A Birthday Quilt

I had a burst of energy… I don’t know where it came from but as my dad likes to say “never look in to the mouth of a gifted horse”! Okay, okay, I do know where it came from! M kept everything away from me so that I could put in some quality time with my sewing machine. I was able to piece the birthday quilt (and quilt it!) for S. I picked up a 5-yard bundle from "The Scarlett Thread" store with a free pattern. Isn’t it fabulous?!?!

I decided to applique the 6 left over blocks on the back. It gives it a certain charm!

It’s gorgeous. All pink and delicious! Memories of S floated through my mind as I worked on it. The first time I met her (right outside of GEMS school!). She was such a tiny thing. All smiles… and shy too! She hid behind her mom… she is still a bit shy! She has such a fun personality. It’s hard not to be happy when you are around her.

Even though I am tempted to keep it... it’s going to be wrapped up in a box and sent on to her new home. I hope she likes it as much as I do!

Take care,

Me

A Quilt Status

It’s done! Yes, it’s done. I finished the Peace quilt. I wanted to do just some basic quilting on it. But that’s not to P’s taste. It has to be fun she told me. So now it is full of stars and hearts.

I got the backing from IKEA. P saw the fabric (2 packages of 3 meters each for Euro 12) and decided that it had to be the back of her Peace quilt.

Now all that was left to do was the binding… P has been bugging me about it almost every day. So I got my butt in gear and just sat down to do the binding. It took 2 movies to finish it. And now I have a very happy girl snuggled up in it.

P’s room is almost finished! But I will tell you on another day about it.

Take care,

Me

A Quilt Status

I haven’t been able to do a lot this month. I do have some really good excuses though. There was a trip to San Diego and to Atlanta. Also, there was a birthday, a bit of work, oh, and family things that needed to be taken care of!

But, I finished piecing the Peace Quilt! I'm immensely proud of myself…

Now, I only need to quilt it, to bind it, and of course wash and dry it!

Take care,

Me

Once upon a time…

…there was a maxi dress that hung lonely on the sales rack in H&M. Along came this woman who looked at it and had to smile. She couldn’t fathom why anyone would make a maxi dress for children. They are way to busy running and jumping around! But she say potential, and of course, she couldn’t pass a good deal… after all, it was only Euro 5.

So home it came! However, it languished in the closet for a long time.

Two years to be exact! A girl needed some warm weather clothes and the woman remembered the neglected dress in her closet.

So out it came! Chop, chop and 30 minutes later she had a “shortish” dress and a skirt.

Now we have a happy woman, a happy girl and a happy “maxi” dress/skirt. Hopefully they will live happily ever after!

Take care,

Me

P.S. I forgot to take a picture of the maxi dress… sorry!

Memorial Day Weekend

How was your long weekend? Mine was fabulous. It started early on Friday. I decided to leave work a couple of hours early. I found an IKEA paper bag filled with home made muffins (so good!), flowers, two cards and a set of blank cards in front of our door. What a wonderful surprise! A very good friend of ours dropped it off while we were at work. I love getting surprises like that!

I also got to talk to my dearest friend or as P would put it my “soulsister” before her move to SC. But that’s not all…

Nope, not at all! We went for a walk downtown, celebrated a birthday, went to the Soldier Show in Oberammergau, had wonderful ice cream from our favorite store, “finished” a project with P, watched a couple of movies, hugged and kissed my family (a lot!), ate Indian food and shopped for some clothes!

What was my favorite part, you ask? Being with my family every minute of this very long weekend… I wish it didn’t have to end!

Take care,

Me

P.S. I kept on forgetting to take the camera or my iphone except for the time that we went to the Soldier Show. We got there a bit early and we started to play around with the iphone camera. IThey aren't great but I love every single shot!

Jennifer Paganelli – Girl’s World

Every once in a while I preorder a book without having seen it first. Sometimes it’s a great book and sometimes it’s not.  My friends love when I get one that I am not completely sold on because I pass it on to them :-)

Well, Jennifer Paganelli’s book  "Girl's World"  is one of these great books that I am glad that I preordered. It came last week and I was blown away! 

I opened the package and saw that the book was tied at the side with a pink ribbon. How cute is that!

I opened it up and fell in love! The photography, the colors, and the projects are just so beautiful! I didn’t know what to look at first. The book is divided in to 4 sections. The first one is of course the basics of sewing and the sizing. The projects are divided in to “Dress-Up”, “Accessories” and “Home”.

I didn’t spend much time in the first section except to see if the sizing runs large enough for me to make something for P. And yes it does… yippee!

P chose a couple of projects for me to make already! The banner is exactly what she wants. Well, except for the “happy birthday” on it. She wants “Peace & Happiness” instead!

She also wants the Agnes Tunic dress. But again not as a dress but as a top. That’s just too easy to accommodate.

I want the quilt!

It is a simple square quilt and should be finished within a weekend. I know I have one of the fabrics somewhere in my closet. I have to dig it out and order the rest. Yeah, I know, wasn’t there a fabric diet in effect? :-)

Here are a few more shots of the projects for you if you still need to make up your mind whether to buy it or not…

Take care,

Me

Curtains in the Study

I don’t know if I told you but we turned T’s room in to our study a few weeks back.  It has built in shelves and so it just naturally offered itself to be our library/study. The shelves are full of books and other knickknacks. The computer is now in there as well. It is turning into my most favorite room!

There are/were a few things that still needs/needed to be done until I can say it is finished.

1. I need to make a tablecloth for our beat up old computer table. I want it to be a white one. Yet not any plain old white will do… :-)

2. I also want to get rid of M’s beloved big old leather beanbag and get a new reading chair. I have it already picked out. But I haven’t had the time or the want to drive all the way to the other side of Munich to get it. So it needs to wait until I drive by.  Maybe when we get back from the States???

3. And the windows needed curtains.  Well, scratch that, I needed them desperately! I wanted something feminine and flowery. A few weeks ago at a flea market on post I came across a duvet set still in its package. It was exactly what I wanted.

I cut it apart at the seam. Then I ironed the sides and sewed them up. Flipped the top down 3 inches and hung them up to see if I needed more length. But no, they are perfect!

I like them, and M loves them because it only cost $5!

Take care,

Me

P.S. Do you see that plant and the orchid. The longest living plants in our house. We managed to almost kill the orchid but it is coming back to life... :-)