New house - new windows

The windows in the renovation house are much too large to crochet curtains
- of course I would not be as crazy as that -
but I will find a place for a little crocheted curtain depicting a castle

"My home is my castle"
 

I found  the pattern in a German magazine: Liebes Land, Nr. 4/April 2012
But don´t you think that I bought the magazine
No - DH and I made our walk through the village on a late afternoon
when people had put out their waste paper to be collected
and what we saw in front of a house was:
heaps and heaps of wonderful different magazines all about the themes house - garden - crafts and
other beautiful things -
and published last year (2012)
so not really old
 

We talked to the very congenial young lady if we could take them
She was happy that she could make us happy
So everybody was happy and
we went home to get the car
and load those 20 kg of "waste paper"
for me a treasure and many hours of lovely browsing and reading
for quite some time
(and I even see DH browsing - old houses are so interesting to look at)

Now, this piece of a curtain will have a point and I tried and unravelled at least 6 times
till I found the right way - when it is large enough crocheting goes on in a straight way
till the design will start
It will be my work in our holidays at the Adriatic sea.
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We both love second hand shops and like to recycle material
We -we? he! - seldom are throwing away anything.

(Well, I am doing it secretely from time to time, ha!
What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over!)

pssst!



 

Buttonhole bar

Tast stitch #65 is called buttonhole bar 

 

I filled the center of the leaf with a couple of buttonhole bars
I wonder what will come next -
it is the intuition of the moment when I am stitching

There are also some knotted buttonhole stitches on the right side

(It would certainly be better to show the whole leaf -
however so much for the moment)

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During our cutting of the fir trees and burning
the branches we nevertheless took care of this little cripple tree
not knowing what will come out of it -

We bought the old house last year and the garden was more than wild looking
so this explains our ignorance

 

and there was a surprise when the days got warmer

 

and looking closer I was delighted to find this

 

 

 

A magnolia with very large blossoms

 

 

 

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Taking care in all this wild cutting and cleaning

was so much worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOYWW 205 - Electric piano cover

Not very much new
Just the cover under the machine to quilt
The central stripe in green shows the words
Andante - molto lento (hi Marjolein - do you remember?)
Then the beginning of a Sonate Facile which I am playing molto lento!

Lovely weather on Sunday

 

 

 

 

We  are  oftn making the same walk

but it is always lookig differently

This is the first day in May weather being beautiful and warm

 

 

the leaves on the trees are still very light green

 

coming out of the small wood we see yellow fields

on this photo it is looking nice

and the fragrance is lovely

 

but I have a bad feeling seeing mostly "yellow"

mono-culture - rape

it will be processed into bio-fuel

instead into oil for human food

 

 

These are low hills - it is still worse in the plain

where you can see nothing but rape fields.

It is in south Germany.

Tast 2013 stitches

New ist here the knotted buttonhole stitch (no. 64)

It is still the little purse where I can't put many stitches.

There are 4 sides, but only two will be embellished.

 

 

The wavy line in knotted buttonhole stitch

 

The following photo is showing the

raised cross stitch flower stitch (no. 62)

 

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The leaf

 

My scroll stitches (no.63) left side top row

right side: in the middle

 

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And a line of knotted buttonhole stitches

something will still be stitched into the empty space below.

 

Waiting for new ideas - or stitches from the

wonderful SharonB via Pin Tangle - click

here

 

 

I am having fun with stitches!

Pears and cherries

We were welcome by our trees -
they had put on their most wonderful cloths
when we returned home on Friday last, on April 26.

WOYWW 204 - keyboard quilt no. 2

Dustcover for keyboard - or dust catcher, keyboard quilt
it is no. 2 -
We need another one and here it is in the machine.
10 Minutes ago I still sat there and sewed the staves
Now a decision has to be made - how will I go on
and it is better to take a break and think it over.

Keyboard quilt No. 1

The keyboard-quilt  no. 1 finished

lying on the floor

the cut-out part is for the music-stand

Detail - it is all over quilted with text of the songs

which DH is playing regularly such as:

Take love easy, easy, easy --- take it breezy, breezy, breezy ---

Tenderly...

The nearness of you...

When  I take my sugar to tea - all the boys are jealous of me

.....(which I like most)....

When I get older losing my hair...

And I made a small section of the componists of my poor playing (I am a beginner)

who are Clementi, Burgmüller, Mozart, Beethoven 

That's it

And here the surroundings

(with a Mexican tablecloth in the foreground

Nadelwelt Karlsruhe 2013

Ein paar Bilder von der Nadelwelt Karlsruhe, Ausstellung und Verkauf für Patchwork und alles was mit Nähen zu tun hat.
A few photos of this exhibiton of a few well-known quilt artists and of course many vendors with wonderful things - what we need or think to need. A great temptation for us quilters.

 

Entrance

 

 

Public bath near the entrance

 

 

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I was impressed by the following quilts

but ---- there have been many more which would have been worthwhile taking photos of

 

 

 

My absolute favorite - Grietje van der Veen

you would think it is a photo but it is all sewn with fabrics  see more

(an interview by Grudrun Heinz with Grietje)

 

 

 

sewn in a class by Nancy Crow

 

Stoffwerke by Cécile Trentini

Daily Beauty: 365 Ways to Play With Everyday Quilt Embellishments

about this quilt

it s a book and you can have a look inside

 

 

beautiful small works by Cécile Trentini

 

 

 

also from the class of Nancy Crow.

 

 

Brigitte Morgenroth

all silks

 

Maija Brummer

very delicate and transparent - enjoy more quilts when you 

look at this

 

 

by Pia Welsch

 

 

 

lunchtime

 

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I was leaving when others had their break to meet DH who was patiently waiting

in a café and in our shopping mall looking at electronics and so on ...

or what they do when they are on their own. Smile!

Rouffach in Alsace, France

 

Coming back from France we are usually passing a wonderful little town in Alsace.
Rouffach, known already in 662 as Rubiaco and 600 years later as Rubiacum*
(4574 inhabitants *- Wikipedia)

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We parked our car 

 

 

and were looking back from where we came

 

 

small passage and a glimpse on to the church Notre Dame de l'Assomption

roman and gothic style

 

looking at the church through leaves

 

an old well

 

 

and an entrance

 

no car passage

 

searching for a café

 

again the cathedral which is really a church

 

 

and finally the church

of course it did not fit into my camera

(and I am afraid of using third-party photos)

 

 

 

market place

 

our coffee and DH just lifted his cup away

we sat at the

 

...restaurant A l'ours Noir - restaurant  Black Bear

how I saw it with my cuppa in my hand...

 

We enjoyed this little sightseeing tour