After a long wintersleep.........;

This quilt came home yesterday.
My quilts are sometimes adopted for a while by fellow quilters or just quiltlovers, but this one stayed for a couple of years in a french quiltshop in Bry sur Marne, at Patricia's FIL A LA PAT, as a support for selling her paperpiecing sheets.
All hand made, english paper piecing method, for a double bed.
Inspired by an antique dutch quilt, as the one i showed a while ago, and i started the same one with a red background, and smaller pieces.
The thing i love in paperpiecing is, that i can take it with me everywhere, while travelling or waiting for boring appointments, just have to carry a small box with me.

Claude L, a long time quilt relation gave me a bunch of remnants from one of her projects,

and i could make the amount of blocks for a single bed quilt.

Thank you Claude, all the string blocks were made with your little stash without losing a tread!

The intermediate four-patches came from my own stash, the turqoise fabric is an African batik.

I've put freezer paper on the bach of the string blocks, for easy proper sewing.

A recent junkshop trophee:

Vintage flowerpots and nasty olé olé angels.

The background is an utterly ugly kind of salmon pink, but i'm sure it is the good stuff for a fun quilt, yeah!

And here are the goodies Patricia gave me for using the hexagon quilt.

Thank you Patricia, it fits in perfectly with the kind of fabric i bought the last few months...........







I've been silent and lazy this winter: just reading blogs, and hardly sewing.

Winter was cold , dark and very long in my mind, but with the growing days and sunlight coming back i hope for more energy. I will be back very soon with my coming out as a shoe hoarder, i made pics of all of my shoes until my very first pair as a baby in 1946, i'm a real baby boomer!

My DS stayed with us for a week, and she took home 5 pairs, we have the same size and we LOVE good brands!

Do i share this dark side with other people??????????

Will V in Paris, take care you all!