My Season Bag

The first of  "My Season Bags" was made for a woman in Florida. I designed it with inspiration from our Swedish summer flowers. Then I went on with the autumn bag and after a while I had made four bags. Stitchery patterns for all four seasons are included.

In my winter world....

Lot´s of snow, we had a white, cold Christmas.....lovely.
I took a winter walk together with my daugther and her camera and now I can show you pictures of my winter bag.

It´s made from the same pattern as my autumn bag, "My Season Bag". That pattern includes stitcheries for all four seasons.
I think I have to go on with the spring version now, before there are flowers instead of snow.....

Have a nice week, happy stitching,


Helena

Fabrics for my autumn bag and tonights work

It´s time for me to start with my autumn version of my bag swap bag and make a pattern of it.

I already had these fabrics in my stash to start with.

And on my little fabric hunt last Monday I found these.

Here are the threads for the stitchery and the quilting.

I´m not sure I will use all sorts of fabric I have, maybe I only choose a few of them. But all of them are now prewashed and ready to use. Tomorrow I will start cutting....
But this evening (night?) there´s another work waiting for me, this:
I added the green border today and cut out the pink fabric for binding. Now she wants to be quilted, by hand, by me, now...
See you again soon,
Helena

Pictures of the bag

I started with an idea of a colourful bag, inspired by the Swedish summerflowers.
From the beginning I wasn´t sure what would come out in the end, it was such a design-as-you-go project.

Here are the fabrics I chose....

....and the threads.

I built it up piece by piece...

...and got this. Added some yellow petals - buttercups.

I designed flower stitcheries, one of them became a pocket on the front side.
Then I put it together with batting and binding. At last I did some machine quilting and added that big flower.

Finished!

I also made this little make up bag.

Then I wrapped it, put it in an envelope and send it to Betsy. And yesterday it arrived in her mailbox and I can relax..... Now I´m gonna make a pattern of the bag and perhaps made one for myself. Autumn colours this time...

Take care,

Helena

My wallet is empty.....

This weekend I´ve been on a quiltshow called Quiltköping.
A lot of wonderful quilts, wonderful people and a lot of shopping. What more can I ask for?
My camera wasn´t my friend that day, sorry, no pictures.
Today it was in a better mood and I can show you some of my findings and a bit of my work from today.

Here you can see secret fabrics, can´t tell more at the moment....
....and fabrics for another secret project.

These are mine, couldn´t resist....

Where is my angel fabric? I forgot that picture....and the Japanese...where are they? Let me try again tomorrow, my memory is not the best :(

This one persisted to follow me home and I said OK! Think we can have some fun together...

And I needed something to read, a copy of the only Swedish quilt magazine, Fat Quater.
Thank you Annika, nice to meet you!

Red fabrics, the same colour as some of the walls in my studio. I will cut out coffee cups from these and place them on this black & white quilt:

I cut these out today and pinned them on my design wall.

At last the last sneak peak of my bag swap bag. I finished it today, tomorrow it will leave Sweden for its trip to.......
Now I will do some stitching on the red-black-white secret project. I cut out pieces earlier today and altough it´s a little bit late I can´t resist... Just a couple of stitches, I promise.....
See you,
Helena

Finished!

My stitcery is finished :)

The thread I used is a mixed one with green, blue and turquoise colours in it.

It´s difficult to see that in the picture, but I think it came out very nice.

The next step is to find fabrics for the border in these colours.

I think it will become some kind of a wallhanging.

The triangels I made some days ago look like this nowadays:

After moving them around into different designs I decided that this was the best.
Tomorrow the rest of them will be sewed together and then I will look for border fabric.

Perhaps I will found my fabrics in "Quilt-köping", a quiltfair that I´m going to visit next Saturday. I don´t think I will come home with empty hands :)) An empty wallet maybe....

I´ve got a mail today telling me that my bagswap bag is on its way to me, how exiting!

I think I will finish mine tomorrow and send that parcel far away to.....guess who!

Some sneak peaks of that colourful thing!

Just now it´s raining, very much, very very much, like a shower, or worse....

Is it this they call autum? I think so...

Time for a little stitchery? Yes, it is....

Happy stitching,

Colours!

Yesterday I pieced my bag for the bag swap. Many bright colours together, makes me happy!
I have choosen the fabrics with inspiration from the Swedish summer flowers.

They are yellow, lilac, violet, pink, blue....and of course green.

The yellow round plots symbolises buttercups.

There´s some stichery on it too, fantasy flowers.

I also worked on my stichery quilt....

....and yes, I managed to put the blocks together with my own quilt-as-you-go method. But it needed a lot of hand stiching, which is okey with me.

I started to design a heart-block for the quilt too, a few more pieces will be added. But I´m satisfied with the quilted look of the heart, I sewed it in place through the batting.

Now I will go on working on my new blog design; new pictures, updated logo, links and much more. The new one will show up soon, together with other happenings, still secret. It´s time for an opening ceremoni at my new quilting studio, the new "Syverkstan". I just have a few things left to finish!

See you,

Helena