Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2009

Latest Aviator -- or Bandit?

An old cushion cover, turned inside out, enrichens the aviator scene with a flamboyant green. In the twilight, a lucky charm (so believe the Chinese) appears, a foreigner, a kind of bird that I have a special liking for, the only no-bird to be in this collection. I often see them in warm nights in our backyard, once we observed a flirting couple of a small species. So quick and silent, almost too fast to be seen, now pinned to the silk.

Update on J's job search. Only the interview will happen in Berlin; the shop is in Hamburg. We'll be going together and spend a day in the capitol, and I'll be waiting for him in a café while he's having this interview. There was another chance, and the boss said, he wants him, but he must be patient, it won't work out too soon. So maybe he decides for the second one. While J was talking about having to sleep under a bridge next year, the headhunters seem to take up his trail.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Silk is a wonderful stuff to handquilt

Quilting waves on silk is a very pleasant thing to do. I use parts of a cushion cover, made in India, in a beautiful but too dark ikat pattern. Then again I do some appliqué, but I don't have the patience to turn the edges. So I close them with a hand zigzag stitch that I have become quite familiar since I did the witch gown.







Then I had the idea to cover the flying duck with these stitches all over. It looks like a net. Crazy thing to do, but is it worth the time?
And then there are more chickens from the chickenshack quilt I haven't made into a cushion cover yet. Shame on me.

By the way, there is a wonderful Uzbek ikat for sale, way beyond my wallet, but a museum piece.