autumn changes

hi to all.
this week I spend most time with my mother, who cames from germany to visit us.
it was a great time we have together.
after her chemio-therapy last year now she turns more and more the powerfull woman I love so much. The last 2 years with her cancer have been very hard for her and us too ....
The only time I spend with my sewing machine I finished her quilt so that she could take it home.

today she flyes home so we are here with our normal every day life... and I'm a little bit sad.
it is hard for me that she lives over 1000 km away  from us.... but there is nothing we can do for this...
so thats all for today. next week I plan a lot of changes in our house... we will see what I get done.
have a good time.
Claudia
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normal every day life

Salve a tutti,
another week finished. and I survived the confirmation from our eldest one, a Mount of intensive gardening, the visit from my mother, which came from germany, a lot of homeworks, a bite of a spider and an allergic reaction from Laura (2.one).....
the only thing I came up with is the quilttop from the birthday qilt for my mother.

I hope next week will be a little more calm...
have a good time
claudia
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confirmation...party....family... friends

salve,
this week I was very busy. and I didnot finish all I wanted to....
but I have prepared the confirmationparty of our eldest one......
and now my mother arrived from Germany.. she brought some beautifull things...
and tomorrow is the great day!!!!
after this I will start with a new quilt, a new bag, and maybe finish some UFO. we will see!

 finished boots-schoolbag.  my first apliquè with circles......Isee I need a lot of exercise!!!

my new pants....here is emilia showing how they look like......a little bit to big for her

 the new babys from Laura... camaleons made from s

and these are my new fabrics....150€!! it is not very much ,but great colors!

I'm very impatient now to start something new.

 so thats all.

have a good week.

claudia

leah day

finish it up friday 

confessionsofafabricaddict

RESTART

hi to all,
I haven't blogged since our hollidayweek in august and now september is allready gone.
it's time to restart!!!
there are so much projects going on at the same time.......
first and most important: schooltime!!! has begon. that means regular getting up, meal, homeworktime, playtime, regular schedule in all the things!
and!! it changes all my schedule and sewing time. the problem is that until all is realy stabilized with the kids I can't come out with a new timeset for myself. I have to be veryveryvery patient (not my strengh!)
so these are the things I came up with.
thanks to maartje from amsterdam I have finished a little babyquilt for a friend.

salve a tutti,
non ho più scritto niente da quando siamo andati in vacanza in agosto in garfagnana .
è ora di ricominciare!
ci sono talmente tante di quelle cose che stanno succedendo allo stesso momento.....
la prima e più importante!. Inizio di scuola.
questo vuol dire orari regolari per tutto e tutti, cominciato dal alzarsi la mattina, pranzo, compiti cena e andare a letto. naturalmente ce talmente tanto da fare che non trovo più tempo per me e il cucito.
ma piano piano ci arrangeremo con i nuovi impegni ma ci vuole pazienza... tanta... e questo non è il mio forte!
so, queste sono le cose che ho potuto finire o meglio cominciare ultimamente!
grazie a Maartje ho finito il quilt per Elisa, neonata! sei la benvenuta!

 ...finished the placemat from our daughter Lilian

started with a friend of mine to convert our garden in permacolture... 

on the left the old sistem- on the right the permaculture sistem. It is much work at the beginning but to maintain and help to grow up the plants it's much easier.

these are waiting ....

  and these are our strawberries... never had so much since the permacolture-conversion

my turtle-courtain for a friend-made with clothing from her mother (she died unexpectedly last  year)

 a new pants for Laura(our 2.daughter) for Emilias confirmation

 a new shoe- basg for Lilian for school

 a new school-bag for our eldest daughter Emilia

 trying to stippeling- that I don't like at all... and don't try again for at least 1 year

 a new pant for me (from silk-adventure...adventure!!) for Emilias confirmation

 and this mornig tryed a new recipe for a cream and a handcream. They came out very well and they smell sooooo good. I've added some orange, vanilla and rose essence-
with some friends we made also some soap, but it isn't ready yet. So I will show you the next time.

and last but not least this will be the birthday present for my husband.

so thats all for today. I hope I will finish almost one of these projects this week....
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have a good week!
Claudia

hurry and pleasure

salve a tutti,
a week passed by and I worked too much, or better I worked without pleasure...
thats very hard! I love make things, create something with fiber, wood ,earth .....
but when I "have to do this " (beceause I 'must' finish something) it becomes very hard. I loose my good feelings about my work, hurry up and make mistakes .. and thats never a good thing.
so I finished a gift and decided to have a break.for some days....  it lasts only 24 h!!(I cant' be without creating something!)
BUT after a month ,Yesterday it was th first time I made something only for pleasure! without any reason or end date to keep or somthing else... only for joy. that was great, wonderfull!!
summertime it's the hardest time for me- its too hot and there are no habits, rules... all is out of order for about 3 months...kids are Always around, all day long and there is  much to do in the house and garden, made jam, preserve the food that we have grown , clean up the pool, make hay for the animals.... and-so-on-and-so-on...
in sept when the school starts again there  will be a totaly different rhythm.. there will be no more time for anything else then school and Learning. its realy extreme -especially for me.(I like to have fixed habits)...
but every year it becomes better.
so, now I will stop talking and show my latest works, they are not perfect (like I wanted to have) but I learned much about my limits- of time ( I must take more time to create and not hurry up)
of listening to myself and take me seriously. when I have an intuition-(I feel something).... its the right way, when I start to think about it , shure that I will mess it up.

this is another little basket. thanks to rike b. http://www.fleckchensquilt.blogspot.it/ for this great idea!!! I made this with the stichandslash -method from craftsy course.

 this is a cushion cover - also a gift

 

 and!!!!this is a work made from our littlest one (7 years) that I'm quilting now-only for pleasure!

 the next pleasure -from Laura (our 2. one-9 years)

 this is the first bag made from  Laura.. next days we will finished it up..

that's all for this week. sunday we start for our real hollidays and go with our camper/mobile home

in the mountains to seek for some colder air and see some green (here is all brown and yellow- gras, Leaves, earth... it's toooo dry.)

have a good time

claudia

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hollidays

after a long time working hard in garden and house, relaxing in the pool, sewing a bit and try to have fun with our kids , it is time to post my newest things i made (last weeks I was too lazy to sit ours and ours on the PC to try to came out with a new post). I'm at the beginning and there are soooooooo much things I have to learn and I want to learn and there is so little time for all- sometimes it's soo overwhelming...)
first: my very first bag/tute for a friend of mine and its so easy to made that I think I will made more of them.

 

next is a bag for cerimonial objekts (also for a friend)

 

she didn't know it yet and I hope that she will enjoy it.  oh, I'm allways in troubble when I finished a work (or whatever) and all doubts came out at once: will she like it? will it be the right thing/color/size/theme? is the quality of my stiches good enough? and all such things... I know that the Others would never ever critisize my works as I do... and all of them seams so exited about my sewing-works.... but when I compare my works with someone like Leah Day or Crazymomquilts or so I can see that I'm on the very beginning. and I know that I have to be very patient with me and also very gentil..... so I 'm Always very happy about somone who whrite some comments (good ones!!!!!). It makes me feel like a part of somthing bigger then my little room with my little sewing machine and my little time to sew and I'm also very glad to take part of this great comunity of woman (and man) they create such marvelous things with their hands....thanks.
next: finaly finished thae upper part of a -how to call it-'chair'maybe? and this work came out good.

so thats all for today. hope you will enjoy it!
have a good time....
claudia
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