THE MINI MACHINE

A new student that could not bring in her machine, used a friends 'portable' (more like 'pocket') sewing machine... And, here is the work she did with the mini machine... Not bad! Okay, it's hard to work with the mini machine because of lack of accuracy, but it's not impossible! :)

Angela...Our lovelly teacher...

Angela, want to thank you for all your help, dedication, and friendship! The ladies love you! As for me, Can't thank you enough for EVERYTHING!

Trabalho de ferias...

O tapete de mesa foi todo feita a mao... um primeiro projecto... MAS, depois comprou uma nova maquina BERNINA para poder trabalhar mais depressa... os outros dois quilt-tops sao o trabalho de ferias... :) Esta agora a aprender a quiltar para poder eventualmente acabar os dois projectos maiores. Nao ha quem-a pare! /// The table runner was all hand sewn.. it was her first project. But, she purchased a new BERNINA and the other two qulit-tops are all machine sewn... Her vacation work. :) She is now learing how to quilt so that she can finish the larger pieces. There is no stopping her. :)

Onda... What a life!!

A Onda adora estar por perto... normalmente em cima do que estiver na minha mesa de trabalho... // Onda lover to stay nearby.... Usually on top of whatever is on my worktable.

A Anita a trabalhar no novo quilt

A Anita esta a espera do inverno para poder quiltar o quilt castanho que pode ver mais abaixo no blot. Entretanto vai fazer um com tons the salmao e verdes... com os quadrados todos diferentes. :)

Anita is waiting for the winter to be able to quilt her blown quilt - which you can see an an earlier post. In the interim, she's working on a green and salmon quilt .. with all dif. blocks.

a Katja

Depois de QUASE acabar o quilt dos combois, deu inicio ao novo projecto composto do molho de fat quarters que vendemos na loja este verao (de Marcu Brothers)... Tudos em castanho e rosa velho. Vai sair um quilt the 'PINWHEELS" Acho que vai sair lindo. // After ALMOST finishing the thomas the train quilt, she started a new project composed with the fat quarter packs we sold here in the store this summer (from Marcus Brothers)... All in Browns and dark rose. Its going to be a PINWHEEL quilt. :) Think it's going to come out nice.

O SEXY quilt...

A Ana a trabalhar no 'sexy quilt'... aqui esta a concentrar no corte. Vamos ver se desta vez vai chegar a 'quiltar' o trabalho. :)

// Ana working on her 'sexy quilt'.. Here she's concentrating on the cut. Let's see if this time she'll get to the actual quilting of the project. :)

O primeiro projecto...

Mais uma aluna que iniciou o trabalho a mao e acabou a coser a maquina. A filha gostou tanto do 'runner' que ficou com ele. Que pena! Quem que fazer outro - desta vez todo a maquina. :)

// Another student that started to work by hand and ended by machine. Her daugheter liked it so much that she kept it. Too bad, she's going to have to make another one.

Consentration...
O trabalho da Ines... Uma aldeia... // Ine's work... A little town...

Duas alternativas...

O trabalho da Katja...

Esta quase pronto .. // Almost done...

A look at the selection...

Here is a little look at all the fabrics.... // aqui pode ver os tecidos....

A quinta da SAMI

Aqui estao alguns galos e galinhas que a cliente / amiga Sami fez do livro da TILDA... nao ha dois iguais, e cada um com a sua personalidade... Os bichinhos sao LINDOA!! / Here are some roosters and chickens that a customer/friend (SAMI) has madeup from TILDAS book... No two are alike and each with its own personality.

DNa. MANUELA'S SECRET PROJECT

Finalmente acabou o quilt secreto. E, fez o quilting todo sozinha. Mas, nao quer mostrar a ninguem com receio que reparem que as 50 flores que quiltou sao todas diferentes. :) Ficou lindo. Este foi todo feito pela Dona Manuela do principio ao fim. :)

FAT QUARTER BUNDLES...

I've been a little busy latelly with the show, my mom's vacation and just generally very busy days at the store, so I haven't had a chance to post any news... Here are pictures of some of the bundles, unfortunatelly the larger one is no longer available - I sold them all in 3 days. I still about about 4 each of the smaller ones that have 14FQ. // Tenho andado um bocado atarefada com a FIA e as ferias da minha mae... Em geral, dias muito ocupados na loja. Nao tenho tido oportunidade de colocar fotos. Aqui estam fotos os molhos de FQ (Fat Quarters +/- 50cm x 60cm cada fq). O maior ja nao esta disponivel. Dos molhos mais pequenos ainda tenho ums 4 de cada. :)

FIA -- My first Crafter's show

Just hanging out.. This was at the very end of the night. SMILE!!
Angela was bored, so she went out to take some pics...
No one was bored here... the TEAM was working at full gas: Dna. Manuela (The calculator), Sofia (Bag Lady) Dan (Angela's assistant) and Angela (the Cutting lady)... :) Me... taking the picture -- I had nothing to do - I didn't fit on that side of the stand. :)

My new project...

So many quilt tops, and no time to quilt... Yet another quilt top to add to the bunch...

Algumas fotos desta semana...

A sofia AINDA tem mais uns meses de remates; a Ines a planear o proximo projecto; a Dna Paula com um LINDO avental; E Uma aluna nova MUITO entusiamada com o seu primeiro projecto... :)

The 'Blue Lady"

Can anyone guess why we call this lady the "BLUE LADY"? Today we had so many nice projects nearing an end and I didn't have a chance to take pictures of them all. :(

You can see how she used up her left-overs in the back // Alguem consegue adivinhar porque chamamos esta senhora a 'BLUE LADY" (senhora AZUL)? Hoje tinhamos tantos projectos perto de acabarem, mas tristemente nao tive tempo de ir tirar mais fotos... mas aqui esta um projecto que foi feito com muito carinho e amor...

My favorite basket...

Danny took these pictures of my basket... I just can't help thinking of a basket full of flowers every time I look at it. :) By the way, for those who don't know, these are fat quarters, we sell them for 2,50 euros each. // O Daniel tirou estas fotos.... Cada vez que vejo este cesto lembra-me de um cesto de flores... Para as que nao sabem, isto sao FAT QUARTERS e custam 2,50 euros cada.

I wish I had my cat's life...

There is nothing that I can place on my worktable that my cat does not test out... from the look of it, this soon to be quit is pretty confortable. :) The cat slept for over 8 hours on this spot. :)