GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 12/23

 

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.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Last month I have shown some gifts I made for Soline

here she is, very focused on her magic wallet

Soline et ses cadeaux, très concentrée sur son portefeuille magique

This GG post will be about the Christmas ornies I make for friends

to send with my greetings cards

I have already made this pattern last year (only twice I think)

so I was happy to cut new "bells" (I now hand sew) and cake plates to offer some donuts for Christmas, 

I wanted a new shape for a shaking ornie

and I love the cups I can see on the net

I have posted about how I made them in the C2C5 post

Petits cadeaux pour envoyer avec mes cartes de voeux, tasses à secouer mises au point cette semaine et la cloche à dessert de l'an passé.

Soline will be 8 years old on December the 31th

For this busy week, I made for her a "triple party card"

First to celebrate Christmas,

then her birthday,

then the New Year.

Those lovely pad of images are sold with English wishes so I cut small garlands of pennants to wish her an Happy Birthday and Happy New Year.

Here are the front image and the back design when the card is closed

The all card opened, top view, kind of carousel book.

Pour Soline, une carte "caroussel" qui lui présentera par volet mes voeux de Noël, d'anniversaire et de bonne année 2024.

I'll end this post with my unicorn, a gifted stitching from last Christmas.

Still working on the bottom of the pattern with flowers and a bunny.

Pour ce dernier GG post de l'année, quelques fleurs et un petit lapin dans le bas de la grille de la dame à la licorne.

ADVENT CALENDAR "13th"

 Ho, Ho, Ho...

Here you are, on December the 13 th,

visiting me for the Advent Calendar Blog Hop from Jo

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com

As in previous years, each day in December a blogger has be assigned a date and will invite you to come in her house and see some of the pretty embroideries or decorations she made this year.

Here are my 2023 ornaments, cups full of sequins and warm wishes for a great Christmas.

C'est à mon tour de vous accueillir à l'occasion du Calendrier de l'Avent organisé par Jo, voici mes nouvelles décorations de cette année. Des tasses remplies de sequins et de voeux sincères pour de joyeuses fêtes de Noël.

No big story about Santa in my youth, we were living far from the family so Christmas was very quiet.

With our three daughters it was more festive...

More than 25 years ago, we had a great Christmas at home with the visit of my cousin Christine family. We were all gathered when the phone rang and Santa himself asked to speak to DD2 Anne-Solène who was about 6 years old. I remember her look and how she answered a few questions about having be nice or not. Thanks to the new mobile phones, her dad was in our bedroom calling our home!

Knocking at the door of the blog "Tales of a stitching mouse" Mouse is welcoming us with a nice stitching about St Nick. It gave me the idea that it could be great to stitch Christmas smalls with all the names we give to the big guy...   Père Noël, Saint Nicolas, Père Chalande (dialect Savoie), Olentzero (pays Basque), Santa Claus, St Nick, Christkindel  etc.  Maybe one day...

FULLY FINISHED GALLERY 12/23

 

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

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

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2023/11/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery-sal.html

I have six characters waiting for a full finish, I have cut cardboard, fleece and two fabrics but was waiting for a nice cord to sew around.

Here are the patterns of Cuore e Batticuore

Some recent shopping in Sostrene Grene shop in town

Après de longues hésitations sur quel cordonnet utilisé pour

finir le tour de mes montages, j'ai finalement opté pour ces

deux modèles coordonnés achetés récemment chez Sostrene Grene.

Les cartons supports, la ouate et les coupons de tissu

étaient déjà coupés en attente.

Cousus avec mon fil à pêche le plus fin ce qui est un vrai

challenge côté vision.

Mes six personnages sont maintenant montés et voici

les deux premières FF. J'espère pouvoir vous présenter

les membres de l'équipe au complet dès janvier avec chacun

une petite breloque cousue devant le noeud.

For the stitching on beige fabric I'll use the red/gold string and the green fabric with trees for the back. The string is sewed around with

a fishing line so fine I can hardly see it!

For the stitching on white fabric I'll use the white/gold string and the white fabric with hearts for the back.

Here are my two finishes, I hope you'll see the all team in next January post with maybe some charms added to the knot.

Merci à Rachel qui organise la FFG, c'est chouette de se sentir soutenue dans nos efforts pour que ces broderies terminées trouvent une jolie finition. 2023 a été une bonne année, formons les mêmes voeux pour l'année qui vient !

Thanks to Rachel and her SAL,  2023 has been a fairly productive year.

It's great to feel supported on finishing the job!

I hope I'll be able to post monthly in 2024 which would mean that I am not giving up on full finishes.

C2C5

    n° 5

Those past days I have focused on cards / ornies (wishing I could send my mail soon enough my friends get them before Christmas!).

Ces derniers jours, je me suis concentrée sur la fabrication de cartes et décorations en espérant ainsi pouvoir envoyer mes courriers rapidement pour une réception avant Noël;

On ressort les blocs d'illustrations pour y découper de jolis décors et les installer sur des cartes pop up.

Some pop up cards are on my working table, decorated with the cute characters I found in those paper bloks

First a small landscape 3D card

Un paysage d'hiver en relief avec au dos quelques voeux

façon boules suspendues.

With some kind of velum baubles in the back 

Then a cosy warm room in a folded card

Puis confection d'une carte pliée en angle

avec ajout d'une porte s'ouvrant sur un ami ours qui

apporte le sapin et un tapis aux franges en coton perlé

I choose a cardboard looking like wall paper for my room

and add a carpet with DMC perlé thread

Then I thought it could be fun to put a door and behind this cute bear

bringing the Christmas tree

L'anniversaire de Soline est le 31 décembre et se trouve donc entre la fête de Noël et celle du 1er janvier. Pour ces trois occasions à célébrer, pourquoi une carte demi carrousel, avec trois scénettes.

Soline's birthday will be on the 31st December between Christmas and the New Year Day so I'm making a 3 events card with 3 littles sceneries welcoming small cute animals.

To give relief I glue some thick carboard

Shaking ornies

I have cut some red cups and after trying to sew them with the sewing machine but I don't like the result so I'm sewing them by hand with a nice gold thread I bought last year in Lunéville.

I'll fill them with sequins and a small spoon.

Thought I could add some cream and finally cut the Chantilly shape in paper towels, small pink marshmallows and straws.

I tried to glue some glitter on the straws but it doesn't work and finally i made some oblique stripes like candy canes with washi tape and I like it.

Still have to add patafix to feel the holes and keep the sequins inside.

Hier Timothé n'avait pas cours au collège donc j'avais l'aide d'un elfe monteur de sapin !

Yesterday as there was no classes in Timothé school, I had the help of an elf tree builder!