WIPOCALYPSE 08/22

 

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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Point de croix / cross stitch

Un hamac pour deux - Cuore e Batticuore

The hearts of the flowers have been stitched in DMC 15 and the LOVE garland

Then I started to correct mistakes and make some new ones...

I did some frogging on the sign because there are three languages choices Italian, French, English in the pattern and I stitched the small hearts not noticing that their places were different in English than in Italian/French. I wanted to mix the 3 languages, was sure to keep "I love you" on the trunk which is the best pattern for me. I plan to stitch the title in French and the sign in Italian.

So happy to have finished the tails of the cherries on the left tree, I only noticed that I made them with two threads instead of one! Arghhhhhh!!!

Check should be my first thought in everything I make!!!

Well, about 40 tails to cut and restitch, Pénélope will be back next month with better news I hope.

Encore une fois, j'ai laissé broder Mme Tête en l'air et il me faudra reprendre les queues de cerises réalisées par erreur avec deux fils ! L'autre reprise concerne la pancarte, je n'ai pas vu que les coeurs étaient positionnés différemment en français/italien. 

La guirlande LOVE et les coeurs des fleurs sont les progrès validés.

Une année de broderie / one year of stitches

Many days in August babysitting our grand children so it's about playing ping pong and mini golf with the kids. Maybe some of you will notice : cherries, balloon, butterfly net, fishing rod... meaning we had fun times with old Wii Animal Crossing.

Family barbecue, vaccin, new handbag, watering and some open spaces for not yet decided patterns.

I finished July reading the English version of "the girl with the pearl earring" (Tracy Chevalier). Always complicated to stitch books and titles so this one was easy.

And as you can see, the update of the Boo knitted cover is reaching 240 squares.

Notre tranche d'août a été bien occupée par nos petits-enfants donc ping-pong, mini-golf au programme ainsi que d'amusantes sessions d'AC LGTTC version Wii que les cerises, ballon, filet à papillons et autre canne à pêche illustreront ce mois-ci.

J'aime bien ajouter mes lectures mais il est compliqué de broder les titres des livres. Par contre, "la jeune fille à la perle" de Tracy Chevalier me permet de broder .

Mélissa nous propose une question chaque mois : Durant le Covid, avez-vous participé à des discussons en ligne ?

Question of the Month: Have you been participating in gatherings via online chats (Zoom, Google Meet, etc) during the COVID pandemic? If so, what have been the best formats in your opinion?

I haven't participating in online chats during the Covid. No idea if some in French were on line. I still prefer to share with bloggers when I have free moments. During the pandemie with DD2 coming back home and DH, lock down house life was an unforeseen event we managed to got through and that I immediatly forgot!

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 08/22

 

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 coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

Still crafting birthdays cards (inspired by Cristiana Bellini art)

When I have re open my craft cardboard folder

I have seen that the glue I used had let some stains on the hair

so it had to be changed

Another birthday card for September, special handybag for DD3

(full post on August 3rd)

remember the little sweets I made in felt

so this time I made them smaller with some glossy paper

for a next cooking theme card

For the fabric dolls Violette (s)

I have crocheted a small sleeveless vest

Not really the right season to wear it but I took the wool out of my bag looking for some wool for a hammock

I find it awful to knit or crochet but I got a few balls my sister gave me

Hard to see where you put your crochet (great for mistakes but annoying if you have to count), impossible to unravel,

possibly only useful as pompon!

Not sure I'll be able to make it again!

Pas vraiment de saison mais ce petit boléro m'a donné bien de la peine

tant la laine est compliquée à utiliser, aussi bien au tricot qu'au crochet

une vraie galère pour se repérer, peut-être idéal pour cacher les erreurs

mais définitivement horrible pour compter vos points

impossible à démêler, elle finira en pompon vraisemblablement.

Easier will be the second hammock for Soline's doll

remember my first achievement

Mon deuxième hamac pour la poupée de Soline va suivre

le même modèle que ma première réalisation

réalisé au crochet, demi-brides et brides, quelques jours

au centre avec des franges nouées

Another gift for the dolls the beekeeper  (posted on 10th)

7 more squares (in two weeks) knitted for DD3 wool cover

BOO's update is usually shown with the Wipocalypse post

Sept petits carrés supplémentaires tricotés pour la couverture

de laine pour EA, le projet BOO sera actualisé à la fin du mois

à l'occasion de l'article du Wipocalypse.

