Kissen für Nele und Finn, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Britsch2008

My daughter moved to Kiel where she got to knew a new boyfriend. The both have their first own flat and are very happy and also proud of.
So for a little gift I gave them this "Nele and Finn" couple cushion

Hidden Spools

Find here some slides showing the process of this project
Ein Viertel der Blöcke ist zusammengesetzt, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Britsch2008

A couple of month ago I posted a color exercise using "hidden spools" as blocks.
Now you can see a realisation of this exercise.

My daughter left her hometown to go for studies to Kiel and I told her that in US kids leaving for college usually get a quilt for their new next life step. So she enthusiastically wondered: "Does that mean you will sew me a quilt for my own?"

And yes, exactly my dear, you are absolutely right.
This is the quilt I made for her.

Log Cabin

Meeting and getting to know Nettie here on the blogs created some interesting things: a common project and a trip to Hamburg :-)
We easily came together to work on a swap log cabin project

These are the strips we cut

and here are some of the blocks

In detail

The last one is my favourite, I call it "Hamburger" cause it's made all from fabrics I've got when I visited Nettie

Some red dots

Making a little gift for my brother’s new home to bring with me I sewed this red dotted little cushion. Although all is machine sewed with the new Bernina, the dots look a little bit like hand appliquéd and hand quilted.

80 memories of Amsterdam 3

Long time ago I wrote some news. So much to do and so less time ,-) and I just have a hard time to go through.

But today there are finally some pics of my finished Amsterdam project. The first project I did a lot of effort in machine quilting. Yes, and I think it was worth it...

The border is quilted like pinwheels by stipple quilting

The solid blocks have a quilted wreath, someone called it "Partybread"

Also the white triangles of the pinwheels are quilted while the different colored fabrics stand out. It was a very good exercise to get familiar with the quilting possibilities of my new Bernina. But it also means to have learned one thing makes you more demanding and looking for a new challenge

Another trip to the Netherlands

Last weekend I visited the Netherlands with a friend of mine for some days. There was a very sunny day at the sea – wonderful! And two days more cloudy mixed with a little bit of rain, so we saw Amsterdam, Edam and Hoorn, went for a walk, watched a few DVD’s on our apartment, did some cooking and so on. Visiting Amsterdam I bought a couple of fat quarters of Den Haan & Waagenmakers again. We’ll see which exercise to do they will inspire me this time.

A nice Café in Edam, where we sat down and chat for a while

View from our apartment next to the Ijsselmeer

Cobblestones

Nettie's site shows a very pretty pic of cobblestones. All the soft earthtones in grey inspired me to do a color exercice.

I gave the pic a higher contrast and these are the colors I found ...

... and this is the coloring of a quilt design