gisafeiertauchundverlostwas

Gisa aus Hamburg feiert ihren 1o.ooo Besucher
mit einer holzigen Überraschung ....

schon die Kistchen sehen so nett aus,
aber was mag wohl hineinkommen?
husch husch, schnell hin!

step by step

This week I have to announce: I made 3 blocks so far
- perhabs there is one more coming!
D 3,

E 11

AND
F 5

are done during the last 3 days!
my signature now reads: My taupe DJ 12-0-0-81
happy dancing

Longarmquilting experience

speaking of making progress in reducing UFOs -
Don't pile the UFOs - get them quilted!!!

I started to get my tops longarmquilted in 2oo5. Before I first traveled to my beloved Amish village Shipshewana in Indiana I send my Round Robin top to one of the local shops. Colleen worked on my quilt just in time, so I was able to see it still on the frame and she made the last stitches when I watched the process. That was a special moment in my life. I gave no rules and asked her to see what the quilt told her and she did a wonderful job!
Tried to find a pic but seems I have to make a new one soon.
Than I met Sue from Utah, who also has a longarmbusiness. She does wonderful work!!
My turquoise quilt was quilted by her. I got the fabrics from my DJ Secret Pal and added the Siggy rectangles the ladies signed in 2oo5. Sue quilted spools, buttons, cutters and scissors - perfect!
Now French friend Valerie of the DJ community who lived for some time in the States came back with her own longarm machine. She now quilted the first quilt of my friend Monika. I think I will send my text quilt to France!!!


hugs

quilty Jewelry

hopping from one blog to the other I came to 2 blogs which catched my eye.
Pam and Debbie, both from CA are designing quilty jewelry. I love jewelry .... who wonders?
Actually they have a cute giveaway - but without the luck of the winning person we can order this cute little charms, maybe for somebody else?
hugs

UFOs - never ending story

Today Pat Sloan started the 12 Days of UFO Busting Tips!
Start to count them - YES, that's scary - hmmm?
Now Pat mentioned to organize them by the status
from almost done to barely started.
Go visit her blog and follow her tips - very clever
Some of you might remember I started to finished UFOs

When I showed my DJ project on Monday 2 of them are UFOs, just topps
One needs the triangle border, which is pieced already
the Halloween Round Robin is ready to get sandwiched
Today I found another DJ UFO: the beginning of my Siggy quilt
I started in the center with 2 plain/black centered D-13 blocks, in memory of 2 quilters who influenced my life and are not here anymore. Helga und Charlotte had to be part of this memory quilt. Next round are Siggies from special people, like Brenda herself.

Tomorrow I'll make pictures, I promised to post them

hugs


BTW:
I am very glad positive thoughts helped a dear friend on the other side of the big pond during her surgery

ecxiting NEWS from southern Germany

yesterday was THE day here, we established a new Janiac group!
Karin, the shopowner of my LQS wanted to start her own journey and I'm ready to start my own Baby SERiOUSLY -
so we started a group.

14 women attended to the first evening, where I gave a lot of information and showed pics of various colorways and different settings on my netbook.
3 projects from me had been on the wall, a halloween-round-robin with DJ blocks, a Row Jane made from red and golden Christmas fabrics and the little quilt I made from red/black blocks I got, when I moved from Duesseldorf. * Pics later *
I prepaired 3 binders with the blocks I made so far: the first 9 blocks from my taupe projct, the collected Fall Frolic Blocks from 2 swaps and white/blue/silver Christmas blocks I made.

They also got irst ideas of the useful tools like rulers and software.

I spoke about the history of the quilt, Brendas work and the amazing community of women worldwide. Of course the wonderful Retreats in Shipshewana
(I attended in 2oo5) and the amount of fabrics where other subjects.

Just 1 woman decided that this project is too big, to scary for her
and one went home thinking if she’ll start with us.

Imagine 12 women signed in!
We splitted the group, one in the afternoon another in the evening - once per month.

Next week we will discuss their style, coloration, background fabric and start with an easy peasy M 10. Than I'll let them analyze the quilt, which blocks are made the same way: 9patches and 4patches ...

The journey began!

In my next post I'll show you my fabrics and first blocks

Happy dancing
Brigitte
My taupe DJ 9-0-0-66

cute blog

after some time I visited again the cute blog of Tricia, she offers such funny things for free

THANK you Tricia!

new version

after some time of playing with the LINK Franca sent I got the trick
here comes my new Signature:


TADA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drummroll please

Dankeschön für Deine Hilfe, Franca

Vielen Dank für Deine Erklärung, Franca - ich werd sie mir gleich mal speichern, falls ich die Signatur mal ändern möchte.
So sieht sie nun aus, meine Signatur


just a short note to my English readers:
this is just a special thanks to Franca, who helped with instructions to get my Signature under the posts

how to do a signature

HELP needed

I'm asking the readers for help today. I'ld like to add my personal signature under my posts. Unfortunately I can't figure it out. Any help is more than welcome!

