Beanbag galore

I made 3 beanbag covers and 3 insides for them, and I re-made them several times :)

The story started, that my husband came with the idea of a beanbag as his birthday present. Since he hardly ever gives any hints for his presents, I immediately started to look for a pattern. I have found quite a lot, and it was quite difficult which is the ideal one. I chose one which seemed to be fairly easy, moreover, it was creased by a Hungarian girl living in Costa Rica!

https://hungaricanjourney.com/how-to-make-a-convertible-bean-bag-chair/

I had a big faux-fur material and decided to use it as a cover, but there were no direct dimensions for the inner lining, so I made one I thought will be ok. It turned to be too small, so I mage a much bigger one, which fitted much better, and also redesigned (with a scissor:) ) the cover as well.

When I sent some photos to family, it turned out our niece is asking for a beanbag for ages, so I quickly made one for her, but from a different pattern. When I realised the adult is huge for her room, I made a smaller one as well. By that time I was so quick the it took me only one evening to put it together, and the longest time was to trace the pattern to the fabric!

The pattern I used:

Sizes: 

adult: top 20cm / bottom 40cm , width 50 cm, height 120cm

teen: top 17,5cm / bottom 35cm , width 45 cm, height 110cm

Kid beanbag:

I used quite a big amount of textil for thebean bags, but still did not make a dent in my stock. For our niece first she had chosen a beige fabric from my stock, but I realised it is too thin, so I checked the local fabric store for some sturdy material. The girl advised me to use upholstery fabric, and they had some super beige leather fabric one, so I bought 4 metres. Then it turned out she needs smaller one, so I went back for more, but there was only 1.8m remaining - but after playing a little with the placement I managed to fit it on!

Big bean bag pattern:

Outer: cc 4m of strong canvas ( 300x130+ 80x80+ 60x60 in cm)

Inner linig: 

Lavender sac for Mariann (Sajou 601 - M)

After a long-long hiatus I will restart my blog. In the last couple of months I hardly stitched at all, instead embroidery I was reading a real lot. But then an idea came, and by took on the needles once more!

In July we have visited Paris and stayed with a cousin of my husband. She was real nice to let us stay in her appartment and I made this little present for her.

Sajou 601: Letter M

Fonal/Floss:Caron Waterlilies Iris

Anyag/Fabric: Zweigart 40ct teadyed by me

Baby book for a boy

I have created a baby book for my husband's aunt, who took it to a baby shower of her neighbour's baby boy. She was a designer and when she closed her shop she gave me a lots of supernice fabrics. I tried to use then in the pictures, and I really like the results!

I also tried to document how I put the book together. The inner pages should be 1/2 inch smaller than the covering ones. The original size of the cover is 6 1/2 ", the final one after turning in the pages somewhere around 6"

original sewing order:

Textil usage is real small, less than 0.5m for all of the book.

Baby book

I have finished my first soft book. The planning and choosing of the materials was quite tedious, the actual sewing went quickly! The name is not contrasting enough, but I did not want to frog, so it remained. Otherwise I am quite happy with the result, the 10 months old hopefully will be as happy as me :)

The size is 6,5" for the coversheet and 6" for the inner sheet. For the coversheet I added the applique and stitched the 2 sides together reversed then turned them out. I did the same for the inner sheet, then did a stabilising stitch ariud the perimeter twice and also in the middle, then stitched them together. There are many different materials to stimulate the baby fingers: plush, felt, corduroy, canvas, handstitched embroidery on a cotton background.

Another I-spy for a colleague's baby shower - late posting from 2019

Last year I forgot to publish a last minute present: one of my colleagues was expecting a baby and I have made an I spy quilt for them. I used some 5"x5" squares, some of them from smaller scraps, and I was trying to put together something colorful. I added a flanel backing to keep it soft and warm, I hope they have a good use for this since! It used up cc1.5m fabric, mostly from old materials or scraps, so it does not count in my fabric usage.

Blue Explosion

I offered my niece a lapquilt and she had chosen a few ideas, with a blue quilt among them. I went through my stash and came up with this Blue Explosion for her:

The size is 10x13 from 5" squares halved, so cc 1.5m fabric was used for the top, and 1m 1.5 wide minky as a backing. Addig it to the 4m mask fabric, I am 5.5m fabric usage and 2m minky as of today.