BEE HAPPY STITCHING FULLY FINISH GALLERY

I wanted for so long to participate to the "Fully Finished Gallery" SAL and be able to link up on Rachel's blog Ten hour stitcher on the 10th. This meaning that I have something TOTALLY finished to show to you.

So many stitchings are waiting for frames or finish in bags or cushion for example.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2022/08/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery-sal.html

Rachel nous accueille dans son blog le 10 du mois pour une galerie présentant nos ouvrages totalement terminés. Avec beaucoup de réalisations finies mais non montées, je n'ai pas encore eu l'occasion de participer à son FFG SAL. Mais ce mois-ci je ne résiste pas à y faire figurer ma petite ruche pour Violette.

But today, I'm proud to present you my stitched beehive.

Voici ma ruche terminée, soit : une ruche en planches, deux cadres brodés ainsi qu'une cuillère de récolte, un pot et une cuillère de dégustation.

I'm always looking for new ideas to make for the girls's  (Capucine and Soline)  twin fabric dolls.

I have made many clothes, accessories for school, a small grocery shop pouf, hammock, barbecue, camping sleeping bag and wood fire, a vegetable garden and a pond with animals.

Seeing years ago a Barbie beekeeper, I kept the idea in mind. Last month I started to think about it and after some drawings I took off my stash a fabric and begun to test some patterns for beehive cells using 3 threads of DMC 832/833/834.

Violette or Félix collecting honey means making a beehive, with frames I choose to make with an old fabric with stitched honeycomb, a special hat in tulle, tiny bees, stick to collect the honey, a pot and of course a special spoon.

As I'm developing the project in the same times I'm stitching, I decided to add some beads as drops of honey

and finally to sew the fabric on wood stick from eskimo ice-cream than on a scewer.

I found my own way to make tiny bees

Les cadres sont cousus sur des bâtons d'esquimaux et les alvéoles remplies de perles dorées façon gouttes de miel

For the hat, I had different ideas, a white plastique cap with tulle, a crocheted hat in cotton wool or one in jean fabric.

I have already made a hat for the doll, with two holes for her hair because Violette got two kind of buns. Capucine told me I couldn't open the hat then the bees will come in so we chose together to give priority to safety!

Bon d'accord, cela ressemble plus à un hennin qu'à un chapeau d'apicultrice ! Mais priorité à la sécurité donc pas de trous pour les couettes par lesquels pourraient s'introduire les abeilles.

OK It looks like more to a medieval hennin than to a beekeeper hat!

Then for the beehive, I made a box, glued on it some paper looking like wood (taking care of the space to let the bees come in)

Those wood beads will be ok for the stick and the special spoon

Violette is happy testing her organic honey!

Miel biologique bien sûr !

SUMMER BLOG HOP

Jo from Serendipitous Stitching loves to connect stitchers with her Summer Blog Hop. 

Please visit her to see the list of the bloggers who are participating this year 

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/08/stitching-friends-summer-blog-hop-2022.html

and guess who is my secret stitching friend

She lives in a state...   where the highest point is Hoye Crest.

She recently posted about the annual Clarksville Picnic.

She hosted the Scavenger photo hunt (I'm a big fan).

Some more clues

What she might like in my house :

What she might like in my sewing basket :

What she might like on my book self :

What she might like in my holidays places :

Alsace - marché de Noël

Dieppe - Festival de cerf-volants

All those dragons have helped you I'm sure!

Of course I'm speaking about...      Astrid

Dragon Stitches and Stuff

http://astridxstitching.blogspot.com/

She might like the love spoon and table mat I brought from Wales.

She might like a felt dragon bringing Christmas gift I made for another dragon lover!

She might like to read good stories about dragons and this dragon made from bike tires and see big kites in the sky.

Stitching friends are friends who count!

Happy Monday, stitching, blogging and visiting friends.

THE PEOPLE CHOOSE 08/22

First Saturday of August 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 : 

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-people-chose-outer-space.html

Nous voici projetés dans l'espace grâce au thème choisi ce mois-ci.

A spacionaute and the sun parts of a cube project for a baby Timothé you is 11 now!

A famous team that appeared the year of my eighteenth birthday!

We are big fans of astronomy so I stitched on my goose game Ursa major constellation.

Dans mon jeu de l'oie une case pour l'astronomie bien sûr.

I had to look for some moons on my stitchings.

Quelques croissants de lune.

Moon on fabric

Some stars will be ok for the post!

On September birthdays cards, Virgo constellation stitched with the special Gold DMC thread