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One Fish Two Fish

the last 2 weeks were spent with my assumentum bestullae (rag beasties) for the exhibition at the beginning of July, which is - gasp - nearly upon me. Mama Fish is well known here

mama fish

though, there was some more stitching done on her. And now the 4 little fish are finished. And since my hair dresser has a beautiful courtyard and I was waiting for my appointment anyway, I used the opportunity for a photo shooting.

Jumper, who nearly fell into the fish pond

parrot

parrot

woven

woven

suprised - my absolute favourite

surprsed

All are 100% hand sewn, from hand dyed vintage fabrics (I'm trying to use up my Procion MX dyed fabrics for them), and stuffed with carding waste from spinning, waiting for a purpose. (It was all darkish brown and came from many Zwartbles sheep carding sessions.)

There is still a Manta Ray I need to get finished until this weekend because I have some customer dyeing to do next week.

I am rather pleased with them so far. And it is a lot of fun to sew them.

stitching at the sea side

well, we're back. And yes, I would love to go back to the Ocean in a wink.

The winter garden was a treat and a really nice place to stitch. No wonder with this view:

It's amazing how much you can sew, knit, spin and stitch in just 2 weeks, even with three hours at the beach each day, doing your own cooking and such. 

I finished my quilt with the natural dyed patches.

It took me about a year.

begun March 2011 in La Rochelle (during Isend 2011) and finished May 2012 in Plouhinec. A very french quilt, so to say ;o)

Stardust gained a new part (which will make more sense in times to come, I suppose)

But the first thing I had to do when I arrived was mending my jeans. It was a classic triangle tear at the backside and happened on my journey to France. In the spirit of Jude's class, it was mended and got a patch.

The patch came from my Contemporary Boro project:

A hemp shirt, I picked up at some flea market some time ago. I removed the cuffs, the collar and the unfortunate breast pockets (one of which helped out at the jeans). Some weird coconut buttons produced stains on the button facing and the arms as I dyed it in indigo.

And this is stage one of the transformation into something wearable

I covered the collar, put some small rectangular patches on the stains on the button facing and cut off the arms (I prefer 3/4 arms) and faced them with some indigo fabric.

Now there are still the stains on the right arm. No idea what to do about them.

There was some knitting as well.

stripy socks for me from some Regia yarn I had in my stash for years now.

One of my own yarns. Logwood on white. The hank was called 'Lila Liebe' ('Lilac Love') and when DH saw me cast on and knit some rows, he asked me if he could get them. So they were made for him with love.

And some long socks for me. I love to wear boots, so I need socks with long legs (about 10"). Yarn from my own dyeing.

No pictures from the spinning. Some nice naturally brown and sage organic cotton on the Indian takhli and a Mali bead spindle.

oh, and the dogs loved the beach and the sea