ALPHABET CLUB TAC V

J'ai participé à l'ALPHABET CLUB depuis août 2015 avec beaucoup de plaisir mais j'ai perdu le fil de mes articles au printemps et compte rattraper les cinq dernières lettres, me voici donc au V.

I took part in the ALPHABET CLUB since  August 2015  with a great pleasure but had some troubles to keep up in spring. I plan to finish it, only five last letters, so I'm back with the V.


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As on preview posts, I have imagined a scenario for those mensual posts
as the creators of this new event offer us a quite total liberty to how develop them.

My own way will go into worlds of stitching, words, drawings, designs, garden, cooking, music and travels.

Evocation of  a word begining with the letter linked to DIY activities
and personal researches on what you could find in my garden, in my kitchen, on my record player (the vinyl one), in my travel souvenirs.




Beaucoup de V comme voeux -  a lot of  V for vow (wish)


V comme Velours - Velvet

I hope I will find some time to sew
new velvet curtains for my puppet
theater before the greatchildren become
too old.

V comme Vichy  -  Gingham

en attendant mes essais de broderie suisse....
waiting for Swiss embroidery

(internet pic)






V comme Vintage

Another big hope, is to be able one day to repair or restore the old Singer sewing machine which is sleeping in the garage :(

V  comme cinq romain

les V doigts de la main,  comme j'aimerais qu'ils travaillent plus vite, wish they could work faster

V dans le ciel

V comme Vitrail  (stained glass)

Great fan of


from cathedrale
to
art nouveau

so inspiring for an appliqué work









V comme Vinci
    Hommage de la Joconde/Mona Lisa à son créateur

dans ma cuisine, in the kitchen

V comme verre   (glass)
petits, grands, simples, élégants, fragiles, cristallins,

voici quelques exemplaires choisis parmi
ceux de ma grand-mère, de ma marraine, de ma maman

I have collected glasses from my grand-mother, mother, godmother and we have bought some too
J'ai arrêté de les compter quand j'ai dépassé 130...     I stop counting them when it was over 130.

Autriche,   Reims,  Alsace,  Vouvray

   Allemagne,  Tchéquie

       Grand-Marnier

pour une dégustation avec modération...

as you can see the pear is in the bottle
our local speciality  

une flûte de Champagne
où l'on retrouve en pied ce cher ange...
au sourire  (Cathédrale de Reims)




dernier petit rappel, soyez givrés...

sirop + sucre

toutes les couleurs sont à votre disposition : menthe, grenadine, violette, curacao, orange...
  all the colors you want with syrup : mint, grenadine, violet, curacao (blue), orange,



dans le jardin

un petit bouquet de violettes















sur la platine Vinyl

Vangelis, Sylvie Vartan, Laurent Voulzy et Village People

dans mes souvenirs de voyage, in my travel souvenirs
V comme Vaduz  (Lichtenstein)

Voilà !

CHRISTMAS IN JULY EXCHANGE

Today arrived a special parcel

Kaye from "Kitten Stitching" hosted
a Christmas in July
exchange I decided to join.
My very first exchange.









That's what I received from Tiffany - Tiffstitches a blog  (http://tiffstitch.blogspot.fr/)

Fantastic fabrics, delicious chocolate and candy, a sweet stitched card and a Christmas ornament I'm already crazy about! Those two bears canoing are so cute. Thanks a lot Tiffany, I'm so happy with all those gifts.

My recipient is Shelly in Arizona. (https://shelly-anarizonastitcher.blogspot.fr

It was a great fun to prepare all the surprises and as it's a Xmas year for me, I have a lot of Xmas stitching in progress, so easy to choose the character from Cuore & Batticuore as a gift.

the six charts,  the one I stitched for Valentine Blog Hop, the WIP 

starring this little miss I have now to stitch for me.

THEME-TAS-STITCH 07/17

Kerry from Ramblings of a biscornu addict organized a Theme-tas-Stitch event I love a lot,


http://ramblingsofabiscornuaddict.blogspot.fr/


Just one July is the theme of this month : Pick a focus piece for the month and see how much progress you can make : show us before and after pictures if you can.



I chose the "Village Quaker", this stitching is really a great pleasure for me, my first quaker, a lovely pattern from, a very pleasant fabric to stitch on, encouraging progress.

I decided not to take it during the first week of July, I prefered smaller pieces for travel, but I'm back working on it on my lunch break at work.

So, it was left at the end of June here :

 I worked on the pale blue, the flowers, butterfly, letters on the left side then added some other stitches on the right, finishing by some dark blue on the edge.

The last stitches were done on today lunch break!

Next month, we'll have to take care of our furry and feathered friends.

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 07/17

I'm a little late for the Gifted Gorgeousness update, hosted by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching, on the 15th of each monch, you have to show your progress on the stitching you're making as gift or the pieces you're making with fabric or threads that have been given to you.

Here,  you'll find Jo post and links to other stitchers

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.fr/2017/07/gifted-gorgeousness-july-link-up-post.html


First, I got a finish!

A little rabbit, born with the Eastern Blog Hop, as a gift for my blog,  now smiling in the egg cup

I plan to use it on a little bag for my special eggs cissors...
It's a pattern from Brin par Brin "Des invités dans ma cuisine"
"Guests in my kitchen"

Il me reste à confectionner une petite pochette pour protéger mes ciseaux "spécial oeuf à la coque".









I added shoes on the third character I stitched in this serie from Cuore & Batticuore


























During my holidays I also finished my Mona Lisa,
the idea was given by Jo, she stitched it in January 2016 and shared the link to the free pattern from Mr XStitch

I keep Village Quaker for Theme-tas-Stitch update, but I have a little flower to offer you, what would be a Gifted Gorgeousness post without a gift!

UN PEU DE FRAICHEUR

Retour de vacances avec quelques progrès autoroutiers.
I did a good job stitching in the car back to home :
I finished the border of Cuore & Batticuore and start another one.

Un peu de fraîcheur dans les jardins d'eau de Carsac-Aillac au sud de Sarlat,

A cool morning in the gardens of Carsac.

Floating maze

Un peu de Giverny dans le Périgord,
Looks like Monet's garden in Giverny...

Lotus collection

150.000 buis / boxwood aux jardins de Marqueyssac