COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS

 

Days before Christmas will now be busy crafting, sewing, painting, soon stitching I hope (with new glasses!).

This post will help me to remember what could be the perfect wish list about Christmas DIY.

Avant l'avent, un premier décompte des jours désormais réservés à la fabrication des décos de Noël. Cet article va présenter mon programme de bricolages en feutrine, couture, dessin et peinture et broderie dès mes nouvelles lunettes !

Felt ornaments as sweaters, bubbles lamps garland, 

Some watercolors cards
Advent calendar / Wreath
DIY theme ornaments for the stairs display
The Christmas village/train
Christmas tree
Christmas table ornaments

Des cartes en aquarelle

Calendriers de l'avent / Couronne

Décos thème DIY pour l'escalier

Le village/train de Noël

Le sapin

Les décos de la table

et bien sûr, les bricos en feutrine, comme les pulls, guirlandes de lampes

For two years, I'm making with a lot of fun

not so ugly Christmas pull-over

Here are my 2020 / 2021 collections

Depuis deux ans je fabrique avec grand plaisir

une collection de pulls de Noël, mini sweat en feutrine

Voici les modèles des collections 2020 et 2021

Comme dirait ma chaîne de téléfilm de Noël

"sweater than ever"

De nouveaux motifs en préparation : bonhomme de neige, mini tricot, ruban cadeau, boules de Noël, flocon, sucre d'orge

New designs : snowman, tiny knitting, gift ribbon, snowflake, candy cane

I started with the tiny knitting, using some wood skewer sticks

I think I might only need ten stitches

Premier essais avec le mini tricot

j'ai essayé avec du coton perlé 5 sur des brochettes en bois pour obtenir

de petites mailles que je transfèrerai sur des piques

mais je dois réduire la taille (12 mailles c'est encore trop grand).

J'espère pouvoir régulièrement venir faire le point sur mes avancées

sur le blog (profitons de cette positive attitude comme dirait Lorie).

YOU CHOOSE 11/22

  

First Saturday of November means that I'd like 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. 

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Travel means maps sometimes planisphere. This one is in fabric with velcro strips to attach small fingers puppets (made even before I had children).

I immediately liked the pattern of this fabric, show of suitcases...

For a travelling bag for my computer headset. Some charms nods to London holidays.

Those two pieces of fabric are waiting for transformations, clothes, bags...

When Capucine and Soline were young girls, I have made for them the loto game with fabric and fleece. Virginie told me it was very useful during long hours travelling in the car.

On my one year of stitching, of course our last travels with the number of the French department and our now ethanol car.

I have always thought that it would be nice to keep good memories of some of my travels with something homemade. So I'm happy to have had the opportunity to stitch Gizeh pyramides on my goose game.

Maybe it was the same idea which makes me choose those camels a creation from Nadine Lafitte.

Same thing for this "bow" I made back from Tyrol with a look like edelweiss alphabet.

Some decades ago, no GPS, we used paper maps and I made a felt holder with my two first cars license plates.

To end this post, a big part of my drawing

and watercoloring this year is about

the next travel I hope to organize next year. 

Still some months to wait before traveling

on boats this time cause the theme will be

sailing.

After   

2015 - embroidery

2017 - books

2019 - toys

2021 - painters

No roads, no train for this 5th edition.

We'll travel only on water!

Seas, ocean, rivers, canals.

I will be ready soon to sail with you!

HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT BLOG HOP

 

Soyez les bienvenus dans le "Trick or Treat" Blog Hop qu'organise Jo à l'occasion de la fête d'Halloween.

Welcome to the "Trick or Treat" Blog Hop hosted by Jo from Serendipitious Stitching.

"DD1 welcoming display"

Familiar with this blog hop? You already know how to collect letters visiting stitching friends. Perfect, I'll give you one soon, if you need more details the link to Jo's blog is at the end of this post.

I have already shown on previous blog hop all I have cross stitched on Halloween theme.

Then I remembered some ghosts are welcome and I'm knitting a BOO cover for DD3 (I gave regularly news about it on GG posts).

I'm sewing the top squares rows to the big part already done so here is the almost complete portrait of BOO.

So, you're here to collect a letter...

A clean white sheet is very important for ghosts

that's why laundry is a big part of their days

The kids have had a great afternoon in Château de Meung sur Loire for the Halloween visit.

Before taking a relaxing bath,

you'll be pleased to visit the next blog

http://aimetu-clare.blogspot.com/

"Tricks or threads?"

Remember what can happen with the wrong answer!

Don't forget to get back to Jo with the mystery phrase and leave a comment.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Maybe it's time to explain the syringes. DD1 is a nurse working for the French blood donation establishment. 

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 10/22

 

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.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/10/gifted-gorgeousness-october-link-up-post.html

    Last month, there was pie on the GG menu

but it was to be served on the 17th precisely so I couldn't post

all about it, so it's now times to come to details...

I'm coming back with my oven mitts!

The idea of a pie came and I chose different fillings :

fruits maybe apples, a lattice pie crust,

meringue and chocolate of course

Plutôt qu'un gâteau d'anniversaire, pourquoi pas une tarte

les détails de fabrication devant être gardés pour ce mois-ci

pour ne pas les dévoiler trop tôt.

This embossed paper kept from a delivery, in my paper boxe

didn't expect to become a chocolate pie,

it has be painted in brown with sewed beads

as sugar in brown and white tiny sticks

Ce papier récupéré dans un emballage gaufré

sera parfait peint couleur chocolat et agrémenté de perles

de rocaille bâtonnets brun glacé et blanc

Then a purple mirror paper for the lattice crust red fruits pie

apple slices / tranches de pomme

Deux papiers miroir en violet pour la tarte fruits rouge avec croisillons

et un vert menthe décoré avec 4 petites meringues

A celebration word glued in each piece of pie

Dans chaque part de tarte, un petit mot pour célébrer l'évenement

le tout reconstitué sur une assiette au motif de citrons

et servi avec une serviette brodée d'initiales 

I have cut a plate with lemon in my magazine

to presente the pie (the four pieces are attached together)

As I have embroidered her initials, you have guessed now

for whom was that pie!  Yummy!

I'm still knitting wool squares for DD3  BOO  cover

I have finished ranks 2 - 3 - 4    (pinned together)

rank 5  is  17 / 18

ranks 6 to 16 are already sewed and I'm hiding the leftover threads

rank 17 is   6  / 18

ranks 1 and 18 are still not totally defined, there are supposed

to be knitted in blue but I have to check on the wool balls left

I don't want to order more wool if I still have enough

mixing white/pink/black/blue to reach the 36 needed squares

 

Christmas gifts/ornaments/cards are already on my GG list

This year I will made some new felt ornies

like the electrical garland I have seen on the net

funny idea with all the energy saving tips we have on TV each day

The big question is hand sewing or machine sewing

For DD3 I want smiling light bulbs

I must be wise too and not ignore the unfinished works

I started last year (cats, wreaths...)

Right place to introduce to you Mochi, 

this little Mademoiselle is now living in DD3 home

I had my second surgery yesterday morning

left eye more painful then the right one and

now I have totally lost the close view without glasses I had

(used every day to read, sew, draw, work on the PC etc...)

but recover a clear view far with those implants!

Would be great to have arms of 2 m long to stitch!

One more month to wait for the new glasses

in the meantime I'll try to use my magnifying glass

on short embroidery sessions to avoid headaches!