Quilt-show

Today is the last day of our quilt-show....This pic was in the luxemburgish newspaper yesterday.

Animals and flowers in my garden...

This little dog is a very silent one... :-)

a little cat watching all the birds when they come in the morning to take a bath....

a mouse (very intelligent looking).....

the beautiful heart of a petunia....

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Buddy

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Quilt show in Luxembourg

As promised here are the pics of the quilt-show from our quilt-group in Bissen (Luxembourg)
Mostly wall-hangings, the theme was Nature....
(Participants +- 12)

The exhibition is open till next wednesday, so everybody near to Luxembourg is very welcome!

Enjoy the pictures....

Flower Power....

Some pics from a walk with the dogs in our neighbourhood.

The next week we will have a quilt show with our quilting group. For the moment I'm preparing all my quilts I want to show...
Monday and Tuesday we are hanging the quilts and wednesday the show will open the doors...so I will not have time to post a lot next week but I promise you a lot of pics after the show!

Small jeans-bag

The last days I made another little bag....

Here is the pattern...

Three layers, as usual :-)....

the quilted layers...

draw the pattern on the sandwich and cut out.........

pin and sew ready bias all around...........

close the side seams from the right side with a narrow seam...

pin the zipper in place (from one edge to the other, sew it on by sewing in the ditch from the right side....

turn ther bag inside out and sew a small seam on bothe edges...

Voilà.. have fun! :-)

Lilac

Our lilac trees are in full bloom, I love this time...it smells sooo good!

puppy-school....

Jay....he's so darling!

and so tired after one hour playing with other puppies....

The birthday present I got from my three kids on the first of may....
aren't they cute?

Guinea pig bag

Yeahhh...I'm back to my sewing-machine...
Yesterday I began to sew this bag and finished it today...
Isn't that a nice piggy? I found the pattern at
FatCatPattern
it's a design from Sindy Rodenmayer.
Have a look at her site, she has so many beautiful patterns and she's sharing them to all
the quilters on the www.. thanks Sindy!

First I traced all the pattern pieces on wonder-under (Vliesofix), you can see threw, so it's easy to trace....

I cut the pieces out (not on the line) and ironed them to the adequate fabric......

than you have to cute the pieces out on the line..don't remove the paper yet!
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corresponding to the letters on the pattern-pieces lay the design out, now you can remove the paper an iron the pieces together (on a teflon sheet!)

give it some minutes to cool down,
remove from the teflon sheet......

look for a background fabric....I decided myself for a black one...

this design is really too cute... :-)
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place the piggy-design on the right place an iron it to the background.

I traced a pattern for the bag (it's a big one for my knitting needles and wool)........

lay the pattern on your background fabric, (the small side on the fold of the fabric)..
trace all around...

for the satin-stitch (very narrow zig.zag) I allways take the same colour of thread as the piece of fabric I would like to appliqué....

I wanted to appliqué the design by a satin-stitch so I needed a stabilizer
(tear away stabilizer)........

I use an open appliqué foot on my Bernina, so I can easily see where to go....

Bernina machines have this little arm on the bobbin, for appliqué the thread has to go threw the little hole.......

do you satin-stitch only on the fabric to appliqué...

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as you can see I use a really very narrow satin-stitch, I think it looks better and it's easier to sew curves... ;-)
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after appliquéing tear away the stabilizer....

quilt the top and the batting(no backing!!) and cut away the excess batting......

pin a piece of batting to the bag.........

pin bias on the two curves of the bag...

sew it on the bag........

lay the bias on the other side and iron the second seam open (so you will have a longer piece on the left side....

baste the zipper in place and stitch in the ditch of the bias.....

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close the two side seams...

turn the bag inside out.......

and now the two bottom seams...
Please pay attention that the zipper is open!!!
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make the same bag with the lining fabric
(if you want to have inside pockets, please sew them on the lining before you close the seams)

insert the lining-bag in the black back, turn the seam allowance inside and sew it on by hand.....

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I like it!

JAY...

had yesterday his first puppies-training.....

they all are so cute.....

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empty plastic bottles make a strange noise....

I'm the king....