Have portrait - will shuffle

Look what I've got.

This is the pack for the Portrait Shuffle (without the fabric, that’s from my stash).

The Portrait Shuffle is a great idea from the “Through our Hands” textile art group. You can sign up for this pack (once again – no fabric included), create a portrait of any kind (person, animal, flower, …) in any way (draw, paint, collage, patchwork, photograph, …) on the canvas and return it to the organizers.

All the portraits will be exhibited at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England in August. After this the portraits will be shuffled and you will get a portrait back. Not your own but somebody elses. So you get back an original work of art by an artist from somewhere in the world. Exciting, isn’t it?

The pack costs 20 British Pounds and all the funds raised will go to “Save The Children”, an organization dedicated to helping children all over the world. To learn more about them click here.

Join in! The more portraits the better the shuffle! And you will

• be exhibited at the Festival of Quilt (the largest European quiltshow),
• help children,
• have fun,
• receive an original work of art.

Hurry up – the deadline for the canvas being in England is July 31st, 2017.
For more information go to https://portraitshuffle.blogspot.com/p/about-portrait-shuffle.html

Happy Birthday

My daughter is a big fan of Sesame Street (she learned English with this show when we stayed in the US for a few months when she was 2 years old). So for her birthday I made her this pillow.

It is foundation pieced and consists of 124 pieces (for a 10 x 10 inches Elmo!). I really don't like this technique as I hate removing the paper afterwards. So it was a real labor of love. But the joy of Karin was worth the effort.

The block is by Michelle Thompson  and you can find it and many more at her website www.misha29.com

Frost

It was a very frosty morning today. But when you have a dog there are no excuses - you have to walk him. And as a reward you see something really beautiful. All the leaves and trees were covered with frost. Combined with the blue sky it made for a really beautiful sight.

Quilts 2016

Somehow this year ran through my fingers and now it's over. There aren't too many quilts I made this year but still some.

A quilt for my mother intended for cuddling under it on the sofa. But she insisted on putting it on her bed during the day because "it's too beautiful to use it on the sofa". Well...
It's queen sized, made entirely from my stash, machine sewn and hand quilted.

A king-size quilt for my nephew and his wife for their wedding.
As his wife is Taiwanese I selected red for the wife (the wedding color in Taiwan) and black for the husband. Some of the red and the black fabrics have gold prints to make the whole quilt more festive and sparkling. It's hand quilted as well.

This quilt was made for the show of the Austrian patchwork guild for the theme "magical". For me dragons are really magical, friendly creatures.
I used a hand dyed background that had the perfect colors and raw-edge appliquéed the dragon. The contour of the dragon is hand quilted and there is a large hand quilted celtic knot in the lower right corner (you can see it on the quilt but unfortunately not in the photo).

A small quilt of which I thought it would be the beginning of a journal quilt series with the theme of leaves. But it was only this one quilt.

Another quilt for cuddling under for my aunt for Christmas. And I think she uses it as intended.
The quilt is queen sized, machine sewn and hand quilted.

A cover for a hot-water-bottle for a friend as a Christmas gift.

And that's it. As said above - not many quilts, but still a few.

I'm in the garden

Well, to be honest - I don't have a garden. But my cousin has one: a nice, very green and pleasently cool place where I spend many hours during the summer. Today I would like to take you for a stroll through this wonderful place.

The garden is dominated by a lot of purple lavender which is

loved by bees

and butterflies.

 

There are roses,

lillies,

hydrangeas 

and many other flowers.

The garden is watched by a tiger

and a wolf.