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Rainy days in Summer

Posted on July 24, 2011 by admin

It has been raining almost all July, and last night temperatures dropped so much, that it really felt if Winter has decided to return early this year. You might think that rainy days in Summer are the perfect days for quilters. But sometimes my work is too busy and I am not able to focus on my UFO’s or start a new project, because there is work to finish that I brought home from the office. To avoid loosing the quilting bug (which seems to be impossible, once contaminated), I like to visit blogs of other quilters. The American Quilter Society can be followed on Facebook there they announce their ‘blog-of-the-week’ winner. This week Julie Letvin’s http://www.quiltjewelry.blogspot.com/ is the lucky winner. I visited her blog and was so surprised with what I saw. She makes the most beautiful miniature (and I really mean ‘miniature’, with a size of 1-2″!) patchwork pendants and pins. I was even more surprised that she decided to give away some of her pieces. It was not difficult for me to choose from her stash (the 1 1/2″ pineapple heart in pink, purple an cream batiks). To give you an idea I have copied this picture from Julie’s blog.

Reading other quilters blogs gives inspiration for new ideas. But there’s more blogs that I like: and one I particularly like to read is http://momentswithmotherculture.blogspot.com/. I met Karen and her husband at breakfast, when Jack and I were in Flemington on our trip from Pittsburgh to New York. We stayed in the Manor House on Main street, a very nice B&B in an old Victorian house. Karen’s posts are so nice to read, about the daily things in her life, (often about her knitting or embroidery projects), but always with a lesson or advice in a very pleasant way.
If you are interested in our trips, you can visit our travel blog http://tripsandtravel.netau.net/. Our next trip will head ‘down under’ next Spring: yesterday we picked up some information at the local travel agency, so we can start preparing. And preparing a trip is one of the nicest things to do (besides quilting, but that’s obvious!). Enjoy the rainy days in Summer!

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Sow and Harvest

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin
The Harvest Quilt is finished and now hanging in our living room. As mentioned before, I bought this fabric during our last trip to the USA in October 2010 in Intercourse (PA) in  Zook’s Fabric Store (http://zandsfabrics.com/). The quilt brings back the memories of Autumn in Pennsylvania, the colors of Indian Summer and the lovely time we spent with our friends in Pittsburgh, and in the B&B’s we visited in Addison, Hummelstown and Flemington.

This project was finished on the 22nd birthday of my youngest daughter. Birthdays of their children bring mothers back to the very day of their delivery: Leonore was born 2 months early, after I had spend 3 months in the hospital. Although she was so small, she did very well from the beginning:the pediatrician in charge wrote in her files: lively, lovely, smart. And she has proven to be all of it: she is 4th year medicine student, starting her intern in May! Time to celebrate!

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Colors of Indian Summer

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin

After a 3 weeks stay in the USA we are back home again. The weather was beautiful, the company even better, and the pictures will remind us of another unforgettable trip.  Not only did I bring back a collection of fabrics, I also left something behind in the States: a friendship quilt for our friends in Pittsburgh on the occasion of there new home, where we had a very pleasant stay. 

The colors of Pennsylvania Fall are magnificent, with a broad scale from bright red, corn yellow to rusty brown. I learned from a tourist info flyer that “Pennsylvania has 127 varieties of trees and every one turns a completely different shade in the fall.” I believe we saw them all during our trip! And they are a true inspiration for more quilts.

Shopping for fabric will always be one of my favorite things; my friend Kathy knows that. Since we did not have the opportunity to go together this year, she brought me a package with fat quarters in ‘American Stars and Stripes’ style.
 

Besides visits to the City Quilter in New York, and the always necessary stop at a Joann Fabric store (this time in Pittsburgh), we planned to visit some shops in the heart of Dutch Pennsylvania. These shops have possibly the largest variety of fabric I have ever seen; the Zook’s shop in Intercourse claim to have 20.000 bolts in stock! Some people were wondering whether I would make it in time for our flight back ;-).

The almost confounding quantity of material, didn’t it make any easier to come to a choice…but I think I pretty well succeeded to buy just what I needed! Next time I might consider to check another bag….

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