Antique Crochet

Around 4 month ago, still in the summer, I visited a friend of my who wanted to show me something. She knows that I love textile art. She found (a long time ago) bits and pieces, all very beautiful crochet flowers and seeds.

This work looks like it was made by monks in a monastery or so. Because the material is very fine cotton and the motifs are only made using single crochets or knitted.
The flowers were all wrinkled and had some stains, but I knew this was too beautiful to have it in a drawer.

So I gave her the advise to clean it carefully and sew the pieces nicely on a linen in the same color and make a wallhanging. But formost Do It !! And now voilà she called me, come and have a look I did it. And whow it came out soooo beautiful. It got a special place with light on it in her great salon. I'm very proud of her, that she took the time to finish this UFO (unfinishe object.)

My Bags

Day 7 of the blogchallenge

Loving different kind of fiber arts, makes it difficult to chose what to make this day. I love knitting bags and like "Haut Bags"there are many Magazins around where You can find some inspirations. I prefer to use recyced material, like old pieces of handpainted silk for example.

This lovele silk bag is sold 

This lovely bag is  made from recycled silk, cut in long stripes than crochet. The vintage picture is printed on canvas so is the text of poezie and the text song singing sofly together with lace and flowers as embelishment. But I have made many plastic bags cut long stripes and knitted I find it difficult to crochet the plastic. All the bags are then  nicely  lined with zipper pockets. Some embelishments with beads and buttons and ready is a one of a kind ( Ooak ) piece. You can have a look at my website to find more handbags.

Work in progress

Ik had hier 2 mooie foto's geplaatst maar op de een of andere manier zijn ze verdwenen. Ik zal kijken of ik ze ergens heb opgeslagen