WIPOCALYPSE 07/22

 

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/

A lot of time spent on paper crafting and knitting so not a lot of progress on cross stitch.

Point de croix / cross stitch  perforated paper

Brooke's book - Mrs Christmas

The belt buckle is done with golden beads as well as the top of the shoes.

I have added the green thread on the top and make some progress on the face and the hands.

For my new project "One year of stitches"  July isn't totally finished, some blackberries will be added but you can see my update on BOO cover :  226.

You may see a painbrush, it's for some watercolour, I'm putting some colour on drawings for the next 5th edition of my Tour de France and I spend a lot of time with sailors because of the sea theme.

July topic from Mélissa : What five patterns do you really want to purchase (or start) right now?

- Spirit of Holiday baking from Brooke's book (I already got the chart)

- Quaker Breizh de Jardin Privé

- Crochet in Quilt from Cuore e Batticuore

- Un jour à Paris des brodeuses parisiennes  (sur les ponts)

- Steampunk dragonfly by Panna

UNE ANNEE DE BRODERIE / ONE YEAR OF STITCHING

 Avez-vous déjà remarqué sur la toile ces magnifiques photos de broderies ? Elles sont réalisées dans des cercles à broder et représentent les actualités familiales d'une année en douze mois de mini dessins.

Très tentant, mais comme je n'ai pas pu commencer en janvier, je fais démarrer mon année en mai à l'occasion de mon anniversaire.

Les motifs sont essentiellement réalisés au point de tige et passé plat.

 Have you ever noticed on the web these beautiful embroidery pictures? They are made in embroidery hoops and represent the family news of a year in twelve months of mini designs.

Very tempting, but since I couldn't start in January, I'm starting my year in May on my birthday.

You can find some ideas here :

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/how-to-create-a-year-of-stitches.html

Me voici donc à la fin de mon troisième mois, je choisis mes motifs en fonction des événements, par exemple : des visites, des fêtes, quelques clins d'oeil à mes activités : jardin, cuisine, en cours en travaux manuels

Soon the end of my third month, I choose my patterns among events, visits, what's new in the garden, cooking and of course my WIP.

May : lily of the valley and champagne for a birthday month, a bike for the Vélotour, our visits to Guédelon and St Fargeau, my knitting WIP Boo, movie and book and a lot of harvests, strawberries, rhubarb, peas.

In June, I went to theater, travelled to Brittany, had fun with my owl kite. Month of Parliementary elections, the Day of Music, very hot weather  and Marathon Day. We celebrated ER + the six years of Capucine, I made a lot of cutting for cards, read, knitted more squares.

July will be about : Family birthdays on Bastille day,  papyrus on the terrace, tomatoes in the vegetable garden, stitching honeycomb and bees, painting. I'll add the amazing rainbow we saw on last Wednesday and new unknown events to come!

First impressions :

I didn't succeed to stitch with the fabric on the hoop yet, not used to, the fabric I use is maybe a little thick I think. 

I'm using 2 threads but the designs are so tiny. Not easy to use even crewel stitch so back stitch, couching stitch, some chain, daisy, web, encroaching satin stitches and French nots.

They advised to use a 6 inches (15.24 cm) hoop, but I took the biggest size in my stash : 32 cm (12 inches), patterns are already very small I don't know how they manage to sew so many in a so small space.

Je vous livre mes premières impressions : tout d'abord le tissu récup utilisé est un peu épais, j'essaie de broder en DMC 2 fils mais pas sur le cercle à broder. Pas facile avec le point de tige les motifs étant vraiment très petits, donc point arrière, un peu de chaînette. point d'araignée, roues, noeuds.

Les tutos conseillent un cercle à broder d'une quinzaine de cm mais cela donne des quartiers tellement petits. Je ne vois pas comment elles arrivent à broder autant de motifs minuscules. J'ai donc pris le plus grand modèle de mon stock, soit 32 cm !

