Yay, my top is quilted...

Yesterday I took a tour of the city

Dresden - Outer New Town

and opposite the "Kunsthofpassage" is the quilting workshop and I am so happy that I found it, Anke is a wonderful lady who is available to help and advise. Here is her work - long arm quilt...

As an insert I used a light needle-punched volume fleece made from 50% soy and 50% cotton, the back is combed cotton...

The sample fabric is the design of Tula Pink and the green in between is from Robert Kaufmann's collection... now it's time to bind... and yes, it is my very first large quilt... and my first binding. So see you later :-))

The waiting time for the quilt was shortened by our vacation...

We drove from east to south through all of Germany...

to Belgium and enjoyed the North Sea - the Atlantic Ocean.

We spent most of our vacation in England.

It was so beautiful. If you want to see some of it, I took more than 2000 photos... well, we were away for four weeks :-))

Hug 

from 

Viola.

I wish you a wonderful day

Sewing brings joy

On my little walks I pass the water lily pond... these colors are just so beautiful 

and I rummage through my fabrics at home...

I've decided I need a bucket hat... ...here is the pattern I recorded.

I originally wanted to make a reversible hat, but I ended up deciding on two hats.

And I baked croissants - the dough has to be folded several times and is always put in the fridge in between. The work is worth it, it's simply delicious...

And one of the next treats is this - now that there are fresh peaches...

put a peach on puff pastry

I put almond crumble on the peach before baking

I have now taken my very first two tops to the quilt shop because I realized that I can't quilt such large blankets on my household sewing machine... I'll do the binding myself :-) And there are long waiting times... the lady in the Quilt shop is super nice. I have faith. 

Of course you will see the result.  Until then

Hug from Viola

I'm in love with August

It's so beautiful outside - I could always go :-))) What a beauty.

There is always a lot going on at the bird bath in the garden. It's wonderful to watch the birds use your pool... 

And I continued working on my top.

It's Tilda fabric, I'll continue sewing on it. I like big blankets.

A hug from Viola 

Enjoy the summer.