And the winner is

Wow, what a wonderful response to my give away. 

And the winning comment is:

 Rie said...

Love blogland, it's like your own universal bookclub!

 Congratulations Rie; I will get in touch with you via email to get your address.

Have a great weekend.

Vreni x

It's that time again!!!

That's right, it's SMS Giveaway Day

 and I'm giving away this book:

I've only recently got a copy for myself and love it. So if you would like one too, please leave a comment (make sure I have a way to contact you) before the 25th of May. I will choose a winner on the 26th of May. If you happen to be a follower, you get to leave a second comment.

Good Luck!

                                                     

 Click here to see many more terrific Give Aways!

Cheers

Vreni

I like it, I hope you do too!

Finally, this top is now also together, although the blocks and the sashing have been finished and waiting for my attention for a while. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I am not very keen on this particular part of quilt making. Probably because I'm not very good at it and I find it tedious as well as boring to sew those long seams with all the points which have to meet.  I usually break the task up over a few days to make it more bearable (pathetic, I know).  But now it is together and I'm pleased with it. I think I will hand quilt it using some colourful pearl cotton. 

Cheers
Vreni x

The top is finished, or is it?

Is this top finished? It doesn't look like it, does it? The plan was to quilt it then put a red binding on. But now seeing it together, I think it does need a border. I have just about enough of the red and white dotted fabric left for a narrow border. I also have loads of already prepared hexagons, so I think I will use them like this:

Or what about this?

In any case, the top definitely isn't finished. But hopefully it won't take me another two years to get there.


Vreni

Blogger's BOM April

This month the designer is Mrs. Schmenkman 

All the fabrics I've used so far are from my own stash and the red and white fabrics are Westfalen fabrics from Germany. Funny enough I bought them years ago in Japan at the Tokyo at the International Quilt Festival and have been saving them for something special.  

At the same time, I also bought these ribbons. I would like to somehow use them in the quilt, but I have no idea how. Any suggestions?

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Vreni x

Box Making Workshop

Yesterday I taught a box making work shop for one of my craft groups. Since we moved back to Singapore, I haven't done many workshops, mostly because I was a bit tired of them.  In Shanghai I used to do at least one, sometimes up to three full day workshops a week. At the moment I'm enjoying more time to do my own thing, especially quilting. But I really enjoyed teaching this very enthusiastic group. 

Busy ladies at work.

The end results. Everybody was happy with their day's work. 

One of the ladies came with her fabric embroidered (on her Bernina 830). Isn't it gorgeous? 

Cheers

Vreni x

Broken Heart

Sorry for the dramatic head line. It's just what came to my mind looking at the bee block I made for the Around the World Quilting Bee. Jackie asked for a single red heart and I hope she likes my take on a "single red heart".

I raw edge appliqued the hearts onto the background and for good measure added a layer of batting to the back. After the applique was done I then very carefully cut the excess batting away, which results in a sort of Trapunto effect. 

Cheers

Vreni x