Disappearing

After the heat -

- a short bike ride in the evening at 8 - but the clouds are threatening

.... himself (lying on the bench) is watching them ....

how they are gathering and where to

over the cornfield

 

it is not the blue sky - but the clouds.

At home my new quilt is waiting - I hang it up against the window -

I like how the light shines through

 

My seams are straight - but it happened that I did not always iron them

into the same direction.

In the middle I had to extend a patch - it can also

be seen against the light but no more when the quilt is finished

and lying on Christianes guest bed in France not far

from our "house of renovation".

This old quilt below is already there and both will live in the same room.

The specification was: Same size (156 x 225 cm) and

roughly the same colour. Now the yellow patches in the new one

are looking rather strong but I can reassure you without the light

behind it is much paler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting a new quilt

I counted and did maths and bought fabrics ...

... and sewed together the first strips (16 cm)

I cut them into squares and joined 9 pieces for a nine-patch

 

 

and it looks like this.

Then the miracle begins - making two cuts and joining the newly

created squares which results in this......

 

And then surprise: I need much more of the patterned

fabric than I thought. Well, this means the preliminary stop for

my new quilt - which is a commission - till I return to our basis camp

280 km further north in Germany.

The plain fabric will provide lovely space for machine quilting.

 

Unpicking - a favorite play - WIP

WIP

 

When I am enthusiastic about quilting I am making things

 which I dislike the next morning and so.....
I was unpicking today in the first wonderful hours after breakfast

You see the left upper square on the way to be cleaned of the unpicked  threads

Already clearer

The threads are gone. I will do the other square, too,
I don't like the disorder
 

A quilted flower

I will leave this little square as it is

WOYWW 193 - some quilting lines

There isn't really anything new on my desk. But I will show what I am working at when I feel like it.

The quilt I started months ago .
I made already free-hand quilting lines following the design of the batik.
The little red squares are embellished with spirals.

I hope that enthusiasm will come back. It will take me another few hours
I don't really like to make the final jobs at a quilt, the binding and the tunnel.
For the moment I have got a good but annoying excuse:
My sewing machine - the good piece, the gold piece
is under repair. What an unusual  empty space on my desk!

Meanwhile I am noting recipes which I read in a baking book today at the bookstore
where we have our coffee.
I certainly have 10 m of cooking books but the newest recipes are always better :))