Wedensday 14th of April 2010 morning

In the morning we started up making a "gate".

At 10:30 am we went to see the performence from the kindergarden.

Dorte made a Stork for the "gate".

The "Stork-gate" in the hall, notice the little "crocedille" and the fish.

Thursday 13th of April 2010 Afternoon

The flower-group went to Talsi with the bus in the afternoon.

We visited art school for children aged 10-15 years.

Some of the old part of the town. A town with 9 hills.

On top of one of the hills, we got this view.

Thursday 13th of April 2010 morning

Thursday morning we meet at 9 o'clock a.m. at the culture house next to the school.

We began to make som blue and yellow flowers, that had to dry up until tomorrow.

Out of willow we made mobiles for the entrance/hall.

"Long" Analie is hanging the mobiles at the sealing.

Monday 12th of April 2010

The reunion at Riga Airport. We were picked up by bus and went to Pastende.

At Pastende Culture House we had a warm welcome from Jolanta and Antra. We were shown around and told about the place.

This is the local primary school, were we have lunch every day in the celler. It's build by a german Baron and his family are still conected to the place.

Our first meal in Latvia, lunch at the school. Afterwards we went to our hosts, and had a look at their places before dinnertime at the culture house. After some singing we went back to sleep, while Poul and Anne arrived at midnight.

Felting on recycling sweaters

We bought a bunch of sweaters in a recycle store.
Washed the sweaters and felted them with needles nice and tight.
Personal and beautiful designed clothes.
See the example above.

Needle felt on cards

Dyed wool and feltneedles
passepartouts

silk (left overs)

The finished cards

Arrange the wool on the silk - felt it properly with the needle - glue it on -

decorate it with perls - send the card to a good friend -

/Elin

A crochet flower

Start with the inner flower:

Croch 5 ch (chain stitch) into a ring with a SlSt (slipstitch)
All rounds ends with af SlSt an begins with a ch.
Croch 9 sc (single crohet) in the ring and end the row.

After that:
- * 2 ch and skip 1 crochet an croch 1 sc in the next stitch*
- Repeat from * to * 5 times = 5 bows

Croch in every bow * 1 sc, 3 tr (treble), 1 sc*

Croch from the back of the work a new row of ch-bows:
-*croch 4 ch, 1 sc around the sc from the inner flower*
- Repeat from * to * 5 times = 5 new bows

Croch in every bow: * 1 sc, 4 tr, 1 sc*

Do the ends nice and thight.
Decorate with perls or fabric flowers an sew a brooch or a hairbuckle on the back side.

/Elin

clik at the RECIPES and they vill enlarge.

Dear florists -

Thank you so much for teaching me................

I used it for a grandchilds christening

Greatings from Elin

And by the way - one of my neighbours has asked me to teach her - so it continues.......

Evaluating

The 29th October all the people from the Danish group did meet at Lisbeth, to evaluate the week.
It became an evening, with lots of talking, because everybody had so many good stories from the week to tell.