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A & B Creating and knitting
Besides patchwork/quilting, sewing, and ceramics we now started a knitting group! Once a week, each Tuesday morning we will gather and knit small things to sell at our bazaars. At the moment we are...
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Christmas bazaar
A & B Creating's Christmas bazaar will be held next Sunday the 2nd of December. After 10.30 in the morning everyone is welcome to join us for coffee, tea, sweets and enjoy the place with all its...
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Hello, hello!! Let's start blogging again!!!!
Wow, I wrote my last post before Christmas!! I went to the States to see my family over there and when I came back, I was busy, busy, busy! I am still busy, but I am going to blog again. Let's start...
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Catching up!!
One of my projects was to make things with pieces of embroidery. Some of the pieces I bought in the second hand stores I visit regularly and some I bought at the annual fair in Mystras. There used to...
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The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt book is standing in my bookcase for a few years now. First I was planning to make the whole quilt in bright modern colors, I made, I think 4 or 5 blocks, 6" blocks!!...
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Birds and chicks and butterflies
As A & B Creating is going to celebrate the end of the season, with an evening event we are getting ready to make some more summer bags, placemats, wall hangings, cushions and other little things....
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Fabric garden
I love my garden, which still needs a lot of work to be done, but it is so hot and humid out there, that I prefer to sit in my basement and sew garden blocks. Some patchwork, some appliqued,...
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Summer time at A & B Creating
Next Sunday, the 14th, we will have our End of the Year Party at A & B Creating. We are getting ready to have a lovely evening on our balcony with all our friends, friends of friends, acquaintances...
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The party is over!
The party is over! We had a great time with all the friends of A & B Creating.The weather was perfect. After the heatwave the temperature dropped and it was lovely on the balcony. In the beginning...
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A new start!!
After nearly a year of absence , I thought it would be nice to start blogging again.I had a busy year, but during the lockdown I had time to evaluate my life and put my priorities in a proper...
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A & B Creating
Hurray, we can open again. After being closed for 3 months, we have the ok! Of course we have to reorganize our tables a bit to keep the right distance, but that is no problem. We have enough space....
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Quilting Bee Sparta
The Quilting Bee started again to meet! We all really missed our Thursday mornings, because they are really fun. Working, creating, enjoying each others company with coffee and biscuits (lots of times...
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Baby stuff
Babies are adorable and they deserve the best of everything. Not that everybody else doesn't deserve the best, but the start of a new life asks for new beautiful things. So, at A & B Creating we...
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Every quilt has a story
This crib quilt that I just finished has a vintage rocking horse pattern appliqued. All of the blocks are from recycled or old stock fabrics. The back is from beautiful Gutermann fabric, bought from...
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Summer time and the living is easy!!
Title of a nice song! This summer, though, the time isn't that easy! After the lockdowns everyone is longing to go out, go on a holiday, have some fun. Fact is that we still have to be very careful...
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Win Cancer
At A & B Creating we had a lovely visit from Pisti and Roula from WinCancer this summer. Their organization gives a lot of information and support to cancer patients and they have some lovely...
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Back to school
September, and the schools are starting again. My grandchildren in Belgium started yesterday. In Greece the kids will start a bit later in the month. Petros and Elsa showed me, very proud, their new...
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Rain, autumn, time for knitting!!
Hurray!! The first rain after nearly 3 months!! Happily for us the Medicane (Mediterranean Hurricane) hasn't arrived yet in Sparta and I hope we only get the rain and not the severe winds, hail and...
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Winter season - International Day of Peace
It has been a busy month. Getting ready for the winter season. It is a bit awkward because the temperatures are still high and no rain whatsoever. No autumn or winter feelings yet. On the 21st of...
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Back to blogging!!
It has been a long time!! Lots of things have happened, but now I am ready to start a new blogging adventure. Getting into contact with old and new friends. The pandemic was, and still is, a...
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Getting into the Christmas spirit
We still have about 6 weeks till Christmas and the shops here in Sparta, as well as the coffee shops and restaurants, are already starting to decorate for this festive time! Although there are some...
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Christmas sewing
The weather is acting very strange! At the moment we have a thunderstorm, not a bad one luckily, but at midday the temperature was 23 degrees Celsius. We haven't had any heating on yet and in 10 days...
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Scrappy Christmas projects
Being a quilter for more than 10 years I have gathered a lot of scraps! I like to work with all those tiny pieces. It is a challenge to make something beautiful with the fabrics you have. Not buying...
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The re-use of fabric for Christmas projects
Together with the women from the Quilting Bee Sparta, I have made a lot of Christmas ornaments, mug rugs, table runners, cushions, and the good thing is that I haven't bought any fabric. I just used...
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Getting ready to celebrate
Next Sunday we are having our Christmas celebration at A&B Creating. We are all looking forward to this lovely event. The last pieces has been sewn!!This is Dimitra working on a table runner with...
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