Problemer med Symaskinen

Som I ved har jeg en Husqvarna Designer 1 som jeg er meget glad for. Der til hører et program hvori man kan lave diverse broderier.
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Programmet kan absolut ikke opdateret til andre styresystemer og så må man genne gamle computere, hvor det er installeret på kun fordi at min mulighed for stadig at kunne bruge min maskine til at danne broderifiler på.

Alternativet ville være en investering på omkring 80000 hvilket jeg absolut ikke vil.

Jeg synes det er rigtig dårlig politik af firmaet, at de på en måde presser deres kunder til at investere mere skare muligheden for anvendelse af programmerne væk.
Hvad mener I?
MVH Karen

Påklædningsdukker

I sommeren 2012 fandt Olivia og jeg en æske med gamle påklædningsdukker på loftet hvor vi boede. Dem legede vi med hele sommeren og derfor måtte jeg igang når jeg kom hjem men at lave et sæt legetøj til hende som jeg havde glæder mig til.
År tilbage købte jeg broderede mønstre til Husqvarnas broderede påklædningsdukker og de blev fundet frem.
Der var masser af muligheder og efterhånden fandt jeg frem til hvad jeg ville lave.

Det blev til to dukker som fik deres hjem i en omslag jeg syede og lagde et lag fast2fuse i. Jeg havde lavet en send til hver af dukkerne - et klædeskab og plads til legetøj og husdyr.

Omslaget:

Bagsiden af opslag:

Sådab lukkes omspaget:

Dukkerne hæftes sammen med deres tøj ved hjælp af velco brikker syet på hvert stykke tøj og så her dukkerne en velco på maven.

Disse mærkater købte jeg hos Panduro.

Her skal I se dukkernes kjoler:

Ved siden af lavede jeg nogle dyr og lidt legetøj:

 



Omslaget havde også to senge hvor dukkerne kunne ligge og sove:

Olivia blev meget glad for hele sættet og hun og hendes kusine Hanna gik straks igang med at lege:

MY SOUTH AFRICAN TERRASSE

Im the spring I decided to make our terrasse a little more nice. I had some fabric my nice bought in South Africa for me and I used it to make some platemats and some pillows for the chairs.
This is how it looks when it is sunny weather:

ANGLEPLAY

I have bought Margeret Millers ruler for Angleplay and I really enjoyed to use them. On her webside http://www.millerquilts.com/ there are good instructions for everything and I have learned a lot from them.

I also have her two books belonging to the rulers:

I have made 6 platemates for our dining table and it was very fun making them.

DYING MY OWN THREAD

For a time I have been facinated by thread so I wanted to try to dye my own version.
I bought some cotten thread and started.

First I unpacked the thread and prepared some small wodden sticks. I also had some small plastic jars to dye in.

I wrapped the white thread round the sticks using a big bucket as a help.

 Then I started to make the dye baths.

Here the wrapped threads are ready for dying.

I made some yellow to all of the stichs. In the other end of the stick there had to be an other color: Blue, red and brown.

I hoped that the colors would blend with the yellow, but it didn't happen.
I washed out the dye, dried the threads, and in the end I had 3 tupes of colored thread.

Hope you like it. I am looking forward to use it.

Stamps with rubbers

I trie to make some rubberstamps and used it like an expieriment to make surface design.

First I found some rubbers.

Then I draw a patteren om the stamps.

I carved the stamp so that there were ups and downs. I used some knives i have bought.

 

Then I paintet the stamps with different colors and sone acrylic paint for the use of fabric painting.

This is how it looks in the end of the experiment. In fact - It worked very well. :-)

Presents for my granddaughters

YES. I have had a new granddtaughter. EMMA.

Here she is.

A wonderfull little girl, who makes me very proud.

I have made some things for her, and I hope she will enjoy them.

Here you can see what I have been working at:

As a quilter one have to make a baby blanket. This one has the heart as a theme. In the fabric collection, in the applicee and in the quilting.

For both my girls I have made a ball.

This one for the oldest girl, Olivia:

I had the pattern from this quilter: http://bassebufas.blogspot.com/2011/01/diy-pa-babybold.html

The ball for Emma is called a Boubble Ball. I bought the pattern from this webside:
http://www.vanillahousedesigns.com/patterns/fun-for-sewing/

I used some of my self dyied fabric and a lot of different scraps. It was really fun to make and as Emma gets a little older I know that she will like it.

The Oak Three

Round our summer house there is a lot of oak threes. I took a photo of them and especialy the leaves vere interesting. I used the photo in the EQ7 and thought the colors blended vith the snow dyed fabric I made some time ago.
I decided to make a small quilt with the theme Oak three.


Broches

I am more and more into embroidery, and here I mean free embroidery on my sewing machine and some times also by the hand.

Resently i had some ideas from the artist Linda Miller and her book "Creative machine embroidery". The book is very recomendable for those who embroider this way.

I bought two copies and gave one to my friend Hanne Goetske who is a painter. You can find your way to her webside here: http://www.goetske-art.dk/

Together we have made the 5 broches shown below here. Hanne has given me the

motives and I have done the embroidery. Super teamwork. :-)

I have learned that you have to fill your bobbin with the tread you use for the embroidery. One of the broches is not so clear in color because I used some white thead in the bobbin.

ATC

For the first time I have made an ATC - Artist trading Card. I joiner the group in Stitching Fingers and accepted a swap. We had to make an ATC about the wildlife and send it to an other person on the list. I nce have tried this with Fabric Postcards and I liked it so much.
I think that an ATC is smaler than the FP and it was more difficult to do it.

Here is my ATC: