Little fabric book

Fabric books -

Being in a facebook group about fabric books it was good

to look through things gathered and made over the years.

and to find a place for them.

Those two down are my favorites - pulled threads and needle lace.

I like to make holes!

Front side 

Back side with date of creation (Corona time)

My necklace and a group of needle lace trees

It is made of fabric beads - fabric (I told already in a previous post)

DD offered me after a journey to Istanbul

I made rather long beads - it is all one fabric - it has stripes - so I cut

them in a way to get esmerald green beads and red and turquoise ones -

Magnetic fastening

Just coincidentially the group of trees - needle lace - show the same 

colours - my hands did it without me thinking to do this choice.

Birches and other trees - with very imaginative leaves

Some bullion bushes - some roots ----

I wish you a sunny and happy Pentecost weekend.

It is not tatting - river Ognon

Once more the lace.

Thanks to :Diane and Deanna.....

I know now that this excellent lace is crocheted.

---- Question ---- And the circles?

and the flower - might there be needle-lace involved?

 

We do a little walking or biking every day - here to the bridge

and back - We like to look how waters of the small river Ognon

are changing - is it higher or lower - are there fish in it -

Our children and their friends started a kayak tour two years ago

from here to the next town Villersexel.

It wouldn't be possible now - the level is too low.

I do not know much about kayaking - they would probably have to

carry their kayaks a little further.

 

 

What I call cover cloth

Yes, I took the name from Karen Ruane -

her cover cloth is wonderful, mostly white.

Mine is exploding of colour.

I am embroidering whatever comes to my mind.

This feather is taken from Jude Hill.

I sent her two - 4 years ago. She got feathers

from all over the world and she is joining them into a quilt

she calls Home (This is the main page)

But look at her side bar for "Home" and you will see the

newest development.

I have a try in needle lace - here

a little triangle - not very well. I know my mistake.

I forgot to span threads from right to left and start

again at the left side. It would be more even.

I am practising.

 

Spots in colour scattered over the cloth.

That's it. DH thinks it is a table cloth.

I am repeating on and on "it's a cover cloth.

Nobody will ever see it on a table - it is far too jazzy!

...and it changes whenever I take it into my hands.

 

 

 

 

 

Tea time - Teestunde

Our teapot - it is in my head all the time

I want to do pulled threads with this design

 

First sketch of the teapot and a cup

But I found that I have not the right fabric to pull threads together.

First sketch of the teapot and a cup

So I filled in simply some stitches.

First sketch of the teapot and a cup

 

and I changed my mind thought about needle lace.

This is the start. You have to do the outlines by couching

down a thicker thread.

 

... and then start to do the needle lace. I found

"Needlelace Talk" of Lorelei Halley with wonderful

tutorials and many answers to still more questions.

I am nearly ashamed to show this work following

the post before with the wonderful needlelace.

I made two posts not to have the direct comparison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half Cretan stitch

I have a lovely little pile of needle lace in my treasure box. In fact still two bundles -  I sewed already two small curtains - sheer ones for a front door where I scattered the squares on the fabric. I found these treasures for very little money in France, in an antique shop. My heart jumped when I saw them.
This was at least ten years ago.
I counted them: 47 pieces in one bundle, what an odd number, and one on top, makes 48 - maybe it went for the dozen, 4 dozens.

With the Half Cretan Stitch for Tast2012, week 19, I couched one of these squares onto fabric with a space dyed (not by me) thread - and --------------

.... I did not like it too much.
So for this week I made an another sample, the second one with this stitch

Now, if somebody can tell me: Is the little square needle lace or is it tatted?

I would love to know it.....