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" Vasa Arbis vårutställning 8.5.2018"   With the kids (still down with the flu but feeling better anyway) and my husband Mikael in tow, I tried to capture photos of as many of the beautiful handcrafted works I could, but I missed a lot of the woodwork pieces and croquis-paintings. My  sewing teacher Carola also wrote about the exhibit , on Instagram :) And she has more photos of the woodwork I wanted to see the different quilts and patchworks most of all, and I got photos of most of them. Myself, I had given six projects to my sewing course teacher to display in the show. At the last show, last fall, I only submitted one, and I thought that this time that it would be okay for me to submit more. Three of the projects were small (two small denim bags and the Fancy Fox mini-quilt) and three were larger (the Blue Roses and Denim quilt, the Fake cathedral windows quilt and  the Cars quilt ) All the works were displayed without any maker names, so I can’t tell you who ma...

Quilt details Name, Recipient, Size, Start/Finished date, Pattern and Fabrics used The I-spy baby quilt I made it for practice on how to make a certain block. 79 x 80 cm (length x height). 26.3 - 7.5.2018. Improvised baby quilt made using practice economy blocks. About the fabrics used: The  blue background fabric  I used for the backing was a second hand store find. I found it the same Saturday the Jeans workshop ended, and it's the same one I used to make the background in the Fake cathedral window quilt . I bound the quilt with the same fabric.  The white background fabric on the front is actually three different white fabrics; the one in the economy blocks is 100% cotton white (A100) Perla fabric scraps from Eurokangas (scraps in that they were leftovers from the color blocks quilts), the white blocks around the economy blocks is a slightly more cream white fabric that I think is a old linen and is a flea market find, and the last one (that makes up th...

Because our kids need some bigger clothes, and some summer clothes too, we went thrifting. Yesterday was also the day for the big event ”Megaloppis” (eng. Mega Fleamarket) and I missed it because Mikael took the car and went to run in the obstacle course event Wolf Race in Närpes (about 90 km from us). So, this Sunday we went to Folkhälsan’s regular fleamarket, which is also the organiser for the Megaloppis event. I looked for fabrics too, and the kids found some small toys, and over all I found a LOT of comfy summer clothes for the kids. I think we spent ~58 € all and all. But, these are the things I found that were craft related: 2,00  Two natural white cotton curtains 0,30  Pink bed linen (cotton) fabric pieces 0,20  Small neutral fabric piece with pale pink dots 0,20  Small neutral fabric piece with geometric print ______________ 2,70 € total Total spent on stash this year: 411,66  + 2,70 =   414,36 €

One month has passed since the last progress update on these, so I thought I'd write an update on how far I've gotten on all of my projects. During April, I've (among other things) been to a sewing weekend at Arbis, so that helped with getting some of the projects a little further along. Some projects have been moved from UFO to WIP, and vice versa. The lists are fluid that way :) These are my WIP:s 1. the Blue Roses and Denim quilt This one is DONE! And it looks great :) 2. the 12 Color blocks quilts Yes, twelve of them. And so far, three have been completed. You can see them here;  first ,  second , and  third . No progress at all since last time I wrote. Which is a bit bad, but I have wanted to get other projects cleared away to have time to work on these. This project still needs some backing fabrics, now that I have bought batting. And quilting plans for all of these. 3. the Odd blocks color quilt nr 2, aka Violet and Orange Sa...