Nearly the happy end of the story

They are dreaming of their future home - 

By the way it is the castle where my great-grandmother grew up - 

I am so hapy to be able to include it in my Stitching-a-Story-Book

I drew just the outlines.

I stitched the front of this old building

standing here in a birchwood with fantasy flowers

on grasland - made of silkpaper

Detail of the round frame of silk

Well, the horse legs are placed a bit awkward - could have been better

I saw it too late.

In the castle garden rapunzel salad started to grow

The happy dreaming couple with their two children

Sun moon stars with Jude Hill and Stitching a Story

Jude Hill is offering her little SunMoonStar project.

5 years ago she had it also on her blog "Spirit Cloth". This one will not be the 

same - as she tells - because handsewn things will never be the same.

SunMoonStars ..... a nine-patch - 

I wonder what my way will be -

She is so kind to emphasize that we can copy her 

Ich mache mit bei Jude Hill's kleinem Projekt "SunMoonStars", 

das sie vor Jahren schon mal in ihrem Blog "Spirit cloth" gezeigt  hat.

Es wird nicht das gleiche sein, sagt sie, es ist jedesmal anders,

wenn man von Hand etwas näht.

Man soll sie ruhig kopieren, sagt sie grosszügigerweise.

Da brauchte ich jetzt dunkle Stoffe, am besten dunkelblau. Also überfärbte ich

mit Procion XP marineblau ein paar Läppchen.

I needed some dark fabric and dyed it with Procion XP blue - 

in fact overdyed some prints - I like how it came out.

Jude färbt mit selbst gezogenem Indigo aus ihrem Garten. 

Das kann ich leider nicht nachmachen.

Jude dyes with home grown indigo - I love this idea, too, I am not sure

it would grow in my gardens - and who would wait so long?

Meine "Sonnen" scheinen gleich unterzugehen - so rot sind sie -  mein Stoff

ist zu dünn und verzieht sich. (Ich habe nur eine kleine Auswahl hier in Frankreich)

My suns are of a very sunset-like colour - and the fabric is too thin -

not keeping the shape

Ein fünfzackiger Stern wird gezeichnet.

With the help of DH a five-pointed star came to life. 

Thoughts about moon shapes and choice of fabrics

Nebenher mache ich natürlich weiter bei Karen Ruane's "Stitching a Story"

This is running at the same time with Rapunzel - the Stitching a Story project 

which I am doing with Karen Ruane

Auf dieser Seite spriesst ein Baum im verbotenen Garten

A paper tree grew very fast in the forbidden garden

Eine kleine Spitzenprobe, die die Blumen auf dem Kleid der Zauberin

reflektieren soll. Oben rechts sieht man sie mit dem neugeborenen Kind im Arm

im Nebel verschwinden.

A lace pattern reflecting the rose-dress of the sorceress

Look at the sorceress on top of the photo - she is holding the promised baby

in her arms disappearing in the mists....

- I am still not sure what I will do with her. An empty cradle .....?

Rapunzels Kleid ist jetzt noch schöner und die Zauberin hat

Salat in ihrem Korb.

Das Mädchen ist hier 12 Jahre alt und wird von der Zauberin sehr geliebt.

First embellishment of Rapunzel's dress - I am sure it is made of silk

which speaks for the sorceress - The 12 year old girl is very well guarded - 

too well, as we will see soon. 

Fillling the basket and encounter with sorceress

The future young father is climbing over the wall - to satisfy the hunger

of his pregnant woman - the basket is still empty

I stitched the basket on a background and cut it out

Sorceress came to her garden - flowers and salad everywhere

I added a train of lace fixed with French knots on her sleeve

Next thing was to add a little book - really little - three pages

with pattern from the story -

The pattern booklet 

The adventure will go on - the young man was allowed to fill his basket

as full as he could - but the price was high......

Stitching a Story

Dear Readers,

I changed my template because of difficulties with the size of my photos.

We have an issue with our Macbook Air - I use it normally to resize my

photos - but now I can't. So this was the solution. We even don't know if

it can be repaired - we have to wait - till our expert son solves the problem.

I enrolled in a workshop with Karen Ruan -  Stitching a Story - "work on your own*

I can at any time ask her questions and the answers are coming so fast - so the enthusiasm

is not interrupted. Here you can see more:

http://karenannruane.typepad.com/stitching_a_story

Now on the hunt of nice, really nice story books - 

I found two charming small books with very beautiful illustrations.

I decided to start with RAPUNZEL

It is a story first published by the Brothers Grimm and here related and illustrated

by the young Austrian author Eleni Livanios

RAPUNZEL@ellermann by Dressler Verlag GmbH, Hamburg

ISBN 978-3-7707-7588-0

If you don't know what is Rapunzel - it is this salad - Valerianella is its official Latin name

I use the first of those names - Ackersalat

See how many names exist only in Germanys different countries and

in German speaking countries:

Other names are Feldsalat, Nüssli, Weitere Bezeichnungen hierfür sind:

Ackersalat (in Schwaben), 

Mäuseöhrchensalat oder Mausohrsalat (Eifel, Hunsrück, Saarland, Luxemburg), 

Nüsschen (Waldecker Land, Nordhessen), Nüsslisalat oder Nüssler (Schweiz), 

Rapunzel(salat)(Thüringen, Sachsen), 

Rawunze (Mittelhessen) und Rawinzchen (Schlotheim, Thüringen), 

Schafsmäuler bzw. Schoofsmeiala(Franken), Hasenöhrchen (Unterfranken), 

Döchderle, Sonnenwirbel bzw. Sunnewirbeli, Sonnewirbele (Baden), 

Ritscherli(Ortenau), Vogelsalat (Südtirol), Vogerlsalat (Österreich), 

Wingertsalat (Pfalz), Schmalzkraut (Hessisches Ried). (Wikipedia)

so first thing I did was a half-cover to protect the outside

and  overpainted the red label which was printed on the booklet.

My version of a plant of Valerianella - Ackersalat - salad from the acre.

The curtain was certainly a bit plain - that's why I added the

wonderfully tatted  lace-band - I assume my grandmother did it.

Such things were safely stored in my mother's stashes and now

in mine - hopefully those treasures will be passed on and on....

I thought there must be more curtain

Yes, that's it. Mysterious moving of the new curtain.

Here I am preparing lace with sorceress' hats, a sign that she is everywhere.

She is watching the young future father who he steals the salad from her garden. - 

I am not sure yet how to insert this element between the pages.

We will see.

Just stay tuned......