Origami Butterfly

I'm not sure I really remember how I did it, I made it up and it is written down nowhere... :-)

Handbag

Just completed this handbag: 

it shows handmade quilting stitches, 

it's large (40 x 66 cm with handles) since I have no use for small purses, 

it is colorful and shows some of my self made buttons, 

it's robust and washable (it's all cotton, jeans fabric for the handles, filled with a polyester fleece).

I combined it with a smaller bag for items which would get lost in such a bag.

Plus there are three inner pockets to hold everything in place.
So now I hope for summer to come soon! :-)

This here has not much to do with quilts... but I love this picture somehow, I like how the figures seem to be in deep conversation, they seem to contrive a means of helping a friend in need...
I took this picture at an old greenhouse which is now used for workshops and for exhibitions...so lovely!
If you like: click on the picture for a better view.

Happy Mother's Day!

Manchmal findet man etwas wieder, das man schon lange vermisst hat, nach dem man lange gesucht hat....

"Gazing at the quilt that had so long eluded her, Sylvia resolved to gather the precious scraps of her mother's history and piece them together until a pattern emerged, until she understood as well as any daughter could the choices her mother had made. ...
She had found the New York Beauty at last, and with it, a small portion of her mother's history. ... 
'My mother made this quilt,' said Sylvia,..., knowing that in a moment, Claire would turn over the quilt to reveal the initials and date Eleanor Lockwood Bergstrom had embroidered so many years ago, as if she had known this day would come."

(from: The Quilter's Legacy, by Jennifer Chiaverini, 2003)

This is going to be my next big quilt,

it's a "pinwheel"-pattern, set on top,

but I like the name "windmill" better -

and it just comes naturally to me at the moment to use all these bold colors!

It's just like Pablo Picasso said:

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

Can one really explain this?

no."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/color