Last Saturday I made another shirt using my first commercial pattern. It’s Simplicity 7018 and even though the shirt is easy to sew, I had such a hard time understanding the instructions. Why? Because the instructions are in German. I know this is weird because I am German, but when I started sewing last year in September, all I did was reading blogs in English and buying English patterns, so I never made anything that was written in German. And let me tell you this: German sewing terms make no sense at all!! I had such a hard time understanding what I should do that I translated the German terms back to English. Weird. For the German readers: why is “gather” called “einreihen” and not “raffen”?! 

Enough of the rambling and on to the shirt. You might remember the fabric from this bag, this pouch or this pincushion. It’s amazing how many projects you can get out of a duvet cover, and I still have enough left to try out a skirt and at least one other blouse.

You can’t really see the details in the picture, but I promise to take a better one of the new shirt I’m planing to make with the fabric I bought at the dutch fabric market. I’ll also add some elastic to the hem and the sleeves so it it will look like a mixture of version 3 and 6.

But for now, I’m off to my sewing machine to finish the bag for a friend I’m going to visit over the weekend. I really hope it will be sunny in Cologne, I’m so spoiled here in the south with good weather that I just don’t want to wear socks ever again :)

A quick Sunday Stash on a Monday. This is one of the prints I bought at the Dutch fabric market and ss soon as I saw the redhead on the print I had to buy it, I sooo miss my red hair :( First I thought I’d make a bag out of it but on second thought it might become my first skirt. 

Texco - Story

Want to show off your Stash? Join the Sunday Stash at 1/4 of an inch.

Wanna see more stash? Check out the Sunday Stash flickr group.

Oh boy I haven’t posted “Make Something” in awhile so I think it’s time for some quilts don’t you think? We all know that there are fantastic quilt patterns over at Amy Butler and all the other designers, but how about these quilts and block techniques?

Disappearing 9 Patch - a classic, but I still have to make one.

Olive Rose Quilt - really bold and beautiful design.

Tea Pot Block - don’t quilt? I’m sure you’ll still find a use for this.

Honeycomb Smocking  - one word: AMAZING.

Mod Quilt - in case you lived under a rock: Oh Fransson awesome quilt along.

String Block - go, use your scraps!

Circle Blocks - fancy some circles in your quilt? Here you go.

Circle Blocks II - and another technique in case you didn’t like the first one,

And in case you forgot: some tutorials I posted a while ago 

Miter Quilt Corner - you can also miter your quilt not only your binding.

Wonky Log Cabin - Log Cabin + Wonky = a lot of fun!

Basting a quilt - interesting version for basting a quilt (video).

Ty & Hide the knot - what to do when the bobbin runs out (video).

Still not inspired? Check out these fabulous quilts on flickr:

1. pineapple in green, 2. the back!, 3. Drawing Room Quilt, 4. DollQuiltFront, 5. crazy log cain, 6. jay’s quilt, 7. Orange 4, 8. finally finished!, 9. Green Quilt