Not Much!

I am trying to stay focused and not go on too many detours on my quest to make some Christmas presents. I put away the books and told myself: "Finish those two quilts and as a reward you'll get to make a Christmas present!" It seems to be working because I made a backing and pin basted it! Now I need to quilt it :-)

Besides that not much is happening here. Pasha has been home sick for the last two days. Martin took off a couple of hours today to give her some company.

 

Hopefully she'll feel better in a couple of days!

 

Take care,

Me

What to do with a honey bun?

I had this honeybun in my stash for quite a while! I couldn't find the right project because the strips are only 1.5" wide. But as I flipped through this book to look for some ideas for Christmas I found this quilt. Perfect for my honeybun!!!

I immediately threw my Christmas present plans out of the window (sort of!) and got started. 

Here is finished top:

Hmmm, I have to trim that one corner :-)  The size is 60"x64". A bit bigger than the one in the book!

This is what I have left over.

Now what should I make out of this?

Take care,

Me

A Day to do "Nothing"

What a wonderful day we had! We stayed in bed until 09.00. Had a leisurly breakfast with a relaxing petting session for Jake.

 

 I love to see the love Pasha and Jake share. As soon as Pasha is sitting on the ground, he comes running over to lay at her feet to be petted. And she never sends him away without lots of love!

 

We went to lunch at our favorite Italian restaurant, window shopped a bit, tea with Steffi, a movie (Breaking Dawn Part 1)... and I even got to pin a quilt top.

 

The pattern is from this book! Quick and easy! But I can't decide on how to quilt it. Any suggestions?

 

A day like yesterday is so rare! It's treasured by us all! 'Thank You' to all the veterans who made it possible with their service and sacrifices!

 

I hope you had a wonderful day as well!

 

Take Care,

Me

What a Blast!

Thursday was my mom's last day with us! We went to Bollywood for some awesome lunch!

After that we shopped until we dropped! We started with finding some awesome shoe deals (50% off), went on to skirts, shirts and coats, and back to some shoes again. 

You don't want to know how much we spent combined on all our stuff ;-)

And to top it off, after shopping, my mom was able to finish quilting her top!

But pictures of the quilt will have to wait because she still has to finish the binding!

What are you up to?

Take care,

Me

Sewing with my Mom

My mom is here for the week! So we dug out her blocks (which she sewed up a few visits ago!) and went to work.

One hour later we had this:

It's lap sized and gorgeous!

Tomorrow we'll piece the back and sandwich it. With a bit of luck we'll have a completed quilt by Friday! I am definitely looking forward to out special sewing time...!

Take care,

Me

Guess what's finished?!

Yup, I did it! I hunkered down over several days and quilted it! And I hand-sewed the binding on while we watched "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" :-)

Would you like to see it?

Of course I can't show you the entire quilt! It would spoil the surprise now wouldn't it! :-)

Now I just hope I will be able to mail it tomorrow. As you know my track record isn't too good with that! But I will try my best!

Take care,

Me

Another Round

Do you remember those two greeting cards? I made those with  scraps from two baby quilts. I whipped those up last week because I had been lazy the last four weeks and the deadlines of the babyshowers were rapidly approaching!

Both baby quilts were made with a pattern from the Simplify book of Camille Roskelley and the fabric is the Wild Ones sold by Connecting Threads.

This baby quilt is the "Coming Home" pattern. The front:

Fuer dieses Quilt habe ich die "Coming Home" Anleitung benutzt. Vorne:

The back:

Hinten:

Here is the other baby quilt. The pattern is called "Little Men".

Hier ist das andere Baby Quilt. Die Anleitung heisst "Little Men".

I love the Elephants!

Ich liebe die Elefanten!

For the back I used all the larger pieces of fabric that I had left over.

Fuer den Ruecken habe ich alle groesseren Stoffe die ich noch uebrig hatte zusammen genaeht.

It's just one yummy quilt!

Das Quilt ist wirklich schoen geworden!

Now I have to wrap them both up and hope that the receipients will like them as much as I do... :-)

Jetzt muss ich beide noch einpacken und hoffen das die Empfaenger sie genauso lieben werden wie ich ... :-)

Take care,

Me

Extra Blocks

I showed you the rainbow road wall hanging that I made last week in the curves class.

Ich habe dir ja schon denRegenbogenstrasse quilt den ich letzte Woche in dem Kurven Seminar genaeht habe gezeigt.

I had some blocks left over and no clue what to do with them. Pasha liked them... so I decided to make them in to pillow cover.

Ich hatte ein paar Bloecke uebrig und keine Ahnung was ich damit machen sollte. Pasha fand sie toll... so habe ich mich entschieden ihr ein Kopfkissenbezug zu naehen.

Front:

Vorne:

The back (envelope style) was sewn up with Amy Butler fabric that I had in my closet.

Fuer den Ruecken (Umschlag) habe ich einen Amy Butler Stoff aus meinen Schrank genommen.

The lucky receipient!

Die glueckliche Empfaengerin!

She is happy with her new pillow cover and I am happy that  I used up all those blocks and that I didn't add to my scraps.

Sie ist gluecklich ueber ihren neuen Kopfkissenbezug und ich bin gluecklich das ich alle Bloecke aufgebraucht habe und keins davon in meine Restebox gelandet ist.

