A Mid Mod Houses Baby Quilt

In January 2010 the first baby of my dear friend Caroline was born. For this wonderful event I made her a quilt. It was the first quilt I ever made. Here you can see it in all its beauty.
Last week, about three and a half years later her second child was born. For sure I had to make a new quilt for Toni the new boy on town. What a lucky coincident that I still had the cute Mid Mod Houses Blocks in my drawer which where made by the talented bees  of the Bee Germany back in 2011.
So this morning I started to put them together.

I absolutely adore this quilt. I think even later when the baby  boy is to big to fit under it, the quilt can be used for playing.
And because I never want to let one child neglected, the big sister who is the cutest todler I know, will get a dollquilt made from one leftover block. I hope the kids and the parents like my gift. I definitely do.

Swap*pen auf Deutsch

We did it again! Aylin organized the second round of Swap*pen auf Deutsch. This time we are swapping  totes. Because I am going on a trip to turkey soon, I finished the tote for my secret swap partner very early.

I used the free Charlie Bag pattern from the Burdastyle website.  Already two  of these bags have been made by me and I love the pattern. The shape gives you so much possibilities to alter and "embellish" the bag. For the bottom I used some nice velvet leather because it gives you more durability. I really love this version. I almost hope my partner doesn´t like it, so I can keep it. ;-)

Inside there is one open pocket for the things you have to reach quickly and easily.

 And one zipperpocket for the more valuable stuff.  This is it for now, I wish you all a sunny sunday!

Paparazzi Bees in Berlin

This weekend we had our wonderful meeting of the Bee Germany in Berlin (How practical, just around the corner from my house). But anyway it was like a short holiday either, as we spend most of the time inside our nice appartement, which Aylin rented for the bees to sleep, eat and sew in. It was a blast meeting most of the nice ladies from the bee and next meetings are already in planning.

I also got some sewing done. I finished two bee blocks first, so that I would have a relaxed mind for the project to come. And hell´ya need a relaxed mind. I chose to make the paparazzi bag by Sara from sew sweetness.

It has a gazillion pattern pieces from fabric, interfaces and foam. And the sewing took ages.
I finished it today and have to add that I am quite inpatience and so don´t worry to much if you want to make one. It is a lot of fun aswell.

The funny thing about the process or lets more say the material,is that I could get a special stuff which should be inside. I was in a hurry and tried to find a replacement. So I went to the hardware store and finally I found something, what I thought could be used. It replaces the "By Annie soft and Stable" and is like a blanket with a rubber side which is  normally  used to put under a tablecloth. I worked awesome! Now the bag has this stable finish what I absolutely love!

The result is really rewarding. I like my paparazzi bag so much already allthough it hasn´t seen the camera yet. She (the camera) is not here at the moment, but tomorrow I will put her in her new home.

Besides the sewing of many projects (see some posts about it here, here and here) there was of course a lot of fun talking, eating and a tiny bit of drinking, too.

I had a fun weekend thanks ladies! I hope yours was also nice. And your week will be,too.
Take Care!

Rock me Baby

A few months ago (nearly a year, to be exact...) I stumbled over the most ugly rocking chair you can imagine in an antique/opshop in my street. I saw this guy and somehow liked it, but couldn´t explain myself why. It had the grosest fabric, but I liked the shape. (Unfortunately I forgot to take a before picture, but do you see the fabric???)

After I passed the shop and the chair a few times I understood why I liked it: It had the shape of a Mid Century Chair and just had been mislead because of the terrible fabric. Somebody must have made this huge mistake in the past to cover the chair with this. Somehow I imagine an old sweet couple, this was her chair, as I found  a crochet hook and a hair needle in it later.


Well back to the week I had found this chair. It was a time where my money situation wasn´t that good and when I asked the seller how much he wanted I was shocked. Unfortunately he knew about it being Mid Mod allthough I tried as much as I could to missguide him. I said what??? You want so much for this ugly chair? No way! And left the shop. But I came back every day, and asked him: How much is the chair today? Well after a few days it was half the price from the beginning, still a lot, but I couldn´t resist. Then it was mine.

I had the plan to upholster it with a patchworked fabric. It took me nearly a year, to finish this project. In this time this ruin of a Rocking Chair laid in my living room, with half of the fabric its inner life off. I was very close from throwing the thing away.

