Christmas

I finally finished my current work and now I can start to relax...
And I am already working on a new quilt.
Since I discovered some very old vintage quilts on ebay made from feedsack fabric in the double wedding ring pattern, I wanted to make one by my own. As I found it quite hard to get feedsack fabric for a reasonable price, I found the 30ies Reproduction prints and knew that these were the ones I needed.
The Pickledish Quiltalong from Aneela is the perfect possibility for me to start with this project, because of the wonderful and easy description from her.
I already made the first arches and can´t wait to finish the whole quilt. My plan is to combine it with snow white Kona cotton.
Oh I already can see the Quilt lying on my bed...
OK I guess this will be the last post for this year.
After Christmas I am off to the mountains. I will say hello again next year.
A wonderful Christmas for you and a happy new year.
Miriam

Another one done...

I am sooo happy that this one is done. I worked on it for a while, and it took ages, also because there was so much "real" work to do, that there was so little time for the good things.
Tommorrow I am going to Stuttgart for the weekend to visit my sister and for a Christmas Craft Fair.This is why I really had to finish the Quilt so I can give it to my sister when I am there.

And this is also the reason for the bad photos. I took them this morning when the sun wasn´t totally up just before i wrapped the Quilt in Wrapping Paper.
I slowly start a new project the Pickledish Quiltalong with Aneela Hoey.
For this I ordered a Fat Quarter Bundle of thirties reproduction prints. This will be a very traditional looking Quilt. But more about this another time...
See You,
Miriam

Mums Quilt

I finally finished my mums quilt for Christmas. The first where I did a little handquilting also, which took ages, as the most of you might know.
But I am quite happy with how it turned out. I would definitely not choose these fabrics and colours for a quilt for me, but I know (hope) that she will like it.
Now I have to finish the That Girl That Quiltalong Quilt for my sister, and as christmas rushing towards us, I have to hurry!!!
Two more "Craft-Design-Market-Weekends" till Christmas and I must say there is nearly no energy left inside my brain and body...
I am so looking forward to go on my skiing holidays from the 25th of december. The austrian mountains are waiting for me... can´t wait either, I didn´t go skiing for ten years, i hope I still can come down the mountains....;-)
I hope you guys have a little calmer christmas time and enjoy some hot drinks on some funky mug rugs...
Have a very nice christmas time!
Miriam

I caught up finally!

I was behind in the Quiltalong...
And I don´t like being behind, I have to say. I developed this manner with getting older. In school I didn´t care if I was behind. But my teacher and my parents cared. Now I am here, have a proper job and a good life, so somehow I made it.
And now that nobody pushes me I don´t want to be behind anymore. Strange. But whatever, now I caught up.
Here Is my finished quilttop. Maybe I will ad a white sashing at the top and bottom to make it long enough to cover my sisters feed. It is going to be a christmas gift for her.(Just to inform you, nearly nobody knows about this blog, so I think she won´t see this before christmas eve...I hope.)
So this is it. I call it the Bonbon Box Quilt because the colours and the pattern remind me of a box of sweet, colourful lollies.
I wish you a wonderful weekend,
Yours Miriam

I am back...

...since last week, but there is so much to do that I had nearly no time for blogging or quilting. But here is a little bit for you.
I am taking part in the "Scrappy Mug Rug Swap"
and this is my Mug Rug for the secret Swap Partner.



I couldn´t stop adding little details like the spiders, but then thought that my partner might want to put her mug on the rug and it would be a shame to put it on a little bird or leaf or whatever I had in mind.
Have a nice day!

I am heading to...

...Munich tomorrow for a work trip. Because of that I was a bit fast and started sewing some test blocks for the Quiltalong. I love the blocks and would love to go on, but unfortunately it is not possible to take the sewing mashine with me... on the plane...?
Well looks like if I won´t sew anything the next two weeks, as I am addicted to my sewing mashine and my fabrics and patchwork etc this will be a tough time for me. But there is enough other work I suppose, that I won´t miss it to much...Maybe...
Have a nice week, folks,
Miriam

A new Quilt...

...till christmas.With this Quiltalong I will make the Quilt for my sister. These are the fabrics I have chosen for it:
I can´t wait to start a new project (allthough there are waiting three Quilttops to be quilted...)

