Happy fabric and notions shopping

Once at home it is always a pleasure to look at all the quilty souvenirs I bring back. Be it from scale up quilt fabric shops, be it from thrift stores.

In the meantime everything has found its place and I'm back at the sewing machine!

Happy Birthday Switzerland

Plum feast !

It's currently hard to make time to sew! But I don't really mind. There is a time for sewing and then there are other times.

Our neighbors have invited us to help ourselves with their over boarding plum tree. The plums are gorgeous, really sweet and juicy. In other words just yummy! So I'm cooking jam and preparing portions to go into the freezer for future plum pies.
And then there is still my parent's vegetable garden I can take benefit from while they are on vacation. There is a lot going on in my kitchen these days.

Sewing studio has to wait. Maybe even some more as a longer trip is also on the horizon.
Hope you are enjoying your summer too!

Winter Morning in Basel

For a change I'm offering a few pics taken during my morning run today. Along the river Rhine in Basel, Switzerland.

New Fabric

Just have to share these lovely fabrics received for Christmas by my darling sister!
Those birds!!

Sketching

Sometimes I just have to sketch some ideas. If only to get them out of my head and make room for other things. This has been such a moment.

This another.

Back from vacation

Hey there! I'm back from a wonderful vacation including family reunion and special birthday celebrations. Hope you have been well. Unfortunately, I had a little accident which is preventing me from sitting at my new sewing desk right now. Hopefully I'll get to it sometime next week. Meanwhile I have other things to share.

While vacationing at Lido Adriano, Italy

at the beach before sunrise

we also visited the Basilica San Vitale in Ravenna. The basilica is enlisted in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

It's been 15 years since my last visit there. At that time patchwork and quilting was completely unknown to me! I remember that I was totally enthusiastic about the incredibly masterpieces of mosaic art. This time though the flooring captured my most attention and amazed me to no end. No need for many words of explanation here, quilters will understand immediately. Others may just marvel at this incredible craftsmanship.

Lots of inspiration for some quilt patterns, especially some epp, right?

Of course there can't be any trip to Italy without a proper Gelato!!

So this concludes the very short and selective summary of my vacation. No wait! I also finally had the opportunity to gift two quilts I made earlier this year and that I kept secret here. Which brings me back to the topic of quilting. So while pain in my wrist is preventing me from sewing, I can at least share what I made earlier. Stay tuned if you care to see them.

New desk !

Great things just happened in my studio. See by yourself. Almost too bad I'm leaving for a vacation.
Thank you so much to family members who helped to make this possible.
I'm already looking forward to the moment I can sit down and get some serious sewing going.


Before

After!

Stay safe and well, see you in August!

Spring

Welcome !

Happy New Year !

Viel Glück   -   Good luck   -   Buona fortuna

Wishing you a happy, healthy, and creative 2016!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas   -    Frohe Weihnachten   -    Buon Natale

or Happy Holidays and

Thank you   -   Danke  -   Grazie

for reading my Blog.

Cathe // 2

See previous post.

Once I had settled on the final layout I had to come up with a numbering system in order to safely bring everything back to my sewing machine. Plus I needed to be very careful not to mix up the orientation of the single blocks within the rows.

Sewing the rows wasn't too big a challenge. I only had to unpick once due to lack of concentration.

I briefly thought about some straight line quilting but soon decided I wanted to go romantic and flowery. I did various sketches on paper until I liked something and felt confident I could do it.

My first free motion quilting of some kind of flowers! No pre-marking, just improvising!

Decisions, decisions! Luckily no second thoughts about my choices for the binding. And also happy I still had the time for sewing it to the back by hand. Hand sewing the binding is soooooo meditative.

Maybe I should start thinking about new labels? Maybe also a new name for the blog?

Come back tomorrow to see pictures of the finished quilt!

Back - Zurück - Ritornata

I'm finally back from a long trip but before I can start some serious sewing in my studio I want to catch up on some baking for the man in my life.

Ich bin endlich zurück von einer langen Reise. Bevor ich mich aber wieder ernsthaftem Nähen widmen kann, will ich etwas Backen nachholen für meinen Liebsten.

Sono finalmente tornata da un lungo viaggio. Prima di tornare a dedicarmi al cucito voglio ricuperare un poco con il viziare l'uomo della mia vita.

Greetings - Grüsse - Saluti

While still on break from blogging here's a quick hello from Panama.

Zwischenzeitlich ein kleiner Gruss aus Panama.

Nel frattempo un piccolo saluto da Panama.

Pause

I'm going to take a break from blogging for a few weeks. I'm leaving you with some fall impressions and some mouth-watering home made bread images. You can still keep in touch through my Instagram feed if you like. Link in the sidebar.

Ich muss für einige Wochen mit dem Bloggen pausieren. Hier sind noch ein paar Herbstimpressionen und Fotos von sehr leckerem selbst gebackenem Brot. Wenn ihr wollt, könnt ihr über Instagram im Kontakt bleiben. Link rechts auf dieser Seite.

Prendo una pausa dal blog di alcune settimane. Vi lascio con delle impressioni autunnali e con delle foto di un buonissimo pane fatto in casa. Se volete potete seguirmi su Instagram. Link al lato destro su questa pagina.