Bookbinding - an update

Bookbinding online class - oh what did I start! 

I am courageous and started something quite new for me

Although while experimenting I long for fabric and thread

I can‘t deny it.

At least I made a front and back cover with a little

fabric, liberty scraps, and held it down with tulle and

then going over it with the sewing machine

Also a litte handstitching

embroidering the title with backstitches - Bunte Bücher 

(coloured books)

It is an online class with Anne Lange at

www.lange-nadel.de

After folding the pages and binding them with

an easy technique - the side edge binding

I started to think about the next steps ...

the actual binding of the book.

I have to combine two methods and it is not solved yet.

I didn‘t follow the instructions ------ now, readers, please excuse,
I chose the wrong expression. Of course, teacher never gives any
instructions but merely advices or suggestions. However, I am a complete newbie
in this craft and therefore very dependent of - lets call it now "recommendations".
OK?

And - a celebration - one piece for two

with coffee on an outing into the Black Forest/Schwarzwald

Fifty-five years together - two children - three grandchildren

A move from one French farmhouse into another French 

house will soon happen, soon? Maybe in two or three months

we started to move mentally. 

We enjoyed this cake - the calm before the storm -

but wait - the storm hasn‘t begun yet.

New new in our house

Three boys and a cooking and cake baking grandma

Each day one scrap

Three scraps - some stitches - oh, a house came out and maybe

a lake. A French-knot-cloud and some rain.

This ist to test the new blog-app.

Binding

Lots of thinking and what came out?

This. There is even a spine. Inside I fixed very narrow strips

which are drawn through a kind of crocheted eyelets and knotted loosely -

I could easily add more pages. There are six at the moment.

Beads at the end of the strips to give some weight

Turning over a page it looks like this - 

Detail of a page - I love the tunnel

.... and the toggles

.... and the bullion knots over a length of gimp.

     It was a wonderful class.

Future fabric book

A class with Karen Ruane - Embroidery School - which started in January 2017

I am preparing to bind the six pages together. with the cover

Above the front cover

and below the backside - all sewn by hand -

embroidered and beaded - lace made by machine

painted paper fixed with French knots

A collage with paper and fabric strips, lace, hand and machine embroidery 

embellished with my favorite stitches, French knots

Machine-sewn grid over a strip of fabric,

buttonhole stitches around cut-out lace flowers

Various embellishments with silk fabric, edge of a hanky, cutwork and

lace flower (clockwise)

Bumpy bits, gimp cord, scattered octagons, buttonholed machine sewn lace,

bullion knots, embellished grid of octagons

Cross stitched letter from an earlier project, padded scrim embellishment, gimp cords

cutwork, toggles - and all this on a piece of the baptism dress of DD (50 years ago)

Top right: little pocket, hexagon cutworks, beading

Now I will invent some binding of all this.

It is starting

This is number one - and many will follow

hopefully.

We love pumpkin soup - this one ist called Hokkaido

it was really a surprise - 

they grew like mad out of a few tiny seedlings -----

when we were absent.

I  cared for more place for my other plants meanwhile.

Familienzusammenkunft - family gathering in the Vosges

We are eating raclette - a Swiss meal with potatoes and excellent cheese

and many other things.

The cooked potatoes are covered with cheese and then put under the grill

to melt the cheese.

We are eating in the very original kitchen in an old farmhouse

in the Vosges

And grand-daughter made a quilt after her own idea with fabric scraps

which she found digging in a  big bag - I don't through away any 

fabric no matter how small.

 

Weather was not just like we want to have it - but this

evening it gifted us with this double rainbow

Blog is not forgotten - little quilts and the castle of Oricourt(France)

I am more often posting on Instagram - it is easy and instant

but I don't forget my blog.

An old square block with the four edges folded in

a little embroidery on it and

another pin cushion emerged

The quilt for the new bathroom in our "house of renovation" 

in blue and green - water themed. - this is the basting

and then some quilting - by machine - not finished yet

family is coming from Switzerland and the States

and my work must stand back

DH did some work - he constructed

new shutters - wooden and painted to fit with the ones

which will stay in place - made of plastic. 

Arent't they just perfect. And it was so hot while he worked

A place-set rather than a little quilt in English paper piecing EPP

I don't think I would ever place my coffee mug on it 

I started to quilt it by hand - circles

It was Sunday - so we decided to visit a castle - which is more or

less a ruin - interesting and of medieval times (12th century)

with an added farmhouse of the 19th century (no photo)

Picturesque sights

But look at this tower and how nature conquers it back

trees are growing on top and ivy is creeping up

The view is fantastic

The castle is surrounded by a ditch which was

never filled with water 

The couple who undertook this enormous work is

living in a small part of the castle - the rest are just walls

And here I am now - in the Vosges and am having this lovely sight.

Ties to bag

Fleamarket in France - they call it vide-grenier (empty attic)

I couldn't go past those ties. -

actually DH discovered them - I go to such events

telling to myself: "I hope I won't buy anything"

(a saying which I adopted  from old patchwork friend Ulla - 

no more among us)

Colours were just asorted wonderfully

light blue and one with black stripes for accent

Now I was trying to bring together those ties - making a bag

but had to ask Deanna of http://eclectic-meanderings.blogspot.fr/  for the pattern

I made a bag of ties before but didn't store the pattern

And dear Deanna sent it to me instantly after asking her

The advantage of internet!

She made bags with three ties. I wanted a bit a bigger one 

and tried it with four ties.

After pinning and tacking and undoing and again pinning 

that is what came out

It is rather solid and sturdy for I used the ties as they were.

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We are slowly moving our things from Haute-Saône to the

Vosges into our farmhouse - we want to give up the

"house of renovation" - We feel that it is to far to go to

from Germany.

Table and garden chairs in the trailor - 811m altitude

It is about the fourth loading - we are driving 1 hour 

from house to house.

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Look at this sight - from the east side of the house.

So beautiful! We will spend soon some time here with our children

Same procedure as every year!