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 Hi There, This was the 3rd quilt top I started in my ‘quilting career’.  Back in 2013 I was fascinated with the traditional ‘Snowball’ (also called ‘Fleur de Lis’) block and enthusiastically cut (with home made cardboard templates!) into the fabrics I had brought with me from my birth country. Amongst them, a table cloth that had belonged to my Granny (partly stained), a table cloth, my Mum had given me for my first flat, curtains, one of my sisters had passed on to me, curtains from the last flat I had back in Germany and some left over fabric, I had bought for soft furnishings in said flat. As most of the fabric amounts were very limited, I spent a long time, arranging the pieces for a pleasing layout.  Starting the piecing by machine, I realised I couldn’t get the pieces to match as they should, so I pivoted to piecing the blocks all by hand. Needless to say, this took some time (between other quilting projects, of course!). The top was finished in 2016, well – nearly...

Hi There, Well,  yes, of course, all hand-made quilts are more than ‘just’ a bed cover!  But this one is also a Magazine Cover! Woohoo! I am so honored, that Make Modern Magazine chose a picture of my quilt to use on the cover of Issue 67. Cracked is one of the quilts I made with blocks I designed especially for ‘Quilts for Care Leavers’ in mind. This charity asks for quilts in (ideally) the size 44” x 70”. So, the blocks I designed are 11” x 14” finished.  The quilt described in MM67 is not quite the right size for the charity, but I have added another row of blocks, and the quilt will go to it’s destination shortly.   Hope you are intrigued enough to get your hands on a Make Modern Magazine and try this pattern out. Take care, Rita

 Hi There, Did I ever mention, that I like to challenge myself? Well, with this quilt, I definitely did. This was the first time I drafted a full-quilt-size FPP pattern (48 print pages). And no, I did not come up with the idea of making a dinosaur quilt myself. This quilt was a commission from a friend of mine, who wanted a dinosaur quilt for her adult son. No joke, this young man is still completely serious about his interest in everything dinosaur. He’s especially fond of the Spinosaurus. So that’s what my brief was, together with the colour theme blue/green. The longest time, (well, after researching how a Spinosaurus was supposed to look like) it took me to draft the pattern, after that, I just dove in and got it finished as quickly as I could. ‘Spinosaurus’ was finished well before the deadline, so I took it on an outing for a special photo-shoot to a dinosaur theme park. Asking complete strangers to please hold up a quilt for you to photograph gives you the nicest conversatio...

 Hi There! Anyone afflicted, can attest how the cost of Christmas presents can add up… In 2015 I was short of funds to spare on presents (for various costly reasons, including a wedding and house move). I decided to make something instead of buying. The Poinsettia Table mat was born. I like the design, if I may say so myself, the problem with it was, that all the seams meet in the middle and create a bothersome bulk. This year I revisited this design to see if I could re-create it in a different way using Foundation Paper Piecing. I tried this out a few times using alternative colour combinations. Proud to say, that the Make Modern Magazine has accepted to publish my efforts as the Flower Table Topper. Take care, Rita