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the modern crest

January 22, 2015small projects31 Comments

Happy New Year, friends! I’m running super late on this as well as everything that’s sewing related at the moment. Life and school is keeping me incredibly busy and sewing time has taken the back seat for now.

The mini quilt for the Schnitzel & Boo swap was due last week. I put this together in the late hours of a couple of evenings and it was an awesome way to wind down and close the day. I have never sewn something so twee and little as these two inch quarter square triangles. It’s not perfect but it came out quite similar to what I imagined. I made some slight changes to the finishing touches and added pom poms instead of tassels. I hope this will be a little more low maintanance for the lovely person receiving this.

I’m in LOVE with the chambray mixed with the fresh, light colours, espescially the mustard. I think I will have to make another quilt using this fabric combo. For the backing I used a sweet IKEA rosali fabric and the one untrimmed block I had left from piecing the top.

This was my original idea from a few months back, if you want to compare it with the final result.

this post is linked up with Thank God It's Finished Friday 
at From Bolt To Beauty, Finish it Up Friday at crazymomquilts,
Monday Makers at Aylin Nilya and Quilt it Out and Sew Cute 
Tuesday at Blossom Heart Quilts.

‘ice needles’ table runner

December 15, 2014small projects, tutorial16 Comments

I’m so happy to finally share the wintery project I finished in September with you – pretty unusual for a last-minute kind of girl like me.

I was approached by the German Patchwork Guild to create a table runner, using Modern Handcraft‘s modern hexies method for their Christmas issue. The magazine came out over the weekend and it was pretty neat to see my first published project in print!

My idea was to create a winter themed quilt rather than a Christmas-y one, so I could leave it out for the entire season. This also leaves you all more time to recreate it, if this is what you want to do =)

If you want to make your own ‘ice needles’ I highly recommend checking out the modern hexies method. My runner finishes at 14” x 45”. I have a template for 1” hexies you can download here.

Some of my favourite photos didn’t make the cut for the article, so I’m sharing them exclusively with you!

Even though I took these pics over two months ago the weather isn’t much different right now in Germany. After going an entire winter without a single snow day last year I was hoping 2014 would make up for it. No snow yet but I’m not giving up hope – White Christmas, I’m looking at you!!
Until then I’m petting my fabric snowflakes and keep being delusional ;-)

I’m thankful for being given the opportunity to getting my word out there by publishing this project. This guild is pretty focused on traditional quilters, so I feel especially honoured to being asked to contribute to their magazine.

What are you, as a quilter, proud of in 2014?

this post is linked up with Monday Makers at Aylin Nilya and 
Quilt it Out, Anything Goes Monday at Babco Unlimited, 
The Caffeinated Crafters at Let's Eat Grandpa, Fabric Tuesday
at Quilt Story and Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts.

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easy sewing Christmas gifts

December 7, 2014round-up, small projects12 Comments

We’re one week into December, about time to think about Christmas gifts!
I love to gift handmade items and have completed a few small (mostly quilted) projects this year, which would make great presents for the holidays.

Here’s my little round-up, maybe something strikes your fancy!

All of these projects could definitely be finished before Christmas, most of them only take a couple of hours to finish.

If you want to keep up to date with my blog and the things I sew, simply start to follow me on bloglovin’ =)

Happy sewing during the festive season ♥

this post is linked up with Anything Goes Monday 
at Stitch by Stitch, Monday Makers at Aylin Nilya and
Quilt it out, The Caffeinated Crafters at Let's Eat Grandpa
and Sew Cute Tuesday at Blossom Heart Quilts and 
Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts.

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make your own sewing tags – Tuesday Tip

December 2, 2014tutorial7 Comments

Want to have your own personalized sewing tags in a smaller quantity and don’t know how to approach it? This was me a while ago and then I figured out a way to do it!

Check out my Tuesday Tip over at The Cozy Pumpkin, where this fun and educating series is hosted! I walk you through from layout to sewing the tags in.

Spoiler: it’s pretty easy and only costs 0.2$ a piece!

this post is linked up with the caffinated crafters, TGIFF at 
Quokka Quilts, Needle and Thread Thrusday at 
My Quilt Infatuation, Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts

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