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Caroline · Wetter, Germany

Quilts from fabrics that tell stories

I’m Caroline. I sew memory quilts from the clothes of people you love, baste, quilt and bind your quilts, and show you how to sew your own.

Ask about a memory quiltEverything I offer
  1. A shirt, a blouse, a piece of linen.
  2. Cut out the parts you want to keep.
  3. Piece by piece, something new takes shape.
  4. And so three fabrics become the first block of a Grandmother’s Flower Garden.

What I offer

What would you like to do with your fabrics?

Some fabrics are meant to become something new through my hands. Some through yours. And some pieces turn out loveliest when we make something from them together.

  1. Inquire now

    Made for you

    Do you have shirts, blouses or bed linens from someone you love, and you don’t want to leave them in the closet? I sew them into a memory quilt. And once your top is finished, I baste, quilt and bind your quilt for you.

  2. Templates instantly by email

    Sew it yourself

    Would you like to make something with your hands again? Start with hexagons. My printable hexagon templates are my thank-you when you sign up for Letters from the Cottage. Patterns in my own handwriting are in the works.

  3. Waitlist open

    Sew together

    Sitting together, making something new from old things and talking about life along the way: I’m planning sewing circles and my favorite program with memory quilts and quilts without the math. The first dates are not set yet.

Eva’s Quilt hanging in a meadow against fields in the evening light, a quilt of blue and pink fabrics with appliquéd flowers.
Caroline’s hand stitching the pink binding onto Eva’s Quilt.

Memory quilts

“I know which quilt someone needs.”

Some fabrics nobody ever throws away. The shirt that hung on the coat rack for so long. The blouse with the little flowers. The sheets you slept under as a child. These are the fabrics I sew into memory quilts.

Before I sew the first seam or dare the first cut, I want to get to know the people behind the fabrics. I ask about their favorite color, the colors of their home or their sofa, and about their stories. I suggest patterns and ways to work with the fabrics, and together we decide what kind of patchwork it will be.

You decide in your own time which pieces go in. There is no rush, and you are welcome to start with just a question. (A consultation by video call then costs 30 euros.)

Ask about a memory quilt How Eva’s Quilt came to be

Scarcity sparks far more creativity than unchecked consumption.

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Caroline at her sewing machine, with a colorful quilt of small squares hanging behind her.

About me

I’m Caroline, and I sew quilts from fabrics that tell stories.

Why is it called White Timber Cottage? I live in my white-painted timber house. It’s as simple as that. When I chose the name for my brand many years ago, it felt right to name it after the house, and it has served me well.

I have been sewing and quilting for more than 15 years. I have made more than 100 quilts, I love repairing the old black sewing machines that sit around in so many homes, and I love new sewing machines too.

My quilts are made of fabrics that tell stories: worn shirts, much-loved bed linens, inherited fabrics, leftovers from projects finished long ago.

Come in, sit down and have a look around!

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Hung neatly, the way my grandma liked it

My grandma had two long clotheslines in her garden, and it mattered to her that everything hung neatly. Here are a few of my quilts on the line. Pull the line to the side.

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Sew it yourself

Start tonight, with six corners

English paper piecing is hand sewing with paper templates: you wrap fabric around a paper hexagon, baste it in place and sew the pieces together by hand. To get started, all you need are small pieces of fabric, a needle, thread and paper.

My hexagon templates come in three sizes, true to scale and ready to print. They are my thank-you when you sign up for Letters from the Cottage.

Get the templates How to make a hexagon flower
Lots of small hexagon flowers in pink, green and blue lying side by side on the floor.

Sew together

Sitting together, sewing and talking about life

Making something new from old things, getting together with other women and talking about life as we sew: that is the kind of group I would love to lead. And then there is my favorite program with memory quilts and quilts without the math, for anyone who wants to sew something lasting from their own fabrics and would rather skip the math.

The first dates are not set yet. If you would like to join, put your name on the waitlist. You’ll be the first to hear from me.

Join the waitlistClasses and sewing circles

Creating a beautifully imperfect life.

Caroline’s motto on Instagram
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Peek over my shoulder while I sew.

On Instagram I share almost every day what I’m sewing, what’s growing in the garden and what’s hanging on the line. Sometimes finished quilts, often works in progress, and every now and then a UFO, an unfinished object that finally gets finished.

On YouTube you’ll find my coffee chats about hexies, Y‑seams, Tula Pink fabrics and the history of the log cabin block, plus a livestream in which I choose my pieces for an exhibition with Kunstfreunde Wetter, the local art association.

And on Facebook you’ll find my White Timber Cottage page: patchwork, quilting and community, with photos and reels from the cottage.

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  • A quilt of on-point squares in pink and green hangs on a line in the garden above paving stones.
  • A log cabin quilt in green and pink on a white metal bed in a bright bedroom.
  • Two hands open a handmade sewing roll with a pincushion and pockets on a wooden table.
  • Caroline, wearing glasses, works on a tablet in her sewing room.
  • A chestnut wreath with a bow hangs on a glass door.
  • A field in the morning mist, with trees at the edge.
  • Drawing of a girl with the words “Making things with your hands is how the nervous system exhales.”
  • Caroline drinks from a mug in her sewing room.
  • A dress-shaped clothespin bag in fabric with little soldiers and red polka-dot trim, on a wooden hanger.
  • Caroline sits at her sewing table with fabric hexagons and looks into the camera.
  • Thread spools in many colors on a wall rack.
  • A look into the sewing room: sewing machine, shelves of fabric and a wall of hexagons.
As of October 10, 2026. Each post opens on Instagram.

Contact

Tell me about your fabrics.

A question, an idea or a box full of shirts: there’s room for all of it here, as much or as little as you like.

  • Your message comes straight to me, and I read it myself.
  • I’ll get back to you personally, by email or by phone, whichever you prefer.
  • What you write to me stays with me.
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