crafting • kaleidoscope https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope one project per year /1990-2023 Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:17:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/cropped-favicon-512-32x32.png crafting • kaleidoscope https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope 32 32 Maker´s dress /2023 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/makers-dress-2023/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/makers-dress-2023/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:39:32 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/?p=1054 The maker´s dress is made of overalls worn only a few times in a play in 2003. Now, 20 years later I refashioned it into a work dress for my creative endeavors.

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]]> Can clothes be bridges between different eras of one´s life?Yes, they definitely can. They can be transformed and adapted to the new life situation and still carry the (hopefully good) memories of the past.

The maker´s dress is made of overalls worn by me only a few times in a play in 2003. Now, 20 years later I refashioned it into a work dress for my creative endeavors.

Play is definitely a part of work – and of my maker´s dress:

maker´s dress back side with unicorn postit
maker´s dress front side stitched details: play + make new friends

And I like running stitches and their endless possibilities:

running stitches on orange insert
patch "evolution" attached with running stitches

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/makers-dress-2023/feed/ 0 freedom & peace /2022 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/freedom-peace-2022/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/freedom-peace-2022/#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 02:32:35 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/?p=490 Mini-flags for freedom & peace in Ukraine & everywhere. Oder in den Worten meiner Yogalehrerin:„Lass alle Wesen auf allen Planeten Liebe und Frieden erfahren.“ (May everyone everywhere be happy, feel compassion and be free.) Painted, crocheted, embroidered, sewn. Size 7 x 15 cm. Locations: viennese streets

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]]> Mini-flags for freedom & peace in Ukraine & everywhere.

Oder in den Worten meiner Yogalehrerin:
„Lass alle Wesen auf allen Planeten Liebe und Frieden erfahren.“ (May everyone everywhere be happy, feel compassion and be free.)

Painted, crocheted, embroidered, sewn. Size 7 x 15 cm.
Locations: viennese streets

Ukrainian flag with a crocheted heart and a stitched dove
Rückseite Ukraine-Fahne: origine inconnu

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/freedom-peace-2022/feed/ 0 Der faule Willi /2020 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2020-der-faule-willi/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2020-der-faule-willi/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:28:37 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=250 Cat toy , crocheted, with little bells This was my christmas present for Maya, one of my favourite styrian kittens:

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]]> Cat toy , crocheted, with little bells

This was my christmas present for Maya, one of my favourite styrian kittens:

eine Tigerkatze namens Maya
Maya <3
Crocheted wild willy from Biene Maya from his back with cute wings
I love his back side <3
Fauler Willi in progress with missing face
Willi in progress

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2020-der-faule-willi/feed/ 0 knitting doll rug /2019 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2019-knitting-doll-rug/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2019-knitting-doll-rug/#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:28:08 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=248 Small rug for the bathroom made with a knitting doll / StricklieselCotton yarn, diameter ~ 70 cm

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]]> Small rug for the bathroom made with a knitting doll / Strickliesel
Cotton yarn, diameter ~ 70 cm

circular rug made from knitting doll yarn in spiral form
circular rug with a little embellishment
knitting doll rug on sun-background

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2019-knitting-doll-rug/feed/ 0 the Crow /2017 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2017-the-crow/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2017-the-crow/#respond Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:52:33 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=227 My first carving experiment: amulet made in a workshop of Ed E. Bryant, a canadian artist from the Tsimshian-tribe in the world museum Vienna I had the choice between the four totem animals associated with a Tsimshian-clan: eagle, orca, crow and wolf.

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]]> My first carving experiment: amulet made in a workshop of Ed E. Bryant, a canadian artist from the Tsimshian-tribe in the world museum Vienna

I had the choice between the four totem animals associated with a Tsimshian-clan: eagle, orca, crow and wolf.

amulet with crow-motif in the middle of the pattern and the paint

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2017-the-crow/feed/ 0 ninja princesses /2014 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2014-ninja-princesses/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2014-ninja-princesses/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:02:15 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=141 Sarah is my best buddy ever if it comes to tinkering. Thank you my luv <3

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]]> Sarah is my best buddy ever if it comes to tinkering.

Thank you my luv <3

snapchat Sarah und Helga im Little Britain

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2014-ninja-princesses/feed/ 0 electronic belt /2008 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2008-electronic-belt/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2008-electronic-belt/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:30:40 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=89 Work in progress I started to work on this belt in this inspiring working space during the workshop “wearable electronics” in Museumsquartier Vienna.

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]]> Work in progress

I started to work on this belt in this inspiring working space during the workshop “wearable electronics” in Museumsquartier Vienna.

Workshopraum im Museumsquartier in action

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]]> https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2008-electronic-belt/feed/ 0 Hansel & Gretel, the bag for the XO /2007 https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2007-hansel-gretel-the-bag-for-the-xo/ https://www.opensewing.org/kaleidoscope/2007-hansel-gretel-the-bag-for-the-xo/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:26:33 +0000 https://www.opensewing.org/blog/?p=60 I made a few prototype bags with a smart closure for the OLPC XO, formerly known as $100 Laptop for Olpc Austria (One Laptop Per Child). Robot canvas print: motmotModel: Said

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]]> I made a few prototype bags with a smart closure for the OLPC XO, formerly known as $100 Laptop for Olpc Austria (One Laptop Per Child).

Robot canvas print: motmot
Model: Said

There´s a story behind 😉

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