fredag, april 29, 2022

 A room of her own

With the new sewing machine, I have finally grew out of my computer table turned quilting work space (se Thursday, February 13, 2020). Since there were no spare room in our appartment, I  bought a room in a box
A Room in a Box

It's really great and has wheels so it can easily be moved to whereever I want to sit. And when it's wrapped up, it fits perfectly under my small design wall.

Now I have no excuse for not learning to mashine quilt. All equipment is top-notch, all that's missing is my skills..... it's like Dorothy Parker said about writing: “Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.”

Luckily I have a "side project" to sweeten it up: British quilt history. I'm planning to make a quilt to my daughter and her British boyfriend and while I was thinking about fabrics for that it occured to me, that I don't know much about British quilts, their history and traditions. When I started quilting in the 1990s, it was the Americans that ruled the quilt waves. They wrote the books, they came to Europe to teach, they had the biggest magazines, guilds, events and quiltcons and the most fabrics. 

There's a lot to catch up on in that area too......