2008 Diary

Here is my contribution for the "Diary 2008 Project":

www.fantazya.ca/diary2008.html
www.flickr.com/groups/diary2008/

Here is the drawing that I used... I made it as Birthday present for a friend of mine...

New baby to nurse…

My sister in law gave me a new baby!



She came with this small little one yesterday afternoon; I couldn’t resist!
Just look at this little girl; isn’t she lovely?




She is so adorable and sweet and tiny!

Now I’m looking for a name… If you have some nice ideas; please share.

Muchu is somewhat jealous!

Elvire flew out of the nest ;o(

Two weeks ago Elvire flew out.
She was flying here and there in the garden when her real parents pushed her out of their territory.

Happily, she already could eat alone and was flying quiet well!

Some of our neighbours saw her last week; she came nearby and wanted some friendship. She seems doing well.

I walked around with one of my nephew and screamed all the way long after her; but she never came.

I want to share the last pictures I took; she was so funny and friendly.

Good luck, Elvire!

Sunday with Mireille and a lot of fun …

Mireille came on last Sunday and we had a great day!
Chatting, laughing and of course embroidering….

We still work on our Passiflora Edulis, my student is more advanced in her work than me ;o) just have a look on her blog!

This time we had begun stumpworking using wire to make a leaf for our passiflora.
You’ll find some pictures of the process.

First give a shape to your wire; using the pattern is a good think. Just be sure you give the shape a good size; here we’ll have to do it a litle bit biger to have enough material to give it a good shape when finished.

After that, the first “row” on the wire is made by buttonhole stitch all around the leaf.

The filling with buttonhole is taking a lot of time, but what a good result ;o)

Mireille came with a beautiful quilt made by here mother; just look at this!!!


The quilting is gorgeous… and the back is as nice as the front!