12 blocks done

12 blocks done, originally uploaded by crafting with loove.

I have so much fun working on this project.
I think I will make 16 blocks in total and sash it with white kona & different coloured cornerstones.

Right now I'm quilting my plus quilt and hopefully the quilting will be done tonight.

I made a list for future quilts and I have 12 on my list right now. I will have some busy quilting months ;)

Which batting do you use ???

Which batting do you use ???, originally uploaded by crafting with loove.

I bought some cheap polyester batting from my local fabric shop last week for the plus quilt.

I tryed to quilt the plus quilt with the poly batting but I failed .

Is it because of the fluffy batting or my terrible quilting skills ?

8 blocks

8 blocks, originally uploaded by crafting with loove.

My blocks for the blocks Summer Sampler Series Quilt Along are growing quick.
 

I made 3 extra blocks yesterday.
I think working on these blocks really improve my patchwork skills & it's super fun too.

I will work on the next block for the summer sampler quilt along and take a little break to work on other patchwork projects.

Feeling like a princess

Have you ever felt like a princess ?

(painting in Rammenau)

While I was on vacation in June I had the chance to visit the baroque castle Rammenau.

The castle is located in saxony in the east of germany.

(entry baroque castle Rammenau)

In 1717 a chamberlain bought the manor and started to turn it into a baroque castle in 1721.

It took several years to finish it and the owner changed very often during that time.

(my dad in the front of the castle)

In the 20th century  people started to use the castle in different ways.

After the first world war it was turned into a military hospital.

(back of the castle - picture taken from the park)

After the second world war the russians assigned to the castle.

In the 50ies the castle was used as a studio by the universaty of Art Dresden.

(in the park)

In the past years they rebuilt most of the castle, the park and the other buildings. They turned it into a museum

My dad and I had an awesome time strolling around and exploring the little castle. We were lucky to be the only visitors at that time because it was a weekday and most people were working.

(speachless)

My dad purchased a photography permission so we were allowed to take pictures everywhere in the castle.

(strolling around)

I really wished that I brought a dress for the visit. I told my dad that we need to go there again and that I plan to wear a princess dress ;D

(glowing)

Sadly we had to leave after one hour because of an invitation by a school friend of my dad.

(waiting for my dad)

Moustache Hoppel's

When I bought my sewing machine in 2006 I quickly fall in love with toy making.

In the past years I created lots of little plush critters and my head is still filled with new ideas.

Due to lack of time I'm slowly making new ones.

Do you remember this little Hoppel ?

In honour of him I planed a little moustache Hoppel collection.

(Hoppel moustache collection)

I made only 4 of them so it's a very small collection.

Instead of the embroidered roman numerals I added a little moustache on the back.

(embroidered moustaches on the back)

You can find the little Hoppel's in my shop.

I looooooove flickr peeps

I started my flickr acount in april 2006.

Back then I was 24 years old.

I just started my first real job after getting my degree as social education worker and I bought my first sewing machine.

I started taking photos with a sony cyber shot. It was a really big diggy cam which took horrible pics.

One of my first pictures on flickr was our office canary.

In the past years I changed my cam as well as my interests.

I started taking pictures of handmade human clothes I did by myself,  made toys and patchwork bags, changed to dolly world and made tons clothes for them and since a year I'm back to roots.

My love for everything patchwork is back and I'm spending lots of time reading patchwork blogs, looking for instructions or practise on my sewing machine.

In all these years Flickr was always a great place to meet awesome people who share my interessts since I life in a country where crafty people are still rare.

Due to that reason it's always hard to find high quality fabrics and other sewing stuff for a good price.

I'm always buying online and sometimes it's really frustrating especially when you have to wait 1 1/2 month for fabric orders (thanks postal service).

The people at Flickr were always helpfull when I was looking for stuff that is hard to get in germany.

They offered help & helped me to get all the stuff I need.

Especially in the past few weeks (when I discovered my love for patchwork again) people spoilt me with awesome patchwork stuff.

Johanna is one of these lovely flickr friends. Johanna does makes the cuttest dolls ever. They are so cool and unique and I'm hoping to own one of them in the future.

In one of my old posts I was talking about quilt rulers and the fact that I only own one ruler in cm and really needed one with inch scale.

