Craft Сorner

[Olga Bondareva]

A couple of years ago I bought a crochet book for only description of this napkin.


Now I start to crochet a round table-cloth using the pattern. It's size will be 150x150. And it moves up very slowly. 

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely pattern Olga and the kind of thing that will be handed down through your family, daughter to grand-daughter. My crocheting is confined to woollen rugs for over the knees.

But my sister does beautiful tatting and quilting. She made a white satin beadspread, all hand embroidered in stumpwork. It is magnificent. I wish I were her daughter instead of her sister.

[maggiepie]

Lesley, any chance of seeing a pic of the bedspread?

[Lesley Cox]

Well I haven't been up to Tauranga where she lives for a couple of years. She's been down here. Maybe next year? I don't think she has a digital camera either, not very technical, even worse than me but I'll ask her.

[Olga Bondareva]

A lovely pattern Olga and the kind of thing that will be handed down through your family, daughter to grand-daughter. My crocheting is confined to woollen rugs for over the knees.

If I have enough patience, Lesley!  I've made only 24 cm. It's veeery slow! 

Lesley, any chance of seeing a pic of the bedspread?

Yes, yes, please! 

[Olga Bondareva]

Embroidered when I was full of passion to blue poppies.

[Lesley Cox]

Those are truly exquisite. What a very clever lady you are Olga.

[Anthony Darby]

My Mum went to cross stitch classes, but it was my Dad who made this, which has pride of place on my lounge wall.

[Lesley Cox]

Very nice Anthony. Both my mother and I used to do a bit of taspestry in the days when each one was longer. No time now.

[angie]

Years ago I used to meet up with friends and do some crafts together. One friend went back to America the other went back down to Surrey . Since they left I did a little craft work but somehow it's wasn't the same fun as it used to be. I have boxes of craft material. Maybe once I get older and not able to garden I can get back into doing this again.
Olga I love those Christmas tree decorations. My American friend would love the Santa ones.

Angie 

[partisangardener]

I would like to show you an art I invented when I was a kid in the mid 50-ties. Hope it is the right place here.

Sculpturing with aluminiumfoil. It was then tinfoil. It is still in German but the film will explain what is done.
Later there will be a tuition in full im my foreghn English too I hope. I did every animal known to me (I knew a lot)

It will give a good christmas-decoration. For me it was the toy, because these where rare after the war.

[Brian Ellis]

Incredible Axel, I am amazed

[angie]

Thats so lovely, thanks for sharing 

Angie 

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely indeed. It wouldn't be too hard to make something much cruder but these animals are real works of art, delicate and beautifully crafted. Thanks for sharing your work with us Axel.

As well as delightful decorations for a Christmas tree, such a craft would be an excellent way to amuse and occupy children who are unwell, even in hospital for extended periods. Perhaps you should be publishing a little book about them and how to make.

[partisangardener]

It will be more easy to explain it with some more films. I did workshops with children and they worked quite well, but it is less bother to repeat a film a hundred times than to do it really.
To do a book seems so complicated and performing arts like this one is more like dance or martial arts, you should see it done.
I will post here, when I am ready. It took me a lifetime to create this way and I think its time to pass on what is achieved.
These times are good for sharing With a book I wood be again in the money business and this way of art was a free offer from life to me, I rather pass it on for free.
If somebody got a problem with it he may ask and I do another sequence then. Fiftyfive years of improvement will solve most problems, the rest will be done by intuition.