Another Christmas birdies

Before Christmas I spent the week at home, and I was planning to do a birdie quilt for my cousin. I was postponing-pontponing during the Autumn and early December, and I thought this is going to be a present for next Christmas. But a few days before the day my sewing bug returned and I finished the cuttin and piecing of the top in 2 days, and on the 3rd I even managed some free motion swirls to keep the layers together. I did not take a photo, but I will do it next time when I visit her - because I did manage to finish it before we went and met her family. The design is my 3rd such quilt (first for me in 2014, second for mum in 2015), and the original what I used for inspiration was created by Vicky Bellino at Bloom Creek, the name is House Warming Party.

Herbs

I have finished 2 more herbs from the Sampling of Herbs: Thyme (kakukkfű) and Oregano (szurokfű). Now all 3 are in its frame. There is a little problem with oregano, because I used a small piece of rectangular fabric, and I took the wrong dimension, so it is smaller than the frame. In the picture it is quite obvious, but fortunately in real life it much less noticable. Since all the other herbs are similarly framed I left it like that. This is going to be a long avaited present (first ones in 2011, after one in 2012 and nothing since...) for my cousin, who is quite skillful in all the crafts, so she can redesign the frame in case she does not like it.

Sampling of Herbs (Cross My Heart) - Bay

Fonal/Floss: Anchor&DMC

Anyag / Fabric: Zweigart 28 ct Antique white

An old finish - almost forgotten

I made an inventory of my quilts, and I realised there is one, what I finished a long time ago (in 2014) for our niece. I did not have photo, so I asked it quickly. It is well loved and used, best thing for a quilt, bit not for someone who wants to take photo :) I got the materials from my sister-in-law and tried to put together a girly one. It is a little pale for my taste, but my niece likes it a lot! The freemotion is only a stitch in the ditch, and even that one is a little off - it is very difficult not to slip the sides.

Quilt for Iza - own ideas

Grandpa's 93th birthday present

I really went into scrappy mode, and took all the denim/corduroy whatever pieces I cut from our trousers. Both my husband and myself are small in stature, so I always cut the too long trousers. I am kind of a collector, so I kept all the pieces to have them in case of need ( can you imagine any kind of urgent need for a 2 inches leg piece of a tweed suit? You never know...) but now I took all of my 10 years worth of treasure, added some strange material bits and pieces and I came up with a perfect present for my Grandpa.

He is turning 93 next month, and usually spends his days sitting in a comfy chair - best thing for the winter a nice warm quilt, with a very soft minky like backing. It is called baby-soft in Hungary and comes in different colors, I have chosen a masculine checkered gray for him. Since the quilt is made up of various materials, it has quite a good texture already, so I kept the quilting minimal, only one spiral to keep the layers together. I hope he will like it!

I decided to keep track of my buying and using, so September was good so far: I bought 1.3m of baby-soft for the backing, and used  1.5 worth of scraps for the top. My batting also came from 3 remainig pieces of very thin batting what I stitched together. If I will be extremely bored during the winter, I will make a full inventory of existing fabric - I will see... The thing is, that I made 3 scrappy quilts in the last couple of weeks and I can hardly see any change among my scraps, regardless the fact, that I thought I do not have too many of them...

Bay leaves

It was a long term due finish, I do not even remember when did I stitched it- maybe in 2014 ? What I know that I have started the series in 2011... Only the name of the spice was missing - bay means babér in Hungarian. It will be a Christmas present for my cousin , she is the happy owner of the series: rosemary, mint, sage as bigger ones, and cumin for the small.

Sampling of Herbs (Cross My Heart) - Bay

Fonal/Floss: Anchor&DMC

Anyag / Fabric: Zweigart 28 ct Antique white

Universe

Another little newcome in our family, and since the choice was for a solar system by the happy parents, I tried to come up with a girly spacequilt. It was several round of redesign of the color palette in my head. For quilting I used perle cotton, with long stitches and I really like the final result. 

