Not lazy

I start being lazy - walking on the high plane Schwarzwald 

We (DH and me) love to walk a little then sit and admire nature

Mushroom - I am delighted but didn‘t take it - 

„himself“ is distrustful

This one is edible - and a beauty



But then - I am also stitching 

EPP English paper piecing - I am sewing along without 

plan - it is still lying around like this - waiting for an idea

how to proceed

I am not wasting the backside but cutting it out and making  my 

meditation stitching on it 

Still no plan but fixing it on a background

How awkward -  I want to add more embroidery

Some painted Vliesofix  „Wonder Under“ from years ago

added and a date



It is a page for a collection of small works
And here again the front, quilted

Yes this is a butterfly bound book with little stitcheries

I bought a bookbinding tutorial of Anne Lange and I love

this kind of binding folded pages

Another page - a stitched leaf 

Sharon Boggon is still publishing TAST stitches - and everybody

interested can take part - it is free

And yes, we met our grandsons - at MacDo‘s like always.

L is studying in Karlsruhe

Y came to visit

and the beautiful young lady - L - is the girlfriend of L

We are living 10 km outside of Karlsruhe so meeting in town 

is more convenient - students have their own tight schedule 

 

Again back in Schwarzwald - Blackforest

Our luck must be limitless with so many ladybugs/ladybirds

on the window outside 

An invasion - they gather there when we start to heat





This is autumn folks and my view out of the bug-window

A little bit of everything

Every year something new on the tree - a perfectly

sewn fabric star of dear friend Angelika

 

The 4th tree of Mary Corbet‘s 12 Christmas trees

Goodness, how tiny, I should have made spiderweb

flowers, but it was too small for me. So I left it like

this. Find it at NeedlnThread Christmas trees

Making pages for a book - as I am interested in 

bookbinding - but I need something to fill the covers.

I am using stitcheries and things of the past years.

Daugter D. gave me this writing paper with envelopes

many years ago. She printed the leaves and I kept

it and loved it and looked at it many times.

Finally I found that I should bind it into a may-be

book  - here with a machine stitched lace from the 

class of Karen Ruane - with a little crossstitch rose

A link to Karen‘s Blog 

Karen Ruane

The back still needs some handling - this future book

can be altered whenever inspiration strikes

What about quilting lines depicting a house - 

in the Black Forest in Germany.

  

Or sewn with thread -

I didn‘t make it - it is the result of my endeavors and

the help of the Superphoto App.

A lovely Christmas gift landed under the real tree

....and I will get seven more of this most wonderful

magazine full of inspiration - a gift that will last two years

and still afterwards - if you want to know more about it. 

http://uppercasemagazine.com

Now about those scribbles (sorry I am not a talented

designer):

Another dear friend D. mentioned a few days ago

-  not quite in serious -

what it could probably look like if one quilted the never-

ending talk of some people, the flood of words and I

thought speech bubbles connected to one another could 

show best the clouds of words, the gush of words - 

I made a big bubble.....

My advice:

practice it on your machine while keeping your cell phone

jammed between shoulder and ear - the practicing piece

may not be too large because you have to turn it round and round.

If you are in want of some very interesting quilting

ideas you could have a look at 

Gefilte Quilt

you will laugh and love it

Without many more words:

A happy healthy creative new year to you my dear readers.

Notebooklet - Christmas trees

Time to do some bookbinding. Well bookbinding might be 

slightly exagerated. It is a notebook DIN A5 for some

notes with very thin paper. I want to take it with me always

and it may neither be thick nor heavy.

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The style of binding is called Schmetterlingsbindung

(in English butterfly binding - there exists certainly a better and

more professional name for it)

You do it with 4 needles for four holes - I bought a awl to

make the holes and it works very well - instead of using

a thick sharp needle 

I took magazine papers and reinforced the double page with 

„wonder-under“ - paper-backed fusible web.

The back cover is showing frozen berries.

I stitched through all signatures and through the front cover

The front cover and below the backcover

I left the binding threads hanging out - because I like it !

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You might have seen it on Instagram - if not so

here is a fantastic design (I used another stitch) for „Trees for Christmas“ 

of Mary Corbet. Go to visit her blog                      

Trees for christmas 

and you will see eleven more lovely designs for Christmas trees. 

You can download the e-book for very little and get a perfect 

description of it.

I like to support Mary because she had a very hard time the two last years.

But read yourself and follow her on her blog. Lots of hints and

book reviews and how-to stitch videos.

I used stem stitch and wrapped it

When grandsons were still children, I made this calendar to

count the days from Dec 1st till the 24th.

A calendar withouth sweets, but with stars to be buttoned on till the

Holy Night - 24th December (In German we all it Adventskalender)