Creating during Corona

There were the „very nice mice“ of Ann Wood, fascinating

to make - and they are all gone and living somewhere else

Grandchildren took them as companions for summer

 

Those „keychains“ are practical and vey much used

Tanja Steinbach of SWR Kaffee oder Tee had this crochet lantern

in her little show - I - not lazy - of course had to create it

Dotee dolls - I love small things to make

My every too small hip bag was replaced by this one. Finally

large enough to carry the cell phone, the keys, the cap, a scarf 

This pair of mice are still waiting for their tails

Stitched eye - I used Milas photo as model

A tutorial with Emily Tull of the TextileArtist.org

and my eye

This was another workshop with Emily Jo Gibbs, 

week 5, appliqué. I took a branch of our Magnolia

it is stitched with a shadow






The branch of the Magnolia

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

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.

Stitches and a bird's nest

Some stitches around some holes - I even made feather

stitches - the first stitch of the new Tast stitches of SharonB

In fact I want to do some sumptious surface embroidery -

many more stitches will have to be done -

When we cut back some shrubs DH found this nest. I love

nests of birds and I keep them for a while.

I put this one on top of the stone heap - which DH put together

so beautifully - the stones of a broken-out window in our house

Nature is taking over the empty nest -

it is a hedge bindweed (Calylstegia sepium) - Zaunwinde

I wonder how it will look in a few weeks - the green invader will

certainly hold it firmly on the stones.

 

 

 

Grow your blog

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......

A small red-white baske

To keep in practise I used up a red-white checkered fabric and I like the outcome
This is the backside



Cardigan

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.

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.