Latest Progress of Witch Gown

The witch gown is almost finished. I hung it over a wall screen. The lower edge will be equipped with strings of beads. The big black beads are glass imitations of the famous Tibetan Zi Beads.












The Place where I lived from 1983 until 2002
Inspired by the latest posting by Rayna, I collected a few pictures and composed an album of my former home quarter (not finished yet). It is so different from the place where I live now. Here, we live closer to rural landscapes, as I showed them in my Friday's posting. Then, I was 10 minutes away from the city center of Hamburg.

A 7 $ Hat and Experiments on Wool Embroidery

Today I bought a palm straw hat for 5 Euros, that's about 7 $. It was decorated with a string of kawry shells which I intend to use for my witch gown. I sewed a ribbon of an old indonesian print fabric instead, because it is not Safari elegance I'm aiming at. Husband had to take pictures of me. He did what he could. I'm wearing a polymere clay necklace and a very, very old jacket.













I don't like white spots shining through the surface of an embroidery (I don't do cross stitch either unless it covers the surface completely). Now I'm experimenting with an embroidery linen which I got as a present from the other Eva. As my embroidery wool is a little too thin to cover this linen, I tried to add more threads, then added threads in a contrasting colour. Maybe it will end up looking like an afghan, knit out of leftovers. I don't mind. I rather think of a quilt showing different patterns. I used some kind of weaving technique and pulled threads through the embroidered stitches which allows to use a great part of the material upon the surface of the piece instead of embellishing the reverse side.

A walk in Maiendorf

What could be more suitable for this beautiful 1st of May than a walk in Maiendorf, which means something like May Village? In front of the red house, you can see my husband, who was eager to take a walk, whereas I kept him up by taking photographs at every corner...
The region is a valley left behind by a melting glacier. And it is a famous site where a stone age hunters' camp (12.000 years old) was excavated not too far away in Ahrensburg after which this late glacial era was named.

Another happy creature in the sun -- and flowers I saw during the walk