авторски пачуърк създаден в България : patchwork + gifts: handmade in Bulgaria
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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!
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.
Sept 15th is the start of the school year in Bulgaria. My little kid is a pupil now and I few days after the school begining I decided to make some pairs of trousers for school. Here is the first real one /after the prototype one in bright orange/.
At first I was determined to make it as fast as possible and even carried it with me every day to and back from the studio to ensure smooth and constant project by day and evening sewing… Then I had to put it on hold for a week or two. It is almost ready now and.. will be completed next week. I have plans for the ones to follow this pair.
This bundle looks inspiring to me. It looked like this every day when I packed it.
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It is hot summer here. We are not visiting the beach these days – visiting my studio instead. Almost no sewing has taken place though. I made a purse organizer for myself. Almost 3 years after placing the note in my to do journal… Happy I did it.
In the meantime between beach and studio transition I finished the big leaves lace shawl and it only needs some blocking now. It is huge! Not to sure if it is too big, or just perfect… And it is very heavy too – almost 300g. The pink shawl, that was waiting for less than 10 additional meters of yarn is back on the needles now and I am continuing the bind off. It is slow binding as all the stitches are on a yarn and I need to transfer them on the needle first /which I do in groups of 8-12 stitches, bind them off and transfer the next group…/
My latest project is moving slowly /pictured here/… as I decided to finish all my UFOs using any spare minute. So I washed my machine embroidery potholders today! Another year of waiting here /between attaching the binding and the final binding stitch today/.
I am drawing and sketching doll quilt ideas now, not able to choose one of the 3 ideas I like best so far…
This is what I made yesterday. It is a kitchen towel for a kid.
It was a last minute idea. It is not a complicated one so it was ready on time. Love the orange “drop” that makes an almost boring stripe smile. I bought this stripe for a tote and it never made it to become one. Maybe this summer.
I feel like making tons of towels but need to focus on some sewing I have started already. Lots of holidays in the next weeks and I am not quite prepared yet. So much to do, so little time with all the other not so crafty jobs to do…
I am moving my studio. It is a complex process, that started with some repairs. I spent lots of time preparing, arranging, painting… Tones of time actually. And today I sew in the new studio for the first time. Half of my fabrics are still in bags, waiting for me to paint their new home. Most of the things have no place yet. Still it was nice to sew again.
Check this giveaway. I will say just one thing: Ravenhill! Yay – it is hosted there 
. Same style, same beauty and talent in a lovely textile form.
Hmm, I am in a giveaway mood lately…
This is the way I was looking at my fabrics today…
I made two cute ones last week and added a new one today.
It all started when I decided to make an apron for a little chef last week. I though of the simplest design I may come up and added some binding to cheer it up a little. Orange did make great difference with this not so interesting stripe fabric I think. Well, I love orange so it might be the reason I liked it . The kitchen towel, was the other part of the same gift. The fabric was originally bought to be part of a bag I never made…
I also made an apron for a little lady but I did not take a picture as it was too dark. It is floral fabric with very similar design. And it will be a gift too. Very soon.
I have many other fabrics and recipients in mind. This apron here is for a 2-3 year old, but I drew a bigger one, so I feel like making one for every kid I know. The way the first one was received was so encouraging. 75mg cap effexor xr coral citrate calcium vs calcium online pharmacy ultram
