Rediscovered

Just something I rediscovered when I took inventory in my studio: 

squares I made for small quilts a longer time ago. Now I like them even better than at the time I worked on them. 

That's the case these days quite often:

 I dust off a quilt or a cushion or a mouse or a teddy bear or whatnot and I think: 

Oh, I'm so glad I made it!!

2014-Quilt: July

July was such a busy month for me, with trips to several places, I went this way and that way, turned to here and there, sometimes things worked out as planned, sometimes not, there were pleasant and unpleasant surprises- 

so this became my patchwork-block for July: uneven lines and forms, no ruler was used, but somehow it all added up to: 

a square of 24 x 24 cm (9,45" x 9,45"),

the way I wanted things to be. 

And as such I added it as my 7th block to my 2014-quilt, 

which shows one block for every month of this year.

Hearts at the Garden Café "Thee en zo"

I wished I had sewn these hearts by myself, I so much like them.

I found them at a very wonderful garden café near Winterswijk (Netherlands),

it's called "Thee en zo".

The café is located next to a fabulous farm house (which is a B&B as well), it is richly decorated with wonderful flowers, there are lots of lovely places to sit near wooden houses or near a small river under old trees, hens and their young ones are picking and walking around... What I especially love is that it is all based on trust: you are completely on your own, it's all self-service, delicious cakes and beverages are offered in a lovely designed wooden house and there is a small shop as well. You then find a price list and a wooden cash box, in which you put your money 

(and find change also).

No wonder that I didn't meet a guest who wasn't smiling!

The picture of the "Welcome"-sign on the right hand side here was taken at 

"Thee en zo" as well.

Simone Kok, Brinkeweg 31, Winterswijk-Miste

http://www.tuintjetheeenzo.nl

(more pictures on my Flugblatt-site with poems and such:

http://flugblatt.blogspot.de,

posted today also, July 18, 2014)

"An experienced Teddy Bear brings with him a lifetime of knowledge and experience; the wisdom of silence and the stillness in moments of great turmoil. The long-suffering patience that is learned when belonging to a child who is coming of age, and coping with the bewilderment that this period of time can bring, is what he does best. The experienced bear has seen life through the heart and eyes of a child grown to adulthood and perhaps even accompanied that adult all the way to the end of the road." 

-Ted Menton 

http://www.iloveteddies.com/documents/document_887.php

Teddy Bears

"I miss the days when all it took to make me feel better was my teddy bear."

(Unknown) 

http://www.searchquotes.com/search/Teddy_Bear

Oh, with me, these days are not gone,

simply making these teddies already made me feel very good...

there's some magic about teddy bears, I think.

These are small ones (20 cm, 8"),

sewn by hand,

all cotton, and they are stuffed with fabric scraps.

In the Making