Dreaming of Summer

Do you find yourself dreaming and yearning for summer all year long?... especially those moments at the beach just soaking up the warm sun, being cooled by the fresh salty air, and curling your toes up in the sand while settling into an inner calmness lulled by the soothing constancy of the waves crashing onto the shore. Such summer memories were the inspiration for my latest projects for Lena's Patchwork Magazin.

One of my favorite beach time activities as a child, next to building sand castles, was collecting seashells. Still to this day, I am fascinated by their beauty and uniqueness. These pretty little free motion applique mussels can be used in a variety of ways for fun summer decorating from table runners to vase covers, or even adorn a favorite picture frame.
 

The complete pattern and instructions, as well as more summer crafting ideas, can be found in the June issue of Lena's Patchwork Magazine. (German) For my other projects as featured in both Lena's Patchwork and Anna Magazin can be found here, here, here, and here.

 Linking up to Let's Bee Social and Sew Cute Tuesday.

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Vogelhochzeit & Lena's Patchwork

Some time back my oldest son started a special tradition with his Omama (grandmother), that each time they would drive somewhere together he would always get a bon-bon and she would play his favorite CD, Vogelhochzeit (Bird Wedding.) The Vogelhochzeit is a sweet musical tale by a well known German composer Rolf Zuckowski. Unlike some other children's music, the whole CD is full from start to finish with melodic surprises that are truly a delight to hear.  

The tale starts out with a bird that wanted to have a wedding (Ein Vogel wollte Hochzeit machen)... "what does a bird do, who is alone? Do you all know what I mean? He looks for a spot in a tree, and sings his most beautiful song, and when he is lucky, soon a little female sits next to him."... and such delightful songs were the inspiration for my latest project's for Lena's Patchwork magazine (German):

The story progesses when the lonely bird greets his future mate and asks to sit next to her, they dance together, and later await the arrival of their baby. The mother-to-be bird dreams of one day flying again, but is happy to protect her little egg until the baby comes... and then later as expected "tick, tick, tick, what is knocking there in the egg"? (was klopft denn da im Ei?)

...the new little chick arrives and anxiously greets his parents "Hello Mama, Hello Papa, the time is up, and here I am. Hello Mama, Hello Papa, how are you, is everything OK?"

The little family soon finds out  that a baby chick is never full, but when he grows up that he wants to fly to the clouds, and knows that "he must learn a lot... dreams about the golden stars... wants to stand on his own legs... and fly the world alone."

The story comes to an end as the grown baby sits in his own tree and sings his most beautiful song... a bird wanted to have a wedding.

Models including patterns and sewing instruction in the Febuary issue of Lena's Patchwork magazine. Fabrics: Cori Dantini "Good Company" for Blend Fabrics.

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"It's Tea Time" & Lena's Patchwork

As I've shared so many times before, with me quiet always equals busy, but today I actually get to share with you what I've been sitting on for months now... I'm now offically published!

Ich habe ja schon häufiger davon gesprochen, dass "Stille" bei mir immer "Geschäftigkeit" bedeutet. Von daher war es in der vergangenen Zeit wieder sehr still um mich, aber heute kann ich endlich mit Euch teilen, was ich "ausgebrütet" habe: Ab heute bin ich publiziert!

 

At the beginning of the year I started working with the OZ-Verlag magazine, Lena's Patchwork, and today is the offical release date featuring five of my projects, including patterns and instructions! (German only)

Anfang des Jahres, habe ich angefangen, mit dem OZ-Verlag und der Zeitschrift "Lena's Patchwork" zusammenzuarbeiten und heute ist der Erstverkaufstag der aktuellen Ausgabe mit funf meiner eigenen Projekte, inklusive Schnittmuster und Anleitungen!

 

When I first started thinking of what kind of projects I would like to make with the "Sweet as Honey" collection from Bonnie Christine, I thought hmm, bees... hexagons... honey... and the tea time theme grew from there.  Here are a few snippits from the magazine which can be found in stands now!

Als ich begann, mit den "Sweet as Honey" Stoffen von Bonie Christine zu arbeiten, dachte ich "Hmmm, Bienen, Sechsecke, Honig… und daraus ist dann das "Tea Time" Thema erwachsen. Hier sind ein paar Glimpse von dem Magazin, das jetzt überall zum Verkauf ausliegt.

 

I've set up in the shop a special category for materials and supplies.... happy sewing!

Ich habe im Shop eine spezielle Kategorie angelegt, unter der Ihr die Materialien und "Zutaten" für die Projekte aus der Zeitschrift findet. Viel Spaß beim Nachnähen!

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