Dot-Dollie

This is the wonderful doll Dot sent me for the swap!

The colours are great! and I love the little bell (It's the first time I see a bell like that!)

Three new Franz

SOLD






I finished the last 3 Franz quiltlets.

These are about Assissi, the plants and the fish.

I scanned these photos and I notice that the ones I took with the camera show better the texture of the pieces...

They also are about 9"x6" (22x15cm)

Tagged

I've been tagged by Jude.

The rules

Start with 7 random facts/habits about yourself
People who are tagged have to write their 7 things on their blog
Then choose another 7 people to get tagged and list their names
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1. I always have bread with miso and spread cheese for breakfast

2. I don't like to phone (out of free will, only if I must...!). I only communicate per email (no communication before that invention!)

3. I'm afraid of insects at night in my room (not in Austria, but in Argentina and Australia)

4. I always tell the truth, even if it's bad or embarrassing for me... (kind of silly sometimes...)

5. I don't like to have very young children around me (and I had 7 of my own - you tell me why!)

6. I like to read books and see films in their original language (I can do it in German, Spanish, French and English, so I have a huge range of authors! if I cannot read the language they are written in -love f.i. Haruki Murakami and Qiu Xiaolong-, I read them in English)

7. I can't garden (and I don't like to because I'm the sure plant death! this gives me too many pangs of conscience...) ...AND I'm married to a farmer. My life consists of discrepancies...

I tag 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Forgotten son

This is child #4 Maximilian (24) Twin brother of Sophie. I couldn't find a picture as I showed you the rest of my family!

Plants and craft market

Today we had a wonderful sunny day (like all spring days till yet!) and my daughter and I visited a plant and craft market which is very known in Austria.

There is a society that tries to conserve old plants so that they don't disappear and once a year they have this huge market.

The surprise was that this year there were so many textile related boxes! I even found a wonderful American lady who is visiting a friend in Austria, her name is Mary Hill.
She has a very nice homepage!, here she is at her stand:





Here is the wool, roving, felt stand with a wonderful wool naturally dyed.
It's from Gaby Tezarek-Brückmann:



Here is the felt stand:



and here is the stand of a Finn lady who does very interesting linen clothing and wonderful necklaces (you see them hanging there). Her name is Susanne Riecker and the name of her shop is TUULUKKI in Haslach, 2023 Nappersdorf (Austria):



All in all a great (and expensive! :-)) day!

The fish

This is one more part of the sampler I'm doing.

I felted some Colback to the background and used two pieces of a free form crochet thing I began two years ago. It is done out of the same wool of the roving I use. I embellished some roving between the flowers to hide the seams. I also used some organza squares on the middle. It is so funny how they get embedded in the center of the flowers when you embellish on the same spot! (I love looking at them while they are shrinking!).

Sunset

I love the atmosphere at dawn in the coffee corner of my studio.

Yesterday I was drinking a cup with a friend and sun shone on all the mother of pearl buttons of my wall hanging. I had to take a picture!