Binding

Lots of thinking and what came out?

This. There is even a spine. Inside I fixed very narrow strips

which are drawn through a kind of crocheted eyelets and knotted loosely -

I could easily add more pages. There are six at the moment.

Beads at the end of the strips to give some weight

Turning over a page it looks like this - 

Detail of a page - I love the tunnel

.... and the toggles

.... and the bullion knots over a length of gimp.

     It was a wonderful class.

Bag in tree - and holes - lacy holes again

I got the pattern of my friends - they got it from their friends

And those friends got it from somewhere else....

So this is my fabric made market basket.

It is large like an African basket made of something like straw

which are very popular -

I own at least three - and this seems not to be enough so I made

one of fabric strips, not because I want another basket but because

"the journey is the reward" - der Weg ist das Ziel. It is all about the making.

 

I have enough stuff to fill it, for instance with fabric scraps or other ..

but not market products, certainly not potatoes. It would hang through.

(This might be a very German expression... if somebody would

correct me.....it would be fine)

 

 

And here the embellshment - a very strange flower - I will just

leave it there till I make a better one.

 

Apart from basket making I am making "lace" - by machine -

appliqueing old lace which I cut off from an very old pillow cover.

My lace can look like that, too, very delicate.

You know that I am in a class of Karen Ruane "Swathed in Stitch".

 

And for the cross stitches I have to make decisions - always assisted

by the already well-known Bird peeping across my shoulder -

more exactly lying about on my table offering clever advices.

 

Trying out how large the letter will be

still without fabric underneeth - what a crazy idea.

My next letter will be an "L" for lace.

I will keep my needle in motion.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

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