Mending and remembering

Old sweater - in fact not SO very old but haunted by moths -

since I love to repair all things because it is meditative

I unravelled the lower part where the wholes were and

knitted downwards

About the age: It might be 25 years - good wool

 - seldom worn - machine knitted by a friend.

Color is something like greenish blue - more the first pic

I knitted about 5 cm from top to bottom - I think it is pretty

good and wearable.

From time to time I am looking at my fake chocolates




and stumpwork - 4 square cm

the first one depicts Clara Schumann (1829-1896),

Clara Schumann was the pianist wife of Robert







The rest ist fantasy

It is mid-january - no snow about 8°C during the day

Same stitches - better light

There might be no difference in the stitches - but I think there are .... those silly little knots just want to stand in their own way. If you came to my blog before you will notice that I prefer irregularities ... Here I have them

Anyway the exposure is different -

 

I did as Deanna of - http://eclectic-meanderings.blogspot.de - told me. A LED light to expose the object.

If you go to her blog you will see beautiful and interesting embroidery and stitching.

 

What I like is - you won't believe it - MENDING

Can you see the hole in my blue scarf - eaten by moths because I did not wear it for a long time which means about 3 years or so. The colour is ok - it really is blue - like this.

Moths are awful - they like wool - I do, too.

The curvy embroidery is on a bag owned by König Ludwig II (1845 - 1886, you know Neuschwanstein, he had it constructed but never lived in there).

Here it is a newspaper snip in my studio journal.

 

so I use the hole as a center for this buttonhole wheel

it even morphed into a buttonhole cup - it is 2 cm wide

Also French knots wanted to be there

 

And this is the backside of the same hole

 

Another version - some flowers are now on my scarf

I will wear it on the bike.