But then last week magic happened. I found the perfect upholstery fabric and started to sew right away.
And you know what? It was finished in two days. This was my easter project. And here it is and i love it so much!!! I can´t wait to sit in it, watch little holes in the air, drink a coffee or read a nice book in it.
I love how my good folks quilt matches the colours.

But let me tell you, upholstering a Rocking Chair is a lot of work. I had thought it was easier. But I think I am rewarded.
What did you do in your free time?
Did you have an easter project? Did you meet with family and friends? Did you enjoy your time?
And have you seen the beauty in something really ugly recently?

It is a boy!!!

Huhu no worries this is a false track. No suddenly surprises or hidden secrets. I is just a nice intro to tell you about the commission baby quilts I made recently. Funnily there are just baby boys around me at the moment. Three of my friends are getting theirs very soon and there are one or two other pregnant ladies who do too.
So I was asked to make two baby quilts and here they are. One of course is a scrappy trips quilt, but this time I mixed in some solids, to get another look. I quite like the outcome, but maybe I still prefer the totally scrappy look.

The other quilt is for Simon, this little guy is on this beautiful earth for some weeks already. He definitively needs his first quilt, as it is still very winterly here in Berlin. After my last post, where I warmly welcomed spring, we had about two snowstorms and 20 cm of new snow. At least the sun is shining for a while now, so hope is still up.

For Simons quilt I used this pattern by Jeni but made it smaller using 10" squares.
I like this one a lot. And I think it makes an easy quick gift for a baby shower...
So guys this is it. No hidden projects around here. I have to admit my sewing inspiration and lust and mojo is quite icy at the moment. No willingness to start a new project. I rather go dancing and singing to forget about winter...

But life is "damned" good at the moment, so don´t worry! :-) How is yours???

The Quilt that catches the sun

 Berlin (and complete germany) had the dullest and darkest winter in 43 years. I think I remember that I´ve seen the sun in december for the last time. Until yesterday. Suddenly the sun came out, like an unknown object in the sky.And today it is even brighter. OMG how I missed the sun. Some of my friends and me included struggled depressed moods, our body just need some sun!
As soon as the temperature rises just a little bit, tables at restaurants and cafes are put outside, people wrapped in fleece blankets (unfortunately not quilts, imagine how beautiful that would look...), sit there drinking coffee chatting and turning their faces towards the sun. I caught myself yesterday, with closed eyes faced to the warm light, while I was waiting at the traffic lights.
It is just wonderful to see the sun again.
And of course I had to make use of it and take some colourful shots of my latest finish (two more quilts to go,yeah!).

Here you see the scrappy trips quilt that I started in january. I like it a lot, it is possible that this will become the next "sitting on the kitchen window sill in the sun every morning having a coffee quilt".

 I did some fun quilting on it. After I quilted  the tablerunner for my mother this way, I wanted to do it again, but thought it would be faster (yes I think like that, I admit!) to make it in a bigger size. So here it is.

 Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the complete back, but I hope you will have an idea what it looks like.

 So this is it. I am happy to start into this sunny day, the weather forecast says it is going to be spring soon. MORE THAN NECESSARY!
I hope you have a sunny day, too!

In featherbed with Anna Maria and Denyse

A (long)while ago I started this very cute quilt designed by Anna Maria Horner. While I was enthusiastic I finished all the blocks very fast. I sewed in chains, whirled through my sewing space like a hurricane. But what happened then? As soon as I had finished the blocks they sat there. And sat there for months.

 That happens to me quite often. I start very enthusiastic and shortly before it is about to put it all together, my quilting energy level for the project gets lost. I still have some projects like these in the drawer.

Well but this weekend I managed to finish the featherbed quilt. I call this quilt "In featherbed with Anna Maria and Denyse", because I used the  Flea Market Fancy fabric line of Denyse Schmidt. I really like how it turned out. First I wanted to do somy fancy and crazy free motion quilting on it, but then decided that I´d rather finish it with a stippling pattern, just to get it done.

Because I am in a creative quilting hole at the moment. I don´t know what project to start, don´t know which fabrics I want to use. I go through my stash once in a while and then I put all the fabrics I had chosen back on the shelf, because I don´t even know what pattern I want to sew.
The fact that I still have some quilts to finish might be the reason for that. The reason that I am blocked.
I hope this will change as soon as I have finished them up.

 

Until then I will enjoy my new quilt and will go to featherbed with Anna Maria and Denyse tonight.
Have a nice day, everybody!