Here is what...

... wanted to become a "quilt as you go quiltalong quilt" (hosted by heather some time ago).
I was not patient enough, and somehow I didn´t get the method of piecing the whole thing together in the end. So I decided to make a normal wonky log cabin quilt out of the blocks I already had started.
I call it the "Dolce Vita Quilt" because of the little houses printed on the backfabric (a vintage douvet cover from the seventies) and the red/white striped binding which reminds me of Venice and the funny gondolas...

Relax! or "Entspann Dich!"

Today I made some "sort of" wonky log cabin eye relax cushions. They are filled with flaxseed and lavender. I love them!
I just made seven but I think they make wonderful little chritmas gifts, so I will make a lot more, this is a perfect possibility to use my scraps.
On the back (unfortunately I forgot to fotograph it) I embroidered "relax" (in german: "Entspann Dich").

What I like about quilting

I am a perfectionist. In so many things. As a self employed fashion designer and shopowner there are so many things I have to have my controlling hands on.
And here is what I noticed after the few quilts I made: I like to be unperfect. With the last quilttop I just did what was neccessary. I had no pattern and just added something here and if there was too much fabric here, I cut it away and so on. In fact I like this spontanious habit about it. I am sure not many like doing the patchwork this loose, but for me it is an example how I could ad some unperctionism in my normal life.
So here see my unperfect wonky log cabin quilt top waiting to be quilted after two others...

Blog Difficulties

I just started this blog. I already have another one about my shop and my work as a fashion designer, but I have to say I never gave much about the designing of the blog because I am not very good with computer stuff. Now I spent about two hours to find a way to upload a nice photo of one of my favorite quilts for the header and it didn´t work. For now it is enough! Why shouldn´t I use these cute backrounds and possibilities blogger offers?

So better lets talk about quilting:
As a quilting beginner I want to try a few patterns which interest me and hopefully later make some patterns and figure new things out. But until then I can show you the quilts I made and I am really happy with.
I finished the binding of this "dissapearing ninepatch block" quilt while I was working on a community/art market yesterday.

It will be a gift for my nephews birthday in three weeks. He is turning 8 and I really hope that he won´t think that he is too old for a "blanket".
Anyways - I love it. I used some "wheels" fabric from Riley Blake.
The back is made from an Ikea cotton which I had on my stash for years.

I quilted it with wavy lines and I really like how it came out.

This is it for today,
it is grey in Berlin Germany, but I send you a sunny salute,
Miriam

Dresden is not far away

As the name of this blog tells you, I live in Berlin, Germany.
I love this vibrant city, there are new things happening every day. People are open minded and creative. But unfortunately the quilting tradition didn´t grow big in Germany and when I tell my friends, I make quilts now, they are a little confused at first, because "Patchwork" has a quite oldfashioned mosty odour in the imagination of people. But when I show them the "blankets" they really like them. I am so new to quilting and I am fascinated everyday about the possibilities it gives and the wonderful artwork you can do with fabric.
I also love the traditional patterns like "the double wedding ring" or the "dresden" Pattern. When I noticed that there is a special tool for cutting the dresden wedges I had to have it. And this is what I am doing now. I am working on a quilt for my mother made from the fabrics she gave me, definetly not my style,) but they really suit to my parents home and style. I thinks with a little modern twist it will become a cute warm and cosy quilt, as a thank you for her giving me the tools...
Here is where I am so far. Cutting all wedges for five dresden plates, chainsew some little "prayer flags" and already finished two.
Stay tuned to see how I am doing the new dresden quilt.

Miriam

P.S. Did I tell you that Dresden is about two hours away from Berlin? And maybe somebody can tell me why this pattern is called Dresden?

Welcome!

In the summer holidays I visited my mum in Spain. After a few days she gave me a rotary cutter, a cutting mat, a quilting ruler and some fabrics. Ten years old but never used. She had thought quilting could become her passion. But it didn´t. It became mine!
I made a little baby quilt for a friend and instantly I was hooked.
Now 9 quilts later I start this blog.
I hope you enjoy!
Welcome!
Miriam