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We are looking for a word/verb

Nous recherchons un nom/verbe.

WIPOCALYPSE 07/24 & WIPOLYMPICS

 

Time to share with Melissa and the Wipocalypse family the projects we want to complete before the end of the world.

On FB or  https://measi.net/

Part of my Wipocalypse have been my project of Tour de France 6th edition. It started last Tuesday! The first stage took us to Allones.

Tomorrow I hope you'll join me for the second stage.

The Olympic Games begun last Saturday which means it's time for Wipolympics!

Nous y sommes ! Grande cérémonie d'ouverture et départ officiel pour mon Wipolympics Paris 2024 !

Ready to go! Big opening ceremony and the official start for my Wipolympics Paris 2024!

Two weeks with sport DIY

Escrime   /   Fencing   :  Metallic thread - Fil métallique 

finitions backstitch

Adding 40 little crosses in gold thread

Breaking : a new start for a new sport

Couldn't wait to start on perforated paper the skirt of "Spirit of Christmas carols".

Un nouvel ouvrage pour un nouveau sport. Trop impatiente de commencer la jupe de l'Esprit des chants de Noël.

Surf : la chevelure de mon gnome  /  gnome hair

More hair on the gnome head meant getting more red cord back.

Easy, only to buy chocolate from Papion (the shop is near our house so no hesitation on what gift to buy for friends).

Recycling two more lengths to be able to make two braids under the beret.

Sewing the locks I realize the color was a little lighter so I have sewed the second under the hair to have more volume.

I think I have enough hair now to make the two braids.

La chevelure de mon gnome nécessitait plus de volume, j'ai donc récupéré deux cordons supplémentaire sur les sacs de la chocolaterie Papion et ajouté des mèches. Je me suis rendue compte que le coloris était un peu plus clair donc les derniers ajouts ont été cachés sous la place des oreilles. Je pense avoir désormais assez de cheveux pour tresser deux jolies nattes.

Our reporters Nelson and Gérard with the Paralympic Phryge will be commenting all those events.

- How do you felt during those past days?

- I'm fine, so happy to start with some gold thread, maybe a good signe and a good omen!

Our fan team is also happy to share their joy with you!

Topic for July: Which of your current WIPs do you consider your most difficult piece to stitch?

It is the blackwork "Parisienne".

I bought it on a DIY fair as I found the design lovely but didn't realize that there were not a lot of cross stitching.

I have added it on my Wipolympics list to get nice progress on a WIP I usually neglect.

SMALLS SAL 07/24

 

After Mary from Mary's Thread, Rachel is now hosting the Smalls SAL

Smalls SAL est maintenant organisé par Rachel et nous propose de montrer nos petites broderies. J'aimerai bien y participer régulièrement et ainsi avoir un nouveau rendez-vous sur le blog le dernier vendredi du mois.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2024/07/smalls-sal-july-2024.html

I have found a tuto on YT to make small butterflies in crochet

I have added two near the neckline of Capucine dress

and sewed two on a hair band

My small bees are buzzing to be part of this post

Au programme du mois plusieurs "petites" réalisations

notamment ces petits papillons crochetés

ces abeilles miniatures, mon petit coeur de bois

un livre-bouton et une araignée bouton

Only about 30 cross stitches but a nightmare to do

with 3 threads of metallic DMC E130!

I use it to "close" the pocket in the "drawbridge concept" page of my JJ

Lot of smalls this month...   my button spider and my button book!

I misscounted my folds when I cut the accordeon a few weeks ago

so I added one more to be able to glue the two buttons and

have a small book

Don't forget we just started to travel around my country

for the 6th edition of my Tour de France

All about our first stage...

https://jocondine.blogspot.com/2024/07/stage-etape-13.html

Notre première étape nous a conduit à Allones dans la Sarthe

Cet après-midi, un point sur le Wipolympics

et dès demain matin, départ pour une autre découverte

STAGE / ETAPE 1/3

 

Nous voilà arrivés à Allones.

Here we are visiting  Allones.   This town name sounding like :  alone.

Well done Leonore! And Toki who joined her on Thursday!

Département  72    Sarthe      as  in    Sonnet 72

Rappel des indices  /  Some explanations about the clues

Our guide was Mr  Shakespeare...   , don't feel lonely, together, 

then the quote from King Lear could give you the answer : we two (alone) will sing like birds in a cage.

Cette fois, notre guide fût William Shakespeare. Le sonnet 72, seul, ensemble et le mot manquant dans l'extrait du Roi Lear cité ci-dessus.

Bienvenue dans la Sarthe, ancienne province du Maine, près de la ville du Mans, renommée pour la course automobile des 24 heures, les fameuses rillettes et la naissance d'Henri Plantagenêt en 1133.

In this aera, you're in the Sarthe department, old province of Maine, near to the town of Le Mans, well known for the Car race "the 24 hours", charcuterie and pork rillettes and the birth of King Henry II in 1133.

Funny to link Maine street  and the  Maine state...

Un petit tour en cuisine avec les rillettes du Mans

Famous "everything is good in a pig"

Kite in Dieppe Festival

Back to our guid and the famous bookstore in Paris in the Quartier Latin, rue de la Bûcherie.

An old stationery shop on Boulevard Hausmann - Paris

Bothy Threads

Dove Prints

Shakespeare   en  quilt

Folger Shakespeare Library

artist : Patty Elwin Davis

Henry II  Plantagenêt   born in Le Mans in 1133.

and burried in Fontevrault with Aliénor of Aquitaine, Isabelle d'Angoulême and Richard the Lionheart

  

Un petit tour dans les environs

Some stitching exhibitions and the artist village of Malicorne sur Sarthe we visited in last April.

Isabelle Strutz et sa broderie participative     une carte (avec Allones)

La vallée de la Sée

et la vallée du renom

Isabelle Strutz is an artist, making wonders with fabric, maps, books, dresses, you'll find her work on Instagram as "madamedubocage".

What about   "alone"   in cross stitching?

We are not alone...

Great success in Paris theater in 2022

Please be back on next Tuesday!

A mardi prochain !   Comme il vous plaira !