The frame - crochet roses and basket

I am sure you are interested what became of the hole in the wall

This. --- The frame is made of carved stone.

Now it is time for the window. DH's employment.

It is a north window and the pouring rain

did not come in. It was raining the damn whole day.....

I made roses - to colour my day

After the crocheting is finished it is looking like this.

A spiral made of single, half and double crochet

stitches. Ii is then gathered into a rose.

Published in a German journal, Landlust April/11.

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I bought 100 m of clothes line and am starting to use it up.

Probably I used about 15 m. I like the pattern.

I used this fabric and cut it lengthwise in strips but also

tried to cut crosswise which I did not like. No special effect.

So I interchanged the blue and white sides

always with the dark blue stripes in the middle..

 

Hopefully the sky will be as blue as the basket again.

I wish you a lovely Sunday.

 

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Blue sky scrap basket

It was only scraps which I used - I chose the blue ones and green ones

and a few coloured ones which I liked.

My scraps are really very small - I cut them 3 cm large and some of them

were not longer than 10 cm.

And see the result - I am so satisfied with it. It looks happy -

like it was reflecting a blue sky which we didn't see for some time.

A new scrap basket

The photo below shows the clothesline on which I wrapped the bits of

fabric. I would not use this to hang my laundry on, however.

It is good for fixing furniture on trailers for a long transport -

it is strong enough. Nevertheless, the machine needle manages

to sew through it.

 

 

This is how I finished the basket - a spiral - with hand stitches.

 

 

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A view in our village in France - this creek passes near our garden.

Here with neighbours' meadows.

A branch of the river Ognon

I wish you all a creative week !

 

 

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Bag in tree - and holes - lacy holes again

I got the pattern of my friends - they got it from their friends

And those friends got it from somewhere else....

So this is my fabric made market basket.

It is large like an African basket made of something like straw

which are very popular -

I own at least three - and this seems not to be enough so I made

one of fabric strips, not because I want another basket but because

"the journey is the reward" - der Weg ist das Ziel. It is all about the making.

 

I have enough stuff to fill it, for instance with fabric scraps or other ..

but not market products, certainly not potatoes. It would hang through.

(This might be a very German expression... if somebody would

correct me.....it would be fine)

 

 

And here the embellshment - a very strange flower - I will just

leave it there till I make a better one.

 

Apart from basket making I am making "lace" - by machine -

appliqueing old lace which I cut off from an very old pillow cover.

My lace can look like that, too, very delicate.

You know that I am in a class of Karen Ruane "Swathed in Stitch".

 

And for the cross stitches I have to make decisions - always assisted

by the already well-known Bird peeping across my shoulder -

more exactly lying about on my table offering clever advices.

 

Trying out how large the letter will be

still without fabric underneeth - what a crazy idea.

My next letter will be an "L" for lace.

I will keep my needle in motion.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

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