It's a difficult time for me and my family....today my uncle passed away.....
Please allow me a little time to come back in blog-life.
Fernande

Afghanistan - Luxembourg

Below you can see a small quilt I made for an exhibition here in Luxembourg.
That's an european textile project. Each quilter bought an embroidered square and sewed a quilt around this square.
The squares are embroidered by afghan women.
Different european countries took part on this project who is called
Afghanistan Inspiration

The squares embroidered for Luxembourg by an afghan woman called Sharifa are all in red, white and blue, the colours of our national flag.

We are so sad...my father in law passed away this night.

Fernande

Jay Bag :-)

 

Make a sandwich 24 X 12"(top, batting and backing) and quilt it.... .

two rectangles for the sides 8¼" X 4" , quilt. and close the upper sides with bias binding....

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mark the middle of the two pieces and sew the sides on the bag

sew the second side on the bag....

sew a bias binding over the raw edges of the sides ( all around)..

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Pin the zipper on the inside of the bag a 1/4" down the edge of the bag
/zipper facing right side out)

Sew the zipper in place on both sides...

The zipper has to be longer on one side than the bag, otherwise you will not be able to open the bag great enough....

sew bias binding over the raw edges.......

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cut out a circle (3").....baste it all around, pull the thread to form a little ball and fill it with a little bit of batting....

sew this little ball on the zipper......

as you can see I'm very happy with the embroidery modul of my Bernina 830 :-)

This is it.....
the finished bag for my DD Joëlle with her little border collie Jay on the top.

I'm back...

Back from Spain. :-)
But problems with my PC who said good-bye yesterday....    :-(
So today I was in several shops to look for a new one.
For the moment I'm installing all the programs I need.
But I lost all my pics and my bookmarks :-((((
I hope so that I can recuperate  a great part from the old hard disc.....

So please be a little bit patient for the next days........
I will try to post again regularly...but for the moment it's a little bit difficult to do so..
Have a good week..and no PC crash! :-)