čtvrtek 16. června 2022

Slow Stitching on Holiday

  


The second week in June we spent in Germany, on the island Rügen. The weather in the north of Germany is quite unsure, you never know if you would be the whole week on the beach or if you are heading into a rainy and windy week with many hours somewhere inside. We were lucky with the weather, we had beautiful sunny and warm days with only little sprinkles, mostly at the night.


Nevertheless, one should be prepared, therefore I started the preparations for holiday handwork a few weeks earlier and arranged two small collages for slow stitching.

For some unknown reason, I need a small picture for starting a collage. The sparrow was just great.




The second collage was started with some fish.



The days in June are long, especially in the North, which allowed us to sit outside in the sun until nine o´clock or later. The colder evenings we spent inside listening to an audiobook. Do you see a better opportunity to sew?



This piece will become a cover for a small diary.


The second piece would become a kind of purse for sewing supplies.






I used scraps of my own dyed fabrics and some vintage scraps as well. The treads are cotton (hand-dyed)and silk (by Oliver Twists)
Both clothes are full of stitches already, but I didn't declare them finished yet. Some touches here and there, some beads maybe? 

Happy summer stitching!
Michaela