For you all......

Quickly.........

Last week Katarina was born! She is my daughter Anna friend's sister and we thought to make a little present for this new baby.
What better than a little quilt? TILDA's fabric, soft fleece, simple project...and that's it!!!

MERRY FIRST CHRISTMAS SWEET KATARINA!!!

And,so this is Christmas......

Trying new blocks.......

Have they a Christmas look?

After the Stars.......

.......I show you my "November Full Moon".

I know, I Know! This is Drunkard's Path Block......but I like to call it "November Full Moon".

This is the name of a beautiful and tipical festivity that, whoever lives in Asia, know very well!

I have wonderful memories about that time when I was in Bangkok, a long time ago.......

Ok! I return on patchwork!

Then I played with the blocks:

So............ I learned the curves!

Thanks, thanks, thanks........

Thank you Maria Teresa!!!

Maria Teresa is a young mother, quilter and blogger (now, I can tell my new friend). Her beautiful blog is "Pezze e Pezzi di Vita" and she has a cute post set "Andando per Blog" ("Surfing Blogland").
She reads several blogs and then makes a post about ones: last days she chose Roxy Quilt and today there is a special post  about my dear blog!

OK Blogland! All to see "Roxy Quilt"Story on  "Pezze e Pezzi di Vita"!

Now, I realize that patchwork isn't only fabric or pattern but it is, above all, sharing and friendly: good reasons to continue sewing and blogging!!!

"Dancing with the Stars"

I began, two weeks ago, my second patchwork class and ....I met the STARS, all tips and difficulties!

Ohio Star....

.....Flying Geese......

...improvisational...

...all together!

I love them!

Sunday shopping!!!

Last Sunday I spent a pleasant day. I was in Vicenza with the quilters' group, someone from Monfalcone and someone from Trieste: we visited "Abilmente", an important fair of patchwork, embroidery and other beauties.
Of course..... I think that the fabrics' lovers, when they go in a place like this.....they must leave credit card at home!!!
Seriously, there were a lot of beautiful things to buy. I hadn't eyes to see all.
However... I had my little shopping...

Fabric for Christmas decorations....

...with coordinated ribbons.

Cute buttons!!!

Tilda design (that I'll use with other Tilda's fabric that I already have)

Japanese style!!!

And my favourite fabric of Sunday shopping: coloured Kaffe Fasset !!!

Now I have enough "material" to work with!!!

P.S. : Thank you Francesca for our chat, it was a nice time!

I'm back....

.... with a new finished quilt!!!

Last month I bought a Charm Pack Free Spirit Fabrics from Fat Quarter Shop: a beautiful colours' palette!
I had to work on colours, a lot of colours and not only the favourite ones.
So, I decided for a simple pattern, just as a palette: wheels or spirals gave me some problems.
For the backing I used a soft fleece in a green pattern. I'm not too satisfied of the result, especially under the white fabric. I have learned a lesson. But in those days I had to work in this way!

Before binding...

....and here it is done!

It was a speedy work and perhaps not too perfect but I needed, last week, only to sew, whatever, without problems and keep my mind at work.

I chose a name for this quilt: "Color Swatches" Quilt!

It's a name a bit "pompous" for this simple work but I wanted to give it a little bit of dignity: it's always my creature!

P.S.: In the evening, my hubby Robert asked me if this quilt can will be for him: he likes CSQ just because it is  a simple quilt, not too stylish but fresh and modern.

So........"Color Swatches" Quilt has a new destination:  Robert's armchair!

Tests continue.....but I can't.....

I tried to lay down the blocks like a "spiral":

This way doesn't convince Anna, my daughter.

So....game over....

I like the last one!

 After all, the best solution is the easiest way : simple combination of colors and neat rows!!! 

But now..... I'm not in a hurry to finish this top: the next ten days I'll be at my parent's house. They live in another town and my mom is sick (she fell and broke a bone of the pelvis). She can not get out of bed and I go there to help  her and my father (he is "strong" but he is 87 years old...!).

So.... in the coming days, patchwork and quilting will be my last problem!

I hope to come back soon in Blogland......with my mind more quiet.

Happy Quilting, Friends!!!