Wenn ich auf diesem alten Stoff sticke, stelle ich mir den Garten meiner Großmutter vor und wie die Decke dort den Tisch bedeckte. Meine Vater gab mir vor Jahren dieses Stück und meinte, ich würde schon mal damit etwas anfangen. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, die Decke zu Lebzeiten meiner Großmutter je gesehen zu haben. Wahrscheinlich lag sie auch schon bei ihr in einer Lade, weil sie sie nicht mehr als schön genug empfand. Nun wird er alte Stoff wieder zum Leben erweckt:
My stitching projects are sucessfully finished but I do not belong to that peope who like to rest on their laurels. For a long time there were plans in my head to repeat all the stitches introduced by Sharon during TAST 2012. In the beginning I was thinking about a stitch band but then I decided for a folder or portfolio; due to an old, narrow, very long piece of linen in one of my cupboards. The linen has been woven in my father's mother family on their own loom in their own home. My grandmother must have been very young when she has sewn a tablecloth out of this piece of linen.She stitched flowers made of straight stitches and used perle, she crocheted around the turned around edges and one can still see the tacking threads under the crocheting. The ravages of time have become visible and the stitchery partly has dissolved and the colours have faded out. So I have undone the stitches and this old big piece of linen has been waiting in one of my cupboards for a couple of years. Now the time had come and it was packed into my suitcase to come over on my island. The touch of this linen is so good, it is strong and soft and the needle glides nicely through.
When I stitch on this old fabric I imagine my grandmother's garden and the tablecloth decorating the garden table. Many years ago my father turned the tablecloth over to me saying, you will have an idea what to do with it. I cannot remember having seen the tablecloth in my grandmother's house. Probably it had already been disappared in my grandmother's cupboards for it was not beautiful enough to be used. Now it comes to live again:
Diese erste Seite umfasst die ersten 8 Stiche von TAST 2012. Ich habe keine Stichvariationen gestickt, sondern mit dem Stich als solchen herumprobiert.
The first page covers the first eight stitches from TAST 2012. I did not use stitch variations but I just took the stitch and tried to see what to do with it.
Nochmals alles Gute, Gesundheit und viel Zeit, um eure Ideen auszuführen!
Once again a Happy New Year, health and time enough for realizing all you ideas!