A little bit of sewing

When I think about the past weekend it felt like I was only sewing.

I was working on so many projects that the weekend passed by so quickly.

I was able to finish some long overdue quilt projects and prepare stuff for my next weekend.

Do you remember this little plus quilt ?!

I planed to turn it into a doll quilt for my wall (in my sewing area) but since I already have a vintage quilt on my wall I turned it into a pillow cover.

Since the mini quilt has unusual pillow size I had to make the pillow foam myself.

It was really easy and I was able to use some left over stuffing from making dolls and soft toys.

I'm very happy that I finally found a good use for this mini quilt. It looks so darling with my plus quilt.

I totally love seeing these together .

In my last post I mentioned that I'm working on some placemats for my SIL.

She will turn 37 this saturday so I had to work quickly.

Her dinning area is mostly black, red and white. Gladly I found some fabrics in my stash wehich goes really nice together.

I used the pillow tuorial from Elisabeth Hartmann.

It's a really nice and easy to follow tutorial.

I quilted each placemat in a different way. I had really fun trying out something new and I have to admit that I start to like free motion quilting.

My quilting is far away from being perfect but at least the stitches look really nice. They are all nearly the same length.

It's really hard to pick a fave but I think I love the "crazy lines"one most.

Mr. artistic told me that he really likes the geometric placemat.

Wavy lines are easy and fun and always turn out really nice.

I'm pretty sure my SIL will like these because I really do love these.

I really need some placemats for myself.

Did I ever mentioned that I still don't have a quilted placemat for myself ?!

Right now I'm working on a few comission orders.

I'm making another cloth doll and a tiny Hoppel to match this one.

I'm also preparing some dolls and tiny Hoppel's for the shop. The Hoppel's will be available as boys (with moustache) and as girls.

I nearly finished all the machine sewing parts and I will take the  Hoppel pieces with me for a long weekend at mr. artistics parents home.

Can you imagine to finish 48 Hoppel arms and legs (turning, stuffing and closing the seams) ?

 I must be crazy !

vintage plus

I can't remember the day when I started to work on the plus quilt.

It must be early may when I ordered some vintage sheets and scraps from Jeni's shop.

(first order)

At that time I didn't know anything about kona solids so I went to my local fabric shop and picked up some coloured cotton fabric.

The quality is nice but not so soft like the kona solids.

(may 2011: first 211 squares)

Gladly a friend of my dad gave me a box with left over fabrics with some lovely solids inside.

I have no idea where they are from or if they are 100 % cotton but I liked the colours.

(june 2011 - lying out the fabrics)

Now 3 month later my first big quilt for myself is done . It's made from vintage sheets, vintage fabrics from my personal collection and some unkown solids.

(mr. artistic hiding behind my quilt - still wearing his sport outfit because we took this pic after jogging)

I'm so proud that I finished this baby. I made lots of mistakes and I learned a lot this time.

1. Order the backing early

(at least 2 month before starting the project because shipping to germany is slow)

2. Buy the right batting.

(I ordered my batting 3 time because I always bought the wrong one)

3. Don't use a cross for the backing if you want to quilt straight lines

(when you are not able to place the backing correctly)

4. Use batting spray.

(I will never use safety pins again. I looove batting spray)

(back of the quilt - made vintage scraps and kona espresso)

I'm so happy that my first quilt is done. Sometimes it really drovse me nuts but I'm glad that I finished it.

I'm a bit sad about the quilting. The stitches really came out nice but I really wanted to quilt straight lines next to the seams.

Sadly I had to change my mind because I wasn't able to place the backing perfect to match the quilt top.

The diagonal lines are nice but I think the plus pattern looks much nicer with straight lines.

Today we have the stupid cold german weather and I can snuggle under my new quilt.

(label for my second quilt)

I ♥♥♥ vintage film

It has been a few weeks since I bought my agfa isolette III.

(vintage film camera agfa isolette III)

This is my third vintage film camera. My first vintage film camera was a Lubitel.

(me ...a long time ago)

I really loved this cam and the pics always turn out so nice. Sadly it's a really heavy cam so I hated it to carry that big cam with me (during my Hong Kong vacation I brought sometime 3 cams on a day trip). I left the cam in Hong Kong with Mo. I'm sure will make a good use out of it.

My second cam was a Lomo Lc-a- Believe it or not but I found the cam in one drawer of my grandparents house while I searched for something.

(lomo lc-a)

Both grandparents agreed to lend me the cam for a while. I had to give cam back already but I'm not sad at all. I don't know why but I wasn't able to take any pretty pics. Only with the colour flash I found a few pics I liked.

(party pics with lomo lc-a and colour flash)

Since I don't own the other two cams anymore I'm down to one vintage cam. I developed my first film a few weeks ago and I have to say that I need to learn more about this cam. Most pics turned out dirty or completly washed out.

(Hildesheim snow day)

(sun refelection)

(winter landscape)

I'm just posting the pics I really like. I hope the weather is getting better till the weekend. I want to bring the cam to my aunts 60 birthday.

(tracks)

(tracks 2)

(tracks 3)

(mr. artistic)

(old factory)

I totally loooooooove vintage film photos. What's about you ?