Every year when it gets close to Christmas I have to stop posting pictures because I am either working on Christmas presents for my family or for my customers. I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise and try to be very careful and considerate about posting pictures before the gift is received. So after Christmas […]
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One of the pieces I will be showing at the Quilt Show in Unterhaching are these fall thistles. This work was inspired by the book ‚Beautiful and Bold – Artful Quilts from Just One Fabric‘. Here they talk about looking for shapes in batics or self-died fabric and embellishing on them. So that’s what I
Every year The Samplers Quilt Group gets together with The Lucky Star Quilters and holds a quilt show in the city hall of Unterhaching. This year the dates are Saturday, November 4th from 10-6 and Sunday, November 5th from 11-5. I would love to see you there!
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In a conversation with Emmy Ann Horstkamp from Munich Artists we were talking about how to best use a large window with lots of sunshine. I mentioned that it would be necessary to be careful since the sun will fade a lot of different materials. But that’s exactly the process we want to use for
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Are you familiar with HandmadeKultur? It’s a great magazine for everything that has to do with ‚handmade‘, published in Hamburg. I’ve known about it since they got started. At the time I sold copies of the magazine in my store Hands Gallery. Meanwhile my daughter has a subscription that is sent to our house. After she’s finished reading
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At the start of 2017 I promised myself a lot of new things – especially in regard to products, materials and techniques. Now I’m ready to introduce the first new product from 40 Stitches – a matchsack! Why? There are lots of reasons, but when my kids were packing for summer camp the instructions on
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The other day I was bowling with the kids. I am not a good bowler, but occassionally it’s fun and we had guests so it was a good activity for everyone. I kept concentrating on the pins at the end of the lane and throwing a gutter ball! Then I noticed the arrows at the beginning
