Suddently ... pictures ;)

After a long time of "what do I want to stitch ?", I took Cinderella for a little row of crosses, then I decided to stitch "Dragon of Hope, a freebie from Dragon Dreams I meant to stitch for a long time now.

I decided to use a purple fabric my friend Kim hand dyed herself, close to the colours of the stitching, but still quite different to see the stitches. Plus I love that colour of fabric...

For the moment it's a bit of a blob, but the Earth is already finished.

I also finished a big tatted snowflake. Well, bigger than the others, but the picture is still life size. I forgot to join a few times, so I had to add pieces of threads here and there... but who will know ?

And finally here is an inchy I made earlier this week, but I only put the back fabric and the eyelet yesterday. 4 leaves, a few crosses and 2 beads in the middle... And it's so small I was able to put a mobile thingy on it !!!! Incredible...

On Thursday, only a week before going away from England, I was in Waitrose, and what did I see? Altoid boxes ! I will have to stock up... But that means I will have to find tutorials to decorate them on Focus on Finishing...

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Apres un certain temps de "que vais-je broder?" j'ai decide de broder "dragon of Hope", un freebie de Dragon Dreams. Ca fait un bout de temps que je voulais le broder, donc voila !

J'ai choisi une toile que mon amie Kim a teinte elle-meme, en mauve/bleu... Les couleurs sont proches mais assez eloignees de la couleur des fils pour faire un peu ton sur ton...

Pour l'instant, la terre est faite, et une partie du dragon... c'est sympa a faire !

J'ai aussi fini un grand flocon en frivolite (grand par rapport aux autres), et j'ai oublie de joindre une paire de fois, donc il y a des bouts de fils en plus, mais qui le remarquera?

Enfin, voici une photo d'un inchy que j'ai fait dans la semaine, mais je n'ai fait l'arriere et l'oeilleton qu'hier. C'est assez petit pour mettre un attache de portable...

Sinon, le comble, une semaine avant de quitter l'Angleterre, je decouvre des boites Altoids au supermarche de la vieille ville (ou je ne vais jamais). Je vais devoir faire provision !!!! Et aller voir s'il y a des tutos pour les decorer....

Tag and biscornus

I'm in a streak of creativity, but low productivity... I suppose that the fact that I had to go to my old place of work to hand back my pass and such drained me and I slept all afternoon... So of course I spent less time crafting !!!!

I got influenced by you lot, making floss ring tags with eyelets in them... So I thought I could use eyelets in my inchies to make keyrings and other tag types. I used some fabric and double sided fuse thingy to hide the back.

I was glad to have Hobbycraft next door, because at first I didn't know how to use eyelets and on my first trip I only took the eyelets without the tool !!!

Then I decided to start a biscornu for Christmas, with beads, and without a pattern. So the picture shows you the state so far...

I also did a bit of tatting, but no picture yet !

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Je suis en phase creative en ce moment, meme si le voyage au vieux boulot pour rendre mon pass m'a draineee, et donc j'ai dormi tout l'apres midi !!!

A force de voir les gens faire des tags pour anneaux a fils, j'ai voulu essayer, et j'ai pense que mettre un oeillet dans le petit inchy le transformerait en porte-clef ou equivalent...

J'ai mis un tissu a l'arriere pour cacher avec un truc double face pour les coller.

Apres, j'ai commence un biscornu pour Noel, avec plein de perles, mais sans suivre un modele.

Et finalement, j'ai fait un peu de frivolite, mais pas de photo aujourd'hui...

Inchy 2 - Ribbon embroidery

The good thing with inchies is that in just a few stitches, you have a nice "stamp". Yesterday I used ribbon embroidery. I have to say it's a good thing I didn't start ribbon embroidery with a real big project, because I felt the ribbons very difficult to work with, they don't quite do what they are supposed to do. But for something like here, randomness helps a little bit...

Tatting Chic, you were asking about inchies... They are mini pictures, just 1 inch by 1 inch. Some are making them in paper, some in fabric, it's really up to the "artist". I guess it would be too small to put tatting on, unless you use very fine thread...

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La bonne chose avec les inchies, c'est qu'en quelques points, on a deja fini le "timbre". Ici j'ai essaye de la broderie aux rubans, ce qui n'a pas ete sans mal, vu que les rubans son difficiles a manipuler... Heureusement que ce n'etait qu'un essai, et pas un grand projet serieux !!!!

flake and inch

Yet another snowflake... No major incident on this one, except I forgot to anchor the last ring to the first, and so I had to attach it with an extra piece of thread... But overall you can't really tell ;)

Now I'm tackling a more difficult project, a Christmas tree in green thread. For this one I'm using an Aero shuttle (with a bobbin inside, and a hook at one end) for the first time, and I love it !

By now some of you might be tired of tatting, so I have a different project to show, an "inchie".

After trading cards, people decided to go further and have projects one inch by one inch. I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and a good way of trying new stitches and such... so here is my first one !

The border is also hand stitched, and I cut the fabric close to it.

Annie, I think you can have pouches in just stitching fabric (aida or linen), without lining. The French shop "Loisirs et Creation" has a range of linen "ready to stitch" items, and they do have pouches like that... So you can totally do it !!!

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Encore un flocon... celui-ci est sans grande catastrophe, a part le fait que j'ai oublie d'accrocher le dernier rond au premier, et donc j'ai du ajouter un bout de fil... Heureusement ca ne se voit pas trop !

Maintenant je bosse sur un sapin, en fil vert, avec ma nouvelle navette "Aero", qui a une bobine a l'interieur et un crochet au bout. C'est un vrai plaisir a utiliser.

Pour ceux qui en auraient marre de voir de la frivolite... J'ai aussi fait un "inchie". Vous connaissez surement les "trading cards", he bien certains ont change le format pour 1 inch sur 1 (environ 3cm?)

J'ai trouve que ce serait marrant d'essayer, et d'avoir une raison de jouer avec les differents points. Je suppose qu'apres je les mettrai dans un album ou quelque chose comme ca....