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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...:
This is the time of ice creams for me I think..... (poor trousers and skirts..... ) I found a recipe on Fűszer és lélek blog which was a kind of drink. We (with my B) decided to make ice cream istead of a drink so we changed some things, but I think the original recipe can be also good.
Here is our recipe:
Melon ice cream with gorgonzola:
1 melon (normal sized but very nice one) - stick mixered
2 dl cream - half mixered
5 dkg gorgonzola - cut with a fork and add to the cream
1 pinch salt
then mix everything and put it in the ice cream maker.... I cut some tiny little melon cubes and added it to the mixture while it was in the machine. Enjoy!
And thank you Eszter for the original idea!
PS: Unfortunately there is no picture about it (yet) as I have no camera at the moment....
I know it is an absolutely late post, but this summer is 'an always late' one....
So this is my sewing bag..... I started in a patchwork camp last summer and since then it was a pain.... I wanted to sew it but then I overcomplicated it, so.....
But I finished it this week... I know it is July now but I had so many things to do.
OK, no more excuses, here is the bag. Actually it is a plastic file covered with fabric.... The inventor is Dióhéj and my mentor in this thing was Méhike...
I used my favourite star textile for the outside part and I embroidered my name for the back page.
The fabric inside are my treasures from Wales and Luxemburg... (this was a good enough place for them). The scissor holder and the needle holder can be removed and used alone. (By the way the needle holder is a Tilda design). (sorry it is an awful picture taken during the sewing process......)
It is not packed yet and I have to add one more thing (an iron place), but I have to finish it this weekend as the bag is coming with me to the patchwork camp next week.
Vacskamati asked me to take part in this 'game', and I was so embarrassed to forget it, so no more excuses... It is high time to write 7 more things about me....
Hmmm... it is not an easy thing at all.... but let's try .... and I am sorry if I've already mentioned some of it.
1. There were 3 jobs I always wanted to have (and some more...khm.... funny ones... which I do not write about this time...) teacher, actress and tourist guide..... I can live without the last one but I think I need the first 2.... The only way I can imagine life without school is when I can stay on the stage..... but I think it is too late.....
2. I am a strange person (I think). I did lots of 'interesting' things (eg. diving) at my young age but didn't do trivial things (eg. going to a pop concert)...
3. I love all handcrafts. I cannot crochet... I always forget how to do it and when I want to make something, I learn the waqy to make it, and in some weeks I forget everything again....
There is no problem like this with patchwork, knitting, embroidery, decoupage, jewellery making etc....
4. I have looooooots of energy for a long time (like 5 months or so), then I just lay in an amrchair for days without doing anything..... isn't it abnormal?
5. I hate being in silence (yes, I can imagine your face and laughs) so I always have to have something noisy around me, like radio or TV... I couldn't study without my radio when I was a pupil.
6. I love bags.... very much.... I want to have a lot, but then I am too lazy to change them day by day, so I always have an actual favourite for some weeks (or months) then I change....
7. I am too slow as I do too many things at the same time, so I will not ask anyone to write about the 7 things....
But I loooove coffee (I blame my B for it!) and I got this frappé this morning before he wnet to work.... I am the luckiest patchwitch on earth :D
I hope Vacskamati, you enjoyed reading it, and I am sorry for the long waiting......
