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Archive for March, 2010

The battle of Martinique continues.

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Frau Schmid and I had a real struggle down at the patchwork shop yesterday trying to find the perfect fabric to blend in with the Martinique colours. I guess I could have waited to be able to get yardage of one of the fabrics from the jelly roll, but I doubt if they would be […]

Meet Bumble Bee….

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Bumble Bee finally  left the house today for the first time since I don’t know how long. Here she is, having fun – and I can promise you that no coertion or mistreatment of poor defenceless animals occured during the production of this photo. There is no way that this little lady does anything she […]

Not how I expected at all….

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

I know this is a rather strange photo – I was hanging almost upside down off our balcony and trying to get a photo of the nine patch blocks I have made so far from the Martinique jelly roll – I needed natural light and the table was the cleanest place (although it isn’t all […]

Jelly Roll Delight

Monday, March 15th, 2010

I just received the most delightful package – 4 Moda jelly rolls from the US. They are absolutely gorgeous – as you can see below. Time to start a new quilt I think. And as my last quilt was made entirely of fabric that I already had, this time I’m allowed to use the new […]

Scherenschnitt to die for…

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Yesterday we finally made it to a wonderful exhibition at the Bellerive Museum on the lakeshore in Zürich. I looooove Scherenschnitt and had wanted to see it for a couple of months. Meg was visiting from Erlangen in Germany, so we treated ourselves. (Scherenschnitt is cut paper work – apparently some of the oldest pictures […]