It is a wrap - again

The clothesline is 6 mm thick

and it showed that I could not sew it with my machine. So I unravelled all 15 m resulting in this bunch:

and changed to a thinner more flexible line which DH had in his very large bag for cords. When we travel to the renovation house we have always many things in our trailor which have to be fixed with thousands of meters of strong poly-propylene cord.

Flat like a stamp for the bottom.

Then it has to be bent

towards the machine

This machine is about 60 years old, it is like an elephant and regularly fed with a drop of tasty (for the machine!) oil...

After a lot of turns it resulted in this.

 

 

The finished basket. I embellished it with perle 5 in blue and made French knots in the first ditch.

It is strong and firm and I am very satisfied.

 

Wrapping - fabric baskets

A lovely book - which I took with me - knowing very well

that I would never start larger projects when the family is around

 

 

 

I made a plate - and took the photo under the sky - resulting in a blue colour

 

I used this awful fabric - I would never use it in a quilt

 

and cut it up in narrow strips

and the wrapping started

I do about 35 cm/15" of wrapping

and then the sewing - slowly from the middle

with a zig-zag stitch

I like the plate - the colour is something in between

the photos under electric light and real light in the shadow

And the next one.....

 

a little basket

I used scraps of this fabric which a very friendly lady, Isabelle, gave to me

and from the scraps I could tell that they were meant to be pants for a child

in the machine - it has to be bent to end up in a bowl shape

I made three knots on the rim

 

 

 

This fabric looks quite nice - but I was barbaric and cut it up

to make still another little basket

an oval shaped one ....

 

And this is my sewing place now - in the old French house which DH is renovating

the desk is used and was transferred to us by our son -

an old house is good to deposit many things which one doesn't like anymore.

The quilt on the walI I made years ago - the pattern is from Hanna Muehe

 

 

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