3 Surprises & a Blogfriend's Give Away

I've got 3 surprises today.
The first one ..

a package of beautiful fabrics from Diana, a dear family friend in Holland. she said it was a birthday gift :D

second...

quilting books!! One of my dream is to have Denyse Schmidt's book and noew I have it :D

My ex-college roomate (also my bestfriend) who lives in San Jose now sent it to me by mail.

Oh, I just can't stop turned the pages over and over again.

The last surprise is...

I made a puckery quilt (again), finally finished and could take a quite good macro picture of every details (usually it was difficult for me).


It could be a table runner or wall hanging and still explore the same fabrics.

That's all my 3 surprises for today.

How about yours?

By the way...one of my blogfriend -Christy-has some awesome books for you this weekend. Please pop in to her blog :)
Good luck for you, hope you will win!

Sweet intermezzo

I enjoying my cozy quiet Sunday afternoon (while kids and hubby are taking nap). Binding this little batik table runner (actually 2009 project that I left)is really giving me an amazing feeling. What a sweet intermezzo.


Hopefully I can finish it tonight.

So Far ...

(Upps... I think the pics are too bright, sorry!)

So far...since I've done 4 tops for pillow covers last weekend, I can't stand for starting to make a table runner with the same 'batik' theme. Here I upload the top and the back although I'm not sure yet which one is the back nor the top, hehe...maybe we could call it 'reversible' table runner then :)

About the grey-blue ones...
I had ever bought "wrong" fabric, just wrong colors...didn't like it after I was at home. So since unused it would be a 'bad' habit along my journey in learning quilting, then I tried to cut it in small pieces.
I just love to arrange the small pieces mixed with white but now a little bit confused about which the easiest way to sew them together. Any suggestion?