At the moment this post airs I am at the airport waiting for my plane ride to Kenya where I will be staying for about four months. Yes, you read that correctly. The great adventure I’ve been talking about IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. I am about 78% excited and 35 % terrified which should…
This month was so busy with non-sewing related stuff! For one thing, I moved back in with my parents (very cool, I know). Also, there were more Kenya preparations to be done. Still, I managed to work on quite some projects. Quilting, sewing and embroidery is the thing that calms me down and keeps me sane…
Yes, that are two blocks. I was so busy sewing to reach the halfway point and planning a celebratory blogpost about it, that I did not realise I had already passed the point! I use an excel spreadsheet to jot down all the blocks I finish to have an overview of finished blocks, techniques used…
Something fun and small this week. I’ve been too busy moving and preparing my fieldwork to sew much this week. Therefore I’m going to use the opportunity to show you some of my older projects. I will continue doing this when I am in Kenya because I will have limited supplies to sew there as…
This week one of my best friends married! CONGRATULATIONS!!! The quilt above is my wedding present. I wanted to give them something special, to show how happy I am for them that they’ve found each other. So naturally, I referred back to quilting. This quilt symbolizes how their love for music binds them together. Although…
Earlier I wrote a post about how I made the quilt above: Spiralling near madness with the spiral lone star quilt Well, I made it into a bag now! This piece had been lying around forever because I was not sure what to do with it. Finally, in some kind of finishing frenzy, I decided…
The piles of fabric on top is all the fabric one can get out of eight generous man’s shirts. Shirts are wonderful to work with because of the nice patterns and usually, when a shirt is too old to wear, there is still enough good fabric for a quilt. How nice shirt fabric is to…
It’s the last month of June already! Gosh, time is going quick. My room is turning simultaneously chaotic and empty because I am preparing to move at the end of July. Isn’t that a strange thing: chaos and more space at the same time? This does mean that I have to pack up some of…
Never throw away interesting looking fabric! I’ll prove that piece of wisdom in this post. A friend gave me her old faux leather jacket to put into the quilt I’m making for her (see this post: The big quilt for a lovely friend). However, she only wanted part of the back in the quilt. The rest of…
Another week, another Dear Jane post! The Dear Jane is a big sampler quilt I am sewing by hand to practice my quilting technique. A sampler is good for that, because it has many different blocks, using many different techniques. You can read the introduction of this quilt here: The Dear Jane quilt: a hand quilting…
