May

Jarni, promenlive pocasi, ktere nas casto laka ven nebo s privalem deste donuti venku vseho nechat a jit se schovat pod strechu. Miluji prochazky jarni prirodou.....

Spring weather that lures us out with  sunshine  and chases are back indoor with showers. I love walks in the springs........

Me oblibene misto.......
My favorite spot....

vse roste pred ocima
everything is growing front of my eyes...

i vnoucek :)  
even our grandson :)

 .....stolek, ktery jsem dokoncila vcera
......table I finished yesterday

 a na kterem jsem si vyzkousela novou techniku.
I tried a new technique to embellish it.

Tyto stolecky uz maji noveho majitele.
And this set already sold.

Easter Weekend

I hope you are all having wonderful Easter weekend. 
 Doufam, ze si vsichni uzivate velikonocniho vikendu.

 Just a few snippets from past week......
 Par fotek z minuleho tydne.......

spring quilts

I am keeping busy and managed to finished another quilt last night. Our weather is like a roller coaster, rain one day, sun another.  That gives me time to work on my crafts ;)

Dalsi dokoncena deka. Pocasi jak na houpacce, jeden den prsi, druhy den slunicko ale celkove zatim opravdu nic moc. Takze je stale cas na tvoreni :)

© Monika Opatril 2014

My Beautiful Pregnant Daughter

My daughter asked me to take some photos of her while she is pregnant. We had a great time doing this photo shoot Friday afternoon and I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did :))  She wanted to do it on a sunny day which is not the best choice  without  proper equipment.  You can see the difference the sun ( and shadows) makes on the face and spot the pics taken in the shade.  

Dcera me pozadala, jestli bych ji nenafotila tehotenske fotky a tak  jsme v patek vyrazily.  Bylo to moc krasne odpoledne a ja doufam, ze si to uzila stejne jako ja :)) Bohuzel si nenechala vysvetlit, ze fotit za plneho slunce neni ta nejlepsi volba, pokud nemate patricne vybaveni. Na fotkach je krasne videt, jak ostre slunce vytvari nezadouci stiny v obliceji a jiste poznate na kterych fotkach byla zady k slunci ci ve stinu.

  © Monika Opatril 2014

new quilt 2

Last night I finished my baby/toddler quilt. It was such a joy to work on it this past week and even though I was trill when it was done a was a bit sad too. Sometimes I  get attached to  the pieces I work on and it feels like finishing a good book. You just want to keep on reading ;)  Today, my head is full of ideas for the next one........

Vcera vnoci jsem dokoncila detskou deku. Byl to super projekt a kdyz jsem  byla hotova, bylo  mi to skoro lito. Neco jako kdyz doctete dobrou knizku a chteli byste cist dal a dal.....

 Choosing the pattern, practicing and making sure the tread tension is right is part of the process.

Vybirani vzorku, cvicne siti a sestelovani stroje, to je vse soucast tohoto procesu.

All done,  not perfect, but that is part of what makes handmade project "hand made". 

Prositi je dokoncene, ne uplne stoprocentni ale to je soucast "rucni vyroby"

I chose this fabric for the binding.  My daughter didn't like it, she advised me to use shade of pink, but I followed my feeling. She calls it "candy cane" and at the end she loves it too.

Na olemovani jsem zvolila tuto latku i kdyz dcera doporucovala nejaky odstin ruzove. Nasledovala jsem mou intuici a i ji se nakonec finalni "vyrobek" libil i kdyz rika ze to vypada jako "candy cane"




One side stitched on by the machine,
Jedna strana strojem....

the other one by hand.  The last few stitches, shortly after midnight and......
druha rucne. A tohle jsou uz posledni stehy.....

 tada!
a je hotovo!

 And because as usual I have more things going on at once, I also completed the crochet baby blanket for my daughter ❣

A protoze, jako vzdy, mam rozdelane ruzne projekty, dokoncila jsem pred par dny i tuto baby hackovanou deku pro dceru ❣