How the Charlie Bag from Burda became a twin bag…

… I spent the last weekend with 8 gorgeous Ladies from the Bee Germany together sewing, chatting and buying fabric.

So it happened that I bought some very untypical fabric for me. I was influenced and inspired at the same time from Ulrike and she was from me. She wanted to sew the Charlie Bag from Burda at our get together and I threw over my origin plans and switched over to this bag ;-).

Ok, we bought the same gobelin / tapestry, at least that´s what the salesman said, a lovely lining for 4 Euro per meter and for the ground we decided (together of course) for an undefined kind of fabric which is maybe used in the automotive industry – a kind of a cloth on gum?!?

So we started and finished the same project at the same weekend… it was so fun to share this – you could hear us saying bad bad words alle the time because this undefined cloth-gum-automotive-fabric was so bad to sew…but have a look. It looks gorgeous.

 
When my daughter saw this bag the first she said was: “This is very untypical for you!” And she is so right, but maybe that´s why I love it even more… and of course because I know there is a twin living somewhere in Germany ;-).

The next time when I make this pattern – and I am sure I will – the handles will become longer for me. It is an easy and free pattern and if you use only fabrics without cutting them in parts to sew them together again, you will finish very quickly!

Aylin....

Bee Germany Weekend – It was great Bee Germany Wochenende – Schön war´s…

We planed half a year before we finally met in Berlin in a rented flat in the middle of Kreuzberg the hippest district. Unfortunately we were only eigth  of twelve– life is not always following our rules. But it was so exciting to meet these Ladies in real life und I wasn´t disappointed. Ladies, you are fantastic!!! I got some present for kind of hosting this meeting, thank you so much to MonaW and Silke Scheller I was very pleased.

Mit einem halben Jahr Planung im Voraus haben wir uns endlich in Berlin mitten im Szenebezirk Kreuzberg in einer gemieteten Wohnung getroffen. Eigentlich wollte die Truppe komplett sein, aber wie das Leben eben so spielt….es hält sich leider nicht immer an unserer Regeln, so waren wir eben acht! Es war echt spannend die Mädels in Natura zu treffen und ich wurde nicht enttäuscht – Ihr seid so klasse!!! Ich habe sogar "Gastgeschenke" bekommen, so süß...

 Almost two full days we sewed, laughed, explained, asked, swapped, talked and of course ate. We stood in a kind of food-mile. The variety was enormous and we ate Vietnamese and Turkish food and drank Latte Macciato the afternoon to keep it international.

Knappe zwei volle Tage haben wir genäht, gelacht, erklärt, gefragt, getauscht, gequatscht und natürlich auch gegessen. Wir sind ja quasi mitten in der Fressmeile gelandet…. Die Auswahl an Welt-Essen war riesig: Vietnamesisch und Türkisch mit einem Latte Macchiato am Nachmittag ist es dann geworden.

We had to go to the fabric-market at the Maybachufer, you can find it there every Saturday. We bought lots of low prieced fabrics and other sewing stuff and some of us had to use them at once into new sewing projects…

Auch den Stoffmarkt am Maybachufer, der jeden Samstag dort zu finden ist, haben wir unsicher gemacht und uns eingedeckt mit Stoffen und Nähzubehör, das teilweise auch sofort in Nähkunstwerke umgesetzt wurde… 

 

There are already new plans for the next two meetings :)

Es gibt schon Pläne für zwei weitere Treffen :)

Aylin...