My sisters sent me the flowers they finished...for taking a picture to keep us motivated ...I am kidding, we are motivated anyway, but it is nice to see a preview of the future quilt! I laid the flowers onto a black fabric, but I will use a chocolate brown fabric, I have to buy it.What do you think ? I don't have too much of those fabrics so I will have to add other and other fabrics... It seams a … [Read more...]

All I was able to do yesterday, after a stressful day and night, was to pull out of the closet a few beautiful fabrics, cut them and ...stitch hexy flowers.I will show you in weekend the progress all the 4 sisters have made! … [Read more...]

I built little houses for my little nephew.Now I am quilting them. … [Read more...]

Just to be sure that I don't give up to the idea of making the Jewel box pattern (that I made for my mother) in two small sizes, I started to piece the blocks. One version will be half of the size of the bed quilt and the other will be quarter of the size. These are the 2" units. I made 160. Now I have to make the 1" units. Have a great sewing day! … [Read more...]

Well, one of them!A colorful quilt for my little nephew Alex.I made all the blocks - 12. I designed a different pattern for every block.I have to redo 4 of them -there is too much green and just a bit of blue and generally, too many colors for my taste.Enjoy Sunday! … [Read more...]

into my solid fabric stash, washed and pressed. Fat quarters, fat eights and 10" squares - a lot of frayed edges after washing. But I managed to hide most of them when I folded the pieces. Not as much green as I would have wanted! I am not fond of these colors but they look nice in this pile. Happy Saturday! … [Read more...]

I want to make a Grandmother Flower Garden quilt. But as much as I like to stitch hexagons, I realize that, if I would work on it alone, there is no chance to finish it in less than 5 years!So I thought that the best thing would be to make the quilt for my mother and all her 4 daughters to work on it. All her life, my mother made for us the most amazing knitting clothes. So it is our turn to … [Read more...]

I am the happiest girl ! I have a collection of solid fabrics ! I don't know how many colors, I think more than 50.But now I have to wash them all! Fat quarters, fat eights and 10" squares! That is - I just took pictures of them and I started feeling bad from my allergy. I think I have to put them in some pillow cases in the washing machine. Phew, I will need two days to wash, iron and arange them … [Read more...]