Quilts from dress shirts. Jaagup's quilt.

It is so lovely to watch how a whole armful of shirts turns into quilts in different colours and patterns. Although I sorted the shirts by colour into four and had some idea of the result while combining patterns and colours, the reality is many times finer. Just look at these three quilts. It seems unbelievable that they really are sewn together from ordinary dress shirts. Stripes and stripes and a few more stripes. And a few plain ones as well.
This time the picture shows the pattern sewn from blue and white shirts, the quilt for Jaagup.
Many thanks to the children's mother for such a lovely commission. It is a joy to carry out this order. 🙂

Lapitekk Jaagup, palkmaja tehnika, log cabin quilt

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Violin case repair

Last school year, I repaired my grandchild's violin case. The loops meant for attaching the backpack straps had torn off. She cycles to school, and it’s impossible to ride while holding the violin in your hand. Naturally, the violin and case—which belonged to the school—went back at the start of the summer. Now that the new school year has begun, she has been issued a school violin and case again, but this one is in even worse condition than last year's. So, I undertook the repair once more. This time, I decided to replace the entire back panel—including the piping—and cover the torn section at the end of the case with a leather patch. I used reflective tape for the top layer of the piping. The video condenses six hours of work into three minutes. If anyone finds themselves in need of a similar repair, I will be able to take on a few jobs starting in February 2027, and I can handle a few at a time during the summer break.

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