Lovely surprise from California

Cyn surprised me with a lovely envelope - full of joy
* every little detail made or choosen with love *

her handmade card is so cute!
klick on the pics to see them big ....

isn't the tatted bookmark fantastic, never learned this technique
also the Mug Rug is made from Cyn,
it will sit next to me on the desk now

Cyn sent also a Quilt Sampler Magazine, on page 59 is the Temecula Quilt Co, with an autograph of the owner, personalized to me!
The bookmark hided here ;-)

That's all together in its glory

THANK YOU SO MUCH, my friend

Firstable I'll sew the cute Basket, love the fabrics!
From the Petite-One-Patch_Projekts the little pyramids are calling me
the fabrics are so soft and the colors and patterns - nothing like that avaiable in German quiltstores

Maybe during the freetime after Xmas - no kidds this year

Next week the LQS is starting a new DJ group (with my little help), that will take some time I think.

BTW:we both didn't "EXPECT" something from each other, I think our envelopes must have had a meeting over the big pond ;-)

I won a cute Halloween wallquilt

from my friend Rosa from Canada !!!!!!!!!! YEAH, the best of all - Longarm quilted by Gilbert Crevier (3A Quilting) on "Bertha"
The customers had been curious to see what was in the box, but had no idea what is was. So I was lucky and had nothing to pay.
The only "work" I had to do, was to sew the binding - that happened today- first pics today

I'll show the backside, to show the quilting
THANK YOU SO MUVCH Rosa and Gilbert!!!

FANTASTiC "GO!" giveaway

Millie from Texas will giveaway this new FANTASTiC tool, I think EVERY quilter is dreaming from: The GO! Fabric Cutter from Accuquilt



my older entry was my mistake, Fummie don't have a giveaway, she just posted about Millies
- sorry for confusing!

but Frummies blog is worth a visit anyway, even without a giveaway ;-)

Wouldn't it be great to be the lucky winner? YES, I know I had a lot of luck with winning giveaways ..... you never now!

blog giveaway

some of you know, I had luck more than one times with blog giveaways - yesterday arrived the last gift I got - will not show it because of Christmas secret ;-)



Melanie, a StampinUp Demonstrator gives away a lovely stampset and a inkpad -
wish me luck, please

Kloster Eberbach / Eberbach_Abbey

Yesterday we had a very nice stroll through the historic rooms of Eberbach Abbey.
It was a combination of a guided tour with historic infos and tasting of 6 different vines during this tour, delicious BTW
* Every picture could be clicked to see it big *

Parts of the movie "The name of the rose" where filmed there.



this was the sleepingroom, built with the effect of optical illusion. the pillars at the end of the room are shorter than the pillars in front, so everybody think the room is much longer than it is - interesting!

and one of the doors

from 1668







Tomorrow my husband surprised me with the offer to drive to the Textilmarket Benediktbeuren - FUN FUN FUN !!!!!!!!!!!! watch pics of this trip early next week

a new finished heart block

Monika and I swapped heart blocks over some time now. Today I finished a new heart, not shure if Monika would like to get one as well?

What do you think?

Stöffchen - fabric treat

Meine Freundin Monika hat mich mit einem Umschlag überrascht:

3 ganz niedliche Pünktchenstoffe für mein Gingham Girls Projekt -
ich liebe Überraschungen dieser Art!!!!
Vielen Dank Moni

My friend Monika surprised me with a little envelope - without any special occasion. She sent 3 lovely dotted fabrics for my new project: The Gingham Girls
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Moni

memories

Today I found out that Bonnie Leman passed away.
When I started to get into patchwork in the early 80s the first magazine I read monthly was her Quilters Newsletter Magazine. The column of her on the 2nd page was the first I read. Barbara Brackman and the Quilters Hall of Fame blog wrote such wonderful words - heartouching comments on both blogs.
My condolence to Bonnies family
Time for memories

vacation - report part III

Tuesday we made another trip - this time to Bamberg. I have to confess the main reason for this destination was a rocking chair. That's a long story, during our last big move one part (the seat) of my beloved rocker got lost. So we decided to give the useless rocker away. I was grumbling from time to time how I missed this rocker. On Sunday I surfed through blogland - you know, following LINK after LINK and SUDDENLY I got to Eve's blog. I fell in love immediatly.

Due to the fact that we didn't made that many trips we planned DH agreed to drive to northern Bavaria to get the rocking chair. Luckily the weather cooperated better than the weather report announced.
The rocker was much better than the picture told me - I'm in heaven! To make the deal even better, DH asked for a good price when we also buy the darling table - YEAH
The nice husband of Eve agreed (after giving her a call to ask if SHE agree !)


Now it was time to visit Bamberg. Only a few raindrops here and there - nothing serious. A nice lunch outside and one ball of icecream and we enjoyed the city. Lovely old buildings and I got inside the Cathedral and visited the "Bamberger Reiter", just in time to listen to a tourguide.



the old townhouse

This time Nelli was part of the trip, but no pic - sorry.

vacation - report part II

Today I'll show you some pics of our trip to the city of Ulm, famous beause of the Münster. It is the tallest church in the world, measuring 161.53 metres (530 ft) and containing 768 steps.
NO - I wasn't upstairs, sorry no pitures from the top.






Das schiefe Haus / The crooked house is near the Donau in an area called "Fischerviertel" -

The townhouse with fantastic paintings. We had a cup of icecream nearbye ;-)