Ivelina Nikolova
Designer / Blogger
A true believer in Beauty, chocolate lover, food scientist, needle addicted Nature lover.
Haori Taiwan
'Happy Flowers' mini-pouch
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
The pattern for this little pouch comes from the colourful Atsuko Matsuyama book "Happy Flower Quilts". The title itself is charging, and happiness-metre goes crazy when you look at the cover. It really is one vibrant presentation of what to expect, before you open the book. When I received my copy, I needed to spend minutes in admiration, felt thirsty for more, but did not want to run fast through the pages. Hypnotic projects, addictive prints and many, many patterns.
I chose this one to start with, just because I couldn't resist the scalloped pattern on one of the sides of the pouch. My pouch has two completely different sides. Both of them are so beautiful and despite of the huge contrast that makes them look strangers to each other, they are connected in a flowery way...
Breakfast for Two
It is a very ordinary Sunday - one of the not so many Sundays, that happened rarely - when we have nothing else to do, but plan for a light breakfast.
The beautiful box full with dark chocolates and now these matching place mats make this Sunday very happy and loving. The placemats I made, using the beautiful light pink striped HAORI fabric. To accent the cross-stitched design, I framed it with the matching green using technic of reversed applique, and afterwords appliqued the heart to the main fabric. I lined the placemats, using the same red yarn-dyed fabric, I used for quilting the box of chocolates. From the green, I made a bias tape to finish the placemats with nice contrast.
Le petit pois
Shopping bag
The green, oh the living green - brings always hope. In the long winter days, there is this craving for fresh green, thirst for new life. I can not wait for my first plants to start showing their tiny noses from the ground. And to satisfy my affection for green, I look for inspiring projects. This one is particularly precious to me. It is a combination of two designers I admire distinctively.