November 6, 2015 by chromatobalomata

The exhibition in Nafplion and a log cabin block

Hello,

Last week I visited the Nafplion, The Forest Forever Exhibition at Fougaro Gallery. The Forest Forever exhibition is a cultural collaboration between Europen and Afghan women .Since 2014 when it was first showcased in France the exhibition has been touring Europe. And this time we are the lucky one to see these excellent banners and the beautiful embroidery pieces here in Greece ( the exhibition will last till the 15 November).

The 60 participating pieces resemble Banners of the forest. The artist used at least one embroidered leaf produced by Afghan women from the Langhami region in Afghanistan.

All of the works were so beautiful! I wanted to take photos but for my bad luck I had a problem with my camera! ( or maybe a photographer = I, didn’t know to take good photos…)

Anyway Here are few photos I managed with

Here is a general photo from the exhibition

This is a lovely detail from ” Symbiosis” by Marva Stoller from Germany

And this one a detail from ” Visions of leaves” by Judith Pauly

And here two embroideries from Afghan women

About myself and my sewing : My time is very limited because of every day routine. The children are very busy and I am doing Taxi with them. At the moment I am just experimenting with the sewing I haven’t done. I found out that I haven’t done any log cabin block. So I took a look at my scraps and made this one

The funny is that I like the result and could think to make a table runner, but I don’t have dark red fabric I used in block!

Maybe I should add a crow

It seems quite black…

Is it better now?

I don’t know, maybe I’ll leave it for a while. If you have ideas what to do with the block, please tell me!

Have a nice weekend! Anneli

October 20, 2015 by chromatobalomata

Pinwheels

Hello! I almost finished my pinwheels quilt. The pattern is from Sujata Shah’s book The Cultural Fusion quilts. In fact I didn’t have in my mind to make the quilt, just to try her techniques again. I like the way she makes her quilts. The technique she shows in her book gives me the feeling of playing- and I like it! I would show the picture of her book, but I have the e-book so..but I wish one day I will have a printed book too.

About this quilt-I didn’t have in my mind to make 16 blocks neither I didn’t checked if I had fabric enough…And here I am with this quilt-playing with the pattern and with colors and not taking it too serious!

I found this table outside very useful

I had small pieces of this Moomin fabric. These pinwheels remind me about carousel and circus and I wanted to place these lovely characters together.

This Pikku Myy, Little My was my favorite one when I was child. She was fiery and irritable but also happy and friendly.

As I told this quilt is almost finished. My daughter announced she wants to have it, just I haven’t made a binding yet. What kind of binding would you choose? I thought the same color as the quilt has around, but it is not enough the fabric I have!!!

Thanks again for reading my blog! Have a nice time and play with fabric! x Anneli

October 13, 2015 by chromatobalomata

Handsewing and quilting

Hello my dear friends, I just want to show you how the things are going:

My star has been growing more

Now I should make these star-flowers four or five more in different colors. I think I am going to have a small break because I have to collect some fabrics and it is quite a lot of work to hand sew all these small pieces.

The pictures are not the best ones and my desingwall has a white background so I took another photo with different light

After all this piecing I missed my sewing machine. I cooked yesterday for today so I had few hours today in the morning to do quilting. And it was lovely; the thread was not cutting!

I hope the quilt will be ready in the near future so I can show it to you.

With my best wishes, Anneli

October 4, 2015 by chromatobalomata

Coffee time

Hi, today it is Cinnamon roll day in Finland. So I decided to surprise the children and I baked these delicious Finnish buns with cinnamon. Cinnamon smells so good!

In my sewing room I tried to finish my pinwheel quilt. I had few problems with quilting, thread was cutting all the time. I had some blue fabric close to me so I made this blue block. Where to use it, I was thinking it when I had my cup of coffee. I might do some more to have a new project after the pinwheel quilt and a piecing project I showed in my last post. I see I’ll have a lot of work…

Have a nice and creative week! Anneli

October 1, 2015 by chromatobalomata

My first quilt

Hello! Today it was sunny. I arranged my quilts and want now to show you the first quilt I made. It was few years ago, I found pattern from Internet, I had some fabric and I was ready to take my first step to the world of the quilts. I knew sewing from my school time and fortunately I had brought my sewing machine from Finland when I got married! I made quilting by hand, I didn’t know actually what was the right quilting but I tried to make tiny,tiny stitches.. And I finished this quilt in very short time, I was so enthusiastic with my new hobby!! The binding is quite thick, I didn’t have an idea about basting! I wanted to do the quilt for my youngest daughter and because I didn’t have a lot of fabric I tried to make it larger with binding!!! Now it is a little bit short for my daughter but she still loves to be covered with it.

Here are some pictures about the quilt. The light was doing some tricks , I told it was a sunny day!

and Gourgour cat loves the camera…

Though it was sunny and warm today, there is something which reminds me about autumn:

In my last post I showed you the star from my project. Now this star has become larger….

I hope you to have lovely October and thank you for reading my posts and thank you for your nice comments! Anneli

September 20, 2015 by chromatobalomata

A star by hand sewing

Hello after so long time! I haven’t forgot my blog but I had a quite busy summer. Now I am back at home and in every-day-program.

During the summer I gave time for myself and I was reading a lot of the other’s blogs like Nero’s post, quilting stories,the root connection just to mention a few of them. There are so many talented quilters and it is a big pleasure to see the photos from their creations! Thanks for sharing yours nice works and stories, it is lovely to know there are so many other people who have the same passion.

I took my sewing machine to the “doctor” and now it is working fine. Despite of that I started a project which looks like this,it is sure it takes long time, because it will be done by hand sewing…

This is the first star. It has a kaleidoscopic effect and I liked the way to work it out. It is very relaxing to sew by hand!

I can’t resist to show this jug of Arabia, I found it from bazaar in Finland

I started also to make the pinwheels quilt. ( Not by hand!)

Almost ready…

Hello! Today I am going to show you my summer quilt. I still have to complete the binding but I think I will leave that work for the next week. I had problems with my sewing machine when I made quilting. The stitches made loops under the blanket and on the upper side the stitches were jumping. All these problems because of the quality of the thread,needle or different thickness of cotton fabrics…or my sewing machine needs service…But when I put walking foot the stitches were fine!

So here are few pictures

Thank you for visiting my blog! x Anneli

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