Archive for the 'Samplerquilt' Category

Actually sewing

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I love sewing - but this one got a bit tedious. Now I got to cut the seam allowance in half, iron and then sew them back on. I’m making the strips for a celtic knot…

I love fabric - there - I’ve said it!

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I have three 35l containers for fabric - and my goal is to keep it that way. This does not include the fourth container for yarn nor the three smaller containers I have. Of these, one is for ribbons (and wouldn’t you know - there is room for some fabric there as well…), one is […]

Working on the Sampler again

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

When Bente told me she was almost finished with sampler block nr 4 I knew I had to get my things togheter and start working too. We finally got together last night, and I got to start block nr 4. Here you can see three different arrangements - which to choose?
  
(And yes, I have noticed […]

Sampler - block three continued:

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Bente was there today and we got to work on our sampler. Here is some more pictures:
 

Sampler - what am I making?

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Several people have asked me what kind of sampler I’m making. This is the book I’m working from:

Lynne Edwards’ New Sampler Quilt Book: Twenty Techniques for Machine and Hand Patchwork: New Ideas New Methods
A good friend of mine, Bente and I never have time to go to classes, so we decided this was the next […]

Sampler block 3 and some dots

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

I’ve tried to talk myself into starting this block since the beginning of January - but I’ve always had and excuse not to. Fortunatly I’m working on this with a good friend, Bente, so on our get togheter last night I had to start. Yesterday I marked the pieces and cut them out roughly. […]