It wasn´t a plan, but over the years I found that I´m tempted to sew at least one advent calendar in a year. I look subconsciously for Christmas fabrics with small motives (for small advent pockets or bags) or for interesting fabric panels which would be suitable as a central motive of a wallhanging. There is a large selection of Christmas fabrics on the market but I´m picky and I like only a few of them. My eye falls almost always on Anni Downs and Cori Dantini fabrics.
This year´s advent calendar is a little bit special, because it is not a calendar for a child. This calendar was sewn for a dear friend of mine, who loves Advent and Christmas. Last year she complained that she prepares advent calendars for her daughters but – being an adult woman - she never gets one herself. I knew immediately who the next advent calendar would be for.
The basic material is natural linen, the central motive is Cori Dantini´s panel from the Joy& Wonder collection. I write it again and again, but I just have to: Cori Dantini´s fabrics are absolutely amazing. They are not only beautiful in themselves but also very strongly inspiring. Working with them I cannot “only use” them. I´m tempted to develop them, add details, embellish, quilt…
The central motif is fused appliqué on linen
with an added layer of linen on the edges of the picture. The whole piece was laid
on the cotton batting, stitched and quilted by machine, I added also a few hand
stitches.
I sewed 24 small pockets and my husband added metal eyelets.
The piece de resistance are the Tim Holtz number tokens and tokens with quotes. It took a long time before I could finally buy them, but it was worth it, I love them!
Happy sewing!
Michaela
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