Polish impressions

.... this is just a short interruption of my blog-break,
because I'm on the road again from the end of this week until 11th of September:
next weekend we drive to the new town, we are moving to early next year to meet the owner of a house we are interest to rent. Hold the breath please!

We'll be back home on Sunday evening. Monday morning I'll change the cars and travel to my friend Monika, to spend 3 days with her - always great fun! -
She made great plans for me, so I'll sew a scrappy housequilt -
in: PURPLE & CATERPILLAR GREEN with ORANGE roofs & BLACK windows

Next stop is at my daughter's home in Düsseldorf, to bring Nelli to her (see her at the head of my blog) to sit her during the weekend, I'm retreating with ~ 50 women from all over Germany, Netherland and Suisse to play with tiny, tiny glass beads - making jewelry - can't wait

I spent the last weeks on vacation as well
(first trip to new region: Dillingen / Donau, near Augsburg in Bavaria)

2nd: short trip to Gdansk and Malborg and - pics later -

and 3rd:
a weekendtrip to Bolesławiec, formerly Bunzlau, wellknown for their fantastic potteryware

OK - first some pics of the castle, we stayed while in Bunzlau

and some of the typically pottery:

this is what came home with us .....

Do you know understand,
why the color of the writing is blue this time??

blog - break

sorry, no new postings here
just a little summer break
hope to see you here again later
thanks for stopping by

Blog Candy

once again a nice blogger ( Rachel )
is offering a lovely Blog Candy.
Hope to have luck one day ....

Busy sewing here BTW,
2 DJ blocks - G7 and K 13 - are ready to fly over the big pond somewhere
( TOP SECRET )

do you know Shadow Trapunto?

While I searched via the worldwideweb once I got to Geta's Quilting Studio's blog and was fascinated from her designs. So I asked for patterns, now she just gave birth to her first pattern e-book. To celebrate this big moment she is offering great giveaways!!!! I do hope to be one of the lucky winners ;-) but the price of the e-book is just 12$, that's not too bad

isn't the pattern lovely?

Helen is going to give a nice pattern away,
just leave a comment and post on your blog.

isn't the pattern lovely?

Scrapbooking Workshop

Three of the German ladies presented a Scrapbooking Workshop
to Andrea and Wenke, who are leaving Szczecin now.
That's how the Army life works ..... sad, but true.
We met at http://www.decou.pl/ in Szczecin &

Agnieszka showed us how to make a little book
- and we had a lot of fun!!!

Wenke in turquoise and Agnieszka in black/white


Christina (in red) and Susanne, both very concentrated ;-)

Andrea choosing from the clearstamps ( hard work, you see )

Here some impressions:

from the creative chaos on the table

TADA !!!!! this are our results:

Album made by Agnieszka

THANK YOU, ladies
for a wonderful time spent together

something OLD, something NEW

Nearly 10 days agos I made the last ride with my beloved "Fabia" to its buyer and took a picture at the Polish-German border.
here I said officially GOOD BUYE
I was a little bit sentimental at that time .... I know, it's just material, but I think even a car has a kind of personality - AND, I liked the Fabia, not only because of the "Better finished than perfect" sticker ;-)

Today I had another special moment:

I got my very first own new car - TADA - it's a SEAT iBiZA

After one hour of instructions I started just around the corner to my friend Ulrike, who surprisd me with champagne. Christel also celebrated the first kilometer with me.

Luckily the maiden voyage was without any events

and my first impression is:
I am really very lucky with my new car !!!!

********** thank you so much, Peter ************

through Emily's Eyes

Emily has another great giveaway,
can't believe what she is giving to one lucky girl,

I do hope it's me ;-)

scrappy giveaway

Dianne has a fantastic giveaway on her blog, stop by and follow her rules,

IF

you are interest to get her goodies :-)

scrapbooking

is my other interest -
we made a trip to Ludwigsfelde to meet Kathrin,
the shopowner and Nadja and Heidrun
(who lived in Szczecin formerly)

from left to right:
Kathrin, Christina, Andrea, Nadja and Heidrun

As you can see, we had a lot of fun !!!
Nothing is better than time spent with friends ....
I have to confess: we had some delicious icecream afterworth


and I made some cards: I made more, but forgot to take pictures ....


Birthday card for my daughter's 21th

framed

sorry for the long silence -
I don't have a special reason, just too many things going on in our daily life.

My friend Monika gave me a wonderful christmaspresent: my monogramm stitched with tiny angels watching over me ( we all need these angels from time to time )

Now this beauty got framed - do you like my decicion?

I also framed a nice little picture
to escort the stitchery

Monika also stitched her own monogramm,
isn't she a very talented embroiderer?

big give-a-way

of Inklingo preprinted and prepaired projects ready to start.
Linda Franz ( the autor of the Quilted Diamond books 1 and 2) created this fantastic tool to print several shapes to the wrong side of the fabric, ready to take away for handsewing: precise and easy

http://inklingoprojects.blogspot.com/ - go and comment on the project you'ld like to win

traveling in Poland

I’m now living in Szczecin/Poland nearly 2 years and we traveled to the area around Swinoujscie / Swienemünde – at the Baltic Sea shore 2 times, it’s about 1 hour by car from here. Fresh air and good fish!

In November 2oo8 we spent 4 days in the lovely, historic
city of Krakow / Krakau, due to our 5th wedding anniversary.
We travelled via nighttrain both ways and enjoyed each and every minute, kind of belated honeymoon :-)

Now the International Ladies Club is going to drive by train
to Wroclaw / Breslau for a weekend.

