Snow white dress

Hello everyone.
How is spring time for you?

There was a first sign of spring in the morning air, an almost warm feeling and the snow is melting. Definitely time for spring. Do you have any Easter-sewing going on?

My Allietare quilt was paused last weekend, because I was focused on a special sewing task commissioned by my darling daughter and her upcoming birthday.

I quite like the way it turned out, and I had learned from previous dresses, that to make the arms "puff" really nicely, one has to use absolutely enormous amounts of fabric!

No pattern, just measured and eyeballed. (The dress actually IS symmetrical, it just lays down a bit crooked)

Allietare Clue 5

Yes, yes, yes!

This weekend, was wonderful, no work to do and time to relax and sew. And the mood was elevated even further by my good friend coming by and we spend the whole saturday afternoon sewing, drinking tea, and chatting while the kids where playing together. I don't know how it could get any better. And with the help of this extra sewing time, I just flew through clue 5.

(I even assembled 4 gold blogs, to see how they will fit and look.)

How does a perfect sewing afternoon for you look like?

A quilt top for my parents

This is a christmas present for my parents a couple of years ago (2012).
I started the quilt as a railway fence lapquilt, in 2009. It laid unfinished in the closet, something was missing. And it was too small.
I searched for a nice border, but I had also run out of fabric. And the borders should fit to my parent's style. During that summer's holidays at home, a detail in the tiling of the floor caught my eyes:

 Here is a detail of the corner tile:

And here a close-up on the side borders:

I measured the size of the railway fence top, and calculated a reasonable size for each unit. Then I drew a cardbard template and reproduced the pattern on two-sided adhesive interface and ironed on the fabric. And then cutting. A lot of cutting.And then a LOT of appliqué.

This picture shows the finished top, and I quite like how it came out. It was quilted with stitch in the ditch on the center part and echo quilting in the border. It was bound witht he same dark green fabric as was used in the inner border.

The quilt found a permanent place on my parent's sofa and it fits exquisitely into the style of the house.

Now I feel I want to do some appliqué. What's udner your needle?

Working through Allietare Clue 5

Sping is coming, the sun starts to shine through the window, and I can see the snow glistering in the sun through the window in my sewing room.
The success of finishing Clue 4 motivated me to keep on going and get the half-square triangles out and sewing. Sorting a couple of patches together, intercepted by a leader and ender.

Sewing a looooooong line.

And stacked in piles of ten. Waiting to be ironed.

Allietare clue 4 - finally done

This took a while....
But I am comforted by the knowledge that others struggled with clue 4, too. Maybe not quite as long, but still.

 Here are all 30 sets of four piled together. I can't believe I am done with these.

Some ended up a bit wonky, I hope they fit well in the quilt.
In the background, I immediately pulled out the fabric for clue 5. I am positive things will come along better now.

On the bright side. I got LOTS done on my leaders and enders project (which is just 2'' squares of all my scraps sewn together to 4x4 patches).

 My basket with my leaders and enders project, 4x1 strips, some 4x2 patches on the left side.
Below, watching Netflix and ironing the 4x1 strips. so bright and cheery, I am totally in love with these scraps. A journey through all my past quilts.

Allietare link up 3!

Hi all

Finally I caught up with the previous clues, I was so far behind due to work load...
So yesterday I took the evening "off" other duties and concentrated on the important things in life = Quilting!

So proof of clue 2 done:

And on to cutting for clue 3: the yellows and the whole bunch.

 More cutting of the neutrals:














Kitty is helping with the sewing of the strips. "Not this one yet"

To get back to the link up at Quiltville, click HERE.

You find me at my sewing maschine.

Allietare link up!

This is the second link-up for the second week in Bonnie Hunters "Allietare" Mystery Quilt, for instructions, click HERE.

For re-direction to the link up, click HERE.

This weekend I had to do some extra work, So I am a bit behind the schedule. All cut and some sewn, but I will continue soon.

Hence, today only a glance of my little helper. Tomorrow more sewing!

And some more cat pictures, though a bit older, this fluffy kitty has passed away three weeks ago.

Looks like he accepted my quilt! We miss you, buddy!