One lesson I don’t want to learn: to add labels to my quilts. I have never paid attention to this detail. Probably because the permanent markers I have are not so permanent…I think that after washing the writing will fade anyway.But my friend Mihaela helped me to become a serious quilter. A few weeks ago I received from her a beautiful box and inside of it I was so surprised and excited to find a … [Read more...]
“Nicole” bag
I am glad to show you my latest bags! I modified my bag patterns and I made two extra large totes. These are my gifts for the new moms in our family. This is the "Nicole" tote bag. I named it after the name of my youngest sister. My nephew will come into the world tomorrow so she needs this bag. You can see its size, it's really big. 17.5-22'' (top and bottom) wide x 14.5" tall x 5" … [Read more...]
The quilt for my hubby
He waited for it for 10 years ! But the waiting was worth it ! I used cotton batting, I love the look of the quilts made with cotton batting after washing . The quilt is huge, 80x92 (2x2.3 m) and stitching all those pebbles took me 3 days, and a lot of thread. I used the three green spools of King Tut. Detail of quilting. It was very easy to … [Read more...]
My sewing machines
On Monday I started to work on my husband quilt. I made the top in February and since in two weeks will be his birthday, I want to finish it until then.I thought I will quilt it in a day, being helped by my friend Jack. But I was wrong, I forgot that quilt measures 80"x92". I worked three days on it and still I have to wash it an add binding.Meet my friend Jack, my industrial sewing machine !It's … [Read more...]
My weekend
Hi everyone, I hope you spent a wonderful weekend, mine wasn't wonderful at all. After I made a beautiful quilting on the center of a quilt, on Friday evening I started to quilt the background. I will never take decisions on Friday evening ! Especially after dinner ! After a half hour of work I decided I don't like the quilting so I started to rip out the stitches. But it took me 8 hours to … [Read more...]
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