Sapphire's Stitching Stanza

According to Wikipedia, "A biscornu is a small, octagonal, stuffed ornamental pincushion. It is usually made out of Aida cloth or linen, sewn from two square sheets of cloth (forming the to...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/10/biscornu.html

 Well, the mojo clearly back. Within the last four weeks or so, I've finished six projects (four small, one already well on it's way to be finished, and one large kit from start to finish) Pan...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/09/my-stitching-mojo.html

Another month, another quilt. This quilt is made from a total of 781 hst squares in six different sizes from 1 1/2 inch to 5 inch. I've got the idea from the book 'No Scrap Left Behind' by Amand...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/07/hst.html

Originally the pattern (April Birthstone 'Diamond' by MJ Kinman) is done in some foundation piecing technique where you piece the individual pieces together bit by bit - I didn't really understan...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/06/diamonds-are-girls-best-friend.html

One of my favorite collegues is leaving the company nex month, and so I decided to make her a quilt (she's a sewer, so she will appreciate it) The start of the quilt was basically me going throu...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/05/swedish-quarter-log-cabin-quilt.html

I mentioned that paper making can be addictive. Just to show some of the papers off (this time in a good size of 23 by 30 cm - 9 by 12 inches) I've made a whole stack (around 50 sheets): Bes...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-paper-making.html

No, I'm not in such a deperate need of toilet paper that I turned to making it myself. The current lockdown has the 'advantage' that I finally got around trying out some things I wanted to do fo...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/04/paper-making.html

I admit, I totally ripped off the Mega Star quilt pattern by Zen Chic. It was one of those cases of falling in love at first sight, but also looking forward to the challange of working out to how...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/03/modern-lone-star.html

I've warned you that I made a lot of socks lately. First pair is using a pattern called 'Shur'tugal' (after the dragon riders in the Eragon saga). I used a Wollmeise twin in a beautiful shaded r...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/03/socks.html

Sorry for the long silence. Part was, that other than socks (lots of socks) I didn't have anything interesting to show. But, finally, I've got another finished quilt: This one is called The ...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2020/02/little-drummer-boy.html

... is over already. I don't know how time can pass so quickly. I did a little bit of paper folding for decorations.  Made cookies to eat. And sow a bunch of rice pad hand warmers (the bi...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/12/christmas-2019.html

I've been to Venice :-) So, pictures:

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/10/venice.html

After a long while, I've pulled out my riged heddle loom once again, and did a bit of weaving. One thing I wanted to try is mixed-media weaving. Here's it fabric, yarn and paper stripes mixed. T...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/10/weaving-and-bookbinding.html

And some more projects from my current favorite book. Binders! In the book, they are actually sewing binders, and I made one using an old sewing pattern, which I laminated and used to cover the...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/10/cross-stitch-meets-binder.html

Last week I mentioned Michaela Müller's Book 'Fabric Meets Paper'. I made another project from the books, a small photo album. For the cover I used a stitch doodle I made, when I went throug...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/09/fabric-meets-photo.html

Two years ago I won a craft book by Michaela Müller ('Bunte Bücher'). I really enjoyed the book and did some of the projects, so when her new book came out this week, I didn't hesitate to buy i...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/09/fun-in-sun.html

I started this quilt in October 2017. The pattern is from a Bernina QAL and for a while I was quite good at sewing my triangles every time a new clue came out. But at one point I slipped an...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/08/triangel-quilt.html

I've made more boxes. A box for my inking pads.  A box for my stamp carving tools.  And a box, because I wanted to see if I can make a hexagon box (I can, even though this is the second ...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/07/more-boxes.html

I'm not really a fan of the sport boxing. But I've discovered that I'm very much a fan of Making Boxes. Box making is kind of a sister to book binding, and uses many of the same materials and s...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/07/boxing.html

One classic pattern for using up left over stripes is the Roman Stripes pattern. Sewing on a foundation (in my case left over batting I pieced together from the cuttings of various quilts) the b...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/06/roman-stripes.html

Hi there. I'm still here. Sorry for being so quite lately, but on one hand there has been some not so funny life stuff going on, on the other hand I was away for four weeks in the US on a busi...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/06/laurelie.html

.... I'm having a good time. Or an obsession. Here are: Baker's Twine Potholder Nummero 2  Baker's Twine Potholder Nummero 3  Aaaaand Baker's Twine Potholder Nummero 4 Nope, not a p...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/04/dont-stop-me-now.html

Two weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned a new potholder pattern, which is quite popular right not. I checked it out, liked it, bought the pattern and got knitting. The pattern itself is not d...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/03/bakers-twine.html

Sorry for being off for so long. Other stuff got in the way (nothing serious, just playing too much computer games) Anyway, I finished the Wonky Flower Baby Quilt. And I love it! The quilt is...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/03/wonky-flower-baby-quilt.html

A couple of days ago, I came across a new trick that solved a problem I had with sewing Wonky Flowers. The problem was that I never managed to align the background very good, which leads to a lot...

http://sapphire2001.blogspot.com/2019/02/wonky-flowers-tutorial.html