Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Wrapped in Paisley

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

~OPAM~ (One Project A Month) December 2014 and Happy New Year

Introducing......

'Wrapped in Paisley' by Kansas Troubles Quilters

a little Lap Quilt that I unexpectedly started when I saw a Tutorial at Moda Bake Shop

And only using 1 Jelly Roll for front, back and binding

Tutorial over here called Jelly Roll Jam

The front

The back

And in the Tree Fern

Loving these rich, dark colours!!!

Thank you so much Sweet Peg and Kris for running OPAM again this year

Who would've thought I would make 2 quilts in one year!!!

And to all my lovely Readers and Commenters out there

Thank You so much for being a part of my Blog

I appreciate all your visits and comments and love the interaction with you all

So much appreciated

A rose from our garden for you

Happy New Year everyone

May 2015 be good to you all and bring much Peace, Joy and Contentment

and Many Happy Hours of Stitching

and of course Bon Appetit

Love Dzintra

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

~Wrapped in Paisley~ A New Quilt

Last week I saw on the Fat Quarter site a Tutorial for a Jelly Roll Jam II Quilt-

Shortcut Quilt Series

I was intrigued and went had a look and decided there and then 'I'll do that'!

This is my second Jelly Roll that I have ever used and I got really keen

The Jelly Roll I used was Wrapped in Paisley by Kansas Trouble Quilters
Beautiful rich, dark, warm colours

I printed the pattern out

Looked at the Tutorial

Pattern here

Organized my strips

Sewed them together

Blocks all stitched together

Sorting out the backing strips

The backing is the rest of the strips sewn together

Can't get much easier than that!!!

Last night the backing and quilt top together

The back is together

So happy with this!!!

There are instructions on the pattern for larger sized quilts

So you never know, another day I might just do it again!!!

Thanks so much Fat Quarter Shop and Kimberly for a great Tutorial and Pattern

I'm sure to come back for more!!!

Post Script......I emailed Kimberly and showed her my quilt top and she came back with the following
Hi Dzintra,
Thank you so much for sharing this. Your quilt is beautiful and I am so happy you made the quilt! You have definitely made my day!!!

Kimberly Jolly
Fat Quarter Shop
www.FatQuarterShop.com

How exciting......thank you Kimberly

Welcome To My World

Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

~OPAM~ (One Project A Month) December 2014 and Happy New Year

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

~Wrapped in Paisley~ A New Quilt

Welcome To My World