Secret Santa Christmas Swap 2oo8

Unfortunatly I'm not able to put the sign into my blog, the way Donna explained .... so I show it this way:
I'm part of the big Christmas Swap fun worldwide, 128 quilter signed in and I'll know may be tomorrow to which place in the world I have to send my Christmas surprise. I don't get any information, from whom I'll get mine. Donna is doing a great job mixing us up - visit her blog and you'll see what fabulous presents had been made last year!

Giveaway at MayBritt's blog

May Britt from Norway is celebrating her 2 year anniversary of blogging. She is posting great pictures and call the event:
2-years-blogiversary-giveaway
Please visit her blog and leave a comment - and you do have a chance to get her nice giveaway. Good luck !!

Holiday, Visit & Lungis

Actually I am lucky to announce: my DH doesn't have to go to work - YEAH: 4 weeks at home



My DD Ines spend one week at the Baltic Sea in Swinoujscie with her friend Thomas. They visited us and we enjoyed this time so much.

Do you see my husband dreaming from his own modeltrain dungeon??

Lungis are worn around the waist in Bangladesh,
my friend Gabi sent me 45 FQ of this lovely plaids and stripes, very fine cotton fabric. We splitted them, so some women are lucky to own them now. THANK YOU Gabi!!

Jeanne's pincushion arrived

dancing around .... I got a priority envelope from Minnesota ..... it was from Jeanne, which I met in person during the Dear Jane Retreat in Shipshewana, IN in fall 2oo5

She sent a cute little apple pincushion, made from wool. She enclosed a apple fabric FQ, I've never seen before AND

a Fons & Porter pencil tin with pretty Feahtered Star pattern on it.

The card made me smile because of the lazy cat on top of a DWR quilt, cats are so special

TAHNK YOU SO MUCH, Jeanne - I'll love your pincushion, it just went into my Redwork box to be used, also the tin

my Dear Jane layout

this is my design layout - the idea of it:
the colors are different

Do you see the + and the x ??
in this part I'm going to use a very light background,
in the other parts ( "triangles of the pinwheel" and the border ) the background is the same, just darker

Each of the " pinwheel " will get different values of taupe, japanese fabrics I collected during my trip to the States in April
- still a dream

2nd attempt

to put the Label to the GiVEAWAY I posted before ....

Announcement: great giveaway

somewhere in the worldwideweb I found the LINK to a fantastic giveaway. Maybe it would be more clever not to tell you - but on the other hand, one of the rules is, to tell ....

Leave a comment on Dana's blog, she offers a bright quilt, which I would love to win !!!
Unfortunatly I'm unable to add this graphic into my sidebar AND this dear blog doesn't want to add pictures right now, so I have to add it later - grrr

first 2 blocks of my Taupe Jane

J 11 - Twin Sister J 12 - Rebecca's Basket

that's just the working title ... not shure about the name of my baby yet.

just 167 more blocks to do - big fun!

pincushio swap

Just a few minutes ago I got a lovely email from Kim, which is the reciever of my pincushion I sent to Minnesota. Her blog is worth to visit: enjoy - she is very talented.
I embroidered all edges of the 5 squares with different beading patterns. It's kind of freeform .... just fun to make! and I'm afraid the little Polish thimble wouldn't helpful for handsewing, sorry

I'm just glad, that my little darling is welcome at the new sewingplace.

NOW I'm waiting for my pincushion from ???????????????

BTW:
I'm still not able to add a Signature automaticly
- is there help somewhere in the www ?

Dear Jane Embroidery

Inge, Ute, Brigitte and Angelika surprised me with this lovely present, when I moved from Duesseldorf last summer. Now I am the lucky owner of this pretty xstitch embroidery and enjoy it every day. The pattern is from Lynda Myers.

My friend Gabi made a fantastic quilttop from Lungis for me. Lungis are woven plaids and stripes, normally worn from men in Bangladesh (her husband is born there)

Actually she is very ill right now with Typhus, they came back from Bangladesh 4 weeks ago. I'm wishing all the best to her. Positive thoughts are more than welcome, friends

„Metro Blue“

14 FQs -
what is this going to be??

any ideas?

Tabelrunner

I know, it's springtime - even the weather give us the summerfeeling - but this was the colorpreference of the lady who got it.

This is a lovely gift from my friend Monika - DANKESCHöN !!!

It'll be part of my heartquilt - stay tuned - more about later



today I got a package from my new DJ Secret Pal for May and June: great fabric – it’s: Michele D’Amore „Metro Blue“ from Marcus Brothers
thank you so much. Started actually to plan a design

one-to-one-Siggy-Swap

has started.
Here comes my Siggy

Actually I have to make ~ 30
don't know how much I collected in the Int. Swap in 2oo5, the European Swap 2oo5 and the German Swap 2oo5 (I hosted), will let you know after counting.

