GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 08/24

 

It's always nice to make gifts, nice too to receive some

and use them in our stitching projects.

It's great and fun to show all this and the perfect place is

on Jo's blog Serendipitous Stitching on the 15th of each month

for the Gifted Gorgeousness post.

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Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

My cross stitching WIP are now :

The lady with the unicorn - a gift from DD3

Update since the Wipolympics

The wedding heart - pattern gifted by Clare for a gift to my cousins

So focused on miscounting I didn't check the colors chart and stitched all in green! Missing the pink hearts! 

My happy couple now have shoes!

Then I started to stitch with one thread the outlines of wedding suit and dress, hairs, faces, hands and legs.

Wasn't sure at all of how it will turn but I'm glad with the result.

Quelques ajouts de roses dans la guirlande florale, après m'être rendue compte que je m'étais trompée en brodant tout en vert (les coeurs sont sensés être roses !).

Mes mariées ont enfin leurs chaussures ! Puis j'ai commencé les contours brodés avec un fil et je suis contente du résultat.

A new little doll for DD1 birthday made with Capucine

She chose the pink lace ribbon for the dress and as it was a gift from Jo it's counting as a gift received to a gift offered

the lavender Lady

Petite création réalisée avec Capucine puisque la lavande est en fleurs dans le jardin. Elle a choisi ce ruban dentelle rose pour la robe parmi mon stock, comme c'était un cadeau de Jo, ma demoiselle compte comme de cadeau reçu à cadeau donné !

This second one is a gift to me!

I wanted a small ornement made with beads to add to a ribbon used to close something (I can't give you details now!). 

I needed it to be red and I had seen on the net lovely little leaves made on wires. Never used so tiny beads. Not too bad for a first!

My Tour de France n° 6 is a gift for my blogging friends and today is the second post for our fourth stage.

Mon Tour de France n° 6 est un cadeau pour mes amies bloggeuses et aujourd'hui c'est le deuxième article de la quatrième étape !

Mes amies Leonore, Jo, Toki et Clare, amies blogueuses et relations épistolaires ont rejoint le bon département. Reste à découvrir la bonne ville.

Leonore, Jo, Toki and Clare, my blogging friends and in a way, epistolary friends have joined the right department. Still a few days to find the right town!

FULLY FINISHED GALLERY 08/24

 

It's the 10th of this month and Rachel from "Ten Hour Stitcher" welcomes us and our Fully Finished achievements.

Please visit her blog and see all the finished projects of our stitching friends.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2024/08/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery-sal.html

Last week we had our great children with us for three days and Capucine loves some DIY with her Nanny.

It's the moment to pick lavender in the garden and I just saw a cute small doll on Pinterest I wanted to make.

Wood beads for the head and the hands

A cord for the arms

Some ribbon for the dress and a small crocheted hat

Thread, glue and needles

I have also made a new lavender wand, my first with lace I usually use ribbon.

Have you noticed how that post smells good?

Mon article, ce mois-ci, est parfumé à la lavande. C'est le moment de cueillir ces jolis brins et de fabriquer un nouveau fuseau réalisé cette fois pour changer avec de la dentelle.

La petite poupée présentée avant a été faite avec Capucine d'après un modèle vu sur la toile. 

FUSEAU DE LAVANDE

If you could add a fragance to this post, it would be lavander!

Our lavander bush hasn't give us big flowers this year but I want to make some braided lavander spindles again. 

Si je pouvais parfumer cet article, ce serait avec de la lavande !

Notre plant ne donne pas de gros épis cette année mais je veux refaire des fuseaux tressés, peut-être deux ou trois avec ma petite récolte.

A small harvest, enough to get two maybe three small one.

Many tutos on the net to show you the process.

Je suis un peu rouillée, donc quelques petites bévues notamment dans le calcul des groupes de brins, 6x4 ne permettant pas de croiser le ruban donc rajout de 4 brins pour retrouver un tressage correct.

Some mistakes as I haven't done this for years (I started with 24 sprigs so 6x4 to braid forgetting I needed an odd number, I managed to reinsert 4 more sprigs).

Those, more generous, from past years.

After adding some small charms

If you want to stitch about lavander, here is a very nice pattern from Cuore e Batticuore.

http://cuoreebatticuorericamoecucitocreativo.blogspot.com/2019/05/novitalavender-farm.html

A famous view from the Abbaye de Sénanque (84 Vaucluse).

I hope we'll have the pleasure to go back to Luberon and

bring back soaps, infusion and fragance

taste a lavander ice cream in Isle sur Sorgue, it's delicious and see those very graphic fields

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 01/22

 

It's always nice to make gifts, nice too to receive some

and use them in our stitching projects.

It's great and fun to show all this and the perfect place is

on Jo's blog Serendipitous Stitching on the 15th of each month

for the Gifted Gorgeousness post.

See that lovely new logo!

Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/01/gifted-gorgeousness-january-link-up-post.html

This first post of January will be half about Christmas half about 2022 plans.

Back from Alsace, I had some purchases to use for gifts and lot of ideas for decorations visiting Christmas markets.

Plein de belles créations de Noël vues sur les marchés, les broderies, tissus Kelsch, coeurs et autres lutins donnent envie de reprendre les ciseaux et les aiguilles.

Tout d'abord un petit tour dans le village de Noël avec des nouveautés bien sûr !

Cette adorable maison d'argile, réplique de la maison Pifster (1537)  de Colmar, puis ce joli camion acheté chez Käthe Wolfhart à Riquewihr.

First, the new house, a replica from

a house in Colmar  (Pifster house -

1537) and this new red truck.

Le magasin s'appelle la féérie de Noël et porte bien son nom.

Specialist for Christmas decoration, KW shop in Riquewihr (I found one in York) is great to visit, often expensive but you can always find a small gift or new ideas.

Un peu de découpage pour bricoler quelques étiquettes comme ces rennes en 3D qui pour finir se sont reconvertis en marques places.

L'occasion d'utiliser, dans un carnet de papiers décorés, ces motifs de bonnets et d'écharpes.

I was making some labels for gifts and finally choose to reemploy them into places markers for our Christmas table.

I bought a nice fabric for a new table clothe in this Riquewihr's shop.

Chez ce marchand de Riquewihr, j'ai trouvé ce tissu en 280 de large

pour une nouvelle nappe.

Ta da !   avec une jolie et délicieuse couronne d'Avent à déguster à l'apéro !

An Advent wreath can be delicious too, yummy!

Some fabric scraps for oven mittens maybe...

Now, about goals for 2022, I hope there will be felt gifts for the kids, new accessories and clothes for the dolls, progress on the patterns I received for my birthday and birthday cards, knitted blanket.

On the wish list, still necklaces, clothes

as gifts for myself, decorations for the house.

For Soline and her doll Violette, after the vegetable garden, I plan to make in felt a little garden with a pond.

Like this picture I found on the internet.

Ground with grass, some flowers

some reeds around a pond,

waterlilies.

Hedgehog, owl, squarrel, turtle

will be fun to add.

I made some geese as Christmas

ornaments and save two for Soline and Capucine. 

I started with hedgehogs, simple patterns, I first thought to sew a wood pearl for the nose but didn't find the right size in my stash. Find this little box with shining burgundy pearls which perfectly fit.

Hairdresser

Christmas finish  

Still time to wish you an happy new year

can't wait to see all our stitching friends are going to show

on blogs for their GG posts.