Rock carvings: The tattooed deer

And what if I was to use the pattern program on my sewing machine to do the filling up on these Wiking symbols? Although I've chosen a rather simple Bernina model, there is still quite a selection of automatic patterns available on it -

I tried out three of them on this deer, along with some free-motion sewing - and the drawing was delightfully filled in no time! (Argh! Why is there such a thing as preparing dinner and cleaning up and all those other chores - I'd rather be playing all day long!)



When tracing my drawing with the parchment paper and pencil method, I always get a reverse version as well - this time I used it on the backside of an ice-cream paper box, to get a cardboard template to use for another project -

and look, how funny it happened to turn out from the printed side - maybe you can call this some sort of 'tattoo' as well!



(German summary: Und was wäre wenn ich eines der vorgegebenen Muster der Nähmaschine zum Ausfüllen verwenden würde - auch bei meinem einfacheren Bernina-Modell gibt es da so einige zur Auswahl ...

Und als 'Nebenprodukt' habe ich beim Durchpausen auf einem Eiscreme-Karton noch ein buntes 'Tattoo' dazubekommen!)

A textile stamp!

Today I went to the local post office in order to buy some stamps - I always buy the special ones as they are not more expensive than their actual value but so much more beautiful - and this time I found many exciting ones:

a 3D-lenticular-technique stamp, one with concrete sand from a WWII-tower, another with small glittering rhinestones on it, yet another one with real Swarowski stones - and finally a machine embroidered textile stamp! Fully official and ment to post with your letters or parcels!

I've never seen anything like it before and was absolutely surprised and pleased!