Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Grüner Teppich für Afghanistan:


Grüne Quadrate werden als Gemeinschaftsarbeit zu einem ständig wachsenden Teppich zusammen genäht, der symbolisch für das afghanische Volk auf größeren Veranstaltungen aufgerollt und ausgelegt wird. Dies ist eine Aktion der DAI - deutsch-afghanische Initiative http://www.deutsch-afghanische-initiative.de, organisiert von Pascale Goldenberg und Gudrun Seng. Genaueres ist hier nachzulesen:http://www.faranto.de/Data/Teppich.pdf

Hier ist mein Quadrat, das ich für diese Aktion genäht habe.



Stoffschnipsel und andere Reste mit Hilfe von Avalon- wasserlösliches Vlies- miteinander verbunden. Bestickt und diverse Teile aufgenäht, wie Knöpfe, Perlen, Pailetten, Sizoflorblätter...

Friday, November 17, 2006


Habe mit der Buchseite für Maria begonnen zum Thema "Wasser". Dargestellt ist ein Wasserfall. Zur Technik: bemaltes Vliesofix auf selbstgefärbtem Baumwollstoff. Der Wasserfall wurde auf ein Stück Baumwollstoff mit Acrylfarben gemalt. Alles ist maschinengequiltet und wird noch bestickt und mit Perlen benäht werden.

I begun to work on the fabric book page for Maria. Her theme is "water". A handpainted fabric with some painted vliesofix ( wonder under) ist the water with reflections on it.The fabric in the middle is a fabric painted with acrylic paint. It stands for a waterfall. I plan to handstich the waterfall with some embroidery floss and with some beads.

Friday, November 10, 2006

I copied this from shelina http://shelinascreations.blogspot.com/2006/10/quilting-meme-revised.html. She created this quilting meme. Everything that is highlighted is something I have done.

Have You Ever?

1. Taken a quilting class
2.Paper pieced
3. Hand quilted
4. Hand pieced
5. Created your own pattern
6. Published a pattern in a magazine or book
7. Gone on a quilting retreat
8. Gone to a quilting convention
9. Met someone who wrote a quilting book
10 combined your quilting with some other craft
11. Done any three dimensional quilting - like fabric origami
12. Made something using Thimbleberries fabric
13. Made something using batiks
14. Dyed your own fabric
15. Made a landscape hanging
16. Made a New York Beauty quilt
17. Made a baby quilt
18 Made a wall hanging
19 Made a journal quilt
20 Submitted your journal quilt for viewing
21 Made a fabric postcard
22 Made a artistic trading card (ATC)
23 Exchanged artistic trading cards
24. Mailed your own postcard
25. Made a lap quilt
26 Made a twin size quilt
27 Made a full size quilt
28 Made a queen size quilt
29 Made a king size quilt
30 Donated a quilt to charity
31 Sent a quilt out to a quilter
32 Thrown away a UFO
33 Given away a UFO
34 Cut up a UFO and made something else with it
35 Ripped fabric instead of cutting it
36 Made a quilt exactly like the pattern, with no changes whatsoever
37 Done any Sashiko
38 Quilted your own quilt
39 Did free motion quilting
40 Put any embroidery or beads on your quilt
41 Given away your quilt to a stranger
42 Swapped fabric
43 swapped blocks
44 participated in a round robin
45 participated in an ostritch round robin
46 kept a journal about your quilting
47 written a letter to someone who made an antique quilt
49 kept a blog about your quilting
50 participated in a gift exchange
51 sent a quilting random act of kindness
52 joined a newsgroup about quilting
53 made a quilt using a pattern from quilterscache
54 joined an online block of the month
55 made a block of the month quilt
56 subscribed to a fabric of the month club
57 bought fabric at an online store
58 bought fabric from ebay
59 own more than one sewing machine
60 have a room dedicated solely to sewing
61 hide a fabric purchase
62 finished making a holiday gift before July
63 spent more than $200 in one quilt shopping trip
64 made a quilt using a book from the library
65 worked with someone else to make a quilt
66. joined a quilt guild
67 become president of a quilt guild
68 taught a quilting class
69 helped someone else get the quilting bug
70 taught a child to sew
71 made a Dear Jane block
72 Made a miniature quilt
73 watch QNN - quilters news network
73 subscribe to a quilting magazine from your own country
74 subscribe to a quilting magazine from another country
75 buy fabric from another country
76 swapped completed quilts with someone else
77 asked for quilting help online
78 gone to a quilt shop to ask for quilting help
79 bought fabric at a local quilt shop
80 traveled more than 100 miles to go to a quilt shop
81 used nontraditional fabric for a quilt - something other than cotton or flannel
82 made a quilt using instructions given to you on a blog
83 make comments on someone's quilting blog
84 meet a quilter in person after only having talked online
85 had a quilting retreat in your home
86 own quilting software
87 made a quilt you designed on your quilting software
88 done any quilt research - history, interviewing quilters, etc.
89 had any quilt related subject published anywhere
90 donated a quilt to a museum
91 bought a quilt from a thrift store
92 made a quilt using fabric from a thrift store
93 made a quilt using photos
94 made a pastel quilt
95 made a quilt using brights
96 made a quilt using ethnic fabric from another country - African, Asian, etc.
97 made a quilt using leftover blocks from other quilts
98 had your quilt in a magazine, newspaper, newsletter, TV, etc.
99. submitted your quilt to a quilt show
100. won any ribbons with your quilts
101 had more finished quilts than UFOs
102 made a quilt using reproduction fabrics
103 took a break from quilting that was longer than a year
104 made money with your quilting
105 had a job in the fabric / quilting industry

Wednesday, November 08, 2006


Hier bin ich wieder! Leider war mein Internet ein paar Tage lahmgelegt. Aber jetzt läuft wieder alles. Inzwischen habe ich eine neue Buchseite gestaltet zum Thema "Afrika". Sie ist für Andrea.
I`m back again! I had a problem with my internet, but now it works.
Meanwhile I did a page for the fabric book swap to the theme of "Afrika". The page is for Andrea.

Und ich bin reich beschenkt worden mit vier super tollen Buchseiten für mein "Flower Power" Stoffbuch.
And I recieved four pages for my book to the theme "flower power". All pages are so wonderfull.
I am so happy with my pages. I think this will be a great book!

This is the page that Rosi did. The flowers are original from

the 70 `s.

Andrea made this powerfull flower power page with the cool car.

The sweet hippie girl is from Ulrike.

And today Mister postman brought me this lovely page from Maria.