Nähen für mich - Frau Marlene

Immer wieder passiert's, ich entwickle eine neue Handarbeitsleidenschaft.
Das war schon so mit Patchworkdecken, diversen Häkel- und Strickprojekten.

Im Herbst habe ich mir dann einen Traum erfüllt und mir eine Overlock gekauft. Nichts tolles, nur eine Singer vom Kafferöster, aber ich liebe sie schon.

So begann mein Näh- Wunderland.
Zuerst für die kleine Schnecke, Bodys, Leggings, Pullis,...
Und letzte Woche der nächste Schritt, die ersten Kleidungsstücke für mich.

Besonders gefallen mir für mich die Schnitte von fritzi&schnittreif. Die sind echt super und es gibt sooo viele schöne!
FrauHennie, FrauFannie und FrauRieke habe ich schon probiert, nun folgte eine FrauMarlene.

Und... Ich bin echt begeistert. Bis auf ein kleines Problem bei dem mir sicher jemand helfen kann. Dazu weiter unten mehr.

Hier mal ein paar Fotos.

Und hier das Problem.

Meine Ausschnittkante rollt sich vorne und hinten immer nach außen. Warum? Zuwenig gebügelt? Zu viel gedehnt beim Nähen? Wer hat einen Tipp?

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Monday Morning EPP Count September 2015 Part Two

Slow but steady progress.

Many more light hexies needed to join my stars. But I really enjoy this, after every finished hexagon I'm able to rip apart some papers, and this is so satisfying!

I don't now yet how to fill the party around the border, sew whole hexies and half stars and then cut them down, or fill these parts with templates in the right size...

What do you think?

I had to have a picture of the backside of my work this week, it also looks so nice I always think.

This week I'm linking up with Jessicas MMSC over at lifeunderquilts.com again. I love her posts and the MMSC, it always encourages me to start again...

Monday Morning EPP Count September 2015 Part One

Slow but steady progress over here.

I'm joining together all my stars with the big hexies, and I have to say I really enjoy this part. Maybe it's because now everything starts coming together and you get a better image of the final look with every seam, or it's the excitement while taking the paper pieces out, I don't know, but I'm really on the flow at the moment.

Many more hexies have to be cut, glued and joined to the stars, but I see a silver lining...

So nothing more to say, here are just another couple of pics.

Monday Morning EPP Count August 2015 Part Three

This post was supposed to go life one week ago when the original MondayMorningStarCount goes up and I can link to it, but since their has not been one (don´t no why, really unusual and strange, I´m a little worried), this is up today, with another post in the line...

We spent the last week in beautiful styria for a so much enjoyed family vacation.

Not much sewing has been done, but I'm totally fine with it, some really nice grown ups talking evenings with a good glass of wine and candle light happend instead. 

Some stuff has been done, so this are the pics of my progress so far...

Probably the last four stars I need...

Likely the layout in the end, with a lot of neutrals missing, but I like it so far.

Two stars too much, will probably cut them in half and use them on the sides in the finish line...

Still a lot to do, but I hope to finish in the next couple of weeks, at least with the top. Don´t need another ufo...

Monday Morning EPP Count August 2015 Part Two

Last time I asked what expierences others had with glue basting, I was a little mew about it. The respones where great, the ideas, advice and concerns of others really helped, thanks to all the other quilters out there!

After two weeks of use, I think I've come to terms with it, and I mean this in the most positive way.

I changed the glue (no elmers school glue around here available, but I use a brand of a local discounter) and paper (much smoother surface now) I use, and it makes all the differnce.

This change of products was simple coincidence, just run out of the old stuff and this was all I could get, but man, I love it.

Now I am addicted to glue basting, it goes oh so quick and easy, basted 42 rectangles and six hexies in under a hour!

And this is my progress so far...

The big piece looks like this:

Hope you don`t mind the kid, use it as reference...

Six stars have been sewn together (3 already connected to the big piece):

42 star pieces are waiting for me:

Best news, now I know what this quilt will be. I wasn't sure a long time, so I was uncertain about the colours I'm using.

This will be another one for my sweet little A (see her first one here). It will be smaller, so it covers her while taking naps during the day in her bed. I seek for a size about 150x135cm (about 60x53 inch).

And since I knew this, I decided to go for some more girlier fabriques too. 

I'm using the salmony fabrique again, which is really special for me because it was part of As bassinet and also her first blanket.

So now the colour scheme is really bright and colourful, and it think I have enough stars and colours to finish, we will see how this goes, maybe I should lay everything out to get a better image of the size...

Hope you like what you see!

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com

Monday Morning EPP Count August 2015

It's Monday! Maybe the one thing which makes mondays "okay" is the MondayMorningStarCount.

For sure I'm excited about it every monday.

Two stars have been finished this last week.

One of those has already been used in the "big" piece. Which now looks loke this:

And last evening, with the kid in bed and the boy watching TV, I was able to bast pieces for three more stars plus eight hexies. Not till I took those pictures did I recognize I basted one too many piece in orange. Hmpf, I was so IN the process.

This is my first time using the glue basting technique. First I was totally excited about it. It is so quick, which is a big plus nowadays. 

However, while I was freeing the first pieces the other day and was really flashed by the one big minus, and I know this should be really obvious but did not occur to me while all my excitement. When you pull the paper off of the fabrique you probably tear it apart. Hm, bummer. I was able to use most of the pieces at least a second time, and since I print and cut them all by myself it's okay, but it means little of the time I safe by glueing is spend in cutting the templates. So far this is fine by me, maybe I'll change something up while on the go, there is still a long way ahead of finishing this one...

I'm curious, what is your opinion, do you like glue-basting? What are your experiences?

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com

Monday Morning EPP Count July 2015

I'm on the train again.

There are weeks were I only sew one star, and then are weeks, no, excuse me, days, were I am able to do much more. 

Friday was one of those. I was able to sew four new stars, plus I also did two hexies to finally start to join my first stars together. And really, joining those parts together is really a good felling, isn't it? I love it! 

So, this is my progress from last week and all my work so far. 

Hope you like it!

As always I'm linking up with Jessicas MondayMorningStarCount over at lifeunderquilts.com