Adding some stitches

But then I think some embellishment would not

be wrong and I started to make stitched detached leaves

I used some woven picot stitch versions

as I took them from Sharon B‘s stitch dictionary

 http://pintangle.com/stitch-dictionary/

sketching the stitches into my own book of stitches with samples

From left to right:

woven picot - two-pronged picot - closed-base needle-woven picot - drizzle stitch

The two-pronged woven picot I found in Kate Sinton‘s „Stumpwork“

For the apple stem the drizzle stitch is just the thing.


The needle is not nicely drawn - anyway take out the thread from the needle 

and make buttonhole stitches around the needle. Finally you thread the needle

again and pull the thread through all the buttonhole stitches.





Aren‘t the drizzle stitches just like withered apple blossoms? 

Another one - the apple purse

A little embellishmet on the difficult purse

difficult because of it tinyness

It is the same as in the last post.

 

and the new one - the apple purse -  much easier to sew now 

that I know the trick

and I made it bigger - I started with a fabric piece 18 x 23 cm.

Little money-monster

Amusing myself and laughing about the result
A little purse for 8 year old grandie
It will  soon fly over the Atlantic together with a book

(Hi, dunyahlike, if you are seeing it, don't tell her. It is a surprise.)

Photo taken in the evening
Heart at the right place

Photo taken in the sun the next day
mouth wide open to swallow keys or cents
or any little treasures

Tast 2013 - 51 - Raised Herringbone Band

Slowly,  I am filling in the very small crazy blog for the purse.

Here is my raised Herringbone Band

It came handy to hide the not very nicely machine sewn seam.

I think it is looking quite nice with blue satin stitches

and yellow herringbones and the orange thread going through it 

 

 

 

My fabrics are cottons, silks and batiks

 

 

 

This is the opposite side of the little purse. There are 4 sides.

Two of them will be embellished with stitches.

WOYWW - My worktable today

I am working on several projects at a time
On the first photo is my stitching

 

My beads and a small sewing kit - as I am not in my "studio" but in France in a house
which DH is renovating - Oh my goodness me!
I am carrying it with grace

The groove on the left is practical to take up beads and put them on the needle one by one
it is our mutual invention - DH made it I conceived it.
There  are even kind of legs so it can stand by its own. 

I prepared two new pages for my diary I left some spaces to write into them.
The pages are not made for water colour - never mind I will press them a little
 

This is the cover for the diary I am using over and over again with each new diary
which I start.

Have a peek inside: Each new achievement in this house is noted down
And on the bottom right I collaged some special treats at Christmas time in France called
"macarons"

That's it!