Before the end of the year I would like to show the Christmas cards I received and the Christmas tree bookmark that Renate sent me.
I have one more project to show that I finished while I was not blogging: my Rose Sampler. At the beginning of this year I finally quilted the border and bound the quilt just in time for our March retreat. It took me a little more than five years to make this quilt. And to be honest: I wouldn't do it again.










Our son gave us this tiny Christmas tree ornament. He painted it himself and was so excited about it that he gave it to us a week early because he couldn't stand the tension any longer. It is much smaller than it looks in the picture.
We are spending the Christmas week in the Czech Republic as we did two years ago. Unfortunately we are not as lucky with the weather, it is not cold enough, and the lake is not frozen yet, so we couldn't go ice skating every day as we did the last time. And we came down with a cold and spent most of the week coughing on the sofa. But our landlords spoil us with their homemade Christmas cookies.
I finished quilting the leaf quilt last weekend, including background and water. All that is left to do is the black border, and I am still undecided how to quilt that. Since autumn is over anyway I will put it away until next year. Until then I have plenty of time to think about how I want to finish it. I could maybe quilt maple leaves on the black border? With black thread or variegated? And which color should I choose for the binding? I thought about piecing leftover leaf fabrics for that but that might be too much...
Under special circumstances a cat is allowed to lie on the table - at least that is what they think. The autumn leaf quilt isn't completely quilted yet, and I hang it over the chairs when I am not working on it. Since I left one corner on the table the cats thought they were invited to sleep there. Naturally, they both had to try.
Before I started quilting the leaf quilt I mentioned that I hate handling a big quilt under the sewing machine. After that I remembered something that Susanne Froeschle had told me a few years ago which makes machine quilting big quilts easier. She recommended basting and quilting in stages which I tried once with good results and then somehow completely forgot.
Bei den Herbstblättern habe ich zunächst nur das mittlere Drittel geheftet und gequiltet. Dadurch kam ich in der Mitte gut an alle Stellen, ohne mich mit dem Volumen und dem Gewicht des ganzen Quilts herumplagen zu müssen. Dann habe ich ein zweites Drittel Vlies angefügt und gequiltet. Beim letzten Drittel habe ich jetzt Fotos gemacht.
It is a good idea not to quilt to the edge of the basted area but leave a little room. That makes it possible to join the batting by machine. But I have to admit I didn't do that. I use a basting spray, and since the quilt is rather heavily quilted I just added the batting accurately and glued it all together. It worked really well, I hope I will remember this method from now on.
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