There was a little discussion among the youngsters how many planets are in the solar system ("is Pluto a planet at the moment?") and which one is the Earth: the green, the blue, the 3rd or the one with the butterfly ("there is life on Earth buddies!"). It is amazing when 7 years old kiddies are discussing serious things among themselves :)

The Universe for Elza

2017

Berci

I have a new nephew called Berci (Bertalan), and I made this littlequilt for him. It is 70x120 cm, fits into his bed perfectly. He likes it a lot, at least he is smiling when I am checking him under or over the quilt!

I took me a little bit longer than a week to finish, and I used all my fabric from stash. I found the picture on etsy with DiamondGardenQuilts, and I made a customised version for the little guy.

Owl quilt for Berci

Christmas reloaded

House Warming Party II

I disapperared for a while, because I changed my position in my workplace and decided to pass an exam which helps me in my new one. So I studied quite a lot from end of September till 19th December, when I attended the last of the 4 rounds of the exam. I received the results on New Year's Eve and it was a perfect closing for 2015, because I received the pass for all the 4 rounds, so I am quite happy (the exam only goes like failed/passed, so pass means happiness).

And then my holidays began: Christmas preparations, family visits and such, but I managed to put together a new Christmas present for my mum: the copy of my Xmas quilt. Mine is still not quilted, but hers yes -  a very simple stitch in the ditch for the side ones and a starry wiggle for the middle. Not the most sophisticated, but the quilt quite busy, so I opted for simplicity. The colours are quite strange, in reality it is deep Xmas red and green. The design is called House Warming Party by Vicky Bellino by Bloom Creek. 

Quilt finish - Irish Chain reloaded

In the spring I was working on the Irish Chain from Melissa's quilt along, and I opted to simplify the quilt she generously offered to do along. But I prepared all the blocks ready, so I wanted to use them for something. In the meantime my sister-in-law and her family moved to a new home and the opportunity arised - a gift for the new bedroom! So I put the quilt together and quilted it. Since the basic blocks were already done it went superquick - only the quilting took some time. But I learnt my lesson from last time - I did less quilting to have a better overall impression  as you can see on the background. I really like how it turned out, even the background looks impressive. 

Irish Chain with a Twist (simplified version 1 )

Whales for the babies

small baby quilt, 27,5"x41"

small baby quilt, 24"x31"

New baby shower gifts - these ones are for boys, I suppose you can see it. One of my friends asked me to make one nautical for a friend who had a baby boy. I also knew the girl so I happily said yes to the task. I have found a photo on pinterest from Barabooboo on Flicker, and I changed it a little.
We have chosen the motives, but could not agree on the background in advance. I liked the blue, she preferred the whiteish. I stitched up the border and sent out the 2 versions to choose from. Then I saw that the white dotted is a small piece, so I did the one with the blue backgroud. In the meantime she voted for the white one, so I did the white one as well and kept the other for a little boy in our family. And now I cannot judge, I like them both :)

Baby shower gift

My colleague has an adorable little girl, I made this quilt for her. The panels were in my stash and I needed only the white to add. It was a real quick finish, only a few evening worth. But I need to find some solution for the wavy binding...

First double bed cover

My first real double bed quilt - not quilted only stitched in the ditch, the progress pictures are showing a better color similarity. It was a present for my cousin who wanted something romantic. The pink is full of roses.

And this final piece exhibited in the spare room of my parents - looks a little drab place, but it is actually empty. 

August 2013

IHSW kicsit késve / IHSW little late

Elmaradtam a múlt heti IHSW jelentéssel, de örömmel mutatom nektek a dobozt, amit sikerült befejeznem. A hímzés része nagyon megkínzott, mert más anyagot választottam, mint a mintában volt, így a színeket is újra kellett gondolnom.
Sosem hittem volna, hogy ennyire nehéz tervezni: szép legyen, összeillő, olyan hangulatú amilyet akarok, és még mutasson is. A minta is túl nagy volt, ráadásul magyarítottam. Nem is folytatom, elég hozzá, hogy a keretnek volt olyan oldala amit 4x varrtam, (elszámoltam, megint elszámoltam, befejeztem de nem volt jó a méret...) leveleket baloldali fán 3x bontottam vissza, mert egyik szín se tetszett, és végül az eredetit tartottam meg, a szövegnek szintúgy 3x futottam neki (nem jó szín, elszámoltam, mégse jó szín)... Remélem új gazdája örülni fog neki!

