Bei den Girls geht es ab 1. Januar rund! Bei unserer Gruppe Girls around the Block geht es demnächst rund! Im Januar ist die beste Zeit zum Aufräumen, auch im Nähzimmer. Deshalb wollen wir mit dem passenden Creative Grids-Lineal aus unseren Stoffresten 20 (oder mehr) Curvy Log Cabin-Blöcke in der Größe 4½ Inch nähen. Wenn man einmal den Dreh raushat, ist es ganz leicht – einfach kurze Stoffstreifen in der Breite 1½ Inch raussuchen und vom 1. – 31. Januar mitnähen! Wenn du Lust hast dabei zu sein, besorg dir das kleine Lineal, nutze gerne unser „Ich bin dabei“-Logo und los geht’s! Nutze dies ..read more

I love the creative preparation, choosing patchwork fabrics, collecting initial design ideas for a quilt, drawing, planning, calculating – but only when there is order around me and I have an overview of everything. I consider something like creative chaos to be a myth. But like everyone who loves to sew, I’ve accumulated a fair amount of leftover fabric over time. More and more boxes were filled with crumpled scraps of fabric, so that fabrics that I once carefully selected for quilts, table runners and cushions became more of a burden than a reason to be happy. Quilt and patchwork fabrics – i ..read more

For us, patchwork fabrics are the most important material for our creative work. Anyone who has been infected by the patchwork virus is usually infected for the rest of their lives – the indulgence in shapes and colours, the creative design and the manual work that leads to a beautiful quilt is too beautiful. Fabric samples in many beautiful designs and colors and a seemingly endless number of patchwork blocks and sewing techniques open up 1001 possibilities. Do you feel the same? If you haven’t quite finished a project yet, your head is already rumbling and we mentally get into the next creat ..read more

Since January 1st, 2020 I am a member of the Patchwork Gilde Deutschland e. V., so just under a year and four months, a relatively short time when you know how long others have been members there (the guild was founded on November 2nd, 1985). When I discovered patchwork and quilting years ago, I was immediately hooked and plunged headfirst into this world. I couldn’t watch enough videos about certain techniques, couldn’t read enough blog posts about beautiful tutorials, couldn’t look at enough inspirational pictures on the internet. But what I missed was contact with like-minded people. Certai ..read more

What is the difference between patchwork and quilting? In patchwork, small pieces of fabric are sewn together to form a larger textile. These pieces of fabric can be of different materials and sewn in different shapes and sizes. Thus, the term patchwork refers to a technique rather than a finished work or an object such as a blanket. To make a quilt, you first create what’s called a quilt sandwich of quilt top (usually a patchwork), batting, and backing fabric (often from a single large sheet of fabric) and stitch through it all (the quilting) so it will hold together later. So the quilt is th ..read more

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Do you admire perfect seam intersections in quilts and want to improve your skills? Then be sure to read on! Precise sewing in patchwork – what it’s all about Shelley Scott-Tobisch is an American quilter who has developed her own modular system for accurate sewing in patchwork to help us achieve more accurate sewing results. She explains this system in her book “ Easy Precision Piecing “, from which I would like to present various (not all) steps here. At this point I ask for your understanding that I cannot reveal any details, because that would not be fair to Shelley. But I have the book in ..read more

Welcome So glad you could join our Christmas Sew-along from the 05.10. – 09.11.2022 want to be there! You’ll find the latest installment of our tutorial here every Wednesday at 7pm, we’re really looking forward to seeing your very own version of our Christmas table runner! Don’t forget: Show & Tell by Zoom on Saturday, 26.11.2022 to get in the mood for the 1st Advent. The link will be announced in time. You want to be there? Then download the post and story image for the Sew-along and post it with the hashtag #wonderfultimesal on Instagram and Facebook. Instructions/Downloads Post image ..read more

The trend is toward online shopping More and more people are shopping online instead of driving to local stores. This is illustrated by the sales figures in e-commerce, which have been rising exponentially since the 1990s. There are also expert forecasts up to 2025 that show that more and more people will continue to shop online in the future and want to do so. To give you an overview: There are now around 120,000 online stores in Germany, and more are being added all the time. Stoffe und Zubehör fürs QuiltenDemand and supply: local stores are (unfortunately!) dying out While online retail is ..read more

When you sew, you put two things together, namely fabric and yarn. It’s clear that high-quality patchwork fabrics are important to me, but what about yarn? Anyone who has ever sewn cheap no-name thread knows why I don’t use these. Patchwork is undoubtedly a passion that requires no small investment, but you really shouldn’t skimp on yarn. There are far more than one or two reasons for this…. Did you know? A sewing thread is a single spun thread, a sewing thread consists of threads twisted together. Stitching together jelly roll strips with Aurifil 50wt – shown here in a contrasting color for h ..read more