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.
Jo gave a new turn to her blog those past months
but I'd like to keep posting about GG on the half-month day
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Starting as often with my birthdays cards
Voici ma première carte en broderie suisse
un poisson pour fêter la 1ère année d'Hector
une ébauche pour le futur camion grue pour Pierre
mes tasses à thé empilées ainsi que les sachets
de graines de lavande ou contenant des sequins coeur
en pleine fabrication
and to Hector... 1 year old
The pile of empty cups was waiting for some tea bags...
I wanted to make some small tea bags with lavander, sequins, messages on the labels...
So I'm making some from clear plastic using my Mum's old sealing machine. Not an easy task!
Also cutting from real bags smaller ones and filling them with lavander
My goddaughter offered me some hearts decorations I'll use too.
I have started cutting other cups.
I'm also making some drawings for a new design for a young boy.
It will be a kind of crane truck.
For Soline's food restaurant : seafood, salad, lemon, clementines, apples, strawberries and biscuits looking like some we called Russian cigarettes!
I thought making some salad would be great
nice way to use leftovers for lamb's lettuce
Concernant la confection d'aliments en feutrine, mon menu
peut proposer désormais : crabe, citron, mâche,
quartiers de pommes, fraises, cigarettes russes et meringue
Soline m'a d'ailleurs envoyé de jolies photos des plateaux repas
de ses poupées, très appétissant tout cela !
Soline sent me some lovely photos she made playing with her dolls that I'm very proud to show you!
I have bought some lovely angora goat wool
in Sandrine's shop "les p'tits bergers"
for two gifts to knit : scarfes
I have started the red one as a gift to me
3.5 needles, 41 stitches jersey (rice stitches to begin and for the edges)
after 1 month knitting, I know that one spool of angora wool give 70 cm
Suite à mon achat de laine angora à la ferme des Ptits Bergers
j'ai commencé mon écharpe en laine rouge
aiguilles 3.5, 41 mailles en jersey (sauf les bords au point de riz
ainsi que les huit premiers et derniers rangs)
après un mois de tricot, je sais qu'une pelote me donnera une longueur d'environ 70 cm, j'ai bien avancé durant les congés sur la 2ème pelote
Here I am starting the second spool
I have told you about Ysabel the fan maker we met in Honfleur
and I want to show you the gifts I bought for DD1 and DD3
Her fans are too expensive for me but
she has a partnership with a manufacturer "Simone et Georges" that offers fans to match scarves or sarongs. The fabric is called kikoi and comes from the Kenya.
Je termine avec quelques photos des cadeaux que j'ai rapporté
de chez Ysabel, éventailliste à Honfleur, en plus de ses créations et pour
un budget plus raisonnable elle propose de jolis duos
éventail / paréo ou foulard réalisés en kikoi
un tissu africain fabriqué au Kenya
