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13
Jun
2010
…my new blackberry cover – fly, fly, butterfly ;)
I was very pleased with the result of my first needle lace try for one side of my blackberry cover and I really love my “swallow”. For more information see: …my new blackberry cover and again some needle lace / Nadelspitze 
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Therefore I thought I could give it another try and started working at a “butterfly” for the other side – here photos of the progress for you
First I started with the “body” of the butterfly – I used the “Neunzehnter Spitzenstich” for this part. I already posted about this ‘Spitzenstich’ here: Needle Lace / Nadelspitze – “Neunzehnter Spitzenstich”.
I thought, if I take photos of the several steps of this stitch, it could be helpful and maybe easier to rework:
For the wing section at the bottom I used “Doppelter Tüllstich / Zweiter Spitzenstich”:
For the wing section at the top I used the “Siebenter Spitzenstich” – if you like I will post about this Spitzenstich soon
…and then I decided to embroider the bottom wing section with some easy Stem Stitch (Daisy Stitch for the Flower in the middle) – btw. this are just two easy “Stäbchen” for the legs:
I worked up all of the ‘cream’ colored thread therefore I had to take another color for the background – I think this dark grey color fits best to the white, cream and red color and I filled the background with many “Stäbchen” and I also started to play around with an very basic interpretation of the “Vierunddreissigster Spitzenstich” …ok, here the end result:
1
Jun
2010
…my new blackberry cover and again some needle lace / Nadelspitze :)
Recently my favourite cover for my blackberry died because of everyday use – rest in peace! 
I’ll miss you…
I don’t like the blackberry covers they provide with the blackberry because I also use my blackberry instead of a “mp3 player” – I love to listen to music – and the basic cover isn’t made for it…
…therefore my brain started working until the final idea stroke me like a thunderstrike – to take the basic cover and just to alter and pimp it until it suits my needs.
Ok, here my blackberry and the mentioned basic blackberry cover which I got when I bought my blackberry – it looks quite new because I didn’t use it very often.
Working from the stash – I always wanted to make something out of this red fabric and this was a great opportunity. I just cut off the upper edges of my blackberry cover and also some fabric.
First I sewed the edge of the fabric to the edge of the cover and with a second line of stitches I built up a new edge with the fabric – with the second line of stitches this “new” border can take on more tension than without…
btw. this fabric frays like hell – I still try to get rid of the leftovers of this project all over my couch *lol*
I just used a ‘normal’ Satin Stitch to join the front and back edges at the sides, some chain stitch to cover the change between the fabric and the satin stitch.
Nevertheless the “naked” cover didn’t appeal to me and I decided to try some needle lace and to use up the rest of this cream colored thread – more about the needle will follow in separate postings.
Normally – referring to the descriptions for needle lace in my old books – the basic thread for the needle lace is sewn on along the edges to a basic material and than the needle lace is worked – yeah, I have to admit I am a rather lazy girl and wanted to finish this project asap, to be able to use the new cover, and thought some needles could work as well… Working on the needle lace with all the needles wasn’t easy because the needles tend to catch the working thread, but I am rather pleased with the fast and nice progress – I think the filling (3 different techniques) doesn’t look bad for the very first try
…btw. here a close up:
…and a photo of the final result:
…and here my new blackberry cover – I love it!
While working on my cover I discovered that I just cut enough fabric that the upper part would make a perfect closure – the chain stitch on the closure next to the edge makes the edge stiff enough that it can easily be pulled over the right upper corner of the blackberry. I struggled a little bit with the other corner until I got the idea to make a small link (with a pearl) to help me to pull the left edge of the closure over the left upper corner of the blackberry – I very fast got used to this ‘system’ and now this is my favourite blackberry cover
