Tales from October

Yes, we met again. I mean my patchwork friends meet very often but I am frequently

in our vacation house - in France - so it is a special event when I can

be with them chatting, sewing, showing and telling, getting inspiration - 

and last but not least eating and laughing

I like to bake with yeast - I love to eat it - it can be dry like wood I still like it

here it didn’t get dry because I gave half of it to grandson L who is studying in 

our town Karlsruhe



Some time to stitch - and if just for half an hour - 




And now this is the end of our French farmhouse in Haute-Saône we are going

to sell it - very soon - next week the final signature will be rendered. We called

it Schato with a broad smile in the face - derived from the French word château - 

because of its long rusty iron fence alongside the street.

The far away house is not ours but it can be seen now

 

the future owners were allowed to  make order in our rather wild garden

I mean they cut every bush around on three sides of the garden

The neighbor lady will be happy - she was not very amused by our gardening.

We however loved the green surrounding

Selling the house means also moving things 

How often we made the travel of three and a half hours from France to Germany

I didn‘t count  - I estimate some 6 times - we didn‘t move the furniture

just the household equipment and the atelier of DH, the atelier and again the atelier

The trailor crammed full and the car, too

I have more time now and started to knit for Christmas

Rather big slippers but after felting in the washing machine they will have the

right size.

But then....

I remembered that in autumn I usually embroider dry leaves

These are old leaves and...

...waiting till the new autumn leaves will be dry between newspaper pages and 

under a heavy book - again stitching on this piece - no concept just going on -

patch on patch and stitches.

Stars Tatting Baking

Crocheting

 

I will put them on the window - I think they would look nice on the renovation house during Christmas-time

 

I used a magazine photo as background

It is not our vineyard

 

 



 

The stars are from the Magazine "Anna" of December 2011

 

 

 

The trees in the background are from a magazine

 

 

Tatting 

 

Now and then I am trying my skills in tatting

 

 

 

This is called heather edging and I got it free from

this site here

I am very thankful to the author of Be-stitched.com

I am so interested in learning this craft -

 

to make little bits like the following

 

 

This was published in the magazine "Anna" of Dec 2012

It should have been a star but the tail of thread was not long enough.

So it turned into a square which is not bad at all.

The yarn is rather thin, the motive measures 3,8 cm

from point to point

 

 

It is a nice decoration for the tree

5 cm from point to point

 

 

I started this one long ago

it turned out too big so I simply stopped and

will hang it as it is on the Christmas-tree -

asymmetrical which I like

 

 

Baking for Christmas

 

Goodies from kitchen and sewing machine

 

 

do not eat each

take care when you pick your choice

 

Some are made of silk, embroidery thread and beads

 

My statement:

 

He is the cook - 

the man of the house

 

 

Marillenringe

 

 

I did not move a finger

 

 

Vanillekipferl

 

Kokospralinen

 

 

It took him 3 afternoons

He is really the hero of the hour!

 

(Sorry for the German names - and....

Should you need one or the other recipe I would be pleased to send it to you)