vendredi 15 mars 2024

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 03/24

 

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.
*



Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes
pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"
de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.


Once again I start my post with my birthday cards
March is a month for cat people
an old friend, DD2 and SiL3

First cut a black cat, add some wishes on a inner leaflet






Then you have all you need for a fun card...


Nouveau modèle de carte d'anniversaire dédié aux fans de chat


La dame à la licorne est un cadeau de Noël 2022 toujours en progrès.

My cross stitching "Lady with the unicorn" is a 2022 Christmas gift
more stitches on the dress



Visiting friends I wanted to add something in the flowers I brought
and chose to do two mices, this time with a spring quilt
and mount them on a wood skewer
as they were sleeping in a tulle rose








L'occasion de refaire deux petites souris, cette fois avec un édredon printanier s'est présentée pour agrémenter des fleurs à offrir.

J'espère avant dernière étape de fabrication pour le pull aux hexagones, un essayage définitif étant prévu pour demain !

The hexagon pullover for DD3 : the sleeve is attached, a simple collar with bridles and two ranks for the waist







We'll have a lunch with her in-laws tomorrow,
I hope that in the next photo she will wear it!


and I have some progress on the "cat cushion" for DD2 too

I have sewed this fellow and given him a new hobby
fishing maybe catfish, the little yellow duck button is a joke
for DD2 big fan of ducks.





One more and I'll have to work on a way to crochet them together.

Quelques finitions sur mes chatons
un chat pêcheur de poissons-chats peut-être...
Reste un neuvième carré à finir et à trouver un moyen de les
rassembler tous ensemble au crochet





jeudi 14 mars 2024

JJJ 1 LE JEUDI DU JUNK JOURNAL

Some months ago I found some tutos on YT about Junk Journal, I never heard of it before and I loved it. Too many WIP for more precise research but entertaining to follow some videos.

I took some screenshots anyway for further scrapbooking projects.

Those past weeks, everyday life was more full of worries and cold days than I needed so I made for myself a prescription for something new, fun and different!

I have always loved papers, their texture. I'm old enough to have learn to write with ink and feathers and I liked it. Of course, before using a computer I was used to save invoices on big accounting books. I have always bought postcards and kept tickets, bills, bags to remember museum visits, holidays. I loved also images from stamps to magazine ads, posters and books, anything printed.

Could be the right time to sort those boxes full of memories and collect them in albums. I'm a fan of travel journal, always dreamed of it but never take the time to make one. Everything connected to sewing could be gathered in a special, particular album.

So time has come for Junk Journaling!

First, collect papers, from school notebook to bags, from tracing paper to paper doily, all kind of white paper, all weights, all shapes,  to make what they call "signatures".


As I'm dedicating this JJ to sewing, I have added some pages with embroidery drawings and some old sewing patterns.


Five signatures attached on an old binder I kept from an geography encyclopedia (long time ago we used to bought every week a booklet on a new country).




Quelquefois les journées se suivent et ressemblent à des jours froids et remplis de soucis, une prescription d'anti baisse de moral s'imposait
quelque chose de nouveau, d'amusant, certainement le bon moment
pour un Junk Journal.
Après avoir découvert des tutos sur YT mis en ligne par des blogueuses très inventives, il était temps de trier ces tiroirs remplis de papiers
de toutes matières, de souvenirs, tickets, cartes postales, affichettes, timbres, mémoires de visites de musée ou d'achats pour la couture.

Première étape : rassembler toutes sortes de feuilles : vieux patrons, papier d'emballages, pochettes, calques, napperons de papier, pages de cahiers, papiers à lettres et les coudre ensemble pour réaliser des blocs
de feuilles et les assembler en album. 



When pages are too large I make a fold (I could use to stick some images).



I'm planning to post next Thursday about new additions
and how I'll start to decorate the Junk Journal


Here are some of the videos I love to watch :  The paper outpost, Treasure books, 49dragonflies...

dimanche 10 mars 2024

FULLY FINISHED GALLERY 03/24

 





It's the 10th of this month and Rachel from "Ten Hour Stitcher" welcome us and our Fully Finished achievements.

