a summer by the sea

People who read this blog may remember the lovely carpet that Nolda had made for me. It was up to me to do the finish i.e. the sides and frinches. As I never done that before, I thought it would be usefull to do some practice first on a carpet by my own. I didn't want to mess up her beautifull work.


You must know that every holiday I take a small (dolls house-) job with me, as spare time realy gets me going. In this case I took my own carpet with me. The last two weeks we went to the Wadden Sea and we had a lovely time. Here you see our daughter and me looking for small shells. It was fruitfull as well as my practice-carpet got finished doing the stiching.

Normaly I wouldn't use a ring when doing embroidery but with half stich it's quit usefull. It's a bit more work because you have stich up and down, but it prevents your work from warping and keeps it nice and square.

After that I did the sidestiching and blocked it up to do the frinches. But I thought the colors were a bit to harsch so I rememberd a trick to soften them down. Dapping with tea. Eventually I switched over to coffee. You should have heared my husband... "youre doing what...!?" Haha, he just doesn't understand, but he lets me. I Love him.

Anyway, after finishing my own, I felt confident enough to do Nolda's carpet and now I have two carpets done.

Finaly a close-up of the two carpets. On the left my first ever half stich and on the right the one that Nolda has made for me. It's so fine and detailed. I teasure it!