Spring Inspiration

 

Searching for some inspiration for the spring decoration of my home, I brought various magazines in the garden, a cup of coffee... I so enjoy this activity! Spring is a great source of inspiration for painting, quilting... the miracle season! The flowers are marvelous, especially the wisteria fragrant with scent. 

In a COUNTRY HOMES & Interiors April 2014 issue, I found a picture of a quilt that reflects my spring happy mood and I am hopping up and down of impatience to start a similar one... fabric order??? Sure I will not find what I want in my stash...

Though it may be a more reasonable idea to finish my Gyspy Four Patch Quilt that I began to enlarge two months ago. See the progress here.

Roses Tapestry

It is the season when the roses are flowering everywhere in the garden, and the opportunity with the rose's theme to share with you the pictures of this wonderful tapestry I have in my lounge, done by my mother-in-law half a century ago. It is such a refined "petit point" tapestry! I never got bored having it in front of my eyes all these years.

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

Kaleidoscope Quilt Top

This is a top I finished many years ago. At that time in Greece it was difficult to find fabrics for quilting. Travelling was expensive, we did not know how to import and we had to wait for somebody of the group to travel abroad and bring us some pieces of fabrics that we were considering as treasures! Very often I asked my sons, students at that time, to bring me fabrics from Paris or London! We would not throw any inch of this precious fabric! So I was collecting whatever scraps nice friends were giving me, and that's how I did this kaleidoscope quilt, without any selection of fabric colors or style. However, since then it remained in a closet with some other tops. I think that one of the reasons is that I was hand quilting all my works, and therefore advancing very slowly. Now I thought of giving it to be machine quilted, so I added a sashing, choosing red color as "in the doubt add red". I like the result and it is now ready to be quilted.

Happy quilting to everyone!

Christine

Chevron Baby Girl Quilt Finished

Another finished baby quilt. I had published a tutorial about how to make this chevron Here.

For the backing I chose a fabric print of Jemima Puddle Duck from a tale of Beatrix Potter, my "idole".

As well on the top I used a fabric print with Jemima eggs in a nest. I found some illustrations of this tale in this

wonderful book.         

Enjoy your day!

Christine