a outdoorsy little bag with some denim fabric as bottom and handle. I defently need to make one for myself to keep and like always in original it looks much much better than on the pic

Some Hand Sewing

That´s what I´m working on the last couple of days (besides working on my kitchen) - the binding of my Dads bird-quilt. The binding is sewed on via machine on the front and on the backing by hand - well its alot more work by hand but I like it much more this way. 3 yrds are done and 5 more to go



I also made a horrible discovery while sewing on the binding - I saw that I have snipped in the backing fabric on accident when I was sewing in the threads from quilting. Ahhhhhh how am I going to fix that?!?!

Something Little Turned Into Something Big

My old fridge came into the years - besides using alot of power it starts leaking and keep having water inside. So I looked around for a new one - my favorite would´ve been a double door freezing-cooling-system with an automatic icecube maker and water dispenser. But I have to be realistic 1. one person doesn´t need such a big freezing-cooling system 2. a water pipe wouldve been needed on the other side of the kitchen and 3. how would this system get into my appartement (small stairwell)??. Finally I bought this one

Bosch KDN36P93, stainless steel

A big THANK YOU to Renè und Peter - those poor guys carried this fridge up into my appartement. It only fits by hairbreadth through the stairwell.

So, now I have a new great fridge and because of it - my kitchen looks like this

Wallpaper and some tiles were taken off, jacks needed to be displaced - dont worry I only did the plastering-thing (its defently an advantage to be a bricklayers daughter), the electricity was done by Gustl. Now, I still need to get wallpaper, paint (I still have no idea how to paint it) and a new linoleum floor.

The End Of The Rainbow

Have you ever wondered where the rainbow ends?? The legend says at the end of the rainbow you will find a pot full of gold. Check out this pic someone else took - well I doubt it that you will find gold in there *lol*

Some Garden Pics

Yesterday I had my camera with me outside in the garden. Nothing spectacular - just some fruits, flowers and critters.

Bizkit is getting some sun

Yumieh grapes ready for harvest

I think they are calles wasp-flies

Some more Bizkit

Geranium

and my follow lodger in the green house Miss Thekla (for those who knows Biene Maja *lol*)