Insects

Today I wanted to see how far you come with the embellisher. I decided to do something graphic or drawn like.

These two insects talking under the fern are the result. I always imagine all these little creatures communicating...

Visit

I visited my daughter and had nothing to do with me (I usually have something to work on). I missed very much to be able to sew... So she gave me a muslin, sewing thread and some fabric scraps and I did this little fall wallhanging while we chatted.

I was very interesting to see what happens if you stitch with sewing thread. Everything became very small and fragile...

We went looking for material to do a fall wreath and I put some of the rose hips in the little pockets.

Sunny day

Today it was a wonderful day, a sunny one after rather foggy and rainy ones.

A friend from Munich, Christl Furtner, visited me and we talked about textiles and old times...

Before she came I finished a doll for my new book and she picked the opportunity to stroll through the garden with her umbrella... (Photoshop...)

Birth

I was looking at my photos this morning and I found this one of a piece I did some time ago and wanted to share it.

It was a kind of serendipity. I felted the smaller piece of it and put it in the washing machine. It came out with the forms I accentuated by stitching and it was just like the Christmas scene at the stable. The angel, Joseph, Maria and the child...

Fall is in the air...

It's getting cold and grey...

"verFilzt Und zugeNäht" (FUN)

I just wanted to tell my German friends that I wrote an article about the Janome X-pression in the magazine FUN

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by Hotwater Cornbread

Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog post containing your own middle name game facts. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

so...sara is my middle name.

s... as sympathetic. I try to really hear people when they talk and feel with them and I like people who do the same

a... as ambitious. That is the one thing I am not. I like to do art because it is the thing I like to do. I don't think about what happens with it afterwards...

r... as romantic. I like fables and fairy tales, the atmosphere of my childhood, vintage style...

a... as artistic. Everything I see has an artistic potential to me, if it is a stain on the floor or the colors chosen in a scene in a film. I put all of them in my inner hard drive!

My tag-ees are some of the people whose blogs inspire me:

s-spectrescope

a-a stitch in time

r-ruth rae

a-art and ghosts