San, you're right, the stitch used is a blanket stitch. Except that instead of alterning a straight stitch and a sideway one, you do three straight stitches along the fabric for every stitch that goes into the fabric.
Since my last entry, I've changed my mind about the quilt for my sister. I feel it is a bit to close in time to the one I made for Seb... So I will make it for Christmas. And perhaps I am getting a bit "burnt out" with my father's quilt?
Instead, I made her a little fabric basket/tray (where for instance she can put her jewelry and hair things when she comes home from work). I made it in the same fabric I used for her skirt.
And I will embroider a kitty on a towel. A kitty that I will try to make look just like Violette...
The camera is acting up tonight, so I'll take a photo of the basket tomorrow morning...
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Instead I'm gonna show you a picture of a little parcel of goodies I sent to a friend - she received it today!I had sent it registered and express (guaranteed to arrive in 2 days), but the registered number never worked on the internet and it took 7 days instead of 2. Well, the main thing is that Laure received it at last.
The only thing I made was the small frame with kitties who seem to peer from the frame as from out of a window. This was not my idea though... but that of a lovely lady from Normandy. Who gave one to me a few months ago and told me to copy her idea by all means, to make gifts fot others. So...
Can you make out the picture on the pattern? It is one of Scarlet's dresses in Gone with the Wind (you know, the one she has Mama sew in the green curtains at Tara?). Laure had been wanting this pattern for a while and since it could only be ordered from an American website, she asked me to do it - so I decided to buy it for her. 
The fabric is just because it is completely in Laure's style!
Now I'm so glad and relieved she finally received the parcel... That's why I couldn't help blabbering about it!
The fabric is just because it is completely in Laure's style!
Now I'm so glad and relieved she finally received the parcel... That's why I couldn't help blabbering about it!
5 comments:
You're a sweetie, Isabelle :)
hugs :)
You are so wonderful to your friends. This tells a lot about you. How fantastic!!!!!
can't wait to see the basket pic :) you're a very kind girl *hugs*
Hi Isabelle, Mike mailed the Esmeralda chart off to you yesterday :-)
I love the kitties in the frame :-) They're adorable.
Thanks for your compliment on my blog :-)
I was just saying in my last entry that I loved the thread used in the piece I was showing off (Watercolours from Caron) and that the only thing left to do was the finishing which probably meant it wouldn't get done :-) Also I just got a q-snap frame and loved using it. I've always stitched in hand so that was new to me :-D
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