Simone's Baby Quilt

After a very long absence from my blog, I am back with the last quilt I achieved.

It was a very easy and quick baby quilt to complete, though hand quilted. 

I started end of September and finished beginning of November, just in time before flying to Paris : 

last stitches the night before!

This quilt is a gift for my niece who decorated the bedroom of her future daughter using very soft colors. I first intended to sew a quilt using my beloved Liberty fabrics but, after I received the pictures of the wallpapers, I put them away and decided to try a new fabric selection.

Quite happy with it... the colors matched successfully! 

I love the atmosphere of this baby girl's room... definitely sweet romantic.

Those pictures were taken in Paris, three days before Simone's birth!

La Droguerie

A little trip to Paris last week. And for me, going to Paris means visiting and shopping at La Droguerie, my favorite haberdasher's shop. They have their own production and dyeing of great quality yarns. In this wonderful shop you can find quilting fabrics, Liberty fabrics, all sorts of threads, buttons, beads, ribbons... as well as catalogues with their great patterns for children or adults.

I remember when this shop was created in 1975, I was one of their first customer and so happy to find cashmere yarn, out of which I knitted a sweater for the one who became and still is my husband!

Coming back to Athens I started knitting a little jacket for my 3 years old grandson.

I am as well progressing my giant hexagon quilt top.

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Double Four Patch Quilt in Paris

This is the last episode of the Double Four Patch quilt series that began years ago in Athens and ends now in Paris, hanged in my sister's lounge. Thanks to the interest she shown in this project I managed to finish it! Otherwise it may have remained in my UFOs closet for some more years...

When I received those pictures, I was so happy to see how well it matches with the furniture of my sister's lounge. She is as well so happy with it!

Miscellaneous from Paris

Last month I was in Paris at my sister's house and I re-discovered some things I had done for her and her daughter Lea a long time ago, so I took pictures as a souvenir.

The yellow patchwork bag is the first one I sewed, all hand pieced and hand quilted, as I had not yet a sewing machine. The little red and blue bag comes from Provence in the south of France, from the Souleiado shop. I love this shop, they have such beautiful things and great traditional fabrics from this part of France.

As a matter of fact, this yellow fabric is as well typical from Provence.

This little doll is dressed with clothes knitted by my mother when we were children.

Blue drawstring bag.

Some years ago, more than quilts, I enjoyed making dolls, such as this one.

I used also to make various objects for Christmas :  decorative trees, hearts, stars...

My sister Dominique is a sculptor and this little sculpture is one of her works. Together, on the table are some parts of her collection of antique Barbotines.

I love the colors of this antique pot.

This is an incredible antique Barbotine dish... inspiring colors again!

Greetings to all my friends!

Christine

Paris

Pink building

Theatre

Rue Cadet - Paris 9e

Rue du Faubourg Montmartre - Paris 9e

5 rue Versigny - Paris 18e

5 rue versigny - Paris 18e

Passage Jouffroy - Paris 9e

Antiques

Book shop

Art

Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts

Mercerie

Mercerie

I came back from France last week and I am happy to share with you those few "postcards" of the places I like to visit when I stay in Paris. They are very few pictures because I was often forgetting my camera, or I did not want to carry to much burden. Next time I hope to make a better and more dense report of the hundreds of places I love in Paris. 

As regards quilting shops, my favorite one "Le Rouvray", that was ruled by an American woman, had closed last year. There is another one that I went to, but I did not decide to buy anything from there, plus I had not my camera, so no picture of a quilting shop! 

I stayed in Paris for almost one month, and I was so busy visiting family and friends that I did not do the least stitch, neither did I knit, although I intended to, as I bought yarns from the little shop shown above.

Now it's time to work on a new quilting project. I have another order from a friend in Paris who just became grandmother of a little girl. So let's start again a new baby quilt!

Have a wonderful week!

Christine

Exhibition Paris March 2013

Last year in Paris, I was lucky enough to visit the Mona Bismarck

American Center. The antique quilts exhibited were exceptionally

beautiful with a great range of various styles.

This Baltimore quilt was a pure beauty,

the most stunning I ever saw, huge size 

and excellent state, like never used.

The appliqué extremely refined, the colors gorgeous!

This one was my favorite one,

mainly because of this rare green color,

and the red hexagons in between the diamonds.

This Pineapple Variation of Log Cabin

with its black background was awesome!

Great inspiration for future creations!

I will never forget this impressive exhibition.