W.i.P. - Yoshi 1.0

My appointment today went just swell. Thanks so much for keeping your fingers crossed! Think of me again on Thursday between 9am and 1pm UTC+1? Ta.

As I've got a moment to breathe before returning to my notes for Thursday, I thought I'd let you know of my inspiration for the Yoshi quilt. Follow the links to see the original sources.

I aim for a monochrome sky to make the background less busy but will otherwise stick with the pattern. Though I think I'll add another row of pixels to each side. I want the quilt to be really big and wide as M is nearly 2 metres tall and he deserves something that he can properly fit under.

Yoshi

I'm pretty sure that I should have enough fabric to add an egg to the back of the quilt, too. That'll be a cute addition.

Yoshi egg

I think it's time for an updated WIP list!

Finishes since the Move - 2
Viking Baby quilt
Chair cushions for my sister

Ongoing Projects - 4
Yoshi quilt - fabrix ready to be cut up and sewn together
EPP hexies - 32 finished flowers + tons basted
Polaroid blocks Tote - will it ever get made?
EPP parallelograms/stars

Planning Stage - 1
Wedding Anniversary quilt

Wow, it's certainly shrunk a lot. What a pleasant feeling! I already know of a few projects which will enter the stage soon. Stay tuned.

Happy sewing!

Vikings 4.0 - Saying Goodbye (and Hello)

Here’s the promised Viking quilt picture post.

Last time you saw it it looked something like this.

Now, without a gorgeous little baby boy on it, it looks like this.

I badly want to show you the hand quilted details, alas, my camera and the lighting were really bad, so I can only hope that you can make them out properly in the pictures. (I think I'll wish for a new camera for Christmas so you won't have to suffer awful pictures for much longer!)

First, wavy lines in the corners.

Looks much more interesting than before, don't you think?

My good friend Perlendiva suggested that I quilt shields on the squares and echo the waves in the Viking parade print on the orange border. I decided against the waves because I didn’t want to clutter the quilt too much but definitely fell for the shields and quilted four different ones.

Posting the quilt to Finland proved such an ambiguous moment! On the one hand, I was incredibly excited and happy, I love gifting things that took a lot of time and thought. On the other hand, it was tough to part with it. I’d grown so accustomed to seeing it and I feel that it’s my best quilt up to date. To be honest, I still miss it a tiny bit! The hand quilting only made it all the more precious to me. Then again, I know it's being treasured. I can't believe the little one is already 5 weeks old.

Due to time constraints I won’t be gifting handmade this year, but I’m all the more happy to finally start working on my quasi-brother-in-law’s pixelated Yoshi quilt next week. It’ll keep my rotary cutter and sewing machine busy! 

I'm back in Berlin until Thursday evening, having two important appointments. Would you keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow morning between 10 and 11am UTC+1? Cheers.

Have a great week, everybody! 

See the full journey here
Part 1

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The Odyssey Continues

So we're still offline (I'm in a copy shop right now because there's things I have to get done). It's quite the odyssey except it's more like David against Goliath and we're neither of them. It's the company we'd like to be with against a company that control most of the lines. We're most likely ending up with them, for double the amount of money and more, after all, because this situation is unbearable. Does my head in.

Anyway, to cheer everybody up, here's a look at yardage and yardage of fabric for my next project which I'll start in two weeks' time and will try to accomplish in roughly a working week.

The biiig Yoshi quilt will finally be happening. Keep your fingers crossed that I'll get everything machine-related done between the 16th in the morning and the 20th in the evening. That's when we'll leave for Berlin to be with our families and catch up with our friends over Christmas and New Year's. The quilt is a gift that has to be in Berlin for an early January birthday and I'd like to save the postage. Further, I don't know yet when we'll return to Bavaria exactly so I really only have those five days for all the major work. Knock on wood.

As the extended Christmas stay will prove another sewing machine-less time I need to come up with things to do by the tree. I might take along my hexies and some knitting. Not quite sure yet.

I should be back next Monday with the long anticipated picture post about the Viking quilt. Til then - happy sewing!