still not done

but at least I finished the top – although I just realized that I forgot one corner and did a mistake in another. But that’s easy compared to the things I need to do next: Quilting will take a lot more time. But since I plan to hand sew it I will do it little by little in my rest periods.

And since I’m really nuts I did the embroidery in the middle a second time because the white background did not fit to the rest at all.

doing the jigsaw

I’m a little afraid of it because it is so big and you need to sew pretty precise.  And I could have taken an easier way out but it seems to work. First squares,

then stripes.

And now I need to buy some more fabric for the edges because of an error in reasoning…

I would be lost without my plan.

cover the mess

My dishwasher died and left a big space under my sink. I can use it quite well but wanted to veil the mess consisting of washing and cleaning agent, dustpan, gloves and cloth and stuff like this.

My patchwork project left some remnants:

Some hours later:

too small, too big, next time…

Two years ago I learned juggling and still think it’s not only fun but also contemplative because of your focus on the balls. Because of the weather and some spare time I spent a day in bed and did new balls. The first is too small and has a strange peak because I didn’t add enough hooks to the second and third line. The second one is too big for my hands but perfectly shaped. But now I’m fed up with the hooks and will try the perfect ball later. The yellow ball is a bought one…

Very helpful was the advice to fill not only grains into the ball but to use some plastics to prevent the filling from coming out – additionally it was a lot easier to stuff the ball. If you crochet with different colours you don’t need to cut the threads. Just take them with you like here.

edit: well then, I tried a third time…

stitching crosses

I got from my grandmother a colourful selection of old embroidery yarn. Until now I only did names but I look out for a bigger projekt.

mission accomplished

Travelling by train and sitting in the sun listening to lots of music meant crocheting again. And since a got a wonderful collection of mercerized yarn from my grandmother I definitely had to deplete my own collection to create space in my drawers. I gave most of the flowers away but forgot to take pictures of them.  But since crocheting these flowers is so much fun I will spent some more time with them in the sun at the nightshift

And here the back of one flower to show how I attached a safety pin so I may pin the flower easily to wardrobe, bags or curtains.

my recent collection, partial

meet in the street

This beautiful piece of fabric I met in the street yelling at me: Take me, take me! (Still me and my camera have problems with red. I’m sorry!)

I took it with me and today made a big bag for, guess what!, books and papers I need quiet often at the moment. It certainly will be pretty at the beach too…

And since the pattern is somewhat eye-catching the bag can be turned inside out and then looks very ordinary since this fabric was a kitchen towel.

I better should be sitting with my jigsaw puzzle but I need the bag tomorrow for work and besides was longing for a sense of achievement.

copy bag

you think this is for the trashcan?

you’re wrong!

years ago I bought a little pouch which had the perfect size for sunny days in the parks of my town or for strolling around a festival site. but over the years the fabric lost its colours so I did not like to take the pouch outside anymore. during my patchwork project I collected lots of small and smallest pieces of fabric – perfect basic for the patchwork pouch.

I just combined the pieces as the came until I had a rectangle of the original size (in my case it’s 40 x 13 centimetres). I had to use the iron a lot and to straighten the edges with patchwork ruler and scissor.

The bottom forms a circle and consists of a very stable fabric and a similiar sized piece of lining which I connected before putting them into place. For the lining I used the old cover of a cushion, the rectangel needs to be a little bigger than the outside rectangel because you want to hide the seams like this.

done. and obviously I decided to preserve some of my mistakes

patience

patchwork is like a jigsaw puzzle. you got to take your time.

money, money, money

sometimes friends do not want you to be creative when thinking about a birthday present but ask for money because they want to buy something expensive. so this donation cd emerged: