Still winter

 

I know many of you don't particularly like it, especially cold, gray and wet - I don't like that either - but now we have the snow, the sun and the blue sky here and that is celebrated - the beauty of winter is celebrated. And yes, I went skiing. I didn't take any photos, it was too cold for my hands. We are currently minus 11.5 degrees. So the photo is from a few years ago not far from my house... doesn't it look like in "Narnia" :-)) right behind the wardrobe... a dream. And I discovered another photo from this winter... so it was recorded quite a while ago too...

First I knitted the hat out of merino wool and later this wonderful skirt and I still wear it today... very comfortable in this cold now.

And I sewed something wonderful... I found photos of illusion patterns on the Internet - there are also a lot of knitting patterns, but I played with fabrics... 

I'll show you the beginning to the beautiful result.

I will use it as a runner or wall hanging, I have yet to decide. I'm very happy... and here - for the sake of fairness - a current photo from the last weekend walk with my husband.

Kind regards to you. Use the time. Make something beautiful out of it.

Hugs from me and thank you very much for your comments, which I am always very happy about. Let's connect in friendship - worldwide. May you be healthy and of good spirit... may you create beauty.

News from sewing

We've had everything from minus 10 to plus 10 degrees with sunshine recently... so much so that I even went on a little bike ride here... on the street... and on the sewing machine. I'm delighted with this little doily.

 I also used selvedges and sewed a bag entirely out of selvedges. It's a lot of fun choosing the right combination.

Unfortunately we don't have skiing weather, but the sun often shines, so there are many tours outside... ... including cleaning vegetables from the farmer, savoy cabbage and chard.

The whole family went on a trip to Liberec to see the exhibition by Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy. It was so wonderful that I went back again a week later with my girlfriend.

Since I don't know if I'm allowed to show pictures of the exhibition here, there is only this cake from the cafe of the Museum of Fine Arts in Liberec.

We all enjoyed it... very.  You can find pictures online.

With these hiking pictures I greet you all near and far.

See you soon Viola

Yay, there was some snow

Anyone who knows me knows that I love winter and snow and am therefore happy about every snowflake here. How wonderful the snow crunches under my boots... Well, the photos aren't spectacular, but maybe they can be later in the year. Anyway, I'm happy now. Because being outside is always nice.

Hochstein Lausitz 26.12.24

Some of you have been interested in this type of star. I made this one out of tea bag. 

Interesting patterns emerge, you can also use any other type of paper, even writing paper.

I painted printer paper and cut nine 5 x 5 cm pieces.

This is my reminder of the first star I made. I can't show it because I gave it and other stars away.

It shows the steps very nicely... first, each of the nine pieces of paper is folded into a "headscarf"... this creates the line we will continue to work on... two folds make a parallelogram...

YES.

Here is the "headscarf"...

Open the headscarf to fold the parallelogram in two steps - here step 1...

here step 2.

One point of each star is the part on the top left... so the top right part is folded back to the center line and a point is created.

When you put the pieces together later, you will need exactly this fold - remember it - feel free to give it a name: Maybe Somnium :-)))

...here the last “Somnium” part is folded :-))

The individual star tips are now finished.

The bottom part must now be worked on so that the pieces can be put together.

To do this, fold backwards along the drawn line (from corner to corner).

You can see the step here. 

The small triangle in the middle is also folded backwards (it stabilizes the star).

I'm telling you - now comes the best part! 

The parts are put together.

You take the first part in your left hand - as in the photo - and put the second part in the gap in the first part... 

You have to make sure that "Somnium" (remember it?) of the first part encloses the part that is folded back - that means you fold "Somnium" open slightly and put the next part in - this is how the star is attached. 

"Somnium"

Insert parts into each other

note the folding

"Somnium" will enclose the piece that is folded back. Therefore, "Somnium" must be unfolded briefly.

When you're on part 8 - you'll be so experienced that you can attach part 9 at the end too.

I didn't design the technique myself; I made the star in the folk art museum and there are plenty of instructions online.

I hope you have fun if you try it... take or make some pretty paper and get started.

And that evening sky – I was overwhelmed :-))) 

Have fun everyone and best wishes from me. 

Thank you very much for your greetings. 

Viola