My friend Monika made this funny "Badenixe"
which makes me smile in my bathroom.

These two xstitch embroideries are also done by her - isn't she a darling?

Signature - TEST

thanks to Taniwa in Japan, she posted, how to have a signature at the end of each posting - hope it works

good evening

A big EXCUSE to all the readers, coming to see pictures from my quiltjourney - - - I'm sorry - too much was going on. At least I do have serious toothache and 4 appointments next week with my favorite dentist.

Tomorrow I have to fix my luggage to go on the road again.

In Berlin (my original hometown) is a beading-Retreat with 38 women from all over Germany (and the Netherlands and Swizerland). I'll met friends from the region of my former hometown Duesseldorf and perhaps I'll see my son also.

This evening the sky had such spectacular colors - I took pictures for you

Pictures from my trip are coming soon

Today I folded about 90 Japanese (taupe) FQs for my new Dear Jane, yesterday I ordered the background fabric from Buggy Barn in WA, that's from the quilting department ;-)

Gardenfairies

After some busy days I'm here again to show you my newest project: Gardenfairies - a design from Ursula Schertz.


They are really funny to stitch.

I signed in an intern. Siggy Swap with Christmas fabrics - couldn't restist.
On the other hand I started to swap individually Siggy blocks again.
I participated in the intern. DJ Swap in 2005, the European Siggy Swap 2oo4 and was the swapmom of a German Siggy Swap also in 2004.
just one message on the yahoo list and I had ~ 20 women willing to swap.
The block is based on the book from Brenda Papadakis: Dear Jane ( D 13 ), it's a square in a square block, finished 4,5 inches - very easy to sew and so much fun to swap!
My friend Monika is also swapping blocks worldwide.

quality time with daughter and friends

actually I'm back home in Szczecin -
after spending one week with my friend Monika AND visiting my daughter and having great times with my friends Angelika and Gaby. So many new ideas, good moments and heartwearming memories - THANK YOU friends
A nice fabric package from Ohio, and two Secret Pal envelopes waited on my table!
Actually my luggage isn't empty now but I'ld like to invite you to Camille's blog, she has a unbelievable giveaway for her one-year-anniversary: one of us can be the lucky winner of a great quilt! YES: a quilt
this was a fantastic tip from Jeanne
have a sunny day - I'm away with Nelli (my Ami cocker) and the Dachshund gang (6 of them!!) for a nice walk

Pictures are promised for tomorrow

very last " H i G H " - light

this journey had several personal highlights, one of them was the spectacular view from the 94th floor of the Hancock tower in Chicago. It's a breath-taking feeling to stand on a high of 304 Meter and to look down to the other really high buildings, in Germany so called "Wolkenkratzer".

To remember this special moments my roommate Annelore and I spend some $$ for this picture.

back from "Quilter's heaven"

Thank you for your patience, I'm back on earth - but haven't arrived in reality ;-) The trip was a dream, even the weather was very cooperative, just 1 and a half day rain

I haven't counted the quiltshops we stopped at, but I was able to find enough fabric for the very near future. My main interest in buying fabric was to start my taupe stash for the new Baby Jane. Now I need to order the background, it wasn't avaible, what I was looking for: a Buggy Barn fabric my friend Monika use.
I made many, many pictures - just safed them to a DVD

Firstable I want to show you my thank-you-present for my DH, who sponsored my journey very generous. It is a Log Cabin variation from Mishawaka (near South Bend), made ~1890-1910

I bought it in Shipshewana, Indiana from Rebecca Haarer (here with her mother) - this village is a very special place to me

this is Colleen how'll do the longarmquilting on Monika's French Braid. She did great work on several quilts from Monika, her friend and me in the past and we are sure to get good results again. It was fantastic to meet her again in person.

More later - I promise!

* my blog is sleeping * because I am traveling *

Tomorrow I'm starting my big trip to "quilter's heaven": the States.

I'm part of a group of 37 lucky German quilter (mostly women, just to escorting husbands) traveling to:

Pennsylvania - Lancaster, Intercourse
Jinny Beyer Studio, Virginia
sightseeing in Washington
flight to Chicago
Shipshewana ( here I come again !!!! )
Nappanee
Holmes County - Quilter's Hall of Fame
Millersburg
Amish Flea Market in Walnut Creek
Chicago
International Quilt Festival in Rosemont
sightseeing in Chicago

I'm back on Monday evening, April 14th
Come visit my blog again, I promise to show you some pictures

Today you see my DH and DD

and Berlin in March

this was the place of a policeman, watching the traffic in the fifties

old meet new on the old mainroad: Ku'damm (Kurfürstendamm)