Geta's Quilting Studio new website

Hello, my friends!

I have good news for you!

One of the most talented and creative quilters, Geta Grama, just launched her new website

 http://www.getasquiltingstudio.com/

Besides many ideas, free quilt designs, tutorials, and tips, you will find there her precise, detailed and clear patterns for quilts, bags, fabric boxes and for a lot of useful and quick projects.

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You will not leave her website empty-handed.

Click here to access Geta's blog

I'm sure you will want to come back over and over again to her website. Geta is a good teacher too and you will learn a lot from her quality posts.
Keeping in touch with her  is super-easy and rewarding: if you will subscribe to her newsletters you will have access to a library with over 50 free designs and to other surprises that Geta prepares occasionally for her subscribers.

Go to convince yourselves!

Have a beautiful day, my dears!

Out and About

I try to find inspiration everywhere I go.
An unexpected invitation and a mini-holiday nourished my soul and imagination with a lot of beauties.
A 400 years old village, Valea Zalanului, secluded in the heart of a forest, on a mountain with mild slopes in the Romanian Carpathians was chosen by Prince Charles for buying an old property. He transformed it in Guesthouse opened to the public, helping the financing the Prince of Wales Foundation which activities are aiming the preservation of the local rich biodiversity of plants, mushrooms, insects, birds and large mammals. 
It was difficult what photos to chose for sharing in this post, because it is so much to show!
Eventually, I decided.
Here they are!
Enjoy! 

 

Have a beautiful day, my dears!

Nature reinterpreted in a wonderful way - Wednesday Inspiration

You can found inspiration everywhere, but these people  almost blocked me in an endless admiration.
I can only look in silence at their wonderful creations and let the ideas mixing in peace. It seems to me that words are too poor to describe the emotions aroused by them.

From here:

...and from here :

 

 

Have a beautiful and creative day!

My Garden May Palettes

We just returned from a lovely trip to our country home. We had such a great time. Although the first days where a bit grey and rainy, we had a wonderful time. 
Back home, I spent some time on the website play-crafts.com to compose the color palette of a few photos taken these days in my garden.

I really love this site. 
A very useful application I found here is Palette Builder - you upload your photo and instantly you have its palette.

You can add, change or delete colors from the palette but the best thing is on the right side of your photo: the application makes 3 matching lists of your color palette: one for Kona Cottons, one for Hex Values and one for Aurifil Threads.  You can save the photos with their palettes and/or share them. Brilliant!
No registration, passwords or things like these. It's simple and fast.
I find it very useful and fun. 
From now on the chain of My Quilting Hopes it's sooo short:  
photo - palette - money - money - money.... - Kona Cotton and/or Aurifil Threads order 
:)
In the meantime I saved one of my garden May Palettes with its three matching lists, for my wishlist :
 

I hope you will find this online tool helpful, too.

Have a beautiful day!


P.S. This isn't a payed post. I really think this people made a very useful job.

      

Friday Inspiration

Matematica nu face parte din punctele mele forte. Ii admir insa, pe cei care ii exprima temele in forma artistica.
Am selectat doar cateva concretizari.
Aici gasiti amanunte despre principiile matematice care stau la baza lor si despre autori, dar puteti vedea si alte tipuri de lucrari ale unor matematicieni-artisti sau artisti-matematicieni.

Blue Sun

16"x16"

A combination of hand painting and computer work

2012

by Mojgan Lisar and Reza Sarhangi

Truchet from Truchet Tiles

18" x 18"

Digital print on canvas

2012 

by Robert Bosch

Pentagon ( infinite regression )

14 in. x 15 in

collage of silkscreened images on paper

2010

by Richard Kallweit

Weekend frumos si creativ, va doresc!