Spider-web - a bag - fleamarket and a souvenir

 

 

Work of a busy spider - does she want to catch some insect?

I amsure it is a she...

See our rusted gate - that's why we call the farmhouse a villa

 

Spider-web

The bag:

As it was before - lying about

as it is now around my hip or on the shoulder

It accompanied me to the vide-grenier - fleamarket - marché aux puces

and there not only old rubbish but also goodies to eat

Sausages on the vide-grenier

And then my true find - lovely old lace - for near to nothing

This one is tatted - old but without any flaw.

Tatted lace

I am not sure how the left one was made

 

it it so delicate and fine

 

 

Detail of tatted lace

How long a young lady or a woman sat to make it -

so many years ago - and I get it for 1 (one) Euro!

More lace - can you hear my scream of delight, Karen?

 

 

 

And then the souvenir of Hvar, Croatia, with

daughter - granddaughter - and happy grandparents

Meanwhile I washed and damp stretched the pieces

of lace - and they came out wonderfully.

Now, what to do with them - just look at them?

I will certainly keep the tatted girdle-like one complete

as it is.

 

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.

Vide greniers - flea market - Flohmarkt

In a village near ours - a very small one - we found this

 

A night table - for "the house of renovation" - how I call it.

The price was 8€/~10$ - isn't that great, it is so beautiful.

The room where it will live is still without window but has a new floor made by DH.

The window is ordered and can be fetched in October. The first order did not fit,

it was too large - this is in France....

And this is now a tree in our garden in Germany.

I open the window, reach out and gather a few

little yellow plums - 'Mirabellen' in German.

On the window sill.

We are back in the 'basis camp', the camp of books, fabrics, threads, and much more -

and also the ordered magazines

I will be occupied.

 

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