Not lazy

I start being lazy - walking on the high plane Schwarzwald 

We (DH and me) love to walk a little then sit and admire nature

Mushroom - I am delighted but didn‘t take it - 

„himself“ is distrustful

This one is edible - and a beauty



But then - I am also stitching 

EPP English paper piecing - I am sewing along without 

plan - it is still lying around like this - waiting for an idea

how to proceed

I am not wasting the backside but cutting it out and making  my 

meditation stitching on it 

Still no plan but fixing it on a background

How awkward -  I want to add more embroidery

Some painted Vliesofix  „Wonder Under“ from years ago

added and a date



It is a page for a collection of small works
And here again the front, quilted

Yes this is a butterfly bound book with little stitcheries

I bought a bookbinding tutorial of Anne Lange and I love

this kind of binding folded pages

Another page - a stitched leaf 

Sharon Boggon is still publishing TAST stitches - and everybody

interested can take part - it is free

And yes, we met our grandsons - at MacDo‘s like always.

L is studying in Karlsruhe

Y came to visit

and the beautiful young lady - L - is the girlfriend of L

We are living 10 km outside of Karlsruhe so meeting in town 

is more convenient - students have their own tight schedule 

 

Again back in Schwarzwald - Blackforest

Our luck must be limitless with so many ladybugs/ladybirds

on the window outside 

An invasion - they gather there when we start to heat





This is autumn folks and my view out of the bug-window

After a long time ....

... posting again. 

I am taking a class with Karen Ruane "Embroidery School". Here is the link to her

very inspiring site: http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/

We are stitching by hand but also by machine - FME - free machine embroidery.

I always liked to make holes and then surround them by buttonhole stitches.

French knots never fail to be applied - they are so decorative.

We can also play with paper strips - also fixed by FME

and overlayed with homemade lace

Fabric is a great theme, too. Hand sewn seams.

Embellishment with bullion knots and beads. 

Appliqued octagons - the English paper piecing comes in handy.

I surrounded them with rope stitch. If you would like to know how to

make rope stitch - here is the link to SharonB's stitch dictionary:

http://pintangle.com/2014/04/29/take-a-stitch-tuesday-110-and-111-rope-stitch-

and-zig-zag-coral-stitch/

It is 1" in diameter

More embellishment - a fabric buttonhole and as a gag a little

square piece of lace on the point - from a secondhand shop in France.

A hexagon filled with silk with some beads and next to it

a little pocket - it is open on top

I embellished it later with bulllion and French knots.

You can find all those stitches in SharonB's stitch dictionary.

These silvery beads are called "smooth purl" - they come as a long string

and you cut them as short or long as you wish. Normally used for gold work.

I ordered them at 

http://www.sarahhomfray.com/shop/search.php?q=smooth+purl 

(absolutely no affiliation).

This time it is the chain stitch which is framing the hexagon. 

I use fil à broder no. 16

A buttonholed loop which of course is never intended to 

be pulled over the square pearl-of-mother button

The embroidery school will still be running for 8 weeks - so there is

more to come.