WIPOCALYPSE 07/25

 

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

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+++  2025 is the year of  "more of" +++

This second semester is starting well with a lot of different WIP...

+++ Point de croix / More cross stitching!

My updates

Les en cours au point de croix sur papier et toile Aïda.

More Junk Journal :   Jocondine's passport

More necklaces-beads / Plus de colliers - perles

More watercolor / Plus d'aquarelle

No picture but I have started to color some TdF 7 drawings.

Pas de photo, mais j'ai commencé à coloriser quelques dessins pour le futur Tour de France édition 7.

More birthday cards

More gardening / Plus de jardinage

Cleaning the iris bed near the pond.

More sewing / Plus de couture

DD3 is in holidays and I borrowed her sewing machine so I have to hurry sewing my patchwork pieces for different tops.

All those boxes of fabric have to be sorted and I'm assembling the fabrics looking for nice colors to go with a comic strip and an egyptian patterns.

Je profite des vacances d'EA pour lui emprunter mon ancienne machine à coudre et avancer sur l'assemblage de pièces de tissus assorties récupérées dans mes stocks pour utiliser ce tissu bande dessiné ainsi que ce motif égyptien de hiéroglyphes.

For another project of jacket, I have tried to cut some pieces of pale green jean, a light brown fabric, one eggshell and a world map pattern close to jean texture.

Pour un autre projet de veste, j'assemble autour d'une pièce au motif de mappemonde achetée dans un salon DIY des chutes de jean vert pâle et des morceaux marron clair et coquille d'oeuf qui j'espère donneront un joli ensemble.

More cooking / Cuisine

For our June/July birthdays barbecue, I made verrines again : aspic Madeira jelly with cherry tomatoes, smoked trut and quell eggs and another one with rose jelly, duck, yoghurt with cheese.

Deux verrines au menu du déjeuner anniversaires de juillet : gélée de madère avec des tomates cerises, de la truite fumée et des oeufs de caille ainsi qu'une à base de gelée de roses, canard fumé sur un coulis de fromage frais et yaourt.

More DIY / plus de petit bricolage fait maison

Retour de mon gnome joueur de cornemuse, le béret est cousu avec son ruban vert, les cheveux tressés et les nattes raccourcies. Les chutes serviront à remplir la nuque et arranger le dessous des nattes.

My bagpipe-playing gnome is back, with his beret sewn on with green ribbon, his hair braided and his plaits shortened. The scraps will be used to fill in the nape of his neck and tidy up the underside of the plaits.

Question of the Month :  What are the fully finished pieces (framed or other finish style) that you are most satisfied that you have done?

a big one and a tiny one too...

More recently my hexagone pullover was quite a challenge to crochet without a pattern so I'm very proud!

WIPOCALYPSE 06/25

 

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/

+++  2025 is the year of  "more of" +++

+++ Point de croix / More cross stitching!

My two projects : Lady and the unicorn and the Spirit of Christmas Carols  on perforated paper.

+++ Crochet / More crochet

I have started to put together some of my crocheted squares.

I have to find back some fabric I thought I could cut a dress in, have already look in a lot of boxes but no success yet. Keep trying!

J'ai commencé à assembler mes carrés crochetés en bande. Ils devraient être la partie supérieure d'une robe d'été... quand j'aurais retrouvé les tissus auxquels je pense les associer. Déjà pas mal de boîtes visitées sans succès à ce jour, mais on ne désespère pas !

+++ Jardinage / More gardening

En juin beaucoup de nettoyage et d'entretien, quelques nouvelles amies à replanter également suite à notre séjour provençal. Près de notre location, nous avons découvert chez "Escoffier" un pépiniériste dont les serres regorgeaient de fleurs, plantes et arbres. 

Je recherchais une plante grimpante pour mon projet "habillage"  au fond du jardin. Terre médiocre, pas mal d'ombre sous le pin et le prunus.

J'avais repéré lors de vacances en Bretagne une magnifique espèce dotée de clochettes rouge et jaune : un Abitulon. Elle a besoin de soleil donc le jardinier m'a conseillé de la laisser en pot quelques semaines pour voir si elle se plait à l'endroit prévu.

En attendant mes plantations de l'an passé me donne de belles fleurs et entourent les branches comme espéré !

In June, there was a lot of cleaning and maintenance to do, and a few new friends to replant following our stay in Provence. 

Near our rental, we discovered “Escoffier”, a nursery whose greenhouses were overflowing with flowers, plants and trees.

I was looking for a climbing plant to grow on a dead shrub for my project at the bottom of the garden. Poor soil, lot of shade under the pine and prunus.

In the meantime, my plantations from last year are giving me beautiful flowers and surrounding the branches as I'd hoped!

On vacation in Brittany years ago, I spotted a magnificent species with red and yellow bells : an Abitulon. Never find one in a garden center but lucky me, I spotted a plant at Escoffier. It has travelled back (700 km) in the car.

It needs sun, so the gardener advised me to leave it in a pot for a few weeks to see if it likes the place where I want to plant it. It seems to like it so I have replanted it (early in the morning before the heatwave)

+++  Couture / More sewing

You have already seen my small whale bag.

+++ Bricolage / DIY

Some news from my gnome, I got more orange cordonet, "untwisted" it and added it in the hair. I made two braids. I'm sewing the beret.

I'm working too on the bagpipe, I have made the wood sticks brown with coffee and found some nice wooden bead I can cut to use on the chanter.

++++  More cooking / Cuisine

Clafoutis aux cerises / Cherries clafoutis

++++ Colliers / necklaces

Confection d'un gland en coton perlé pour mon collier torsade.

Making a tassel with coton perlé for a necklace.

++++ Cartonnage / Scrapbooking

Allways working on birthday cards.

Question of the Month:  Half-year recap:  How are you doing with your goals so far this year?

Well, not too bad, I try to follow my todo list and even though I'm not so productive during those (too) hot days, I'm glad to have some nice finishes.