Therese with two babies
She will finish her mini crayon quilt on her new sewing machine.
Happy owner of the Aurora 440 QE. While Therese was using her machine she was talking to her but the machine did not respond.
Susan behind her wonderful hand quilting, which will eventually, turn up a table runner. She individually cut them, pieced them, far too much work for me.
Yesterday, I played an instruction CD on my computer and I was watching and using the machine same time step by step. I showed to the ladies exactly same way again today.
Therese sat outside for a while stitching her "wonky" quilt under the blue sky. Before that she showed us her two quilts. Probably, she will give them to her cousins. Believe me, she has 19 of them and I do not really know for how many of them she made quilts. Lucky them to have such a nice aunt. In the second half of the day, Therese received her "new baby", but she hasn't had time to play with it yet.
Maureen and Anne-Marie cut their Bento Boxes all day long. When Maureen arrived in the morning with four or five big heavy bags, it looked like she was moving house. She still had not managed to open some of her bags by the time she went home.
For the first and probably last time in my life I sat behind a sewing machine worth more than €5000 and tried to do free motion quilting. Of course, my turn came only after Quilt Cave lady. It was fantastic!
For most of the day I just ran up and down, down and up, up and down our stairs, again and again. Hopefully, I lost a couple of hundred grams, which will help me to regain my pre-pregnancy figure. If I lost them I will be very happy to do it again as much as a Duracell Bunny!
Ironically, I do not own any Bernina machine!
Can this inspire a quilt or was it perhaps inspired by a quilt?
By Ursula Ritter
This is a very simple but very nice angel, all in country colours. I bought this kit in Holland. When I visit Holland I normally buy my craft kit in a same shop, now I am going to make a square quilt where I bought my Angel. Before making the square quilt I have to clean a little bit my house.
Have a nice rainy Sunday. It's raining in Lisboa.
It seems that my quilt colours are always very bright; anyway, this is a baby quilt. I do not know how much she will manage to sleep on it but I certainly know that she likes colours.
For the back of the quilt I used some of my leftovers, again in many bright colours. I do not know when I will make the label yet. Maybe two or three years later! Here is the happy owner.
By Javhlan
We all found a place to sit and raise a small glass of sparkling wine (oooooops ..... from Germany........) to the good success and great start in this lovely Portuguese garden and environment. We talked a little bit about the name of the new place. And we will decide later.
Then, like children in the kindergarten, students followed Garen's instruction to draw as she gave a lesson on how to make a small quilt from a painting.
It is a pity that my kids are already too big for this, but Jackie's and Arabella's children still have all the chances!
Vicki receiving her blocks at her leaving party.
Then one day, it hit my very slow brain that these would be a great set to use with your blocks.
It is actually further along that this but I don’t have any more recent pictures. I am excited about it. I have had more than one ‘cry’ while working it though thinking of all of you. It will hang on the wall in my quilt studio when complete….more pictures then. It has been quite a puzzle putting it all together since no 2 blocks were the same size. (Hum…was that intentional just to make me work hard???)
It is very good to be back with the kids and grandkids. Here’s our whole motley crew just a couple months ago…
I hope that we can get over there sometime in the next year. I need to see all of you and soak in the sun.vmiles@vlminternational.comKisses,
