WIPOCALYPSE 07/19

Le Wipocalypse SAL donne leur chance à quelques ouvrages d'être terminés avant la fin du monde...
Mon projet pour 2019 a été, suivant l'exemple d'amies brodeuses, de choisir 19 travaux en cours (selon la liste ci-après) et de leur offrir une éventuelle bonne fortune cette année.

proposé par Measi's Musings

http://measi.net/measiblog/

Participating again in this SAL since the beginning of 2019, I took as an example some stitching friends who planned a "19 in 19" projects.

Here is my list :

1 - Avvolgente - l'arbre de Noël - Christmas tree
2 - les patins d'argent - skating / 3/4/5/6/7 - personnages de Noël -
8 - AAC oiseau - colin cardinal / 9 - la clef du mystère / keys /10 - la clef des champs / keys
11 - Halloween sous la pluie / 12 - dansons la Capucine / dansing childs
13 - le jeu de l'oie / Goose game
14 - Cda  traineau / 15 - CdA  St Nicolas / 16 - CdA  crèche
17 - loto feutrine / 18 - cuisine pour dinette - feutrine / felt / 19 - dinette Zazobouzi /


11 / 17 are finished, I wrote about 2 here, in "triple axel" post.


The end of June was too busy with my granddaughter birthday but since I have finished "2".

I have focused on 14 / 15 / 16, three of the four scenes of "Quand Noël s'en mêle" from "Un chat dans l'aiguille".

I work on this Christmas board from February 2016, 25 colors, 23 different stitches, four scenes to embroid and then I'll have to sew them on a large red fabric after finish the patterns on the panel.


A little flash back to re-introduce the project

Voici une petite présentation du kit Quand Noël s'en mêle pour rappel de ce projet sur lequel j'ai travaillé ces dernières semaines pour finaliser bientôt trois des quatre scènes à broder.

First goal : finish the colored threads then use the silver/gold metallic threads. I'll have to wash the pieces before sewing some tiny felt pieces.

Some details of the WIP on Santa,

gifts decorations, Santa's coat, stars,

On Nativity scene,  stars,

 On the sleigh/snowman : birds, flowers, gold threads.

Melissa gives us a topic : How do you get yourself out of a stitching drought?

Never felt some ideas drought, since I'm a kid every day dozens of ideas come to me. Many notebooks full of notes, drawings, ideas to upgrade or change things I have bought.

Magazines, books, family know-how - thanks to Granny, Mum and Dad - were a good fertilizer and with internet now "no comment". 

If there is a small drop in courage just switch from cross stitching to knitting, to embroidery, to drawing, to scrapbooking, to crochet, to watercolor, to writing, to photography, to any new diy work.....

the horn of abondance...

Pour terminer, toujours notre petit clin d'oeil à la Lune et bien sûr en ce mois anniversaire du premier pas sur notre satellite, un hommage à Hergé...

To conclude, always our little wink to the Moon and of course in this anniversary month of the first step on our satellite, a tribute to Hergé....

ETAPE/STEP 8 - 3/4

ETAPE/STEP 8 - 2/4

Hello,  there is already one clever detective in town looking for clues, hope this one will help!

ETAPE/STEP 8 - 1/4

ETAPE/STEP 7 - 4/4

Le jouet à trouver était :   le bureau de poste
La ville :   ARNAC LA POSTE   dans le département de la Haute-Vienne (87).

The toy was :    the post office
The town was :   ARNAC LA POSTE   in Haute-Vienne  87

Clues : 87 on the carpet, vocabulary : timbrée (=stamped which can mean here crazy), posted, delivery, bags of mail.


It's a funny town name in French because "Arnac" sounds like "arnaque" which means "rip-off " the post office". Many towns got funny names so they have come together in an association "towns with burlesque names" they gathered for an annual feast.

http://communes-aux-noms-burlesques.fr/

It is the same in Great Britain, looking for informations I found this map and some examples :

as Dull (UK) is twinned with Boring (Oregon).

Giggleswick (Settle NY) is the sister city of
Banyuls sur mer in Pyrenées.






Popular toy in the 60's  I got post office sets on Christmas day.

Mum used to make me extra stamps with gummed paper perforated with the sewing machine and tiny parcels.

Bien sûr il y a de magnifiques timbres sur la broderie
alors pourquoi de ne pas broder des timbres ?

Many lovely stamps on embroidery so why not stitch stamps.

http://www.marieclaire.fr/idees/des-timbres-brodes-au-point-de-croix,1052446.asp

I love papers, letters, decorated envelopes, stamps, wax seals, write with an old pen-holder (I learned to write with ink and pen-holder (not quill pen I'm not that old), now they call it "callygraphy" equipment!.

Remember my display for my Bayeux embroidery.














Of course, I am very interested by artmail, so when I received from Debbie this amazing envelope it was quite a surprise!


Il me reste beaucoup à découvrir
concernant l'artmail











Le jeu du facteur a eu beaucoup de succès auprès des filles et il est facile à confectionner "maison".
Amusant de fabriquer ces minis enveloppes personnalisées avec les noms de la famille, décorées sur les thèmes de Noël, Halloween par exemple et pourquoi pas des journaux et magazines modèles réduits.

The postman game was a great joy for the girls and it's easy to DIY, tiny envelopes, painted numbers on a cardboard, moving arrow. Funny to personalize with family names, decorated envelopes with Halloween, Christmas themes, mini newspapers or magazines.

I already made some of them for upcoming DIY gifts.

J'ai commencé à fabriquer de mini-enveloppes avec les modèles de la maison, il me reste à construire une grande boîte postale et le plateau de présentation des chiffres avec la flèche.

Still have to build the mail box and the board with numbers and an arrow to be ready for first school class next autumn.


The French post office now offers new services, postman can take care of your old parents visiting them regularly!  On the other hand the price of stamps have exploded, sending letters and postcards has become a luxury (don't talk about a parcel in Europe first price : 15 €) and the letters still needed four days to cross the river! I'm far from the world of cheap mail exchanges I wish for.

Stay posted!

ETAPE/STEP 7 - 3/4

ETAPE/STEP 7 - 2/4

Again a vintage toy (similar period time to the first step in St Cyr l'Ecole) no big clues for this one, everything is said in the post.

ETAPE/STEP 7 - 1/4

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 07/19

One month since I told you about my June GG projects focusing on my granddaughter 3rd birthday :

Of course all is detailled for the "Gifted Gorgeousness" an event that Jo from Serendipitous Stitching offers us every month on the 15th :

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Unicorns were the theme and unicorns were present on June 30th!

On the rainbow cake her mother made for her, on the candles, on the paper napkins...

Remember I was making a unicorn stick for Capucine

She now has her gold corn and eyes and is fixed on a broom stick

The Bubble wool I bought wasn't added to the mane (three different kinds of wool was too much) but fortunately made lovely eyelashes.

The loto games were appreciated too and will probably help during the travel hours

in the car on next holidays as my goddaugter told me (I made two as my goddaughter's daughter Soline is only six months older than Capucine)

Touching wool has caused a "knit-fever"  I had to treat doing some small clothes for a Barbie doll...

WIP on a jacket, a skirt and a puncho

knitting and crocheting