Moose..finished!

The little moose quilt is finished and is hanging in my daughters room in Germany (Rüdesheim/Rhein)

For the moment I'm sewing this little flower pincushions.....I told you about some weeks ago.
The idea for this cute little pincushion is from this site.

for the pattern you have to see at the site I mentioned above....

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haaa...I got some Golf Tee's so I don't need to work with screws again...

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it's amazing to have all this flowers in my sewing room in November!!!

Wintertime....

This weekend we had the first snow here in Luxembourg....

So I had enough time to finish the quilting on the weaver fever quilt for my daughter. Here I'm sewing the last stitches of a 8,50 m binding!! :-)

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ouffff.....

Today I cleaned up my studio, here you can see the small room next to my studio with some of my fabric stash....

finished quilts....

a part of my quilt books.....:-)

a ten year old wall-hanging ...now it is hanging again in our living room, like every year...

detail....

moose....

Today I sewed this little wallhanging. It is the free pattern from last week, every week there is another pattern for free at www. clotilde.com.

The new Bernina 830

That would be the perfect gift for christmas.....hmmmm!
But it is only available in march 2009 and...very expensive!
But PERFECT!
It has a lot of space so it can be used as midarm quilting machine on a special frame.
When you like it...and are married to Donald Trump or Bill Gastes :-) here you can find some informations.
For my part, I'm going to bed and will certainly dream from Switzerland and Bernina! :-)
Good night!

Measuring tape.....

a new measuring tape cloth
The idea for this flower is from this site, she made a pincushion of it.
The flower is the same but the rest is a little different from the pincushion.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to make both?...the pincushion and the mesasuring tape? :-)

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that's all you need...
-measuring tape
- a cardboard circle 2" diametre
- cut 9 circles without SA for the petals (SA= seam allowance)
- cut one circle with SA for the top
- cut one circle with SA for the bottom
cut one stripe 6 3/4" X 7/8" for the side
- cut two circles without SA of batting
- cut one stripe of batting the size of your measuring tape (side)

with the wonder under on the fabric it's easy to fuse the fabric SA on the batting..

I sewed a stripe of wonder under on the fabric stripe to hold the batting...

iron the nine little circles in half , than in half again to form the petals...

baste the bottom circle around the cardboard and iron....

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baste the petals together....

...and form a circle a little bit smaller than the diametre of the top fabric.

baste also the top fabric around the cardboard...

don't close the side fabric to a ring, the small slot is needed to sort the tape....

hand sew the stripe to the bottom circle...

put the tape inside and secure it like above to the fabric....

baste the top fabric to the petals and hand sew it in place...

hand sew the top to the tape.....

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cut s small strip of fabric for the flower stem...

close the seams and sew it on the end of the tape......

isn't that a cute gift for a quilting friend? :-)

Measuring tape....

That's all I sewed yesterday..... a cloth for a measuring tape
(2" (5 cm) diameter)
I have 9 more of this measuring tapes to finish....
When I do the next I will take pics of the "clothing process"
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and a new pic of our crazy dog Jackie with my youngest.. Christelle.
Have a nice sunday! :-)

AQS online quilt contest

As I told you in october there is an online quilt contest at AQS.
From november 03 on you can vote for your favourite quilt .
Here you can see all the entries and vote. There are really beautiful quilts!

I think that the quilt I entered in this contest has no chance with all this pieces of art.
:-) My favourite is the Red Lily.

Workshop

Today our quiltgroup had a day-long workshop.....

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the same technique...and so diferent quilts... :-)

all sooo beautiful....

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jeans art.....

old fabrics and laces...

I like this one especially...

As you can see, we are back from Spain....
This pic was taken in the early afternoon of november first...very stormy and rainy..brrrr..

These are the new tiles we will have in our new kitchen in Lloret....

we had to clean up the living room so they have place enough to work on the kitchen...

looks funny, doesn't it?:-).....

the old kitchen....

a giant datura plant in the garden...in full bloom in november!!!!

on the left another datura..beautiful!

in the meantime, I think you know her.. Buddy!

before starting to Spain I sewed this healing heart block for a dear internet friend who has some health problems

I also made some more of this hankie bags as prensent for friends in Spain.