Bag No.62 - In the Garden

In the early spring 2022, I worked on a small series of quilts for the PPM Quilt Show Brno called „Fields, Meadows and Gardens“. I started only in January and the time was really short as the PPM Quilt Show takes place traditionally in April. I counted days, even hours which I could spend on one quilt. Fortunately, I was able to stick to the time schedule and I worked even faster so I had plenty of time for the last quilt. It was the quilt I called „In the Garden“. I had no thorough plan, I just let my fingers work. The plants grew under my hands and got buds and flowers. I enjoyed the work enormously, I liked the outcome then and I still do.

After being shown at some exhibitions, the quilt came back home. Therefore I could fulfill my colleague's wish to make her daughter a bag from this quilt. I liked working with the quilt again and I especially love the fact that the quilt will be „exhibited“ every day when carrying the books to school.

 

Happy stitching!

Michaela 

Christmas Preparations 2023

 

I love Advent time. I love lighting up candles, meeting friends, filling advent calendars with sweets, preparing small gifts for friends and colleagues, and making greeting cards. (Yes, we are old-fashioned and still send handmade cards by post…). I love the house smelling like gingerbread. 

I happened to get some beautiful Christmas and winter panels by Anni Downs, Cori Dantini, and Anita Jeram. All of them are absolutely cute and inviting for adding patchwork, embroidery, quilting an embellishing. There is not surprising that I planned sewing wall hanging advent calendars with them. Nevertheless my planes were revealed far too optimistic and clashing with my work duties, therefore I decided to lay them aside for next year (I should definitely start much earlier than in October) and sew some advent bags only. I used motifs by Anni Downs and Dear Stella, appliquéd on linen. They turned out quite nicely. 

In November I took part in a nice project of Bohemia Patchwork Club. All members were asked to sew five Christmas ornaments in classical Christmas colours. Almost 300 ornaments were then sent to the exhibition ground Brno, where they decorated a Christmas tree with them. It is a kind of invitation to the international quilt exhibition PPM Quilt Show Brno. 

Here is my contribution:

I used the EPP Pattern "Kamener Geflecht" by Regina Grewe.

For our colleagues and friends, I made small cushions filled with wool fleece and spice – cinnamon and cloves. They are great to use as key fobs but they look nice on Christmas trees. They are great to use them as key fobs but they look nicely also on Christmas tree.

Happy advent time!

Michaela