This summer I hope to see Gdansk / Danzig as well

BASKETs

ok, I think you knew what I showed partiell: right - a 6" basket block
today it's ready to show completly


AND the ladies discussed the "problem", how to assemble blocks with different sizes.
With a little help of my EQ 6 I designed a filler block of 3 x 6 inches, because our blocks are going to be 6, 9 and 12 inches.

I also printed some easy block patterns in 3" and 1,5" but didn't made them already.
Patience please ;-)
Originally our big project starts in September and I have 3 blocks done so far
- not toooo bad?

To explain why I'm influenced by the basket temptation -
here comes one of the Amish baskets I bought in Ohio during my trip in 2oo8, lucky memories!!

new bug

thank you for the friendly comments and helpful tipps to my applique question. Like most of the time there are more "right" ways to handle this bulk thing ....

Elly, you are right about the own critic - sorry, I'm trying to work on this ;-)

Due to our beloved Rosa's wispering I got a new bug -
do you know what I'm talking from?
I'll give you a peek to my 2nd block (in process)

Block # 5 + 6

K-7:

C-6:



Today I have a question to my Janiac blogger friends:
Do you cut the excess fabric on the backside?
You see on the C-6 block I did - and don't like the result

Somebody wrote somewhere this quilt is going to be very heavy because of that many seamallowances - How do you handle this problem?

My actually signature under my emails is now:
Brigitte Baierl - German, living in Poland
http://www.beadtex.blogspot.com/
http://community.webshots.com/user/beadtex
Muddy Jane 7-0-0-41

2nd Block of the new start

I've been very productive yesterday. Listening to classic music I enjoyed the peace of handsewing and finished the 2nd block of my new start: F-13

C-6 ist halfway done

Not too bad, hey?

If somebody looks closer may be she/he will wonder, why I used 2 different background fabrics. They are from the same line ( Buggy Barn )

The "darker" one is for most of the blocks

The "lighter" one is for the blocks in Row "G" in the horizontal and "A to M #7"

and the two diagonal blocks: A-1, B-2, C-3 and so on

I'm going to use the darkest focus fabrics on this lighter background to separate 8 triangle sections

this picture don't show the used colors,
but shows the idea

Happy Eastern, dear bloggggger

my Baby is growing, slowly

but growing !!!!!!!

Today I prepped 3 applique blocks, one is finished: G-3

YEPPPP

Turqouise quilt is longarmquilted

by Sue Baddley from Utah with sewing themed patterns on her Statler. We decided to use a Quilters dream and she posted 5 pics of the result on her webshot album. She'll take it with her to the DJ Retreat in Shipshewana, IN soon and show it there. Caroline from Belgium bring it with her to Europe - can't wait to get this beauty back! Visit Sue's album to get an impression!!
I am so lucky with the quilting - THANK YOU Sue !!!
I'll miss the Retreat :-(

couldn't resist to surf

at my daughter's home puter in the evening (she spend the evening with her friend) ........... visited some quilter's blogs and got to several new scrapblogs. Julie just has a nice stampset of my favorite products as a giveaway, hope to be the lucky winner ;-)) stop by and look

Yesterday we had to run some errands, succesful - I made DD's favorite pancakes with apple and followed the invitation of a dear friend. We spend the time outside and enjoyed each other - life is good!

Today my DD and I had a wonderful day with fantastic SUMMERweather, YES summer not spring. Even the long sleeves of the blouse have been too much! That's why we opened the icecream-season - yummy
We also shopped a bit and had just a GREAT day.

Good news from Utah, my quilttop and backing ( you see in the header of this blog ) arrived safe! Sue will give it a great longarmservice, can't wait to get the quilt back. I'm always a little nervous - it's a long journey for a darling you made with love

Nelli ( our Amish Cocker you also see below ) got a nice haircut!

so, we 3 are fine!

tomorrow I'll visit my favorite quiltshop and go to a local quilters meeting

- what can a mother, dogowner and quilter need more ?????????????????

traveling

tomorrow I'll leave with "Nelli" to visit my daughter for some days!!!
I'll be back with pictures for shure - because there is a quilters meeting on the agenda as well, lucky me
I'll meet a friend and my favorite quiltshop is on the way to find some special green fabrics for my next project.

Take care and visit later again, please. I'm back on Monday evening

THE "bug"

insiders know, what I'm talking about: the greeeeeeeeen Cuttlebug, a fantastic machine looking cute and doing great embossing and cutting - so easy to handle.
Today Provocraft, the producer of this goddie asked the visitors of their blog to answer some questions to hear what the user wants, wish, dream about. AND they offer folders as giveaways!!! I do hope to be a lucky winner :-)) because I love the Swiss dot folder!!! and the other ones of course too

more cards

Valentine, Birthday or just a friendship note -
occasions are enough to send a cute card, right? no excuse needed here

first postcard pic

For some time I'm in scapbooking as well ..... DH got me the lovely Cuttlebug and I added some Spellbinder dies and embossing folder and a new passion was born.
this card is just flying around the world to reach Elaine and Jaquie - together with heart blocks of Monika and me for our little private swap.
YES, please be patient Rosa and Cyn: you'll get your envelope soon

Ostern wirft seine Schatten voraus

Heike hat eine super Idee, wie sie ihre Stöffchen österlich präsentiert -
und - was das Beste ist: Frau kann sie gewinnen!! Also nichts wie hin und einen Kommentar abgeben - obwohl, wenn sich weniger eintragen erhöhen sich meine Chancen - oder?

Janiacs worldwide

are sewing this little Darlings
for a common friend of us in Illinois to surprise her with THE quilt, done by her friends. She is a special person, which I met two times and both meetings are very well remebered.

I sewed H-9 Snowflake Melt

and two triangles: TR-9 and RS-5

&

Amazing how long it needed,
I should REALLY start my baby to get practice.