The summer was very hot indeed and somehow, I couldn´t find the energy for writing blog posts. But the sewing machine and my hands were still working, so this is the overview of the small summer projects I was able to finish.
I bought some Tula Pink fabrics a few weeks ago. Tula Pink fabric is something, that you admire and play with first, then you add it to your stash and admire it again and again, and only when you really must, you cut into it at last. And so it was with those fabrics too. I was thinking about a special gift for my great English teacher and looked through my fabric treasures to find something exceptional. Holding Tula Pink fabric with golden fish in my hand I realized, that I had found the right one. A golden fish that can fulfill three wishes!
The fish was a great motif for the centre of the star block I learned at the end of the year, and there were exactly the right shades of Grunge fabrics in my stash, so I was able to start sewing immediately.
The way I sew the star blocks produces two
blocks in one go, which I like very much.
For Věrka, I chose the brighter one:
On the back, I used the selvages of Grunge fabrics, I love them!
The other panel was changed into a cute zipper pouch in a classical way.
Woow, a nice first project of the New Year, isn’t it?
Happy sewing
Michaela
Looking back to the past two months, I was actually a busy bee. I started (and finished) an EPP rainbow project (more in my next blog), I started two Halloween bags and I made a number of zipper pockets. Let´s start with the overview of the pockets!
Pink is actually not my favorite color. Nevertheless, when I saw the pink, winged piglets, I couldn’t resist buying them. And what other colour to decorate them with if not pink?
I finally found time to play with the beautiful
fabrics from the series Here Kitty Kitty by Cori Dantini. What a great joy! I love the motifs and the fine colors very much. I enjoyed the embellishing and embroidering immensely.
I was a busy bee, wasn´t I?
Happy stitching
Michaela
In the last few weeks, I´m totally fascinated by fussy cutting. I must admit, I´m strongly influenced by the book Fussy Cutters Club by Angie Wilson.
Since the book arrived, I´ve been obsessively in search of lovely small prints. I have grand plans of course, but I started with simple squares. I enjoy the process of cutting out the pictures. In the meantime, I set up my boxes for different-sized squares and am adding busily more and more to them. I love the fabrics by Heather Ross, Cori Dantini, and Tula Pink! They are like being designed for fussy cutting!
I love the smallest squares the most, so it is no wonder that I started using them first.
Here the 1,5 x 1,5-inch squares
Other shapes will follow, I´m going to try EPP hexagons and other templates too.
Some weeks ago, I visited my favorite Aja Votrubcová patchwork store in Prague. I was looking for a nice fabric for sewing advent bags. I wanted Quilters Shadow in holiday red and some thin linen. That was the plan, but I immediately noticed the newly arrived heavy linens, a great basic for my beloved shopping bags. I couldn´t resist. I went home with a hefty (and expensive) bag full of happiness.
At home, I prewashed the linen first and started calculating how many and how big the bags would be. In the end, there were eleven!
I worked in my favorite technique: first, I laid and quilted a collage
background, then ironed a fusible appliqué on it and quilted it by machine. As a final touch,
I added lace and buttons.
Eleven bags means 22 handles!
