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Hi folks,
you might have heard of this very generous Giveaway from Freshsqueezed Fabric. You can win a fabric bundle by pinning it on pinterest and getting it repinned as often as the worth of the fabric.
I chose the wonderful madrona road bundle which you can repin here.

 
Please let me know that you repinned, as I can repin yours, too. What a fun Giveaway. Thank you Freshsqueezed Fabrics!!!
The complete rules you can find here!

About me putting fabric together

Sometimes there are things I really feel unconfident about, even if there might not be a reason for that. I guess most of you out there know these feelings. If it is about how to approach people, how to cook a five course dinner or in this case how to put fabrics together.

One day at the shop with my business partner I was complaining about my lack of knowlege and confidence to put fabrics together for a quilt. And she (not at all knowing anything about this quilting stuff) looked at me quite surprised and said: "You are  putting together different fabrics for your clothes designs every day, so why shouldn´t  you be able to do so with the quilting fabrics?"

I thought about that and noticed that she was right. With just one difference, I am not thinking when I put together the fabrics for the clothes. I just hold them together and look (feel) how I like the combination.
So, why couldn´t I do so quiltwise? I think my problem might be, that I see so many gorgeous outstanding projects out there, fabrics chosen so wisely. I tend to compare myself a lot to much and always think I could never ever put something so beautiful and appealing together.As soon as my head gets the control to much, its over. And this is why I often tend to use whole collections for a project.

Why am I telling you this? Because for this quilt I didn´t. I started with this lovely fabric in the middle it is from Birch and  is called Happy camping,I love the Mid mod design of it.

 Going from there I chose the other fabrics (some Anna Maria, some Denyse, some Tula, some Joel and others)  that I thought could fit colourwise. I have to say I am really pleased how that turned out. I used the one seem flying geese technique again, I really love this technique because of the 3D effect it gives. I quilted it really undramatically with straight lines. The back is a lovely fabric from Ikea and the binding is a Joel Dewberry fabric from the heirloom collection.
I think this is a lovely quilt in fall colours. I might put it in the shop, still not sure about it.

 

How are you dealing with colour and fabric choices for a quilt?

Original Plans...

 I planned a proper Photo shoot for this new finished quilt. As today is one of the last sunny days of summer (thats what they tell us in the weatherforcast) I wanted to go to the "Tempelhofer Airport"  which is a wonderful huge park today. I planned on taking some food, something to read, the camera and the quilt. But you know what happened? Life happened. I AM TIRED! The last two days I stood on fancy art and crafts markets, I talked a lot to people who wanted (or not wanted) to by my designs. And it was really exhausting. Successful, but exhausting.
So who am I to be blamed, I ask myself. Who says I have to go out, just because it supposed to be last day of summer?

 NOBODY, but my sometimes stupid inner voice. So today I just don´t listen, or I listen to the other voice, the nice and clever one, who says: it is your day off, do whatever you want to do! So it is. I took a few really nice pictures in my backyard, and here I am blogging.

 And you know what? I have a quite sunny balkony. There I will be, reading a funny book, and as soon it hits me, I will jump to the sewing machine and will do some stitching. That is what I am supposed to do. ENJOY!

 Did I mention that I a quite excited about the quilting I did on this one? Thank you Angela Walters!

Conatct info please!

Arada commented first on the scraps. Please send me your contact. If I don´t hear from you in the next two day, somebody else will have the chance.
I finally gave the scraps to somebody else.

Scraps to give away

I have a box of scraps here, mostly small and a little bigger ones. I give it away for the first person to comment here. Europe only please (because of the postage)!

Scraps are gone! 

Finally another finished quilt

Careful! This is a picture heavy Blogpost!!!

I have the feeling that I didn´t finish a quilt in ages. But two days ago i did. It is the Gees Bend inspired one which I worked on in Spain also. I told you about it here.

This one is really special, because I tried a lot of new things. First I cut and sewed totally freehanded. I didn´t bring the rotary cutter to spain and cut very old school with scissors, without measuring anything. I really wanted to have some wonky seems, which unfortunately didn´t work out so good. But I can oversee this, becuase the overall patchwork I really like.

As I already wrote and what I was itching to do back from Spain, was to use a lot of patterns from the Book "Free Motion Quilting with Angela Walters". So I did recently  and I used a lot of the patterns, not all but nearly...

 I am so grateful for this book. As I had somehow lost my interest in the quilting process  over  the last few months, the book came at the right time. After trying so many new patterns I am itching to quilt the pending quilttops which want to bee finished soon. I totally can recommend this book, as I definetely took my fear away from trying new things. I cant´wait to quilt this chevronish quilt  with the allover pattern called paisley. I loved this pattern (and some others)the most.

 So here are some photos where you can see my attempts, maybe not perfect (yet ;-)) but I am quite proud. The allover look of the quilt may be a little bit uncalm, but it was more of a practicing piece. I like it, just because over all it was such  fun to make.

 I think I have to hop over to Angelas site to tell here how happy I am about her book.

Wallart

I am back to normal again. After some weeks of heavy holidaying I found my way back to normal life and work, or let us say, work found me.
But I enjoy. I enjoy my life extremely at the moment, which includes a new collection for autumn (at work for my fashion label), a lot of sewing and quilting and also some personal things...
Well, life is good!

Here is a little wallart, I wanted to show you. I started this paper piecing work on the Camino de Santjago. It was ment to distract me in case I was bored, but I wasn´t, so I didn´t come very far. So I took it with me to Andalucia to my parents place, and there I found some time.

When back in Berlin, I finished it and appliqued it on a matching aqua fabric and created my first ever Loop Art. I think it is a good addition to my inspiring sewing space.
I also found time  for my "Gees Bend and Andalusian Patchwork Quilt" and I am really exited about that one, but more about it later.

 

Until then I wish you all a wonderful weekend!