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.

Very big slippers

This is my knitting in the evening
Can you see the cookies - Weihnachtsplätzchen (Christmas cookies)
made by "himself"

sitting in the evening and knitting away

the rim in another colour - however it is one skein of wool

Look at this difference - my felt slippers in grey and what I knitted

They are enormous but stay tuned - they will look different when they come out of

the washing machine.

Knitting backwards ...

Undoing - I think this was the best idea.

I took off 3 1/2 cm of the length of the sole up to now

No problem - I could unrip easily. it was simply too long

even with the estimated shrinkage of one third - 

Patience - I must go on knitting 

The autumn cat is finished - wind blowing and leaves swirling around

All hand sewn - the border as well.

The leaves are made of hand-dyed scraps out of my scrap box - 

I don't throw away anything related to fabric.