Future fabric book

A class with Karen Ruane - Embroidery School - which started in January 2017

I am preparing to bind the six pages together. with the cover

Above the front cover

and below the backside - all sewn by hand -

embroidered and beaded - lace made by machine

painted paper fixed with French knots

A collage with paper and fabric strips, lace, hand and machine embroidery 

embellished with my favorite stitches, French knots

Machine-sewn grid over a strip of fabric,

buttonhole stitches around cut-out lace flowers

Various embellishments with silk fabric, edge of a hanky, cutwork and

lace flower (clockwise)

Bumpy bits, gimp cord, scattered octagons, buttonholed machine sewn lace,

bullion knots, embellished grid of octagons

Cross stitched letter from an earlier project, padded scrim embellishment, gimp cords

cutwork, toggles - and all this on a piece of the baptism dress of DD (50 years ago)

Top right: little pocket, hexagon cutworks, beading

Now I will invent some binding of all this.

Working small

Paperball wraped with gimp -

In fact like a five legged embroidered three-dimensional spider 

I ordered gimp here: http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/ - 

it is a viscose wrapped thick cotton cord

The first one was not a great success - I did it twice

The second has a nice knot in the middle and is bedded in a silk cup 

Karen Ruane at http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/

calls it a little cabbage 

We learned how to stitch on silkpaper -

I embellished with French knots and added a piece of vintage lace

What I will do with those creations? I don't know - they willl probably be

in a kind of stitch diary - a book for reference - to look at and to enjoy.

The tower hexagons

In the shop they call the shqpe "POTC hexagons" - which means

Pachwork Of The Crosses -  but why?

I am counting - like Queenie - 38 pieces - how many I will make

I don't know yet. - I will make a table set. Nothing more.

And the class Embroidery School goes on. This is called cutwork -

the light blue part is cut out and replaced with the blue silk piece. 

Then embellished with all kinds of stitches:

laced buttonhole, French knots, bullion stitches, chain stitches - 

it will be a sample

My pocket

A pocket which I started when Karens Ruane's class "swathed in stitch"

was still running - and then a long interval of no sewing.

But I finished it at last.

The piece of white machine-made lace

- broderie anglaise - was part of the christening robe

of our daughter - when she was a three months old sweet baby.

It was hanging long from the arm of her goduncle who carried her to

the altar in church nearly exactly 49 years ago.

I stitched yellow and green embellishments on it. There is a strip of

yellowish-greenish fabric fixed with French knots and buttonhole stitches.

Fly stitches into the holes.

I made bumps which I learned from Karen. And points of

fine handkerchiefs, cutting them apart mercilessly.

 

It is hanging at the shutter of our farmhouse.

We are awaiting new neighbours for coffee and cake

 

 

They came and we had a lovely talk.

Then we made a walk - oh my, how lovely this tree is with its moss.

We are looking on a neighbour's farm - about 900 m high.

 

Farmers can't have more than 25 cows - there is not enough

pastureland. They sell the milk and are producing cheese -

Münsterkäse. They are very much supported by the state

as no family can live of only 25 cows, not in France and nowhere else

in Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is February

In Karlsruhe

We walk to town - it is about 2,5 km. Here we are on our way back.

The trees are being cut every year

Another fabric bin with Chinese horses

Impression of what I am working on

 

Lace - hiding a seam with French knots and buttonhole stitches -

cross stitch letters.

Don't ask me what it is going to be - just a sample perhaps.

 

Mit Blogsy veröffentlicht

Circles with Tast Stitches - a Tast design challenge

Raised herringbone
sailors edge

straight stitch

chain stitch

detached chain stitch

French knots

I made a tiny quilt with appliqued circles on which

I stitched the proposed Tast stitches

Ok, raised herringbone was not proposed by Sharon

I noticed it too late

 

this circle is fixed with sailor edge stitches -

and embellished with

running stitches

here are finally the straight stitches with French knots in the middle of the flowers

I fixed the circle with herringbone stitches and

surrounded the little flowers with chain stitches

the French knots

fixed with chain stitches and detached chain



Buttons

I registered for Karen Ruanes "Buttons and more" class.
And that is what I made up to now.
Now I know that I should not, never, baste with colored thread.
The band in the middle is needle woven with added buttonhole lace.
A few French knots and spider web and to fill the space - some
seed stitches.

Again needle weaving with a triangle
of buttonhole lace. Everything very small -
my button will be 2,9 cm large.

A large spider web in two colors on
a piece of old, used linen.

Another spider web - I started in the wrong way
but the effect is not so bad.
My first experiment.
It looks somehow colorless - the whole thing is ecru.

Wilde Möhre - Daucus carota

Kalenderblatt einer Apotheke
calendar sheet of a pharmacy
I took it as a sample

Wilde Möhre (Daucus carota) oder auch Queen Anne's lace

Anscheinend hat es mir diese "Spitze" angetan. Aus einem Kalender habe ich dieses Bild zum Sticken ausgesucht - es zeigt die Rückseite der Blüte - ohne zu wissen, wie die Blüte heisst.

Nach diesem Häkelmuster habe ich bereits zwei Schals gehäkelt.

I tried myself in stitching this flower "daucus carota" a photo from a calendar. I learned now that it is also called Queen Anne's lace, a crochet pattern which I applied lately for two scarfs.

The flower is shown from its backside.