This week I decided to talk about a quilt with a lot of colours because the combination of colours and fabric always manages to cheer me up. When I was writing this post I was feeling a bit under the weather because I had the joyous combination of a deadline, the monthly reminded how awesome…
No matter what shape or form they have, all the curves I’ve encountered so far in my Dear Jane quilt are beautiful in their own way. Some are bold, some are small and some turn inwards, but each has its own unique beauty. I had avoided doing curved blocks after finishing C-11 soldiers and sailors…
One of the goals of this blog is to show the creative process behind projects and to show how many amazing different ways there are to create beautiful objects. Therefore this post will give some insight into the trials and error of my bag making endeavours from recycled materials. Specifically, I’ll tell you how I made…
Simply said applique is sewing a piece of fabric onto a background. This is different from patchwork where one sews the pieces of fabric together. The benefit of applique is more possibilities for shapes and such. For example, the musical notes and the moon phases below would not have been possible without applique. The downside…
So I was in church and had a revelation. Not the kind one usually has in a church, but a revelation nonetheless. I find it is often the quiet places where one just sits and experiences things, which are most fruitful for ideas. Same as for going to the toilet or walking to a friends place.…
This one is made as a birthday present for one of my punk-loving friends. I like to do something different with every bookbag to personalize it, and the scarf felt Punk to me. For example, I made a turtle themed one for another friend. They are called bookbags because they are exactly big enough for a…
One of my friends really loves turtles, and with love, I mean really LOVES them. This is actually the third turtle-related present I’ve made for her and her turtle. Before this one there was a bookbag and a mini-quilt. This is both the birthday and housewarming present for her and her turtle Stoffel. So: congratulations!…
This is my first finished big quilt made totally on my own! So I’m very proud of this one. All the other quilts I’ve made were either together with my mother, mini-quilts or are not yet finished. So I’m very proud of this one. This one is finished a few weeks ago and it’s already…
Spring is finally coming again! That means sun, warmth, new growth and going outside without freezing. To honour the coming spring here is an update of all the nature blocks of the Dear Jane sampler quilt I’ve finished so far. In the link, you find the introduction of the Dear Jane quilt. I took out…
Historical background of the Dear Jane sampler quilt In the book about the Dear Jane, written by Brenda Papadakis, there are letters written to Jane Stickle. Jane is the woman who made the original quilt, and Brenda replicated it and made patterns out of the pieces so everyone can make their own Dear Jane. In…
