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maandag 25 december 2023

Xmas 2023

I wish all my friends
near and far away
happy holidays
and if at all possible

warmth
joy
peace




and the best wishes and lots of creativity for

2024

(year of the dragon)

dinsdag 22 februari 2022

22 - 2 - 22 !!!

Many people thought this to be a special date :
it was said in the news that all available places
for getting married today were taken !
Hahaha,
so they all can easily remember what day they married !
(don't forget the flowers next year !)


(maybe some lovely snowdrops ?)

  
For me it was just a normal Tuesday
with daughter and two kids over for dinner
like any other Tuesday.
A bit cold and windy, but most of the time dry :
a perfect day for some reading and stitching
for the second week of Julie B Booth's workshop.
Because I'm reading "The Wheel of Time",
I thought the "Dragon Reborn"
would do nicely as a design for it.



(I'm more into reading the book than waiting for the video :
they always alter things that I like . . .)


The background is a bit of 
"break-down printing" with procion dye
and white silk organza on top.
I would have rather stitched this with the machine
but that one is still in repair (!) so hand stitching it is.

*
Because I mostly stitch in front of the window to the garden
I was lucky enough to see those lovely
long-tailed tits !
we hardly ever see them in the garden,
only in winter sometimes.





But two of them visited many times
once they'd discovered the seed filled pine cones !!!

Such cute little birds !!!

dinsdag 31 juli 2018

forced rest

The last half of July has been quiet,
it has been a forced rest :
hardly any work has come out of my hands.
Pain high up in my back makes it hard to do any
felting, stitching, knitting, crochet ...
even cooking ..... (but Man is a great help !!!)

I have had backache before,
but most probably it was triggered this time
by all the heavy watering cans that brought my garden relief
in the HOT  SUMMER  DAYS !
(It's really too hot and too dry over here)

So the new necklace I had started earlier
is progressing  V E R Y     s..l..o..w..l..y 
Even sitting in a straight-back chair
I have to stop after one or two stitched beads ...
But
at last



Still need to make a closure.

*

Though it was most of the time too 
HOT
to come outside,
the garden was lovely in the morning these last few days.
Counting butterflies for the "Vlinderstichting"
for ten days, so they know in the end
a bit more, which butterflies go where ...
I was lucky :

a Swallowtail (Koninginnepage)
in our garden, a rare visitor !
(and I lucky, catching it like this !)

*
Despite the heat,
daughter has been very busy at her sewing machine !


is nearly finished !

(and a little trolley bag will be transformed
into "Toothless" )

YES, she's góód !

:-)

donderdag 3 augustus 2017

tell me a dragon ...

That is the title of a wonderfully illustrated
someone I admire a lot !

These last few days I SEWED a dragon

A dragon costume
for the youngest grandson !
(they're going to "Castle Fest" again)
Daughter had been working on the costume of the eldest
so I was the "aid group" for the youngest
(the middle one already had something he wants to wear)

We took the "knight" outfit I once made,
looked up a lot on Pinterest,
and daughter made a little sketch
to show how she liked it
...


Her idea for the head was to use a cap inside,
(the "Minions" cap that grandson loves to wear)
I also had the "old" knight's helmet pattern.

On the Saturday-market in Rotterdam I bought some green cotton
and some glittery fabric.
But I went again to buy some more green
(because the glitter wasn't the right colour ...)
but they didn't have that with them that day
so I bought something else :
really WILD soft tricot : with black and yellow drops on green background,
BUT the backside was quite nice !!! 

Ears, part of the mouth, points for the head and the back ...
(thick fiberfill : stash from the old "quilting-days")

I decided to make the head without the his cap,
in fact making a new "cap", the sturdy bit will be the mouth
(it's got plastic inside !)

HA ... a bit like "Darth Vader" (uhhhhm Green Vader !)
(you can see the "wild" inside here ...)

points for the back  .....  and my clever tool to turn it !
(got the tool from a friend : these surgical pliers are thrown away !!! 
because buying new is cheaper than sterilize them .... ???)

Attaching the points on the back of the (still) open shirt :
half with the machine, half by hand.

