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Yesterday I gave one of the presents away so I can show you something! One of the three.
Last week I went to a 'fabric shop' for fabric for my classroom decoration and I found this one. It is a 'leather like fabric' which I've never tried before. It was not very easy to sew, but my Mum was so happy it was worth the work.
And I have a black and white bag (which I think I forgot to show here) which I lended to my Mum as they were invited to a Black and White Party. She enjoyed wearing the bag and told me a lot of nice things about it.
When I saw this fabric I got the idea to make the same pattern of that magical fabric. I found a little piece of vanilla leather like fabric which I got in summer (actually it was a really very small piece, it was enough for the two flowers only) plus I used some nice multicolour thread to decorate the bag (leaf pattern - free mashine stitched) The inside part is brown musleen. It was quite a big rush and I made a mistake in the middle which I recognized when I nearly finished the whole bag, so I had to start again.... which made the whole process an even bigger rush, but finally it is ready!
Yesterday I gave it to Mum on her nameday (yes, we calebrate namedays here)
Here are some pics about it. (In real life it is a bit lighter I think)
I have a friend who was absolutely not satisfied with me... She sad I was lazy to write so rarely.... Yes, I am really disappointed these days, I have no visitors, no comments.... but yes, maybe you are right... It is boring to read the same post for a week...
So yes, I really wanted to write and show you some photos, but they are secret projects for one more week. I am working on presents at the moment. 3 at the same time... I love working on more things. It is a bit dangerous as they easily turn to UFOs but when I have a new idea I am sooo excited. I usually try to not start the new project immediately but at the end I usually start something new.... I cannot change my mind. I really try but it is impossible.
And I am trying to work with Via and the FlyLady programme, thanks for the link Vacskamati and thanks Via, too!!
Everyone, have a nice next week and I am coming with new pics!
(And till that would you please leave me a comment if 1. you jumped here and want to make me happy 2.you have something you want to read here 3.you have any ideas about this blog)
I could read in several blogs that summer is over with the horrible thing: the first day of the school year.... Yes, I feel the same. Another school year, everyone is sad to start again, summer is over, evenings colder, my allergy is on high level....
So it is time to show you my summer wreath (it is still on the door.... just a bit more of the feeling.... I will not change it till the real autumn with the falling leaves etc.... actually I do not like that part very much)
So this is a bit of summer with the help of Tilda. I changed the sizes but left the pattern...
Goodbye summer!
This is nearly the last day of August, so it is high time to show you my finished project..... I liked the idea od the quilllow so much I made one more.... One for my B to ba able to travel with it... My B likes spiders and I like Halloween and orange, so this fabric was the best one I found in the shop. I used simple black with it.
This time I was a good girl and used Evi teacher's Bento box technique without changing everything. I wanted to finish it in the camp but unfortunately I couldn't (I would have needed one more night).
The best part (the one I enjoyed the most) was the quilting part. I decided to use spider webs and found an orange thread (silky bright). It was fun. I started with the pillow part then quilted the huge spider webs. Finally I quilted some spiders with black thread to the Bento box blocks.
My B was happy with it and I think it suits him very much.
I really hope you like it, too.
In the camp we made a key-holder with Beugrólány. We had a pattern (which I changed of course) of a street.... I designed the little houses and appliqued them with machine I used some embroidery, too. I used free machine stitches on the bottom (the street)... We bought the frame and painted it...
We had the 'wire' which we made into holders....
Here is mine ( I really have to learn how to take good pics....):
I spent a wonderful week in Karcag with half of our topic, too.... In the fisrt part of the camp teacher Evi forced us to make a quilllow..... I have told you several times that I am not for making quilts.... not at all..... But this is a great idea, it seemed funny for me.... So, here you are: my first quilt!!!! (and luckily I managed to finish it in July so this can be the July project.....sorry for the long break, I had no pic than no time to complete this post....)
It should have been a Bento Box quilt but as usual I changed things a bit to make something unique, so I simply designed the quilt in a different way.... I know it would have been easier to sew this pattern with the log cabin technique but I wanted to learn at least the way of Evi's project so I used the Bento Box technique....
I used two yellows as the shop ran out of the one I wanted, plus the green (a very tricky one, I had some problems with that fabric) and a cheap IKEA yellow for the background.
As usual I quilted in with Evi's Bernina and I free stitched it... That was fun, you know, just drawing with the machine... I really enjoyed it, but for the arms it was like being in a gym.... But I am sure you all know it...
This picture was taken in Karceg when we tried the block orders.... Evi taught a method which made our life easier.... We put all the blocks on the floor and took a picture with a digital camera of them then looked at the 'quilt' on the camera.... Looking at a small pic was a good idea, we could make decisions easily... So here is mine:
As I mentioned before I am a slow sewer so I could finish the quilt but I could sew the pillow part only on the train....
Here is my quilllow in quilt form at home:
And here is my quillow in the pillow form:
The colours are quite different in the pics, the first one is the closest...
Just back from the patchwork camp which was awesome and the guildmeeting (at lake Balaton this year) which was hilarious!!!!!
Happy and a bit tired.....
Nothing much happaned in the last week, but before that I started a lot of things (in the pw camp in Karcag) but finished only one..... Now it is time for finishing them before they become UFOs forever...
I still have no pic about the July finished object but coming soon...:)
This was a small something which I made..... I got this T-shirt from a colleague and te fabric was too thin (transparent a bit)... so I decided to draw on it a bit with my sewing machine....
Here is the result...:
