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Friday, 19 May 2023

May TUSAL and Stitching Library

            

It's TUSAL time!  

Here is my TUSAL jar with my current project, CCN Main Street Spooky Conversion:


stitched on 32 count Charcoal Slate Murano from Sparklies

This was the Flower Shop, can you guess what it is going to become?



What's on my Shelf?

This is a feature I'm going to include on my TUSAL post until I run out of books! I started a Page on my Happy Dance blog for my Stitching Library and realised what a huge task it was so decided to break it down to one book per month. For the next four years...

Title: Sampler en Rouge et Blanc
Author: Isabelle Vautier
Publisher: Mango Pratique
ISBN: 9782842705046


The text in this book is all in French, but that's OK because it's mostly self-evident what they are saying!

For example: Manoir aux Chats - Cat Mansion


That design is the reason I bought the book, and it's stitched in my favourite DMC 115

This one is Traditions en Rouge - Traditions in Red


Here we have Abecedaire Champetre aux Lapins - A Country Alphabet with Rabbits


Bienvenue sous la Neige (Welcome to the Snow) is shown in two colourways.
Red and White or DMC 115.  They also show a Blue and White version.


Just for a change Etude Ethnique - Ethnic Study - is shown in Brown and Ivory


The final one in the book is Marquoir Plantations - Plantation Sampler and could easily be stitched as small ornaments.



There are a lot more designs in the book, these are just a few of my favourites.


Finally, it's IHSW so I hope you are finding some time to Hermit and Stitch.  Come back and share a post with us on Monday on your blog or in the FB group.






4 comments:

  1. Nice stitching! I haven’t taken part officially inTUSAL for many years, but funnily still keep a jar with all my threads each year that then goes out to the garden to the compost or spread around the garden for the birds to use ….. I was only thinking the other day remembering when this first started!!!

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  2. Jo: That book has some amazing designs.
    Nice progress on the CCN design.

    Catherine

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  3. Since you tend to stick close to the original when possible, maybe the flower show will sell herbs and/or potion ingredients? Looking forward to finding out!
    These samplers are very pretty. So simple with just two colours but very elegang and I love the inclusion of varigated threads!

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  4. A corpse flower shop? Do tell!
    What a great sampler book, I like all the shades of red.

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