No sight into our grassland

Yes, our garden is green - mainly green

and no sight down onto the lawn which is more or less a pasture, a meadow

Help from the saw and DH

and one branch is cut off -

I am sitting in the shade of the peartree - you can see the shadow

We had 37° in the afternoon. 

This photo was taken in the morning at about 10 am

It is a lovely place to knit - in the shade 

I am starting from the beginning with my cardigan - from top to bottom and 

I am now using the description for XL - L was too tight - imagine - my size is M.

This time I did no "tinking" (knitting backwards) but unravelled everything.

And this was done in about one hour - a very short time compared with

the six weeks of knitting which I spent.

But never mind.

I had to wind the wool with a "winding machine" - which son G. made for me ca.

35 years ago - Soaking and drying took one day.

Lets say the first try was practising. I am sure to make less mistakes in future.

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But now I need something to relax.

Fabric beads are the solution - I used silk from scraps of blouses which I

made two decades ago - I bought it myself in China !!! It is very precious to me.

The variegated perlé for the crochet bauble is from Stef Francis.

The blouses are totally out of fashion - but I can't separate from them, oh oh.

I dyed the apple-green silk myself.

I wish you a wonderful summer week.

My necklace and a group of needle lace trees

It is made of fabric beads - fabric (I told already in a previous post)

DD offered me after a journey to Istanbul

I made rather long beads - it is all one fabric - it has stripes - so I cut

them in a way to get esmerald green beads and red and turquoise ones -

Magnetic fastening

Just coincidentially the group of trees - needle lace - show the same 

colours - my hands did it without me thinking to do this choice.

Birches and other trees - with very imaginative leaves

Some bullion bushes - some roots ----

I wish you a sunny and happy Pentecost weekend.

A new feather, some beads and a funny truck

I made another feather - and

I am still trying needle lace on this cloth -

 

This guy is enjoying a rose-scented place.

 

After a rather long period of creating nothing

I finally made these beads of fabric - for a future necklace.

all made of one and the same fabric

I am not very fond of the cylindrical beads - I like

more the ones which are diminishing on both ends

and will probably use only those.

And here a surprise photo:

Our town Karlsruhe is celebrating its 300-year birthday

and preparing great events which will run till October this year.

So it is no wonder that this truck is driving backwards up the house -

in one of the streets which are not affected ---

because at the same time Karlsruhe center is one large

construction site - we get an underground tram-way.

Going to town by car is practically not possible.

 

 

Necklace

Do you know that you can make beads of fabric - fabric beads

You cut strips of about 3 cm width and 10 - 12 cm length

and a narrow strip of Vliesofix

and stick it lengthwise to the fabric strip,

fold the strip into half from both long sides to the middle. Carefully

iron it - maybe under baking paper,

and start to roll it into a bead - then make stitches to fasten the roll.

These can be embroidery stitches or invisible stitches.

Example of beads

 

I embellished my beads with embroidery stitches - and sewed little

beads on, as well. You could also embellish the fabric beads with

narrow braids

Embellished fabric beads

 

Beads not needed at the moment

You can also sew narrow braids around.

I mixed my embellished fabric beads with glass beads.

I chose a magnetic closure - the silvery bead.

 

The idea comes from the book of EVA MARIA MAIER.

There are fantastic, romantic and poetic ideas in her book

POESIE DER KLEINEN DINGE (the book is written in German).

If you are interested please google it.

It can be bought at Amazon. The book

 

 

 

 

 

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Fabric beads

I am using the buttonholed double chain stitch - a Tast stitch - (Tast stands for Take a Stitch Tuesday)
for embellishment of fabric beads - which will once be mounted into a necklace.

Feather stitch and..... I forgot the name of the one on the right.

We have been invited to this dish "Gregada" (it could be an Italian name for a fish dish

- Italy is on the other side of the Adriatic sea just 200 km away.

We spent a lovely evening

with a family of musicians - everything violins

but also red wine - we were four 4 people and represented three nations, three of them
changed their nationality so four nationalities were involved. Difficult? Such is Europe.

This is also Croatia - it is the feast of Corpus Christi

Beautiful dog - his spine is a wonderful line finding continuation in her tail - she is a lady

A necklace without beads.