I bought some linen at the Stoffmarkt Holland to sew myself a summer dress. So as I didn’t have access to the next module of my C&G course I made a start on it last Thursday, which was a public holiday here. The pattern is from a Burda magazine I bought last summer.

I only got as far as tracing the pattern in my size and then cutting out the pieces from the material and then I had had enough. This is my least favourite part of the whole process.

Yesterday I made a start on sewing the pieces together. The bodice is looking like it might become a piece of clothing soon. And my pressing skills learnt at QU were put to use here too.

The collar is assembled and ready for attaching to the bodice. Here I really noticed that the classes I’ve taken for patchwork have improved all my sewing. The collar went to together first time and the lapel edges are all the same length. Accurate piecing helps with dressmaking too. I could tell my dressmaking skills were rusty though. I had only cut out half the number of pieces for the collar - only one lapel and one collar piece No wonder I had so much extra fabric!

This may be the last post for sometime as we are off on holiday next Saturday. As we are traveling by car we will probably take my little Apple Notebook with us. So there may be something to look at.

Today the Stoffmarkt Holland came to Frankfurt and we were there! I have to admit that I find it all a bit overwhelming. There are so many stalls and so many people that I end up dithering. You can buy everything from sewing thread to notions and sewing patterns. This time there was even a Bernina stall.

Despite the plethora of possible purchases I managed to narrow it down to some cotton fabrics in various pinks (which turned out to contain lycra when I got home ), some batiks, 2 pieces of denim and some linen to make myself a summer dress.

Sqeze is very patient and follows me around doling out the cash when I decide to purchase. What more can a girl want?

Well it did take a few weeks to get to this point, but now there is something to look at on this site. So I’m ready to go public. Still to come a gallery with the results of my first attempts at dyeing my own fabrics. Don’t expect anything remarkable. These things take a bit of practice.

The gallery has some photos of three of my quilts.
The links still need a bit of editing.

Anyway I hope you find something here to interest you enough that you will come and visit me again.

As you can see, I’m setting up a site on quilting and patchwork.

It could be a couple more weeks (or longer) before I’m ready to go, so bear with me for the moment. When this is finished there will be blog and a photo-gallery showing some of my quilts and how they were produced. Lots of work still before that though!
Cheers for now,

Ruth