I haven´t been writing my blog for some weeks
(sometimes I suffer from what I call "writing-laziness"), but I have been sewing of course.
Besides some bigger projects in progress now, I spent many happy moments sewing little somethings. Let´s look at them!
I love
every centimeter of my precious fabrics and have never thrown away any small
piece except for what you would call micro or nano pieces. When sewing patchwork,
you don´t usually use fabric selvages, they have to be cut off. But fabric
selvages are often really charming, they contain information about the name of the
fabric series and colour references, which are sometimes lovely little pictures
referring to the fabric print like mushrooms, hearts, pumps, apples, fish, and
so on. Some designers pay big attention to this „selvage design“. Although
cut off, they are loved and carefully stored in a big plastic box, waiting for further processing.
I used fabric selvages from fabrics by Cori
Dantini (the writings) and other designers (the pictures) in combination with
narrow bias bands I could buy recently, to create some key fobs. I actually
wanted to make more, but I ran out of metallic rings:) I like the outcome very much, they
make great presents for friends.
Since I like making key fobs of any kind, I immediately
fell in love with key fobs by Quiltwerke. They are foundation paper-pieced and
allow the use of small pictures. I bought the pattern and tried some of them out.
Well, my work is not really bad, but the patterns require precision which obviously
goes beyond my ability:) Nevertheless, I surely give them another try.
I like giving
presents which can be eaten or used up in some way, like tea, dried fruits,
nuts, or homemade cookies. Nevertheless, this requires a little charm or tag or
another little something that helps you to transform „just a pack of nuts“ into
something very special. Like a fabric tag with pictures by Anita Jeram:
Happy sewing!Michaela