I'll fill the empty spaces with some flowers, stars (doodles) maybe at the end of the quarter.

Je remplirai les espaces vides avec des fleurs, des étoiles, de petits griffonages, peut-être à la fin de chaque trimestre.

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 07/22

 

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.

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Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

pour partager nos coups de coeuret participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

Busy days since last month, so maybe you'd like to take a cup of tea

or coffee before you start reading this post...

Capucine's birthday was on June 30th

and she'd like a coffee machine, 

we bought this one which is really 

pouring water in the cup.

I made some accessories like small

cream pods, coffee bags, sugar cubes,

and...

no it's not a strange animal with two eyes...

it's a felt "coffee with marshmallows"

I started those three July birthdays cards in June

and here are the finished pop up pour Timothé and his mother

I have added some felt flowers and plants, small feathers, and glitters

The small kitchen for Régis has been sent too

J'ai ajouté un torchon et deux manettes

I have made a tea towel and two potholders

I like the way the cake in the oven look like

puis j'ai confectionné une lampe avec un tube de crème vide

then I have found a tuto to make a small lamp

Looking real my friend Roselyne searched the button to light it up!

I'm always looking for some new craftings for Violette (s)  doll

why not a pizza oven

I made a model in paper 

How great to find the wood looking cardboard tray

kept in my paper box (from my best friend Mr Justin Case)

Fresh breads for Violette, it will smell good in her kitchen!

Confection de pain en feutrine posés sur ces palettes aspect bois

réalisées avec un fond de barquette (dans mon stock de "Okazou")

another idea leads me to think she could collect honey from a hive and I remember having seen a beekeeper Barbie months ago     I'm stitching kind of cells on brood frames on a piece of look like Aïda    with 3 threads of DMC  832/833/834

  

(it's a big piece from my Mum stash, if you have some good ideas

to use ugly cloth, I'm interested)

L'autre idée qui a germé et prend forme maintenant

est de réaliser une ruche avec ses cadres, les alvéoles brodées

sur une toile récup et des perles pour le miel

After a few tries, I like the result

I'm adding clear beads to look like honey on one side 

I'll have to make a box to hang them folded in two

and sew a beekeeper hat for Violette to be safe

Bien sûr, Violette aura besoin d'un chapeau avec voile

pour devenir sans danger une apicultrice bio bien sûr

GG knitting is the wool cover for DD3, half July score is :   216

and I have started sewing nine "lines" together 

 Côté couverture de laine "Boo", le total des carrés s'élève à mi-juillet à 216 et j'ai commencé le montage des lignes en cousant ensemble neuf lignes assemblées

Can I call it a "shadowie" the sun in your back version of a selfie?

YOU CHOOSE 07/22

 

First Saturday of July means that I have to post about a topic chosen by our stitching friends. This SAL is run by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching, it's about what you want to see on the blog. 

The result of the votes for this month was : "Pets".

First, some cats, let me introduce you to Darjeeling most often called DarJ, our neighbour's cat choosing to have a nap on my stitching. We renamed all the cats visiting us with tea names. She is older now, less visit and no more climbing on the table. She prefers to stay on our wood pile to keep an eye on the surroundings.

Most of my stitched cats are black! Those from the little house...

These are probably pets by day and superheroes by night

I found two white cats : this one dreaming of Christmas

(waiting for a future patchwork cover)

and a felt one I made last winter for my friends R & R

Two Chritmas cats from Advent Calendar Brookes Book

and Christmas market by Brin par Brin

Une patineuse et un stand bien appétissant

Cats on fabric - de petis chats sur mes tissus

and  now  some dogs

Some ornies inspired by Debbie's dog Sully

and two pets in my Advent Calendar  (day 3 and day 21)

and two goldfishes on day 11

Some funny cats in watercolor cards

We call them NAC (nouveaux animaux de compagnie), new pets?

Miguel  the Cameleon from Filanthrope Broderies could be part of this post and as he got more than 150 outfits I'm sure he would become a great companion.