Nottingham Village

Together with quilting, I enjoy building boxes with cardboards,

that I cut and cover with fabrics.

Here I chose fabrics from the line Nottingham Village, that

have an ancient touch.

This box has a removable compartment.

And this is my finished box,
which I will use to store my embroidery stuff.

Pincushions

In the December 2007 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting,

from Better Homes and Gardens, I found a pattern for very cute

pincushions.

I love the fabrics they used.

Pattern

Petal pincushion

Yoyos

I love as well those small bags (in the same issue), very simple to do.

The success depends on the choice of the fabrics

and the buttons.

Christmas Eve

All my four children came for Christmas from Chicago, London, and Athens

for a great family gathering.

Patchwork Christmas ornament.

Stuffed turkey, potatoes and chestnuts.

Buche de Noel

Baby's first Christmas ornament.

Baby M. with his Christmas present.

Merry Christmas to everybody!

More Christmas decorations

 Every year it's a great pleasure to decorate home with quilts and 

hand made crafts. This Christmas quilt is the second I did, hand pieced and hand quilted.

Christmas quilt

Christmas quilt

Grey and white

A baby quilt I sewed for my unique (for the time being) grand child.

I used organic fabrics and a very warm and light batting.

Baby quilt

I quilted it with knots.

And here is our little treasure, the owner of this quilt! 

Monday's meeting

Monday's meeting at my place.

Chantal, a great artist creating silver jewels, 

came to visit us.

Severine is making pincushions mice rings.

Of mice and flowers

Christmas decoration

 Christmas ambiance at home now, I started decorating for the feast!

Here are some of my collected Santa Claus. Behind is a needlepoint canvas,

and under a cross stitch embroidery, done by me years ago.

Peres Noel

Santa Claus mugs on the lounge table. Behind is an antique Mennonite quilt 

dated beginning of 20th century

Mugs

Candle and basket

 This is a bag I sewed for my knitting of the moment : a mustard shawl.

Knitting bag

The Christmas tree needs some more arrangements.

Christmas tree

Presents for Lea

Before leaving Paris for a six months trip around the world, 

my niece Lea sent me those pictures of the things I did for her 

some time ago, so that I put them in my blog.

Bag

Fan quilt

Shawl

Alsace in Athens!

As every year, I enjoy going to Christmas charity sales.

This bazar is organized by the "Friends of Alsace" in Greece.

Here is Severine, a member of our quilting group, selling her hand made crafts.

Severine

Ginette, me, Michele and Severine

Alsacian woman

Kuglehopfs and Alsacian cookies

Jams and red works

We spent a very nice time among our friends.