Lady with a little hat made of fabric leaves

My cushion lady

Well, a good friend said, that my lady had little horns on 

her head - and that it was quite funny and not so bad … but!!

I thought about this comment and suddenly found that

it looked really not very attractive

I went through my boxes of left overs and found more leaves.

 

Not at all lazy and with a hand that is usable again 

I broke parts of it in July 

I am fixing a green leave to cover up the gold one - the horn

Two more leaves and my lady is equipped with a little hat

No more horns - 

I like it better - and you my friend - Angelika?

We moved from our 3-years Black Forest holiday house

into a nearer one - still in Black Forest

 

and have fantastic sights from the terrace and possibilities

for walks

It is a touristic place, 700 m altitude, with snow in winter

and a short lift 100 m from our house for skiers and sleighers

Below: The old water tower - with the view into the 

River Rhine valley and far beyond into France.

The „spa“ parc

The home of the traditional costumes - Schwarzwald - 

Blackforest.

did you ever hear of the „Bollenhut“?

Here you can see SiL dressed up into the traditional

Black Forest costume - and more family

This is a fun photo:

from left to right: me - SiL - DD - Granddaughter

Der Bollenhut 

A woman‘s costume hat of the Black Forest - 

the hat of an unmarried woman with red bobbles.

A black version is for the married women

Miniature fabric boxes

The urge to sew - no wonder - nothing else can be done

during the corona virus epidemic

Fabric boxes for stuff of all kinds

Each little box ist different. I tried a lot of different 

approaches.

So all are a bit different in size.

My not very nice but practical working box is easy to reach

and always near my comfortable place in the living room

because this is mainly done by hand

What I keep in my very first experimental  box 

Making a collage from scraps

I am not very happy with it - so I am showing now just part of it

I am adding bit and again cutting off scraps which I don't like

anymore. 

But more in another post.

Originally it was a little stitched picture which I made in Sharon Boggons class

"Studio Journal" several years ago. I like to use things again and change them.

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The flamingo fabric was too strong in colour 

so it was cut into pieces - and like that the flamingo enjoys

the water, the lake and the pond

It is this motiv of Vincent Van Gogh which I used also for another embroidery

(below). I liked the swirls of the wind and suns - or are they stars 

and possibly a moon in the dark sky?

I used many stitches from Sharon's "Take a Stitch Tuesday" - which is still running

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