I was late with last IHSW, but I am happily present you the box I finished. The stiching was unending, because I have changed the fabric, therefore I had to change the colours as well.
I have never thought that designing is such a difficult thing: it should be nice, matching colours, good on the background, and give the impression I want. The pattern was too big, because I used a Hungarian poem, so I made some changes there as well. But after finishing the frame and 2rows of flowers I realised it does not fit to the top of the box, so here came the frogging... And I did not like the colour of the leaves on the trees, so here comes the frogging again. And I still did not like the leaves...frogging...still not nice....frogging...back to first version.....I redid some parts of the frame 3times, the poem also 3times. I never used the scissors as much in my whole life as here. But at least it is finished, and now I feel quite content with my changes.

*** SALE *** Nagy polctisztítás / Destashing *** SALE ***

Sorry for posting only in Hungarian, but I am selling some of my stash, and only with personal exchange, no postal delivery. However, if you are interested in person, just give me a mail:)

Az őszi nagytakarítás magával hozta az ötletet, hogy helyet csinálok az anyagaim között, és amit nem fogok használni felajánlom baráti áron aki szeretné (bolti ár fele, vagy harmada). Az anyagokat egyben adom, kivétel a 2000 és 2000 feletti darabok, ott felezek ha nagyon kell (de inkább vigyétek el, megéri!) . Átvétel személyesen a Vígszínház közelében (Nyugati/Margit híd pesti hídfő), vagy az Árpád híd pesti hídfőnél.

  

Hagyjatok egy megjegyzést hogy mit szeretnétek és emailcímet/elérhetőséget. Ha valaki egyben megveszi a csomagokat, az előnyben van a darabot vevőkkel szemben, amúgy aki előbb ír azé amit szeretne.

Hogy gyorsan elkeljen minden, ezért aki megosztja a blogján ezt a bejegyzést, és hagy erről nálam is egy megjegyzést a linkjével, azok között kisorsolok egy triplacsomagot (mindben anyag, fonal, tű...):
Horgászó Popcorn maci készlet (13x12cm), gyöngyhímző vonat és egy húsvéti kosárkakészlet

 

A sorsolt csomagot postán is elküldhetem a nyertesnek. Sorsolás amikor minden elkelt, de legkésőbb október 31én.

A lista:

14 ct Soluble canvas 20x22cm 1000ft DMC - vízben oldódó hímzőlap, nem szálszámolásos anyagra lehet vele hímezni

Fa hímzőkeret 60 cm 2500 ft
Fa hímzőkeret 45 cm 2000 ft

A három együtt 5 000Ft

AIDA:

18  fehér 90x100cm 3000 ft

18  fehér 60x60 cm  1000 ft (gyárilag van valami halványsárga légypiszokpötty rajta, nekem mosással kijött)

11 fehér 50x100cm 1000 ft

HÍMZŐVÁSZON:

25ct fehér 50x100cm 2000ft DMC
25ct ekrü 50x160cm 3000ft DMC
28ct fehér 55x37cm 500ft Rico
28ct homokszín 50x70cm 1000 ft Zweigart
32ct törtfehér 55x55cm 600ft/ darab 2 db van zweigart lugana
32ct törtfehér 80x110cm 1600ft zweigart lugana
32ct törtfehér 95x 115cm 2000ft zweigart lugana
32ct törtfehér 25x95cm 500ft zweigart lugana

Ha valaki egyben elviszi az összes anyagot, 15 000ért odaadom!


KÉSZLET (anyag, fonal, tű, minta):
Lanarte : Lady in Blue 39x49 cm 6 000ft
Thea Gouverneur: Rose Boquet 23x34cm 5 000ft
Thea Gouverneur: Rembrandt Tulips 59x43cm 6 000ft

Itt is 15 000 a három együtt!

A képek nem akarnak jól felmenni, otthonról próbálok jobbat varázsolni, de addig is ferdén: