Inspiration form Jenny Rolfe

In the spring I bought a book about making bags from Jenny Rolfe. Many times I have seen it on the shelves in our library and I was always amaced about the bags. Then I found a copy in danish and bought it.

Her ideas and inspiration made me do these things:

A small purse to my mother in law:

Two little bags for your cigarettes or mobile phone

And as the last bag I dyed some fabric especial to this project, bought some matching fabric and some big pearls for decoration:



I know that I will return to the book in the future to get some more inspiration.

Thanks Jenny Rolfe.

Summer 2011

Again I am smoking.

Terrible - but all though my life is ballanced.

This summer I have done a lot of sewing, and I will present some of the things I have made here on the blog.

Quilting - first attempt.

I really want to learn how to machine quilt, and here you can see one of my first attempts.

I used the teknik of Vickki Pignatelli to make the center with the flower and made the borders of matching colors. All fabric is dyed by myself.

I have decided to practise the machine quilting every day, and yesterday I went to a fabric store to buy fabric and batting for my exercises.

I am a non smoker

For about 40 years I have smoked, but nov I have quited smoking.

In 3 weeks I have gone from 10 smokes a day to none. I am very proud to do that and I am sure that I have a better life.

The other day I bougth a bunch of blue hyacints for my selves. I could sense them and I loved them. Both the color and the sense. Here they are:

Clothes for Christmas presants

I have made clothes for my niece and for my daughter as Christmas presents. I know that they were happy about the presents.

The fabric I made this vest of come from South Africa. I managde to get hold of some buttons made there too so that the vest would be a remenberence for my niece about her stay there.

For my daugther I made a tunika:

Kaffe Fasset

I have been on an exebition with Kaffe Fasset works. Very colorfull and inspired. Bought some fabric of him, but has to mix it with other fabric in only one color. In fact I don't like that things becomes too colored.

HIBISCUS

I have done some expiriments with fusing and quilting my own pictures. I have bourht the DVD where Laura Wasilowski explains the tekniqe how to fuse. I love that way of making pictures and especially flowers as this Hibiscus.

MY DAUGHTER

My daughter has come back and I am SSSOOOOOOO happy. :-) In 7 years we haven't had any contact, but right now everything seems to be allright. We want to see each other again and it is so good. We help each other and take part in the daily life. I am so happy.

POPPIES

I have been busy sewing for the last period sewing on my new serger, but I have also made a quilt for my brother. He wants the colors red and black for things to his living room. I found some wonderful fabric with poppies at Hannes shop http://hanneshjemmeside.dk/?page_id=114

The fabric inspired me and combined with black fabric I think it would make great color combination. I made the quilt simple and used the beautiful fabrics. It was very fun to make and I know he likes it.

I also managed to make 3 cusins for his sofa.

SNOW DYING

My friend Lone told me how to use the snow for dying facric.

It sounded funny, so as the snow came, I tried it.

First I washed fabric in soda, salt and water and spred it out in the bokses.

Then I filled them with snow. When they were filled I mixed some dye and spred it ower the snow.

It took 2 days before the snow was melted. I washed the colars out and washed and dried the fabric.

Here are the result: