My friend Mary stitched this quilt a few days ago. She was so kind and tested my shadow trapunto pattern. She did a wonderful job ! Thank you, Mary ! I made for her a simple design so she can finish the quilt quickly. It is 18" square and she worked on it for about 6 hours (including hand finish of the binding). I love it ! Today was supposed to be one of the happiest day of my life ! … [Read more...]
Twenty Years of Happiness
20 years ago, I went at my first date with my husband. It's unbelievable how time flies.I lived twenty years of happiness with the best husband in the world. Maybe I did something really good in a previous life that I was blessed with such a sweet, good and loving man.Without his support today I couldn't have made quilts. I try very hard to make a living working what I love the most. He always … [Read more...]
Boring post…. other purses !
My sewing machine didn't want to sew even after I cleaned it. I think the needle I used to sew was too thin for the thickness of the sandwich I wanted to quilt so I ended up with a lot of skip stitches. After many headaches, much patience and a strong desire to throw the machine through the window, I replace the 90/14 needle with a 100/16 needle and the machine finally sewn well... It seems that … [Read more...]
A purse for me
After a few days of work for my shadow trapunto pattern, I felt the need to sew something. It seems that for me this is the season of bags. So I wanted to sew a new bag.I layered some fabrics and started to quilt. But I couldn't quilt at all ! I had just skip stitches and broken threads. It seemed that my sewing machine need a good cleaning ( after I tried, without success, to do other things to … [Read more...]
Another surprise for a friend
I made this colorful little piece for my friend Mary. She makes wonderful quilts. I am in love with her scrap quilts and I admire her patience in making difficult things, like this quilt. Do you remember this table runner ? I loved so much that multicolored fabric. This type of fabric is my first option for background. This little piece measures about 10". This design remind me of the … [Read more...]
A summer bag
I made it from the fabrics I bought last week.How I wish to match it with a skirt or a pair of pants made from the same fabric. But I don't have enough patience to sew a skirt ( I have patience to cut batting away for 2 weeks but not to sew a skirt for a few hours ).Since I discovered quilting I hate to sew clothes. But this is a good thing, where I could store so many clothes ? My house is full … [Read more...]
A surprise for a friend
I made this little piece for Lucia- a special friend from Brazil. In the last years I saw on TV a few great Brazilian telenovelas ( "The Clone" was one of them ). And now, "Sinha Moca" is the joy of my every weekend. So I was so happy to meet Lucia ! Though she traveled a lot she never saw snow so I sent her a wreath of snowdrops ! I hope it will cool the atmosphere of the hot summer days … [Read more...]
Fabrics for bags
Some of you asked me where I found the denim I used for my latest bags. Well, we didn't have here quality cotton fabrics for quilting but there is in my town a shop with gorgeous fabrics for clothing. Last week I found these pieces of denim (it is not the same quality as the denim used for jeans but it is still a good fabric for making bags): The fabric below is not denim but I could not … [Read more...]
The bags obsession continues
This time I made two bags from denim.The white one is irresistible... This type of handles requires so much fabric... … [Read more...]
Bags Obsession
I made other two bags using a printed fabrics (I didn't applique those flowers !).The fabric is similar with the one used for making this bag and these pillows - just another color scheme. Unfortunately, I used the last piece of fabric... … [Read more...]
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