As time runs

Our new holiday home in the Black Forest offers a fantastic

view - below it is autumn

 and here after the first snow fall

in the other direction families are using the slope for sleighing - 

photo taken by the webcam on the tower in Dobel 




But then on a workday in the late afternoon like this

I am knitting, unravelling and knitting again

finally made up my mind for the pattern

Sewing by hand and giving away - those mushrooms went

to Vermont, I saw one hanging on DD‘s  christmas tree -

the pattern is by „AnnWood handmade“






I love tatting and made several samples for earrings

But then a sad event and loss of a friend - dear Dirk W.

we won‘t forget you. You were multitalented and 

interested in many crafts - an artist, creating paintings,

earthenware and probably much more….. 







Our weather down in the plain is like this - no biking but

short walks.



I wish you all a happy healthy new year.

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......

Stitch reference

I am starting from the beginning of this year's SharonB's Tast stitches.  here
Exactly as Sharon published them - small rows - I want to find them again

and how they are made.
Knotted feather, inverted feather, raised laced herringbone, triangular feather
Herringbone square, laced square herringbone.
You see the gap? The space is reserved for no. 55, the buttonholed herringbone
I wanted to know exactly how to make it and had to wait for internet access down in the
"Base de Loisirs" - a holiday camping. Glad it does exist!
Such is life up in the French Vosges.

Sailors stitch, sailors edge and detached woven chain.
My band is 8 cm broad. And Annett, if you should read this:

It is the first time that I am "counting" threads, although I said some time ago

that I don't like counting but on such a background it is a must.

My progress in tatting. (See here): click here

Well I started to do the star fish, but alas - I made an error and so I changed the pattern.

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