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.

A play cloth

Years ago we have been in Tunesia for a winter holiday. And also there browsing a "flea market" like we do everywhere. Don't ask me where in Tunesia it was because I can't remember the place.

A jacket caught my eye because it was sewn together of wonderful old Javanese pieces of printed cotton. It reminded me of a journey to Bali and Java several years ago.

some patches already embellished are looking like that...

 

...and so

I took it.....it was cheap. I thought to wear it in the French Vosges. But it showed that it was not warm enough though it was padded thickly. I never took a photo.

So a year ago or so I decided to part from it, but I still liked the patches. I cut them out and stuck them on a matching background (I used wonder-under, which normally is fantastic to work with) and started to embroider them, but .......

It was hard to stitch through the layers and this is the reason I burried it very deep under similar stuff. Ufos.

It was not comfortable to work on this project. I very gladly forgot about it.

But it happened that I remembered the existence of something unfinished and....

Machine stitched parts

"talking" with Deanna resulted in machine quilting over the hard patches - however a few French knots here and there were manageable and seed stitching. Thanks to Deanna who caused the kick-off.

added hand embroidery

So now I will call this my Play Cloth (until I find a better name) and stitch on it whenever I feel like it.

I am also knitting - a few rows in the evening - not too much, they say it makes you nervous - a fact that keeps you from sleeping - but I suppose also other things keep me from sleeping .........

 

100 g of wool went into the back by now

The colour is not real but it is nicer to see - picture taken on the east side of our house when the sun was shining on the other side - in the west.

This is more like the real colour.

That's it for today.