Time for a little angel

After the troubles with the dove-block, today I started with the 4th and 5th block. I know I have to make a new block number 3, but not today.

Block nr 4 shows littles houses at the horizon, hmm this picture shows the block just like it is, but it's not that fancy.

After this one I made block nr 5, and after sewing lots of little pieces, suddenly there was a little angel:

Isn't he very very cute? And although it's only Oct 3th today, I have this song in my head:

Hark the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"

Well, after all that's a message you can hear everyday of the year!



The dove (part 1)

Time for another Nativity part! I started optimistic with this December 3rd block, and the result is a nice dove:

But due to the title of this post there's gonna be a part 2: I used the wrong colours... the background of the dove should be LIGHT brown instead of the dark brown I used. So very very soon I hope to post part 2!

Have a nice day!

Very little pieces (2)

Yesterday I finished the block with the very little pieces. I'll finish it later with some quilting by hand. If you look very close you'll find out why the title of this blog is TRYING to quilt... all the not-so-straight-sewing...

Thanks to my eldest son for taking this picture! He used the 1 euro-coin to show the size of the baskets.

It was a good excersise, because later that day I got mail from the States:

So much much more little pieces to sew... to be continued. First step is to buy the fabrics, I hope to do some shopping this weekend. My goal is to finish this before Christmas 2011 :).

Very little pieces...

Yesterday the postman brought me the Patronenpost, with a lot of new ideas. I tried to make a few very llittle baskets (2 inches each), it's a part of a bigger block.

As you see I'm still working on it and I changed the pattern a little. And pfff the pieces of fabric are really very very little!