I was nominated by Marianne Blomgren to take part and show black and white pictures from my everydaylife for seven days. No people, no texts – just let the pictures speak.
7/7 #blackandwhitechallenge
Of the little happiness of reading a good book
Oh, it is so nice and so beneficial on a rainy sunday as today to read a book under a warm blanket.
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Of Quilting I heard the first time when I watched 1995 the filme „An American Quilt“ with the young Winona Ryder, „Wow“, I thought then, „how much work that is, I could never done it“. Therefore I asked my dear husband, to buy a quilt for our bed, when we saw it at a market on Bali (picture of the day). Never had I thought that I would someday start to quilt myself.
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When I did the test stitching for the easter bunny and spring flowers for Individual Pieces a couple of weeks ago I knew immediately that I would do another windmill bag after the pattern of the Smilla Blog with them. This little project I had planned for the workhop but I did not have time for it.
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At my first patchwork quilt workshop two years ago one of the participants had a self-made bag for her cutting mat and her rulers. I loved that idea and immediately put this idea on my project list. Since than I have been collecting fabric with sewing related designs and bought a small cutting mat (60cm x 45cm by Vorwerk) as well a several different patchwork rulers (by Omnigrid). And now I have finally found time to sew the bag.
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I have been doing quite some test stitching and thought about using these for a cover of a photo book: Taking 2 by 2 squares of 14 cm² and a strip of 7cm width with text on it for one side of the book. Though I have not yet enough squares for a complete cover, only about half of it but enough for testing my pattern during the patchwork workshop.
Continue reading “Workshop Day 2 – Patchwork Bookcover”Workshop days 1 and 2 – Accessoires for the pirates’ quilt
After the excitement of my daughter’s needle accident at the end of my November quilt workshop I had planned to participate in the spring workshop without children. But because my embroidery machine is broken I could not finish my embroidery quilt pieces as I had hoped. So, when my son absolutely wanted to join me in order to make a pillow and a bag complementing his pirates’ quilt I agreed. Therefore he joined me for two days and was very busy.
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I was nominated by Marianne Blomgren to take part and show black and white pictures from my everydaylife for seven days. No people, no texts – just let the pictures speak.
Continue reading “6/7 #blackandwhitechallenge”About the happiness having finished a sewing project
This weekend was dedicated to my participation at the crazy patchwork quilt workshop. As I have reported before this time no big embroidery quilt was due but several smaller patchwork pieces without quilting.
Continue reading “About the happiness having finished a sewing project”Where to put all the rulers?
That you need so many rulers for sewing I would not have believed when I started. But with time and sewing projects the need for rulers grows. By now I have a long ruler for cutting half the fabric width, French curves for adjusting patterns and several patchwork rulers. After a while there was the question where to store all those rulers to have them out of the way but at the same time always easy and fast accessible.
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