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!

Gees Bend and andalusian inspired sweaty patchwork.

I spend a few days at my parents place in Andalucia, Spain with my sister and nephew.

It is wonderful as always. Being with the family, eating wonderful food,

 picking figs, almonds, tomatoes and herbs from the trees and bushes, swimming in the little pool playing with the nephew,

 

  having a scrabble competition every evening while the moscito bite your feet.

 Cooking and chatting with my mom, and enjoying the sun which is shining every day.

But as some might guess already, I couldn´t help myself and bring some fabric. So this morning I searched for my mothers sewing machine, iron and board, dedusted everything (spanish dust is everywhere, if you want it or not) and here I am.

 Working on a Gees Bend inspired quilt.

 

  My plan is to quilt it  with some different patterns (I received the book of Angela Walters right before I left germany...). So this will be a totally improvised quilt, and I am sure I will love it.
And later when it will be finished, I will always think of the summer of 2012, when I sat on the terrace sweating like hell and working on this wonderful quilt...

WIP

Work in progress  :-)

Workspace in progress  :-(

;-)