Hello, hello - welcome on my blog
I am taking part in the blog-growing party
I am doing all kinds of crafts - but mostly fabric is involved -
but knitting and stitching are very important as well.
So I am showing my "TV - travel - doctor's waitingroom"-knitting at first
Blanket
Squares of 28 cm and four different colours - every colour is apearing in each square.
This is the ninth piece - I layed out the "nine" with thread
When I will have enough squares it will end up in a blanket or shawl or something else ....
are there any proposals in the air?
Baskets
I made a new one - It is made of fabric strips and cloths-line and on the sewing machine
It is African fabric - from Ghana - I have a niece there. We are indeed a widely spread family.
The strips are 3,5 cm - I sewed them all together and made a bundle
When I stop I have to support the growing basket with an old cigar box - this one is full with sewing threads, 50 years old.
And another one......
To keep in practise I used up a red-white checkered fabric and I like the outcome
This is the backside
Cardigan
Machine embroidery
I started this embroidery by hand only to see that I could not stitch through the two fabrics because I fastened the little patches with Wonder-Under. The needle can't come through very easily.
My rescue: I sewed them down by machine and will now embroider by hand just the places with only one layer and the borders which are not glued down
I outlined mostly the original design - old Indonesian prints -
which where once a warm jacket and found on a Tunesian flea market.
I can imagine that it travelled from Java to Europe - here it was thrown out and recycling was next. It came to Tunesia by a clothes collection enterprise to be sold a second time - and I was the buyer - had it chemically cleaned - but never worn -
It could have happened like that but not necessarily so.......
I saw it hanging at least 15 years
Then came my scisssors into action.....
Bye, bye for today.
I am taking part in the blog-growing party
but knitting and stitching are very important as well.
So I am showing my "TV - travel - doctor's waitingroom"-knitting at first
Blanket
This is the ninth piece - I layed out the "nine" with thread
are there any proposals in the air?
Baskets
I made a new one - It is made of fabric strips and cloths-line and on the sewing machine
It is African fabric - from Ghana - I have a niece there. We are indeed a widely spread family.
The strips are 3,5 cm - I sewed them all together and made a bundle
When I stop I have to support the growing basket with an old cigar box - this one is full with sewing threads, 50 years old.
And another one......
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| A small red-white baske |
This is the backside
Cardigan
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| The bottom border of the cardigan |
| And hello people, who know my work already here is the beginning of one front side of my blue-green cardigan.
I want to knit both front sides simultaneously - I wonder how this will work.
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| I suppose it will be easier because of the pattern. |
Machine embroidery
I started this embroidery by hand only to see that I could not stitch through the two fabrics because I fastened the little patches with Wonder-Under. The needle can't come through very easily.
My rescue: I sewed them down by machine and will now embroider by hand just the places with only one layer and the borders which are not glued down
I outlined mostly the original design - old Indonesian prints -
which where once a warm jacket and found on a Tunesian flea market.
I can imagine that it travelled from Java to Europe - here it was thrown out and recycling was next. It came to Tunesia by a clothes collection enterprise to be sold a second time - and I was the buyer - had it chemically cleaned - but never worn -
It could have happened like that but not necessarily so.......
I saw it hanging at least 15 years
Then came my scisssors into action.....
Bye, bye for today.
