big Surprise # 3 !!!

Again, the sequence doesn't meen I like one of them more than another!

DD Ines made a wonderful really big box for me, which was the first present in a row of 24! it's about 15" one side! really big - inside are cute little packages,
can't wait to open 3 surprises per day !!!

Am I happy? YES I am, happy dancing here

big Surprise # 2 !!!

Firstable, the # are just to show how many Surprises I got, not to value them !!!

My friend Monika sent a parcel filled with 24 little parcels, nicely wrapped in red and white striped paper. I store them on my beloved rose fabrics in a drawer.

Today I found a pretty fabric

Dankeschön, Moni - bist ein Schatz

big Surprise # 1 !!!

DH surprised me in the morning with a lovely girland of little bags, one for each day until Christmas (what we are celebrating on December 24s)
so cute!



lucky

A D V E N T

this card was enclosed in the Adventcalendar I sent to my friend Monika
on her blog is a pic of the little parcels/gifts


I'm blessed this year, I got 3 (three !!) Adventcalendar, one from my husband, one from Monika and last but not least a real big box filled with 24 parcels from my daughter! She made the box herself (she is a bookbinder) - LOVE IT !!!!!!!
pictures later

2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge

Sewgal started the 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge her blog. I couldn't resist and jumped right into the FUN, even knowing I can't participate in January

happy dancing here

Yesterday arrived a lovely envelope from Cyn from California, whom I'll meet in January in person!
She sent me this cute tiny teeny ear bud thingy

I took her pic
THANK YOU so much, my friend

purpose for 2o12

YES, I know I'm very early to announce my purpose for the New Year, everybody is prepairing Christmas, me too BTW
BUT it just came to mind - so here it is:

NEXT year I'll keep track of my finished projects
I think, I finished a lot this year, but didn't wrote it down or posted everything here on my blog.

Off to work on my secret projects

no, I didn't disappeared

got just lost in the middle of christmas AND travel preparation.

BUT I'll show you something soon

quilt-as-you-go

My LQS offered a quilt-as-you-go-workshop some time ago and I jumped right into action. DD's boyfriend's birthday came to mind. And I wanted to pracitce this technique, never did before, just knew by theorie how-to

sorry the pictures isn't perfect, but give an idea


Glad that Tom liked it :-)

tricky 9 patch Youtube tutorial

right now I enjoyed the blog from Barb. She is showing wonderful pics of her quiltgroup, their work and homes. During one of their Retreats they taped a Youtube: it explains a very clever timeconsuming way to sew 2 Nine Patchs at once - so easy!
hope you like it too

Mill Girls Quilt-Along

Anne Ida posted on her blog about the Mill Girls Quilt-Along
Jennifer Chiaverini is the famous autor of the Elm Creek books and a great quilter. I was lucky to meet her in Shipshewana in November 2oo5, she had a trunkshow at the Dear Jane Retreat. FANTASTIC quilts and very nice woman. Just in time begore Christmas her new book The Wedding Quilt will come out.

Several members of the SBS-and-other-Elm-Creek-Quilts yahoo group are sewing Mill Girls blocks. I tried it and of course my first block turned out to be too small. Didn't think of the scant seam allowance - but the block will find a nice place someday I'm shure (maybe a cushion). Pressing is tricky too .... just my experience
Thanks Anne Ida for helping!


and for your amusement:

can you believe, I noticed it when I looked through the camera! not before ....
But it pointed me to a border idea - time to stop sewing?

ein wunderbares neues Büchlein in meinem Studio

danke Martina's super Rezension auf ihrem blog habe ich sogleich den shop der Lieselei besucht und siehe da, schon gestern hatte ich dieses Kleinod in den Händen!



Ich fürchte die Libellchen können süchtig machen
Übrigens, Hilde's blog ist auch stets einen Besuch wert

lazy here, taking care of my cold

planned to be busy in my studio, but it turned out, I'm on slowmotion mode, due to a cold. But the weekend isn't over now ....

Red and White quilts, influenced by the extraordinary exhibition in New York

In southern California is a fantastic quiltshop_ Temecula Quilt Company
They have been influenced by the extraordinary exhibition early this year in New York and asked for red and white quilts. This month they are showing the results in their shop - FANTASTiC quilts!!!!! hope over to their blog and look at this beauties!
Perhaps I'm able to see this shop in January, just hoping

Hexagon Swap - part IV

Today I'll show you the other 3 hexagons I sewed for my swap partners:




Tomorrow I'll show you the finished freemotionquilting excersice result.
YEAH, it's ready to get on the wall

Hexagon Swap - part III

Yesterday I was lucky to have a very good free motion quilting class at my LQS. More of that later.
When I came home -late- I found the envelope with the 4 swapped Hexagons I got from Barbara, Birgit, Claudia and Jutta.
I love the blocks!!!! each is different - all together they are spectacular IMHO





What do you think?

THANK you so much ladies! I am very lucky with your designs!!!

beading - is finished !!!

Emma is ready get out!

Hexagon Swap - part II

Angelika asked about details of the swap:
1. Finished size 8 cm one side
2. devided by makers choice
3. Every participant asked for her own color choice
4. 5 women of the group swapped
5. I asked for black and white with red accents

this is the 2nd block I designed and made for me


more ideas are floating around in my head - even for the arrangement

Hexagon Swap

a small, private Yahoogroup asked to swap Hexagons, 8 cm ( ~ 3,1" )
devided on our own choice
Today I'll show you the block I made - for me

Everybody asked for their own colors/fabrics, I choose black/white/red
The swapmom asked for blue / she showed her blocks already:


pictures of the other blocks / in different colors not before the participants got there blocks, sorry

beading

work in progress, not ready yet

the pattern is from Hedi
DANKESCHöN, Ammersee war Klasse!