YEVRE LE CHATEL

En ce lundi de Pâques, au progamme visite de Yèvre le Châtel, charmant village avec un délicieux déjeuner à la Rolancière.

Today is Easter Monday, we planned a lunch in a restaurant in Yèvre le Châtel and the visit of this lovely village in our department.

Some sculptures are showed in the village


Bruno Guiheneuf

Some portals made by Jean-Yves Gosti,  acier découpé au chalumeau  (steel torch-cut)

An Y which could be in good place in the Alphabet Club

I love old doors...

A delicious lunch in the garden of "La Rolancière"

(Foie gras/moules farcies - lotte - fromage - Pithiviers/tiramisu - café)

L'église Saint Lubin entourée d'un cimetière du XIXème,  jamais terminée.
Saint Lubin church was build in XIII but never finished.

Nous reviendrons, promis !
We'll come back for sure.

EASTER TREASURE HUNT

Welcome to the Easter Treasure Hunt,

          this Blog Hop is organized by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching


http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/


You'll have to collect letters all around the blogs and forme a sentence
then go back to Jo with the mystery phrase.

This year I made a bell with some fabric I received from Jo

Here are the different steps of the making of :

My letter is

Now you'll have to visit



http://bethsneedleworkstash.blogspot.co.uk/




Looking for some chocolate bell on the web
I selected this one I found funny

Joyeuses fêtes de Pâques !

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 04/19

Voici déjà mi-avril et un nouveau rendez-vous pour le Gifted Gorgeousness.

Already the 15th of a new month, time for an update of the Gifted Gorgeousness, all about this SAL on Jo's blog :

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/


New update on loto, I had to sew two bags for the little fabric squares

Back to cross stitch...

I added eyes, mouth, socks, shoes, belt and the parcel to Santa Klaus on this character from a serie of six from Cuore & Batticuore.

I'm disappointed with the snow I stitched on the tree, I tried to mix white and fluorescent and the result is : you don't see the snow on the tree. This have to be solved.

And now, some news from my next journey around France,

Once more, I'd like to invite you to a litlle trip, to visit some French towns, as in previous "travel game" I organized in 2015 and 2017. The first one was on stitching/sewing theme, the second one was on authors/books theme, this time I had the idea of : toy / game theme (maybe it was the 15th of the month/GG day or Christmas time).

So I gave instructions to my grey cells : back to childhood, remember your favorite games/toys, wake up your memories, add some kids updates. Open your map, choose towns with funny links to the theme, imagine clues and riddles for steps and select characters to lead the way. Printer, pencils, watercolors, brushes, camera, laptop are all you need now that the storyboard is written.

        You like to travel?

        Vous aimez voyager ?










        Curious to know more about
         new places?

     Curieux de découvrir 
         de nouveaux endroits ?






        Interested in a fun adventure?

        Intéressés par une aventure amusante








       Ready for some researches?

     Prêts pour quelques recherches ?







     Love solving enigmas?

     Vous aimez résoudre des énigmes ?

About one year later, I'm near to the start,
so soon on the blog...

The third edition of my "Tour de France"

THE PEOPLE CHOOSE 04/19

April theme from Jo's SAL is  "speciality stitches"

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-people-chose-speciality-stitches.html

so right times to update an embroidery I'm working on, no cross on this one.


Among the WIP is the kit from "Un chat dans l'aiguille" named "Quand Noël s'en mêle"

It's a kind of hanging with four scenes on white linen fabric
and the back on red fabric.
I have already begun three scenes : Santa Klaus, the Nativity
and the sleigh.

Here are my progress on the sleigh

A lot of different stitches on this work :

chain stitch

featherstitch
buttonhole crescent stitch
Palestrina stitch
crewel stitch
Daisy stitch
twisted chain stitch
French knot
sand stitch
spider's web stitch
star stitch

always useful explanations



Santa Klaus update...

Love a lot other stitches... some examples on older works...
Quelques autres anciens ouvrages aux points variés.

Hardanger

Le point de Bayeux

Geometry

 Broderie Richelieu

 to match with some breakfast cup "Biscuit de Quimper" HB

Les oiseaux de paradis d'après le décor des faïences de Gien

finish with another work from "Un chat dans l'aiguille" a cisors holder for DD2


un étui à ciseaux - motif chats pour DD2
pour clore à la façon d'une épanadiplose, retrouvons notre chat dans l'aiguille

In next May, a bunch of flowers "next People choose theme" will wait for you...