Busy weeks have passed.....

... and I have accomplished sooo much! After my 3-day-trip to Prague (where I visited the Patchworkmeeting) I was so inspired and creatively stimulated that I started right away with a quilt that I had wanted to make since I had that book.

I wrote about  previously, A Quilters Mixology by Angela Pingel - I  love those curves, waves and patterns. But never dared to make it because I haven´t done any curve sewing yet. At QuiltCon in Austin I bought a ruler with Convex and Concave curves so I finally had no excuse not to try!

I love the Medallion Baby Quilt in Angelas´book so that´s the one I chose. There were several things that I had to try out first: pinning the curves completely before sewing but that was too much effort and didn´t turn out well. So I tried with three pins only (the same bad result), in the end I did it without any pins at all and...... it turned out great! I watched a video on Youtube a couple of months ago where a lady did the curve sewing without any pins and to be true, it really was the best way for me, too.

That´s the Medallion Baby Quilt from Angela Pingels´ book.

And here´s my version:

Sunlight streaming across my sewing table

I love to hand-quilt....

 

As the babys´name is Sinah I think the Love Ring pattern is perfect with its´ oriental curves and waves.

Pattern testing for Ellis & Higgs

I was really thrilled when I received an e-mail from Nadra Ridgeway (go check out her blog, Ellis & Higgs) that I can do the SUGAR CANDIES Mini quilt as a pattern testing. So I dove into my scrap box and got all sweet colored fabrics out. I mixed them with a bright green and a soothing grey fabric.

It was a joy to sew the pattern, easy to ready, the images very detailed and clear. And as already mentioned a couple of times: I love chain sewing!!

I have finished this Sugar Candies MINI but until the pattern is released by Nadra you just have to wait a little bit to see it. But I promise: it is super-sweet!!

Spring is in the air.....

....and I can´t wait to get outside.... really?!? With this light in my sewing room I´d rather stay there und sew and sew and sew!! Finish UFOs, start new projects, everything seems to run more easily as if spring is speeding up my work flow!

 

Yesterday I finished the baby quilt for EMILIA. The pattern I got from the MOD BLOCK book from the Missouri Star Quilt Company which we had in the goody bag at QuiltCon in Austin.

It´s the Double Friendship Star pattern, it was very easy to sew and a delight to handquilt.

Happy Easter !!

With Easter approaching....

...the bunny gets very busy! I´ve been busy as well, visiting the Styrian Quilting Day, the Quilt exhibition in Litzelstetten (Germany) and making little Easter treats for my customers. Can you guess what it is?

I´ve done a workshop with my quilt guild about how to make boxes with stamped fabrics. I´ve made this box and now I´m keeping ribbons in it. I´ve always wondered why so many of my quilt friends were buying ribbons all the time. Now that I was in need of ribbons myself and only had a few, I certainly understood why: you can never have enough ribbons of all kinds of colors and patterns....

I took some scrap fabrics from fabric swatches and wanted to perk them up a little bit with the ribbons that I had (some were bought, some were left-overs from presents that I kept, thinking that I would surely need them one day). 

 It´s obvious by now what they´re going to be, right ?

For the inside I took a patch of fabric that I got from one of my friends. Although the color is just the opposite of the outside, I thought this orange fabric will keep the eggs cozy with is bright and warm shine.

I finished the egg cozys pretty quick but somehow something kept missing..... so I went through my haberdashery (also left overs from all kinds of purchases or from friends that didn´t have any use for it anymore) and found the buttons! 

Taa daahh, now the easter bunny can come and get them and put them into my customers easter nests!

But before he comes to get them I will add little cardboard-tags with my label on the backside....

  
... and I also labeled the back of the egg cozys!

Mystery Quilt Surprise Box - final

Two days ago we received the last instruction for our mystery quilt Surprise Box and I thought, super, I´ll work on it on sunday and finish it. But ohhh my, was I misguided...... that quilt´s going to be very, very big as I have chosen the big version - but I did not think that my grey little box full of little grey-blue blocks would turn into such a big quilt when sewn together. Me and measurements are not exactly on friendly terms, most of the time.

So I cut down on my expectations in time and finished at least one out of nine blocks. Here it is! And I hope to be as efficient as I have been this weekend for the next few weeks so I can present you the completed quilt very soon...... soon, compadre!

QuilCon pickings continues - Missouri Star Quilt Co.: MOD BLOCK

In our goody bag was a book from the Missouri Star Quilt Co., MOD BLOCK with 10 modern projects made easy, traditional goes modern. I fell in love with the double friendship star quilt from Jenny Doan. And as another baby quilt is due, I took the chance to do this pattern - and I think it turned out great. As soon as I have quilted it (by hand) I will do the binding in orange!

This morning the sunlight was streaming across my working table...