Learning Tower / Leertoren
( Nederlands blog onder het Engelse stuk ) Learning Tower As we wanted our son to get involved in what […]
Christmas Stockings
This year I finally finished these Christmas stockings… I’ve started these in 2018 thinking I could finish them in two […]
Child Sized Rietveld Crate Chair
Gerrit Rietveld is a great inspiration for me in the way he produced affordable and comfortable furniture. Along with practicality […]
Recycled Jeans Chair Booster
Now that our son is growing bigger we got rid of the Ikea high chair we took with us on […]
Random Chevron Cushion
Besides hexagon designs I love designs with chevrons as well. I love the way you can play with colours to […]
Cute Mail Catcher
If you have a mail slot in your front door you probable know how annoying the pile of mail etc. […]
King Dress Up Costume
Our son used to run around with his half open sleeping bag trailing behind him shouting “I’m a king, I’m […]
Quilting Gloves Tip
I can recommend using ‘traction’ gloves, especially for quilting. It makes it so much easier! Less struggle with the whole […]
Christmas Cushions With Jeans Accents
These cushions are made with a table runner I had laying around for years. We used it a couple of […]
Kids size pouf
This pouf is really simple and straight forward. The denim style fabric with the added accent seams give it a […]
Smart Storage Under Sofa
As our little boy is growing bigger so is his amount of toys. You might have read before that our […]
Blue Minimalistic Cushions
For a change I’ve made something for myself (well for our home that is), two cool minimalistic blue cushions. The […]
Toddler bed
We’ve made this cute toddler bed by adding the house to a standard Ikea Cot. This bed has the option […]
Jeans Bottle Holder
If I can make it myself I will (at least I’ll try). A good example is a bottle holder for […]
Dough Roller As Seam Roller Tip
Quite a while ago I came across a wooden seam roller. I was very intrigued by this as I liked […]
Corner Book Shelves
All the renovations to our pretty rundown house were done by ourself. Well almost all of it, we had some […]
Hexie Cushion in grey
This hexie cushion lives with a family who love hexies. Because their love for hexies the choice to make them […]
A bit more about my Kastoor
I’ve already made a post about my new work spot in the house (as my sewing room turned into our […]
Storage Behind our Sofa
As we don’t have a very big house but do have a lot of ‘stuff’ I designed a practical yet […]
Bag for Ikea Antilop highchair legs
This highchair is great to take along, on holidays or to visit friends and family. The legs are very easily […]
Blanket Ladder
A great and decorative way to store and display your quilts and/or other blankets is to hang them on a […]
Daybed With Storage
In the corner of our kitchen we could have made a breakfast sitting area with a little table and some […]
Diaper Storage
For our little boy we use washable diapers, noooooo they are nothing like ‘in the old days’, no soaking in […]
Our custom baby gate
Friends of ours gave us this great rolling baby gate system. But as you can see below (in the bottom […]
Kastoor
Hi all, It’s been a very long time since my previous post. The truth is I was not so productive […]
Diamonds and More Tote Bag
A lovely big bag with foundation paper piecing accent in the middle. This big tote bag is great for doing […]
Wonky Weave Baby Quilt
A playful and airy baby quilt, made with simple techniques. This baby quilt is great to make either for a […]
Crisp Cool Coasters
Simple to make fun coasters with graphic quilt design. These coasters can be made in so many styles by changing […]
Alhambra Throw Quilt
This quilt has a great use of squares, half square triangles and flying geese. By the shape they create together […]
Topsy-Turvy X Cushion Cover
A great big (floor) cushion to chill on. This big cushion cover is great to make, as all the elements […]
Thin & Thick Pluses Quilt
This Thin & Thick Pluses Quilt is a fun, simple and a quick quilt to make. And it has lots […]
Recycled jeans play quilt
Somehow I love projects with (recycled) jeans, especially when they are for my dear little boy. I’ve made this play quilt […]
Simple wholecloth quilt
When you think of a wholecloth quilt you might think they are very intricate and a lot of work. Well […]
Jil Block Four
The fourth and last Jil block pattern is again a simple design that creates a great effect by changing the […]
Jil Block Three
Here is the third Jil block pattern. Again quite simple to make. If you make the blocks two fabric/colours designs […]
Jil Block Two
This second Jil block pattern is very simple and quick to make. If you play with the directions of the […]
Jil Block One
As my Jil quilt is built up with four different blocks and each block makes a great design on it’s […]
Jeans crib rail covers
Well actually I’ve made these rail covers for Morris’ playpen to prevent him from chewing of the pain from the […]
Jil Quilt pattern
I’ve made this quilt specially as a house warming present for my brother in law and his family. They actually […]
Totally Smitten Quilt Pattern out now
It took a little while to finish the Totally Smitten Quilt pattern as my little newborn boy Morris just loves […]
I’m totally smitten
I’m totally smitten with my son Morris, born two weeks ago. We’re doing fine and we’re enjoying each other. Due […]
Geometric Aztec Cushion
I’ve always been intrigued in how many different geometric designs can be made with triangles. This aztec cushion is an […]
Out now: five of my projects in Quilting & Patchwork (for beginners) bookazine
This great magazine with book content called Quilting & Patchwork for beginners is out in stores throughout the UK by now. I’ve […]
The progress on my hand sewn dots quilt
About two years ago now I started this project. This is an on and off project that I lay aside […]
Simple Pixelated Hounds-tooth Quilt Block
This block is a translation of a great classic design made into a simple block. Because of all the ‘pixels’ […]
Eclectic patchwork tote bag
A while ago I got all these upholstery fabric samples from my mum. She had gathered them to decide in […]
Diamond Sea Quilt Majestic Batiks Special
Together with Majestic Batiks I’ve created this special edition of the Diamond Sea quilt pattern. With their newest batik fabrics […]
String pieced canvas
This is the third and last (for now) piece of my canvas refurbishing project. For this string pieced canvas I […]
Hexie canvas
I just love hexagons in quilts and patchwork projects. So it only was natural to ‘devote’ one of my canvas […]
Canvas with english paper piecing plusses
For quite a while we’ve had five photo’s (by myself) blown up on canvasses on the wall in our living […]