Pincushion

Finally enough place for needles

made of all sorts of scraps

  

When I started to try pulled threads i used an even weave fabric

which was no good, for the threads couldn't be pulled apart.

so I tossed it into the scrap box. From there I took it out two years later

to make something useful of it.

A pincushion embellished with vintage lace, bullion knots and flowery scraps.

      Christiane's quilt 2014

The pincushion

Constructing a korak quilt

I took them out of the box again

and added a few more scraps

I am defining the middle with an iron, folding the ground fabric

into half, to prevent going ascew.

and now I am changing from flying gees to logcabin

It looks like a roof - but in fact again a "goose" is flying

One little blog finished

How would it look like this ? I am trying - and will sew still many more

and change positions a hundred times ....it will last for months

Very simple pattern

That's what I started with scraps

to occupy my hands while talking with family - friends or

watching TV -

Joining by hand is so calming - it will take much time

but there is no deadline

Mila (10) learnt how to make the friendship bracelet knots

I - the grandmother - started the one below - it is a bit

more complicated. I am often using the blunt needle to

unpick wrong knots.

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Our town Karlsruhe is constructing the sub-tramway

It looks like that. Nevertheless the 300th birthday-

celebrations are going on.

The hanging house with its roots down from the bottom (I showed

it in the last post) is being placed on a metal construction during night.

A guy is watching over it all day long and manipulating the house

by crane, turning it into different positions.

No accident below with the Volkswagen VW but ...

an installation.

And Karlsruhe the castle by night with the crowd of people

without us.

 

 

The Day before Christmas...

....it was looking like that on our table - not my working table but the dining table

It was so spectacular that I took a thermal image of this still life

to abstract things a little.

 

The table was covered with books, greeting cards, envelopes, 

catalogues, coffee and cookies in the china bowl.

 

The bowl is white but in the thermal image it shows red

with a blue shade

it seems to be warmer than other objects on the table

 

 

The thermal image

 

I went to my orderly room and started to make the little quilt ....

(36 x 27 cm)

and a great disorder

 

 

 

 

 

I read somewhere - if I knew where I would be happy and could

thank the blogger for this idea -

"if you don't really want to make big things just make small"

 

So I took the thermal image and made a quick sketch

without taking measures or anything like that.

Just a few pencil strokes

 

 

 

I cut out the major shapes -

the mug and the bowl.

 

 

 

then I was looking for the right scraps in one of my

scrap bags

The plate and mug are made from hand-dyed fabric

all in the thermal image colours

every scrap top-stitched and free machine quilted.

 

I did, I undid and redid again the binding

 

 

 

 

(till DH was satisfied)

and me, too.

 

I wrote a text on the bottom by machine which says:

 

 

The Day before Christmas at A&D's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue quilt

This quilt will be given away to friends. Our house is full of quilts. It will find a new place in an old house and this is a wonderful idea.