These beautiful pink roses were from my husband yesterday on my birthday. I had a lovely day except for getting a tummy bug.
My 9 year old son who also got the tummy bug in the middle of the night last night got to stay home from school today. He has improved as the day has gone by and borrowed the grown-up camera and took the above perfect shot of my birthday bouquet. That is the nice thing about tummy bugs, they can be quite intense but generally pass quickly.
This morning while my husband slept until nearly noon (yes, he got the birthday tummy trouble too and stayed home from work.) the children and I spent a bit of time going through fabric for a little tiny project I am going to do. My son took this photo too of me looking trough some treasured Japanese fabrics.
These are the two Japanese fabrics I chose for the 9-patch squares I am going to be hand sewing together. This is a very small project I am doing, from the Yoko Saito book, which I believe is called Square and Triangle.
By the way, if you ever want to preview or purchase Japanese books and magazines online I often use ebay. Many of the sellers scan a good portion of the book onto the site to give you a good idea of what you will get. I go to ebay.com, then I do a search for Japanese crafting magazine, Yoko Saito, Japanese quilting book, etc. You should get up a number of results and then when you click on one that looks interesting, give the page time to download and you can browse to your heart's content. Here is a good peek into the Square and Triangle book!
And here I am sewing according to Yoko Saito's instructions. Using a water soluable pen I traced a paper square onto fabrics that I cut out leaving a .7 seam allowance around the blue marks. Then I sewed two squares together on one end. The stitches should start beyond the blue line. You can just see my knot on the outside of the blue lines. I did a running stitch all the way across. It goes pretty quickly.
As you can see I have sewn three rows of 3 squares together and have finger pressed the seams in alternating directions.
Yoko recommends pinning the pieces together as I have done here. Can you tell I am having a ton on fun?
Now I have ironed the 9 patch, cut out two layers of cotton flannel, several cm larger than the 9-patch. I cut the bottom layer of fabric the same size as the flannel. I have once again used the water soluable pen to mark where I will be doing my quilting stitches. Now I am ready to baste the sections together.
I look forward to working on this over the weekend. Perhaps you have some nice project to work on this weekend too? Wishing you a lovely one!
Happy Birthday! I'm glad the bug didn't last too long.
Posted by: Gina | January 29, 2010 at 04:59 PM
Happy birthday, I love your quilting projects!
Posted by: heleen | January 29, 2010 at 05:28 PM
Happy birthday! What beautiful roses- really enjoyed both photos. The colors are wonderful. Your blog is one of my favorites!
Posted by: Betty | January 29, 2010 at 05:43 PM
Happy birthday to you! Glad that you had a nice day and glad about the roses! The pics of them are stunning. Your son is great behind the lens, just like his mama!
Posted by: Mary | January 29, 2010 at 06:14 PM
Happy birthday!
I'm glad that bug didn't last too long and you were able to enjoy the day together. Now you have alond weekend and that's not bad, right?
Hugs, Anja
Posted by: Anja | January 29, 2010 at 06:59 PM
Hi Betty,
Thank you so very much for your warm birthday wishes! You are very kind and it made my day to know that my blog is among your favorites. Thanks so much for taking the time to write me!
The children are now asleep in bed and I am going to hang out with my husband, quilt on my new little project and watch a movie or something.
Have a lovely weekend!
Hugs from Emily
Posted by: Emily Moss | January 29, 2010 at 08:13 PM
Happy birthday + one day!!!!
Posted by: Anne Marie | January 29, 2010 at 09:08 PM
Hi Anne Marie!
Thanks so much for your warm birthday wishes! It is great having so many blogging friends to celebrate with!
Happy weekend to you!
Posted by: Emily Moss | January 29, 2010 at 09:14 PM
Happy birthday, Emily! The quilting project looks like fun--I love Japanese sewing books. Look forward to seeing your progress.
Posted by: Emily | January 29, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Hei.
Jeg "datt" tilfeldigvis over den flotte etsy shopen din idag - og videre hit. Så mye vakkert du lager.
Takk for inspirasjon.
:)
gudrun
Posted by: gudrun | January 29, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Happy Birthday. Today is my parents 50th wedding anniversary. The roses are beautiful. We're supposed to get some snow? Sleet? Ice? this weeked. Whatever we end up with, I'm sure it will be a fun project weekend as well.
