more things to the Andaluzia Fair, the living-room

Everything you see is made by myself, every detail, including the painting.... the set will be for selling in the Andalucia Miniature International Fair in 12-13 June, Nerja ,Málaga!

more things to the Andaluzia Fair

Another bed headboard, now to match fabric in greens. The headboard is hand-painted and made by myself. I hope you like.

blue dreams....another bead!

Blue dreams....my new bed, this time it is a complete bed, not only the bed headboard. In a blue that remembers denim colour, I put here two examples of matching fabrics as bedcover, a dark one making more contrast and a lighter and more soft colour; as you can see I have here 4 different patterns fabrics, that match with the colour bed, to make your own bedcover and pillows. All, will be in my Etsy shop, very soon!

week-end inspiration, a bed headboard

This is part of my week-end work. I have done this bed head-board, it is to be put against the wall with a modern sommier, fitting very well in a broad range of styles, that will depend of the bedcover, of course. I will be selling this piece and others very soon in my Etsy shop. I have also made another one , as a complete bed, but it needs to be painting.

I hope you like

black, red and white

A new lay-out, in 3 colours is taking form

granpa pull-over

This is a pullover I knitted a couple of years ago to Granpa, and it is my own design. He is about 14 cm tall and was made by the UK and IGMA artist Julie Campbell. Granpa is living in my rustic house ....

Work finish!!!!

I hope you like it!

again with the mini quilt, step by step

Making the rows (5 photos above)

Marking and sewing the rows (4 photos above)

Bating the mini quilt with a light material two photos above(I divide a "normal bating" in two)

Tips:

Marking the seam with the help of the quilting rule, note that with this rule is easy to mark the same width in all the fabric squares.

All the seams must be opened, but you can do that just with your finger nail.
Line up very carefully the seams between each row. This is the most difficult part, at least for me.

AIM April issue!

The AIM April issue is out now, and you can download it from http://www.artisansinminiature.com/issue10.html

Take a look on the page 72..... :):)

a new mini quilt....

I am making a new mini quilt in earth tones and I also want to share with all of you what I have learned, about doing these mini quilts.

I think it is important to have some tools, as those that you can see in the photos:

A marking pen with vanish ink

A metal rule

Very good pair of scissors just for cutting fabric

A quilting rule, the smaller the best
A card square with a square hole with the final dimensions of your tiny quilt squares, this is very important to have an idea of the final effect of your fabric (see images).
A Olfa circular cutter but this is opcional

First step

Cut squares in the choosing fabrics, with 3 cm side

Play with them, and make your final combination

Take a photo, very important! and if you want, this is important if you don´t have a studio where to leave everything for days (LOL)

Second step latter on....

a gift from Greece!

Today I received the lovely Mediterranean salad that I won in the Anthoula Zampeli blog giveaway, http://a-miniature-life.blogspot.com/ and I love it. It is so tiny and perfect.

And, proving that the world is really small, she did won a gift from a Portuguese miniaturist , also in a blog giveaway. Another thing, Anthoula is coming to Lisbon....