MY FRIEND ZACHAROULA

• I have a wonderfull friend by the name of Zacharoula , I just have had the urge to blog about her , she has been a friend and a customer for as long as I can remember, she is an artist ,mother and recently a grandmother and also a world traveler due to her husbands work ( shipping broker) so name a place I am pretty sure she has been there . She comes to my store at least twice a weak and we chat about world events , the greek economy , art, her grandson, or one of her most recent trips, ect.
  She is one of the sweetest people I know , she is not only pretty , she is very good hearted, I love her style she has many fashionable bags mainly louise vitton I very seldom have seen her carry the same bag twice. She drives a new BMW with leather interior. She used to have her studio on the next block right next to her husbands office but, moved both to her apartment , she moved to the northern suburbs. ,but she comes to town often her hairdresser is near here, so she pops in for a cup coffee and a chat . I sometimes find myself looking at the door or stepping out to see if she is comming , just when I am bored and looking for something to occupy myself charoula pops in, I call her charoula for short it means happinesss , how fitting , and when I see her I feel so happy she makes my day!!!! as you can see in the photo she is very stylish looking I took the photo of her , it is taken at the center of marousi . I recently made a quilt for her grandson and I made it with so much love and care it turned out beautifull I use it as my icon .

MY BITS AND PIECES BECAME PILLOWS

This is the quilting that I decided to do after I was done. HOW does my hand quilting look?
I finally decided to finish the bits and pieces I thought the size is good for a couple of pillows I put a white boarder on one of them and strips of pink and yellow one the second one. I picked a pink backing and made a overlap just because its the easiest and most practicall. for me I remeber when I was a little girl my mom always made pillows and for the sofas and she made the back the same way .

This is just the inside of the pillow. after that I decided to qult it but I forgot the photo. enywho


now this photo should have been placed before , just a minor detail.

below is the finished product this is the second one and I stiched the edge by hand after machine stiching , and I put some strips of pick and yellow I am quite happy with the result ,even more happier that I finished!!!!! and I am happy that I finally learned how to load more than one photo at a time and then blogg between the lines duh!! One of these I will learn how to load them in order I took these photos before my computer got the virus right now I am using my sons computer its a sunday morning, I am sure they won't be up for atleast another hour.

It looks a little puffy but it will flatten out soon when used.

I AM SO HAPPY

Hello everyone I have not been able to blog my computer has a virus and I don't know how to fix it my dear son will come to my store soon and fix it I hope. well so much has happened since I last bogged first of I am at the store alone ,my brother married, and the most exciting is I received the package that cyndi sent with the olfa cutter and the mat along with some cute doillies,I don't know how she did it so fast, for when it comes to me doing something like that it might take weeks I was waitting on a customer in my shop and I see the mailman set a tube inside my door. I was put to shame I had'nt relized that the days blew past me, in the mean time My computer got the virus and I could'nt send her an e-mail so I thought well let me send the package of and then I will write to her from home. I went to town early and went to the post office and sent it it took me a couple of days but,I just can't get things together as fast as cyndi she is fast she makes such lovely purses and bags she puts me to shame . To make a long short she has recieved my package and I am so glad she likes the painting I sent her and the other stuff I put in for her, . I can't thank her enough and I can't wait to use my cutter I have such a busy schedule that I have'nt had eny time but this weekend for sure and I will definetly take some photos of my new cutter.

Fruit cake give away at Jandinin stitches click here

A give away is taking place at jandiinstiches click obove on the title and you will be taken there and follow her instructions so you can enter as many as three times for the cute fruit cake fabric . I think I did o.k. with the link still a little rusty.

HAPPY EASTER

Wishing everybody had a Happy Easter , I spent it a family friends house , about 25 made it , a lamb roasted over a pit with all the trimmings . Had a wonderfull time and wish all of my friends and friend want to be's to have had a wonderfull Easter with friends and family. this photo is by the Corinthian bay where my friend lives.I'm the thinner one on the left LOL.

My new needle case

Hello I finally got to post something I have been very busy ,my schedule is full its impossible to get some sewing done. My day in the store keeps me busy with waiting on customers helping them choose the proper frame for there item that they bring in , it could be photos,paintings that they have made ,here in greece everybody is an artist or they think they are lol ofcourse they ask me how I see there painting and and I ofcourse say nice things because I want to finish helping them picking out the frame and go on to other things like checking to see if I have the frame in stock or noting it down to be ordered from our suppliers,ofcourse my husband likes to make comments on the art work like hear it needs to be a darker shade to make the vase look rounder not flat ,or the trees should have more than one shade of green a deeper green in the backgound and gradually lighter in the front where the light hits it, and I just sit paitiently and I ofcourse I let my mind wonder I mostly think about the quilts I need to finish or what color combinations to make my next quilt and what block design and then someone says something to me and I don't know what to say because I was elsewhere. but enyway Now I must showmynew project the needle case its actually supposed to be here not up obove so I'll just leave it for now .
How the idea came about I had this old pincushion that I have had for as long as I can remember, and it started to fall apart so I decided to take it apart and when I opened it it had saw dust in it and it was full of needles that have fallen in about 30 of them so I decided to make a case just for my sewing needles and I got some real pretty piece of floral fabric and lined it with a light colored fabric and cut a piece of fleece fabric that I had and folded it and sewed it right sides together and turned it insideout and sewed it in the center and then I cut a piece and make a pocket for storing thread and then left one side open to store a small scissors in it. The result was so cute I cut out four more one for cyndi at bluebirdswing which I have'nt learned how to put in links but, she is a follower so you can find her just look for the bird. last week I read her blog and she had posted about a olfa give away so I was able to also post it on my blog somehow it had a share link on the blogs post and I managed to do it ,to my surprize and I commented in order to take part in the give away because I don't have one believe it or not.
I get started and I forget to start a new paragragh , enway cyndi saw my post, and my comment that I don't have a olfa cutter and she sent me an e-mail and she actually offered to get one for me I could't believe my luck ,I still can't , she is such a sweet soul ,that's what is so great about blogging you have the luck of finding people that are so wonderfull and generous, I was worried about how to send her the payment and she replied that not to worry to just send something from my country, so this is my first swap ever and what a swap just what I need I will send her something that she will hang on her wall and she will always look at it and remember our swap, and I will remember our swap whenever I cut fabric and that will be on a daily basis nowing myself I forgot to mention that she will also send me a mat, I have a plexi glass rulers I use them to cut glass for frames that I make So I am all set , I have been cutting the oldfashioned way with scissors I would mark all the fabric and then sit down and cut while watching t.v. now I wil place my patterns that I make out of left over matting which I have plenty of , mark them and then with the ruler cut strips and then cut smaller according to the shape and size of my block patterns. THANK YOU CYNDI It is really hard when one lives in a country with no quilt shopps I think about openning a small section in my store but, I am afraid I wouldn't have eny customers women don't quilt here, they don't even know what it is I oftet bring in a quilt and hand quilt when I don't have eny frame work to be done and they look at it and say wow that is alot of work and ask how I do it then I start to show and explain and they reply I could never do enything like that. I have a few that show interest ,but here its still unknown to most womem, maybe in the future it will be better known for now I feel like a lone quilter here but, still happy to be blogging about it, regards to all I got to go quilt.I forgot to mention that Cyndi makes some awsome bags and wallets out of real pretty fabrics . I could never do enything like that but, looking at them on her blog gives me insperation to give it a try one of these days.