Please visit her blog and see all the finished projects of our stitching friends.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2024/03/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery.html


For a change, I have made a big resolution and instead of put aside the two last Christmas characters from Cuore e Batticuore, I have followed the good advice of a wise friend! 

So here are the fifth and sixth of that serie fully finished with the string around the stitching.





dimanche 25 février 2024

WIPOCALYPSE 02/24

 

Time to share with Melissa and the Wipocalypse family the projects we want to complete before the end of the world.




On FB or  https://measi.net/



Only 10 days from GG post but some more stitches on the Lady and the unicorn.


Je continue à progresser sur la robe de la Dame.

I have a LOT of wool threads to stop and hide with all those colored stripes on my hexagon sweater.


I have added ranks of bridles at the bottom, finished the cuffs and I'm sewing the sleeve.



I know you'll think one is larger than the other but it's the same number of bridles (I'll check again...). 

Enormément de fils à rentrer à cause de toutes ces rayures !
Finition des poignets, ajout de rangs de brides à la taille et essai de montage de la manche.

Still drawing and adding some watercolor for my TdF6 stages.


De nouveaux dessins pour les futures étapes du Tour de France n° 6.

Some news about my cat cushion, more cats (not sure I'll use all of them because some wool will probably be too thick). 


More landscapes, hard to find brown wool in my stash for ground so I'm trying the one I used for a crocheted fox with a blue sky. There is no real attempt of matching colors as the goal is to use some of the wool I have but I'll have to assemble the nine squares together in a pretty way so I thought I'll make four corners with the same blue sky.


Quelques petits chats supplémentaires et de nouveaux paysages.

Pas beaucoup de laine marron pour crocheter des sols en terre mais je suis retomber récemment sur un restant de laine utilisée pour un renard donc j'essaie. Le but étant de piocher dans le stock de pelotes je ne cherche pas à accorder à tout prix les couleurs mais comme je vais devoir assembler les neuf carrés ensemble je pense faire quatre carrés avec le même ciel bleu pour que cela soit plus joli.

Topic for February post: What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year?

A new schedule this year are the You Choose SAL has stopped :

Gifted Gorgousness with Jo on the 15th and the Wipocalypse with Measi at the end of the month.

Fully Finished Gallery and Smalls Sal by Rachel if I got something new to show.


vendredi 23 février 2024

SMALLS SAL 02/2024

 



After Mary from Mary's Thread, Rachel is now hosting the Smalls SAL

Now that the You Choose SAL is stopped, I hope I'll find some small stitchings in my WIP to show you the last Friday of the month.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2024/02/smalls-sal-link-up-february-2024.html


Smalls SAL est maintenant organisé par Rachel et nous propose de montrer nos petites broderies. J'aimerai bien y participer régulièrement et ainsi avoir un nouveau rendez-vous sur le blog le dernier vendredi du mois.

Pour cette première occasion, j'ai choisi une broderie (pas de point de croix) faite pour l'article du You Choose de juin dernier sur le thème de l'arc en ciel.


I thought I had no small to share but... then I thought I could start this new Sal with a small embroidery I have made for the 2023 June You Choose post with a rainbow theme. It's not cross stitched but I hope it's ok to show it!


I have finished a brooch adding a pin on a small embroidery in a little hoop.








jeudi 15 février 2024

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 02/24

 

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.
*




Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes
pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"
de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.



For home made birthday cards in February I chose the "donuts box" for  this 2024 start and as I have seven top images for sweet boxes
let's cook!




Here is my last batch of donuts...  with a total of 21.
With means 7 delicious birthdays cards


More progress on the Lady with the unicorn here




An update about the hexagon pullover
We had some fittings with some surprises...
the right sleeve is too short, the striped back would be better a bit larger




I had to remove the cuff to add one more rank of 5 hexagons
and to crochet it again to reach 37 stitches
D3 wants a cuff made with double bridles 


I have also re-crocheted the back adding so more stitches
for a few extra centimeters
and more ranks for the neckline


To adjust the armhole, more stitches to get larger ranks
and to adjust the cuff less stitches on the left sleeve


Next fittings are on next Sunday, I hope the measurements will be right and I'll be able to attach it on the body.
I still have many wool threads to stop and the finish around the waist