Bag No.57 - Raven

The Raven quilt was made in spring 2020 as a combination of machine and hand sewing on natural linen. The tree is made in reverse appliqué with machine quilted raw edges, the raven himself is a nice picture from a commercial cloth. I used fusible appliqué and the bird is machine and hand quilted. The quilt was originally a part of a series of small quilts with bird motifs to be exhibited on Prague Patchwork Meeting 2020. But covid pandemic changed everything and the raven and the other birds had to wait till April 2022, when they were finally shown in my small gallery on PPM Quilt Show Brno 2022. 

 

With my dear friend Hella in Brno, 2022

From all the bird creations I liked the raven the most. Therefore I decided to let him fly with me every day. He became a really nice big bag for my everyday use.

 

Happy stitching!

Michaela

Bag No.56 Sitting Hare

 

There will be not much writing today, because the whole story of the Sitting Hare was told in my latest blog of 2022 already. Today I can proudly announce that the sitting hare definitely became a bag. Based on the original template by Amy Tedge, the panel was actually bigger than needed for a bag. I just hadn´t the heart to cut it smaller and the finished bag belongs to the biggest bags I have ever made. It can accommodate so much! I love it.

 

 

Happy stitching! 

Michaela

Sitting Hare

The sitting hare became the last finished project of 2022. When I first saw the beautiful creation by Amy Tedge, I just couldn´t resist buying the pattern. The aim was (and still is) to make a bag for myself.  

This is the original work by Amy:

My colorway of the background is quite different from the original. It is not the fact that I wouldn´t like it, I simply haven´t such lovely vintage-looking fabrics in my stash.

I followed the (very good written) instructions for the appliqué and embroidered outlines and flowers,  nevertheless, I added more quilting on the background. I must admit, I love hand quilting... 

The bag isn´t finished yet, but the appliqué and embroidery panel can be declared finished.

Happy quilting!

Michaela

Eleven bags

 

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!

Here they are. Two of them with Cori Dantini fabrics:

With the other ones I used two beautiful panels, which I bought some time ago not knowing who the designer was: 

Some of my favorite details:

Yesterday evening, the last bag was finally completed. 

Suddenly I felt, they lacked something, I missed the icing on the cake. A badge!  I used some scraps for sewing the badges and embellished them with a Tim Holz token. I´m satisfied now.

The final inspection by Norioka:

Happy stitching!

Michaela