wordless Wednesday

a little further

Step by step

or rather stitch by stitch

the Solstice cloth is "growing"

Just looking

A "Megamendung" ray (yes a piece from Jude) 

with more swirls on the face.

And then, when I came home from a trip to Rotterdam,

there was a package from Germany !

Birgit had already announced it would soon arrive !

In it were yummy goodies for Christmas

and some of the snippets I sent her

that she would dye for me in her indigo vat !

(must make another picture tomorrow with better light !)

A lot of vintage lace, cloth and doilies

even some indigo moons !

To use for stitching and felting

;-)

boro boro

Handstitching 

is  s l o w  stitching

It's a kind of meditative activity

(though I lóve free stitching on my machine

this kind of boro stitching I'm doing now 

is really something else)

The loveliest piece of Megamendung silk Jude once send me

is like a pair of wings on the back of the jacket.

When it was glue-stitched I didn't like the way it suddenly stopped

at the edge of the silk strip that once became the top of an evening dress

.......

so I made white (silk) running stitches 

to connect it with the piece of embroidered cotton

that was intended to become a Mexican skirt

(but never wás one)

Sometimes the ideas that pop up in my head are so many,

the stitching just goes too slowly !!!

But now that a lot of pieces are attached to the background 

I can easier make my choices.

It really is FUN !

lovely people

Last sunday we had some lovely people in our house

to celebrate Man's birthday

(yeah : 17 ... sort of ...)

One of the visitors was wearing

this nice real Peru hat

CUTE !

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The b i g piece I'm working on

will have lots and lots of pieces of fabric that have a special meaning to me,

(I think that's one of the fun parts of it)

Some of these snippets

have come from lovely people who live far away.

 A lot of them I've had for some time already

and they were "patiently waiting" till I found some good use for them :

so Sus, Connie, Jacky, Heike, Eva, Jude ...

somewhere there will be a special place for a lot of your pieces. 

I'm working on the "moon and stars"side now

(that will be the reverse of the "butterflies")

Thére was the perfect spot for some very dear

MEGAMENDUNG

It's amazing how well the dark red background of the megamendung

fits in with the ikat fabric !

Today I did some tea-dyeing to take off the "bright white"

of some pieces and I wove a few strips in them.

Now they fit in with two little "Judes"

These parts will probably became corner pieces somewhere 

The next fun part is the stitching of course

Mmmmm stitching !

a lovely weekend and ..... a giveaway !

Last weekend we had our grandchildren staying over

( and the cats )

They love all the extra attention,

and doing things together is great fun.

Man found a "Loupe" puzzle in the attic to start with

and I found an "old" package of small origami papers

and a book to work from.

( After a while I knew them by heart again ... )

On the last, very sunny day, I had some canvases,

brushes and acrylic paint.

( I wasn't in the mood to carry down two easels from the attic

so they worked on two little tables ... )

They were very proud

with the results !

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It is hard to believe

but true :

one whole year went by since I started this blog

On the first of October 2010

( kind of nervous )

I made the "giant" step  to begin a blog

because otherwise I would terribly miss my new textile friends

from the Patchwork Beasts Class I took with Jude Hill that summer :

I never regretted it !

To celebrate this joyful event I'm stitching ...

on a small

giveaway

To join this giveaway, please leave a comment on this post

( through this weekend )

On monday October 3rd

I will draw the lucky winner

!!!

I know that there are people who read this blog

and never ever leave a comment, because they don't know how ....

I can only say : please try !

If you're not familiar with commenting :

write something,

follow the intructions and pick "anonymous" when asked for a "profile"

and add your name in the text piece

so I will know who you are.

Then I can include you in this fun game !!!

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I'm back to stitching :

on a piece I started during the

Sun, moon, stars class from Jude in May

Not finished yet, but it's going fine.

I ripped off some bits and added instead a piece of Jude's

megamendung clouds

From the beginning there was a piece with a feather on it ...

After stitching ( and seeing ) só many beautiful feathers

for Jude's Magic Feather Project

there had to appear more on this "Star" piece

( you'll see the rest when finished )