Johanna told me that she has two spare inch quilt rulers which she would like to sent me. FOR FREE.

Doe is another lovely flickr friend. She makes awesome quilts and her work always blows me away. She is the queen of fabrics and always find the coolest stuff.

Doe offered me a spare Kona colour card when I asked for help to find out about the colour of my Kona fat quarter set.

She sent me her spare Kona colour card FOR FREE.

Rebecca and Jo are two other very helpful & lovely flickr friends. When I was searching for the Denyse Schmidt collection that was only sold in the USA and Singapore they went to the fabric shops in their town to pick up tons of fabrics for me.

And there is Amy. I met her at flickr too.

Amy is so creative. Her work is always inspiring and her fabric taste is terrific.

Amy was hosting a give away and I couldn't resist to enter this time.

Normally I'm not on the lucky side when I enter give aways but this time I WON.

Amy made a super adorable house shaped placemat which is to pretty to put a plate on it so I'm putting it on my wall.

But the placemat was not the only thing in the package. Amy filled a cute pink suitcase with lots of love and handmade things.

She made a super adorable strawberry pincushion. How did you know Amy that my pin cushion is old and not in best shape ?! The strawbery pincushion comes with cutest pins I've ever saw.

And there are three wooden spools with thread and cute ribbon & wooden alphabet tags

The package contains a big bundle of fabrics which make me swoon.

Amy totally knows my taste for fabrics and sends a super big bundle of the moooooost adorable fabrics ever.

I will have a really hard times to cut in them. I think I will spent a few weeks just admiring them for a while.

I'm very lucky that I "met" (sadly most of them not in real life yet) all these lovely ladies on flickr.

There pics always inspire me and brighten up my day.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart !

33. international evangelic church day in Dresden

Before this month is over it's time to write a little bit about my june vacations.

June was a month of traveling and sadly sickness for me.

I started my trip on june 2th to meet up with my dad & sis at my grandpa's house.

Gladly my grandpa lives near Dresden. It's a wonderfull city in eastern germany.

Dresden was nearly destroyed during the second world war. All the beautiful buildings were gone but in the past 65 years they did an amazing job on rebuilding everything.

I visited Dresden very often in the past years (every year when I was on holidays at my grandparents home) but this year was definetly a special experience.

Every 2 years there is a evangelic church day in germany. Gladly this year it was Dresden's turn.

The church day started on the 1st of june till the june 5th.

(me with my church day scarf)

I have to admit that I wasn't raised religious. Me and my family rarely went to church only for christmas or for wedding. I wasn't even christened but seeing all these people celebrating together was amazing.

I've never been to such a great event where so many different people seemed so happy.

("free high five" seems to be the new "free hug")

They came from all over the world to celebrate , seeing concerts or just chat about god.

Even when you are not religious you could feel the fantastic vibe especially when you bought the special church scarf ;)

(my sis and her scarf...and yes she walked around in her bikini ^___^)

The scarfs were sold only by scouts . When my sis and I arrived in Dresden the first thing we did was searching for some scouts to buy our church day scarf. We found out that the scouts sell church day scarfs every time at the international church days in germany. Every church day has a different colour and this year it was a bright green.

As soon as you put the scarf around your neck (or any other place on your body) you felt connected.

(me in front of the church with the famous church day scarf)

But the scarf was not only a way to feel connected to all the other visitors it was great fashion accessory as well.

There were tons of different ways to wear the it.

Some people wear it around their wrist...

(guy with church day scarf)

...some in their hair

(another way to wear the scarf)

(girls with scarfs)

... or you just use it to keep your head  from sunburns since it was extremly hot that day.

(guy trying to hide under his scraf from the sun)

The weather was really amazing that day and it was one of the hottest days this year.

My sis and I spent 5 hours walking around and just enjoying the weather and the people around us.

There were many different groups performing on the street.

(guy from "twelve tribes community")

(twelve tribes guy)

Most of them performed religious songs and stuff like the  Twelve Tribes community but some of them had modern stuff too.

(little boys performing...they were amazing)

While my sis and I enjoyed the free concerts we were lucky to find a place to cool our feet.

Of course there were dozens of people who had the same idea.

(cooling my feet)

At the end of the day my feet burned and I was completly exhausted.
But it was a great experience and I would definetly go to another chrurch day again.