I think every quilter encounters this problem: what to do with scraps, how to use them, how small they have to be that could be thrown away? First of all, scraps are worth of saving and using because of the pollution that textile industry produces. The more scraps we use, and more textiles we reuse …
Crafts
My Creative Backstory
This blog post was inspired by my friend and mentor Brenda Gael Smith. She started a series of blog posts Creative Backstory where she is reflecting on what she has learned since she made her first baby quilt 20 years ago. Since then Brenda became a world known quilt artist, teacher, mentor and …
Elephants
Where do elephants live? Africa, India, South East Asia... When I saw this piece of applique, my first thought was about India. The piece itself came from my daughter-in-law. More than two years ago my son and his family moved into their new home in Heidelberg, Germany. In a gazebo they …