A post to make up for the things I have posted in Bulgarian only in the last couple of weeks. And mainly explanation of the pictures posted along with Bulgarian text previously. As weather got cooler, I started baking again. I missed this during the hot, hot summer weeks... Making bread is a colder part of the year ritual here. It feels the air with the most comforting domesticity spirit you can get. Especially for some flour and baking... I usually rotate 3 main recipes but the cold weather made me stick to the cheese and oil one mostly. Delicious! I also played with binding - lovely experience and great time spent among the colourful scraps and FQ piles... Sewing for Christmas - potholders, bread baskets and such... I made some other little projects in the meantime. December was a really busy month and I had some things to deal with, so making a full-size quilt did not happen this month. I took part in a charity event - making a quilt to be sold at a market. And was left with a test star in a difficult, old-fashioned style. It became a little table topper. Waiting for binding now. And it was planned to be a pillow... Well, as usually patches and tops have a live of their own and opinion what to be made out of them too. LOL Regarding the process, one had an opinion of its own on quilting too. It did insist to be quilted in the cabbage style. I know it is called feathers, but believe me it feels like cabbage. And I know its due to my lack of serious feathers experience lately... I was about to choose a modern style quilting, but feathers happened... Happy I did not allow it to become an UFO. Found a couple of UFOs this week and decided to make them quilts in January. First New Year resolutions this December!

Here is the original second batch for 2010 - semi-Christmas, semi-neon. Love the traditional-contemporary mix in them - linen and neons. Batch number one is all gone, so here is the second one. It also comes in appliqued, embroidered, drawn form. However I think this no accents version is my absolute fave so far. Nothing to remove, nothing in excess - so really close to perfection. The appliqued, etc. versions have no decent pictures yet. Coming soon here... Having promised to write about process - this is a fave process too - they look almost the same way inside out... Yay!

What I was making this week, for a little lady! She is artistic, creative, a pupil... and had a birthday. So I went for a back to school theme for the present... Pink, flowers, fuchsia and some white ... my type of present recipe... What I really loved is the fact I designed and made it from start to finisha all by myself. 100% Domoshar creation! It turned nice and was really nice packed and decorated. Currently in love with the project and seeing more like nit to come... What it is? I will show you soon. Hopefully with some more.

The project for this week. It was started last week. Good plan. Especially now, as I already know, I had to unexpectedly miss a day in the studio today. Not sure I will be able to finish it by the end of the week. I will try though.It is small, I know. But it is not the only thing planned. What are you making this week?

The next part /and probably the best!/ of this week's sewing! A little lovely gift received this week! I was so impressed, I wiped up a few. Almost actually - these are not finished yet. The cute owls with the smiling button is the gift and great inspiration. It was like new cake recipe - just had to make it right after entering the kitchen /studio/. LOL. This little purse is an ingenius idea of  NotYetTheDodo. Thank you for the gift and inspiration! It has received some love already - thus the wrinkled look. I am so happy she did not mind me making some. A lovely item has to be multiplied! I see some happy ladies pretty soon. And even a gentleman who will happy to be receive one. Oh, and wait! This is not all, I know a gentleman, who saw a mini purse himself! Not telling which one, but it is shown here. LOL

Here comes the second post with some process thoughts. This is a small project. It was planned to me functional, colourful and all completed in a week so that it could be manageable and make a shop update in a few days. I am making small things, thus using small fabric pieces - it does look like a patchwork, which I love. I was going for this look and I think it is archived so far. The fabric choices, as always, were fun. I started with one fabric for each colourway /what a fancy name for it!/ and then added 3 more. As it started to appear in its designed look I added a few other fabrics to spice it up a little. Making a few things at a time has many advantages and a substancial drawback - changing threads... I love turning any drawback into opportunity, so I went for a vivid, bold thread to wrap them all - fuchsia. Not too bad!

New little prints, printed by hand in the first days of July. Unexpected blue, unsual pastel look.. they look somehow washed out to me. Probably you find them pale too. I have some big plans for these prints. A few plans actually - not a single one and I do not have  enough prints for all of them. I will have to choose one plan to start with, I am  sewing something with these prints and the the previous batch Or maybe print another batch to make it even more special...

A business card holder to match my main activity. It was wipped up a few weeks after I saw something similar on the web. It was a try, not sure it will work. However it proved to be a pretty useful thing. Plus it feels like the right business card holder for a quilter. LOL I love the patchwork style it has, though technically it is not precisely a patchwork thing. The patched look is actually result of the different fabrics used and the fact oit is made out of little patches, It is deliberately pastel and washed out in colour, I thought it will be subtle and calming this way. The added bonus is, it matches each of my summer bags this way. I see a bold vivid version of it this autumn. Though this one was a winter creation too LOL. And here is how it looks empty and the outside, when closed. Surprisingly enough/ LOL  / it is all wrapped  together with the orange thread, You know I love orange.

It is summer vacation time. Not for me actually, but with a pupil at home its quite vacation for everyone. I managed to squeeze some minutes for sewing by hand. Have not done this for quite e long time. It does feel good. The only drawback is it so luxurious to have the time for it.. it is unlikely to happen as often as I would like... I am hosting a petite quilt along and I making some bed covers... I will soon post pictures of them. The cloth on the picture is a towel to be. It won't be handmade in the stitched by hand manner, but machine stitched instead. Though I could prepare the end with an iron, I stitched down the old-fashioned way. It is so hot these days and no iron plus meditative stitching were a treat! It is time to go and translate the next few posts I have not yet... Plus it is the worldwide knitting in public event day here tomorrow. Happy knitting!

This is the ordinary look of a work table in the beginning of a sewing session. Each piece has its place. They manage to stay like this for a pretty short period... Especially if the projects uses ribbons and little details... like here... They soon tуrn into the perfect mess - looking like chaos study, but  with  exact place for each piece. If I try to make it look nicer it transforms to the perfect chaos - piles looking tidy, but me not knowing which piece went where...