Finally

As I was in the birthday club of the Aussie forum, I sent a present last December. The rule is simple: you send a present with your birthday and address. All presents go into a hat (or something, in my imagination it is a huge magic hat) and everyone gets one on her birthday....
It is fun!
And finally my present went to Trish, so I can post a picture about it. (I didn't want to kill the surprise with posting it before...)
So here is the scarf I dyed. It is a special one with metallic thread inside, the fabric is something silky. I used different browns and some golden dye.... I hope she is enjoying it!

Artquilt

Yesterday we had a topic meeting with my virtual (and lots of now real) friends. First we went to Buda castle (a wonderful place in Budapest - actually not my favourite) to the exhibition of the Hungarian Patchwork guild then we had the opening ceremony of our own exhibition in a library. One of the topic-ladies organized it, some of us sent quilts, others put them on the wall. Lots of us brought cakes and drinks, some presents which we had raffle with (I didn't win anything as I could not get both of my lucky tickets, just one.... the others I wanted won...sigh...).
It was very good, I really enjoyed both.
Plus I bought some fabrics, hurray! What a wonderful day!

Now I'd like to write about the only quilt which I send to this exhibition. This is my first quilt on an exhibition. I made it in a camp in the summer and now it is time to show it to you.

I have to tell you I have never made an artquilt before, so this is my first piece (and I hope not the last one).
I had a piece of fabric I dyed before. I did not like it very much but I thought it was a good background. It looked like this before ironing:


As you see it changed its colours a bit while ironing.
I thought it was good for something wet....water, sea, ocean.....

I dyed some bag batting then blow it with a hot air pistol so it got a 3D shape. I also made some beads (you can see them on the top right). It is a good game, you don't know what you get at the end. After I got the pieces I made the picture. You can see the treasure of the ocean's king on the bottom, and the hand of the thief on the top left. I added some strings as well then I sewed everything on the background. Finally I added lots of small beads. This was the most creative period and I really liked it....
The funniest part was the quilting. I machine stitched the quilt with 4 colour thread. I used black for the hand and some blues and greens for the water.
I have no picture about the totally finished quilt yet, maybe later... I try to do my best, but it did not change a lot after this moment...


And finally here is a picture about the finished quilt on the wall of the exhibition:

Yay, I got the point!

Yay, finally I could sew a zip-it bag..... Thanks kdatta! She was kind enough to explain it to me many times so finally I could sew it!
She helped me in the shopping (I couldn't find such a long zip...) and with her tutorial it was not too difficult. Now I am the proud owner of this zip-it bag....
I have used it for a week and I like it, but I find it a bit small. I think the next one (if there will be) will be a bit bigger.

Things with roses

Last week I was very busy with sewing (I know I mentioned it before, but I did not show pics)
My colleague and friend had her birthday.... Actually it was in summer, but in July the timing was simply not good enough for a celebration. Plus my sewing machine did not work which made things more complicated.....

So we decided to make her a total surprise, so we went to a concert in a bar-like place (she did not suspect anything at all).... Then suddenly the drinking and talking turned into a birthday celebration....

She made me totally surprised when she saw her presents....she started to cry....(I have never seen her crying...)...hopefully because of happiness....:)

Yes, she was very happy... And me too...

The 'main present' was this bag, as she loves roses:

I made a Tilda rose if she wants to put something on her bag, but she can uses it anywhere:

I decided to make a small purse from the remain fabric:


Finally I made a pencil case as well and I embroidered her name in it (OK it was not me but my Janome friend.:D..)

Classroom

I and my B took a lot of pictures about my classroom but I shared only two with you.... Here are some more to see.

The first one is something like a sign. In my school there are bourdon signs with golden letters on them next to the doors of the classroom. But we usually have 2 classes per year so this time one sign was missing (of course ours), so I decided to make one from fabric.

This one is a house.... I am going to make a tree too. (Unfortunately I am not very good at drawing so I have to wait for a colleague to draw the small version for me... (I can enlarge it later at cut it out of cardboard paper) We are going to decorate the house (and the tree) during the seasons. I think it is easier for the kids to follow the changes of the seasons and the weather...

On the back wall there are the pictures which help in teaching letters... (They our parts of the method we use in our school so I have no choice, I have to put them on the wall....) I designed some little houses and my colleague cut them.... There will be pictures in the windows but we are still collecting them....

I window painted some of the houses on the windows as well.... We have 6 windows so I had a lot of places to decorate.

And I made a big kite as I didn't want the sun to be alone....

I know some pics are missing... I am going to take some more and post them....

Here again

Unfortunately I was too busy with sewing I had no time for blogging. I am not too clever to do both....

But now I am back.

As some of you know there is a nice lady who organized charity sewing for orphan children in Deva. You can read more about it on this blog: szeretetvarazs
I went to the post office yesterday with some little things. Here you can see the things I made:


I know it is not too much but I made them with love. I hope the children will like them.

Busy time

I am back in blog world and hopefully I will be able to stay....

The schoolyear started this Monday which means extremely much work for me as I have a class of little ones this year. Last week I made lots of decorations into the classroom. One of them is a funny sun. It is made of a huge styrofoam box and carboard paper. It is hunging above the children.

And of course I still have things to do...

I got a new camera (thanks B!!!!) so I can show you some pictures as well.

Finally I can show you the project of "Guess what!". It is a timetable which was made for the little ones. As they cannot read I used pictures for the subjects. Timetable is not fix all the time so I put velcro on the little pictures so they are exchangeable.