Posted by: Jamie | January 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Happy Birthday!! Hope you have kept the bug at bay. I had a tummy bug last week too, not nice at all! Love the roses and your project. Japanese fabric and patters are just something else aren't they? :)
Posted by: Christina | January 29, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Glad you got to enjoy some of your birthday! Your son has a wonderful eye for composition and a steady hand - those are wonderful pictures. Your quilting looks lovely too - am very jealous of your beautiful neat joins!
Posted by: Miaou | January 29, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Happy Birthday! Sorry you all got sick that is no fun!
Posted by: Julie | January 30, 2010 at 12:06 AM
Happy Birthday. My daughter just loves her dolls which you made.
www.frescocreative.com.au
Posted by: Louise | January 30, 2010 at 04:21 AM
What stunning roses! I hope you have had a nice birthday, despite the tummy bug.
Posted by: Halfway Crafter | January 30, 2010 at 09:35 AM
Hello!
Thanks so much for your kind words! I love to get comments to my blog and appreciate you taking the time.
I actually am trying to go to your blog to see what you are up to, but the link doesnt seem to work. Would you like to be nice and try to give me the link again? I would really like to pay you a visit. :)
Happy weekend!
Posted by: Emily Moss | January 30, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Hej Emily,
grattis efteråt. Nice little quiltproject.
For the link from Halfway crafter just take away the .au/ then you can get to the blog. Have a wonderful weekend together with your family.
Hälsningar from germany.
Posted by: flying scissors | January 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Happy Birthday! Your roses are wonderful and your creations too!
Thank you for having visited my blog. I often come here to have a look and you always inspire me but I never left a comment because I thought it wasn't important (but now that me too I have a blog I know comments makes you go on and make you do better!).
Vannalisa (méli-mélo)
Posted by: vannalisa | January 30, 2010 at 02:50 PM
Nydelege roser - eg gav mamma ein bukett i går, då ho hadde bursdag.
Takkar for hyggeleg melding i bloggen. Kjekt å få kommentar frå ein så garva bloggar. Eg har vore innom mange gonger og beundra dei lekre bilda og smarte småprosjekta dine. Ser ut som du brukar makro - eller du berre veldig god på nærbilde?
Posted by: Miranne | January 30, 2010 at 07:38 PM
Happy Birthday to you!!
Sorry to hear of the tummy bug....hope you are all on the mend :)
Posted by: Theresia | January 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM
Oh, Happy Birthday to you, Emily!!!
I loooove hand-work.
It's so relaxing and goes together pretty quickly, too.
Your project looks lovely... nice job!
XO,
Rhea at Alewives
Posted by: rhea | January 31, 2010 at 02:21 AM
Happy Birthday, Emily! Your roses are so pretty!
I love the pretty fabric you are working on. Thank you for sharing about the flannel and the marking. I want to try some flannel myself, it looks soft and delicate...
And thank you also for your visit and nice words
; )
Posted by: Marit | January 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM
happy belated birthday
i am so sorry you and your family had that tummy ache on such a special day. Your roses are stunning, your little boy takes great shots !
thanks so much for paying me a visit on my blog and hearting my etsy shop. i am such a great admirers of yours. your work is always so beautiful,love the square and triangles your are hand stitching.
have a lovely sunday
Posted by: monique | January 31, 2010 at 03:53 PM
Happy birthday! The flowers are beautiful. Thank you so much for visiting my blog and commenting. You made my day. I even showed my husband the comment and then showed him your blog. I strive to be honest in my blog and it is very encouraging to get such a positive response. Especially from some one who's craft and blog I admire so much.
Posted by: joy | February 01, 2010 at 02:32 AM
happy birthday wishes to you! Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well. Hope everyone is feeling better! I see so many beautiful japanese books and magazines online...I wish they published things like that in a language I could read ;)
Also, very happy you liked Emily's walk :) I could make a print of it for you if that interests you at all....
~Heather
Posted by: heather | February 01, 2010 at 03:52 PM
Happy birthday, Emily (a bit belated wishes this time)! I hope you are all feeling much better now. Your quilting project looks so nice. I adore the fact that you are making it by hand, it gives a special touch to it.
Posted by: Merruli | February 01, 2010 at 08:23 PM
Happy Belated Birthday Wishes!! :D Love the roses and I'm glad you're all over the tummy bug.
Posted by: Kai | February 06, 2010 at 03:25 PM