Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2018

Chess Quilt




It's fun, it's flat, it's portable, it's a decoration for a table and at the same time an ongoing invitation to sit down and spend some lovely time with a partner and play a nice game of chess...




The three-layers-quilt is 51 x 51 cm (20"x 20"),
one field is 5,5 cm x 5,5 cm, (2,1" x 2,1"),
it is sewn and quilted by hand and it consists of light cotton fabrics.




This is another one of my board-game-quilts, the other ones being a Backgammon-Quilt, a Round-Morris-Quilt and two quilts for games with rules I invented by myself:
"With a Little Help of My Friends" and "From Color to Color".

If you are interested here are the links:








There are so many more board-games, what a lovely possibility to spend some fun-time with friends and family...

I especially love the old hand-painted board games, I showed two examples (with a link for more) here:


So beautiful! 

Have fun!






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Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018

Unesco International Day of Light Today



Unesco: "Building peace in the minds of men and women"





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Sonntag, 13. Mai 2018

Arrangements of Small Pieces



I had been to Paris for a couple of days, and I found some very nice mosaic patterns which never fail to remind me of quilt patterns, I always stand in awe when I find these lovely arrangements of small pieces.

These first two pictures show mosaics at the wall of the former Henri-Cartier-Bresson -Museum in Montparnasse (the museum will move to the Marais quarter now).



... and this picture (and the last one here) shows a mosaic on the floor of the building where I had rented an apartment,
at  Montmartre :



.... and this is a mosaic which was mounted to the wall of a small building at Montmartre:





... and this here had been painted several times on the pavement all over Montmartre :





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