The patchwork room. The dance quilt, a quilt of good luck, joy and healthy energy.

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Comfortable and cosy...
The dance group "Sukad ja tagid" gave their wonderful teacher a quilt of the dance group's own.

New and interesting commissions are an exciting challenge, and sewing work like this, although a very time consuming undertaking, gives a great deal of energy.

Weeks of working with very strong positive emotions, brimming with joy and contentment, pass that same energy on to the quilt and to the person who receives it. I also hid specific good wishes and thoughts inside the seams, and the design carries a few symbols that pass good thoughts on.

The quilt is a symbol of dance and of the dance group. In the picture are both the current dancers and the future new ones, so that there will be many of them: girls in skirts and boys in black hats.
The colours express joy, and the plaits and braids youthfulness, health and vitality.

Lapitekk, energia tekk, Mailis Design

In the middle of the quilt is the dance group's logo, embroidered by hand, and their splendid slogan.

While uploading the photographs a little verse came to mind, and I give it to that lovely dance group and their teacher after the fact:

Plaits bouncing in the swing of the dance,
skirts all whirling together at once.
Girls dancing, joyful and good,
Boys in among them, black hats on their heads!
Every lass with a braid in her hair,
the teacher in a red skirt among them!

The pattern material is a cotton and polyester blend. The decorations use fabric with a wool and elastane blend, yarns and buttons. The interlining is a half wool wadding. The backing is cotton. The quilt is quilted right through to give it relief and durability.

The work took about 80 hours.

A few more pictures of the work (more pictures under "Portfolio, quilts for grown ups")

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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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