+A block from Checkers quilt I am getting ready for my Christmas holidays!!! I will be gone for two weeks (yeah!!!), enjoying my family and friends... I will leave you with this weeks progress: On Friday, prepared and during the weekend finished a small brown quilt whose blocks, you can see bellow. I had so much fun piecing those (12 in total), because...
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"Baby it's cold outside"...not only listening to the song (the Rufus Wainwright version) but literally it is cold in Peloponessus...and nobody is buying petroleum for the heater, only wood for their fireplace. Our house is really "windy" and no fireplace is enough to heat it. So we stay by the fireplace and far away from my sewing room. Everyday I transport the essential...
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Still hand-quilting like crazy to try to finish before Christmas, my Dresden quilt (click to read more about it). It has been very pleasing finally basting this quilt and I have been learning a lot about hand-quilting. But I am still a long way to go... The worse thing is that it weighs a ton, so it is more difficult to handle. And...
Great weather today. The winter is not coming to Greece...and I hope it won't come for a bit much longer. I've been pinning a lot lately, and here are some of these weeks favorite antique quilts. Have a nice weekend! Source: quiltstudy.org via Zarkadia on Pinterest Source: blog.shopmartingale.com via Zarkadia on Pinterest Source: augusta-auction.com via Banu on Pinterest Source: pookandpook.com via David on...
I am living currently in my pink period. I really hated that color as a child but now it has come back to haunt me... This is the "Peek" quilt, a gift for my newly born niece Anna...While making it, I really put all my love on this quilt. It is the first time that I 've felt like that and I also...
