Happy New Year 2022

Happy stitching in 2022!

Michaela 

There were also other candidates for the new years card:

A Christmas Present for Myself

This Monday was only a short working day for me, I had some overtime hours for good and could leave my office at noon. The plan was to work on one of my unfinished objects, a bird sampler, which I´m going to show you next time (at least I hope so).

However, I came home, had some rest with a nice mug of very dark black tea and entered my workplace with a very different idea. I wanted to sew something nice for myself. It was (and still is) very fascinating for me because this idea never occurs to me. I always do create things for others – for family, friends and colleagues. Never ( or almost never) for myself. This idea was so strong and overwhelming that I simply had to follow it. It was clear that I absolutely needed a zippered purse (what else? I LOVE sewing those!)

Standing in front of the (many) transparent Ikea boxes which harbour all my stuff I reached almost automatically for the box with fabric selvages. Omg, I never realised, there were so many already!

Being in Christmas mood, I chose selvages from Tim Holtz Christmas collections plus other fabrics by this great designer. I arranged them on the batting and sewed the selvages one by one onto the background, in the sew-as-you-go method.

A few cotton laces, some ribbons and - my label! This all was appliquéd onto the background and voila – there I had the two panels for my purse. Some time ago, I ordered some nice small embellishments by Tim Holtz, now they could finally be used!

Only today in the morning I could finally take some pictures in the day light.

Here is it, my very much personalised purse!

A very merry stitching to all of you!

Michaela