Take care,

Me

Curves Class - Week 2

I made it through the second week in the "Curves Class". All projects and lessons were about improvisational curves. It was quite an experience to say the least! I like being precise and structured. So playing with fabric without exact measurements and no ruler was quite scary. But I survived :-)

Ich habe die zweite Woche des Kurven Seminars geschafft. Alle Projekte und Lektionen waren ueber Improvisierte Kurven. Es war eine ganz eigene Erfahrung! Ich mag es wenn es praezise und strukturiert ist. So war es doch etwas erschreckend mit Stoff zu spielen ohne exakte Masse und Lineal. Aber ich habe es ueberlebt :-)

The first project was quite fast and easy. I made two greeting cards - here is one:

Das erste Projekt war einfach und schnell. Ich habe zwei Karten verschoenert - hier ist eine:

And here is the other:

Und hier ist die andere:

Aren't they cute!

Sind die nicht suess!

I really like them! I can see making a whole set of maybe 5 to have on hand for a quick b-day present!

Ich mag sie sehr! Ich kann mir vorstellen ein ganzes Set von 5 Karten zu machen fuer ein schnelles Geburtstagsgeschenk!

Next up was the Christmas tree wall hanging. I am not too happy with it. The slope on the left is just too big. It bugs me! Also the tree needed to be flipped!  But at that point I didn't want to piece another one so I just used it. Maybe I will make another one later on. Who knows!

Als naechstes kam der Weihnachts-Mini-quilt. Ich bin nicht sehr gluecklich damit. Der linke Berg ist einfach zu hoch geraten! Es stoert micht! Und der Baum haette eigentlich anders rum sein muessen. Aber zu dem Zeitpunkt hatte ich einfach keine Lust noch einen zu naehen und hab dann einfach den hier verwendet. Vieleicht mach ich ja spaeter eine weitere Version. Wer weiss!

Here is my version of the rainbow road. I really like the colors! But... yes, there is another but :-) ... but it really isn't me! I doesn't fit  in my house because it is just too modern! So I am going to find a good home for it...

Hier ist meine Version der Regenbogenstrasse. Ich mag die Farben sehr! Aber... ja, es gibt ein aber :-) ... aber es ist einfach nicht "ich"! Es passt nicht in meine Wohnung denn es ist einfach zu modern! So muss ich ein neues gutes Zuhause fuer ihn finden...

I do have some left over blocks from the rainbow road... I need to come up with a good use for them! Pasha likes them a lot. I might make her a pillow case!?

Ich habe noch ein paar Bloecke von der Regenbogenstrasse uebrig... Ich muss mor noch was fuer die einfallen lassen. Pasha mag sie sehr. Vieleicht mach ich ihr ein Kopfkissenbezug!?

Take care,

Me

Scrap Project # 1 - Update # 2

I was able to get some more blocks on my quilt-as-you-go quilt top:

Ich war in der Lage weitere Blöcke in meinen quilte-waehrend-du-naehst Quilt Top:

Here they are all put together:

Hier sind sie alle zusammen:

I need 18 more blocks. I will keep on plugging away at them :-)

Ich brauche noch 18 weitere Blöcke. Ich werde weiter daran arbeiten :-)

Take care,

Me

An Easy Quilt

Quite a while ago I showed you this quilt top that I was working on. It is really easy... but it's been tough to get it done with my busy schedule. In fact it seems like I am getting side tracked by too many other 

projects :-) 

Vor einiger Zeit habe ich dier dieses Quilt Top an dem ich arbeitete gezeigt. Es ist wirklich einfach... aber es war schon schwer es fertig zu bekommen mit der wenigen Zeit die ich habe. Tatsächlich scheine ich ziemlich oft durch andere Projekte abgelenkt zu werden :-)

Here it is in all its glory:

Hier ist es mit all seinen Schönheiten:

It resides on our small white couch in the living room. Every night I fold it up like so...

Es residiert auf unserer kleinen Couch im Wohnzimmer. Jede Nacht lege ich es so zusammen...

... and every morning I find it like this:

... und jeden Morgen finde ich es so vor:

Pasha loves to wrap herself in this quilt. And for me its the proof that there is nothing more wonderful than to make a quilt that keeps the people that you love most warm!

Pasha liebt es sich in diesen Quilt einzupacken! Und für mich ist es ein Beweis das es nichts schöneres gibt als ein Quilt zu machen der die Menschen die man lieb hat warm hält!

Take care,

Me

Scrap Project # 1 - Update # 1

Here is an update to my scrappy Log cabin quilt. I have now 5 blocks done. I am getting more excited about this quilt with each block that gets done.

Hier ist ein Update von meinem Reste Log Cabin quilt. Ich habe jetzt 5 Bloecke fertig. Ich freue mich mehr und mehr mit jedem Block der fertig wird.

What do you think of it?

Wie findest du es?

Take Care,

Me

Baby Quilt

As promised, here is a picture of the baby quilt that I finished right before Christmas Eve.

Wie versprochen, hier ist ein Bild von dem Baby quilt das ich noch vor Weihnachten fertig gemacht habe.

It's made completely out of scraps. I had some charms left over from my snow ball quilt and paired it with a solid (Kona Bone) that I had on hand.

Es ist komplett von Resten gemacht. Ich hatte noch welche uebrig von meinem Snow Ball Quilt und habe sie mit Weiss (Kona Bone) kombiniert.

Speaking of scraps... One of my New Years Resolution is to work on reducing my scrap pile through out the year! We'll see how that will work out!

Da wir gerade ueber Reste sprechen... eins meiner Neujahrs Vorsaetze ist den Resteberg waehrend des Jahres zu reduzieren. Wir werden ja sehen ob das was wird!

Take care,

Me