Diner-time ...
but still wings to make

But then daughter arrived
to tell they're not going to the party tomorrow ...
but on Sunday !

Ahhhhh ... BIG time for a show !!!


WOW !
SOME  FIERCE  DRAGON  THIS  IS  !!!

(the pants are at home : daughter made them,
just like his favorite sweatpants !)

(LOL he was a lot louder, after this first picture was taken  ;-) ...!)

They went home (with the head)
and I finished the wings and sewed them on the back of the shirt.
Done !



zaterdag 6 augustus 2016

some bits together

After the last post
I owe you the dress for granddaughter.

She really looked lovely in it !
(she has wonderful long hair and made lots of braids in it
just like the lady on t.v.)

(later I just realized it was a dress inspired
by a costume of Daenerys of  "Game of Thrones"
I know of it but don't follow it,
but looked it up )

Of course she needed a dragon ....
Ha, she made one herself,
she's GOOD with crochet !

(she had to sew on the wings and front paws in the car,
driving to the festival !!!)

And this was mum's outfit this time


*
The garden looks rather good now
because we have sun and a lot of rain
(so I don't have to water the plants)

I'm always happy when the
Altea cannabina
starts flowering like a fountain is little pink flowers !

lots of beauties

*
And the ongoing activity these days
is still the stitching on my red / purple piece

(scribbles, like little fireflies looking for a place to land)



... stitching along
   one stitch after another


woensdag 25 juli 2012

lush green

Weeks and weeks of rainy weather
were good for the garden,
the last two weeks no difference for that matter.
Now we have steaming hot weather all of a sudden.
(yes, it's all or nothing)

No wonder the garden looks lush and green with all the water it got :
there's a lot to be done in fact !
But for thát the temperature isn't right ...
so I only took some pictures




amazing all these different kinds of flowers
*

My new felted cat made friends with the residents here,

they get along great, as I see it
*
For years and years I collected ladybugs,
usually I brought them along from holidays.
In the end I had lots of them
and they were everywere in the house.
(but then : ladybugs are quit small)
When we moved to thís house, almost sixteen years ago now,
I made some shelves in the toilet, and they all had a nice place ...
and I had the funniest loo in the whole village
(at least that's what I think)
But when we renovated the toilet my ladybugs disappeared
(in a way : they're still in their box)
But in Deventer I spotted a giant ladybug
and my dear M bought it for me !!!
Now it has found a wonderful place to hang ... in the living room

(ha, it dwarfs my "Naga" dragon from Bali)

When you pull the string
it really flies !



vrijdag 25 mei 2012

a beautiful card

Daughter, just like me, loves to draw.


This beautiful little card was made by her
for the newborn baby boy
(we are very proud of her !)

After some troubles with the printer company
it was finally ready to send
to family and friends
(and to you all)

*
This week, with a lot of baby and very little sleep at night,
there were a lot more little presents
for daughter's little family.
Some were homemade,
some "collected" during the time of the pregnancy.
For me it was fun gathering these presents 
and anticipating what they all would think of them.

This year being the "Year of the Dragon"
was inspiration for this :

a soft dragon toy


lots of tiny pieces for the head ...

... then the body ... and turning it inside out

(I hope Jaïr likes it too in some months time)


donderdag 23 februari 2012

is a dragon blue or red ....

The year of the dragon is already a bit on it's way
but a good week ago
I found the dragon to go with it.
( I had bought two of them earlier, but both became a present )

I very much love the bright colours !

And he goes so well with the dragon
( or winged snake Naga )
I bought almost 20 years ago on Bali !!!


*

The warm colours of Naga will be mirrored
in the knitting I started this week.
The two skeins of the Araucania wool were in a drawer
for some time, and all the other reds that I wanted to use together with it.

( the colours look a bit more pink then they really are )

I will knit a little vest in the "Horst Schulz" way :  module knitting.
This technique was explained in the 5/1993 and 2/1994 issue
of the Dutch needle craft magazine "Handwerken zonder Grenzen"



And this is what the vest will look like, only in a different colour

( this one I gave to my dear friend M, it fitted her better than me ... )
.....
So ....  there are a LOT more little squares to be knit !