New Beginnings Mini Quilt Swap

Couple days ago I thought about that I havent participated a swap at quiltinggallery since quite a while. I might have missed them cuz I havent stopped by regularly - but on accident I stumpled over the button somewhere in blogland. Yaaayyyy  - I´m really looking forward to make a new mini for a participant of this swap. If you are interested too - click the button below

FNSI January - Results

All day I was looking forward to disappear into my sewing room and I managed it to do it quite early.

My plans were to sew on the binding on my X-mas tree skirt

and to put the rows from birthday-block-swap  from 2009 together (my current ufo I´m working on)

I was hoping to get quite some work done this evening

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binding got sewed on via machine on the front

I need to sew on the binding in the circle also - but first I need to hand stitch down the edge binding on the backside - this will happen the next few days

I also started to sew some more red-white-red strips together 

to finish the rows of my patriotic quilt. The blocks are from a swap from 2009

For myself - I think I made a good progress on my projects.

FNSI January

And her we go - its about time for the FNSI - the first sew-in in 2012.

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I´m looking so forward to this friday and hopefully I will get some sewing done!

Loop/Scarf

I was shopping for fleece some weeks ago to make those loops/scarfs I´ve seen in some forums. This weekend I finally made some

here is the loop

and this is the the scarf I can turn into a loop also because I added KAMsnaps (hoorrayyy the first time - only have them since July 2011)

I showed them to my Mom - well she walked away with this one ;-)

A Jinxed Evening

It was one of those days were I should´ve stayed in bed. After a crazy day I was so looking forward to spent some time in my sewing room. I wanted to start quilting my x-mas tree skirt - in a good mood I went upstairs towards my sewing room

I practise a bit free motion quilting - tried to follow the stencil - ummph - I need to practise more - but

it looked alright on the backside

the thread ripped and got stucked and machine made a funny noise- yikes - oh please - no bigger damage again!!!

 So I went to the basement to get some of my other "toys"

I´ve loosen some screws and took the plastic cover away

it took me quite some while until I had this offender out - oh how I love those days!!!

After I put the machine back together (oh lucky me - I didnt had any leftover parts) - I did some test-sewing - yay me... machine worked.

Meanwhile it was 10 pm when I finally started quilting but I have finished it.

Top For Christmas Tree Skirt Is Done

Normally I have a skirt for my Christmas tree but it was made out of a stiffer tissue paper material (cellulose?). It was blue to fit with my tree and I had it for a couple of years until now.......... Rocco and Moritz shreddered it. I only had big, small and itsy-bitsy tiny pieces of it left after the season. So I need a new tree-skirt and I better start making it now so the chances would be better to have it done by next X-mas season.

Its made after a tut I found in the www.

Woohooo, I´m so looking forward to layer and start quilting it.

First Finish In 2012

I´ve been working on this quilt since 2008. I got the blocks out of a swap from QLR my preferences were rainbow-colors. I started quilting the center part and then I put it aside to work on lot of other quilts. I think it was November when I started quilting again, sewing in threads and put on the binding..... well didn´t managed it to get it done in 2011 but this week I made the last stitch on sewing down the binding - well got start for 2012 with finishing an UFO

done sewing in the threads

a colorful quilt - perfect for a grey winter day

Its also made in memory of Merry Bee a member of QLR - she passed away the year we swapped the blocks. I´ve never met her in person but we had some nice email contact were we chat about her time in Germany.