Quilted coasters from scrap fabric

I mentioned in a previous post that I don't like throwing away potentially useful things and hence have accumulated a large collection of scrap fabric. A fun way to use up scraps, is to piece them together to form a patchwork fabric. I enjoy this a lot, because you get to essentially make your own fabric …

Little fabric bucket

I have too much stuff. It's a direct consequence of me hating to throw things away that might still be useful (and in my imagination that applies to many, many things) and secondly I like to have options. In terms of fabric it means that I hold on to a large amount of scrap pieces …

The small forest backpack — part 1: materials, design and pattern making

Like many, I frequently have trouble with neck and shoulder pain. Besides doing something wrong when I sit at work, I'm pretty sure running around with a heavy shoulder bag (I always like to have lots of things with me, especially my laptop) is not helpful.  I do have backpacks of course, but I find …

My first (full size) quilt — part 2

This is the second post in a series about my first quilt project. In a previous post I described how I assembled four patchwork panels. Here I will describe the process of merging them into a single "sheet", which will later form the front side of a quilt, and how this sheet is then fused to the warm …

My first (full size) quilt — part 1

This is the first of several posts about my first proper quilt project. I started this project ages ago and kept coming back to it. I was inspired by an old patchwork blanket my mother had made when she was young and I also wanted to do something nice with a large collection of scrap …

A set of animal print bags

This post is about a set of bags I finished over a year ago, but since I thought they turned out rather well (and I have been using them a lot), I thought they still deserve a blog post! The bags were inspired by some beautiful organic cotton fabrics I got at my favorite local …