my Moda Bake Shop experience

Happy Friday everyone! The weather was great this week. I think the sun shined a total of three days which is a record for the year!

If you don't already know, I had a pattern accepted and posted on the Moda Bake Shop blog back in January. Here is a little follow-up post about my experience for prairie Traditions.

I submitted my pattern to Moda using a pre-cut layer cake in September of 2012. I was elated to receive an email a few weeks later telling me that my pattern was accepted. I would have to make the quilt again using a newer fabric line, but that was okay. (I could request three Moda fabric lines, one of which would be sent.)

A month later I received my package. Remember, the package had to be sent from Texas, USA to Ulm, Germany. And it had to pass through Customs that loves to put an extra high import tax on the fabric, because it is produced in Asia. I just love the Zollamt!  I was shocked to find out that the Sample Department was nice enough to fulfill my wish from the fabric line "HONEY HONEY" from Kate Spain. It is such a great springtime fabric!

Sewing the quilt and writing the pattern went like a piece of "cake" -pun intended. I took many photos along the way and wrote instructions using computer diagrams for better understanding. I like photographs, but sometimes diagrams tell me more.

I simplified the quilting to make it easier for everyone to accomplish. I used 100% cotton batting-my personal choice for most quilts.

After the quilt was finished, I waited for more than one week on that perfect day in winter where the sun shined for all of two hours. I rushed out with the quilt and my camera. I already had the location picked out, so the rest was quite easy.  Snap, snap, snap...finished.

I wrote to Moda that my pattern was finished and my photographs were uploaded. Lisa informed me of when my post would be scheduled. On January 7, 2012. I was so excited to see my quilt on their blog. I emailed everyone I knew and stuck to the computer like glue for an entire week reading posts. Thank you for your support!!

Kate Spain also contacted me and posted the quilt in a newsletter for her Flickr-Group - All Things Kate Spain. Wow! I was so moved that she even noticed me.Thank you for your support as well, Kate!

I look forward to making more patterns for Moda Bake Shop as well as other platforms.

I wish you a great weekend!

Back in the Sattle Again

Oh my goodness, how time has flown. I took a short break (almost three months) to get my life and household back in order again. To make the short of it, we bought a house, and it has taken a bit longer than I anticipated to get things organized and get our lives back on track - to get adjusted to the schools and the way things operate here in Bavaria. We used to live in Baden-Württemberg where it seemed things were just a bit simpler.

I have been working on the layout of my new sewing room. Yes, I have a sewing room now. Before I used to work at the kitchen table just like everyone else I suppose. I enjoyed my big working space there, but found it a bit tedius to pack everything away when I wanted to cook. What I always enjoyed was that the kids were right there with me either coloring, sewing, crafting or playing games while I sewed.

So, in the next couple of weeks, I will be showing you the evolution of my new sewing room and maybe even some plans that you can use yourself!!

I look forward to spending more time sewing again!

Yours truly
Karen