My Etsy Store

www.MarianneBos.etsy.com

This week I discovered "Etsy". This is where artists/crafters can sell their wares over the internet. What a cool idea!

Anyway my "Etsy" shop is now up and running and I will be adding more quilts for sale in the next week.

As for quilting this week, I have been working on my second woven quilt. I want to do some additional embellishments on it but havent decided what yet. My tree quilt is still on the back burner as I am waiting for my fabric paints to arrive so I can add the shading. I have ordered some Jacquard fabric paints and I cant wait to give them a go.

I went to the Elna shop here with a friend and they showed us the latest elna.This machine has a really nice large sewing table as well as a built in walking foot. Very Nice.....but a little costly at $3000 (singapore). I think I will stick to my machine as it does everything that I want anyway. I did buy another bobbin case that I can adjust to try my hand at some machine embroidery. I have a book called" Beginners Guide to Machine Embroidered Landscapes" by Alison Holt. She does some stunning landscape pieces so I will give that a try some time.

I have also asked the elna shop to order a circle attachment for my machine that will enable me to quilt full circles. Anyone who's tried to do that "freehand" will know how hard that is!

The drawing class at the kids school is going well. We have been learning how to draw portraits. For a "non-drawer" like myself, its pretty difficult but I am learning heaps and am really enjoying the class. Sadly the teacher Ms Gorman, is leaving in June to take another teaching position in Argentina. We will really miss her!

Next week is my daughters birthday and then the week after I am off to Holland for my nieces wedding. I am really looking forward to it.

till next time.....

Malaysia and quilting

Its been a while since my last post. So what have I been up to? Last week the kids had spring break and we drove to Malaysia for a couple of days. Its only half an hour to the border from where we live. We stayed at Pulau Springs which is a golf resort (not that any of us play golf) which has nice big rooms and a swimming pool. The food was great too.

Driving in Malaysia is very different from Singapore. It has wide open spaces and far fewer high rise apartments than here in Singapore. (The drivers were more polite too!) It reminded me of rural NZ except they had acres of palm trees instead of pine trees.

We spent a day at Kota Tinggi waterfalls and the following day we drove to Desaru Beach. It was hot and we had the whole beach pretty much to ourselves. We went swimming in the ocean which was lovely and warm. We all got home a little sunburned.

April is birthday season in our house. Today is Celine's 11th birthday and on Monday is my husbands birthday. Brooke's 14th birthday is on the 17th. We are having a birthday party for Celine on Saturday.

As for quilting.......today is the first day in ages that I have done any sewing. I finished off the sashiko coasters as well as doing another woven quilt. This one is longer than the first one. It still needs to have the edges finished, be quilted and bound. I might do some couching on this one.....hm mm I have to think about that.

I haven't done anymore on my tree quilt as I'm not sure if I should add the shading to the windows with fabric or with paint. I have just watched a DVD from Esterita Austin on "painted peppers" and I'm feeling inspired to try my hand at fabric paints. (once I pluck up some courage!!!)

Next week we are getting some friends from Holland to stay. They have been travelling around South America. Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Guatemala to name a few. I'm sure they will have some interesting stories to tell.

Well that's all from me...until next time