Some more ladies

I am finishing some more pendants I began at the house of my daughter. They take quite a time to do but I love this work! They are about 1 1/4"x3 1/2" (3,5 x 9 cm)just the right length to wear them over a T-shirt or blouse.

You can find them at my Etsy shop.

Etsy shop

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Last week I had to take care of my grand children. They are already 10 and 13 so that they go to school and I had lots of time free.

I decided to do something for my Etsy shop.

I want to put some bigger works in the shop too but this little pendants seemed like a good idea. They were nice to make. I could use the techniques I like the most, my faces and lots of hand stitching. The ceramic buttons are from Czech handcrafters. I bought them at Cesky Krumlov, a wonderful medieval city on the Vitava. They are handmade. The waxed cord is knotted at the top.

Collab with Cecilia Levy

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Originally uploaded by Cecilia Levy.

This is the whole piece from the inside, you see the wood grain as background.

Collab with Cecilia Levy

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Originally uploaded by Cecilia Levy.

These are photographs of my collaboration for The Library with Cecilia Levy. I'm so happy with the result, with the cats behind my figures and the lovely drawings as background!! Thanks, Cecilia!!

Tast Fly Stitch

This is my first small piece for TAST.

I want to put it in my stitch dictionnary. I only used fly stitches.

Stitch dictionnary

I finished so far my stitch dictionnary, although I think I'm going to complete it with my future TAST pieces.

I just joined this group and it will be fun to do a sampler of a stitch every week for a year. The only problem being that I only used black/white which can make the endeavour rather boring somehow... I must see how I resolve this issue...

I put the name of the stitch in each one of the little "pillows" and stitched each stitch trying to show how it is made (this means, not perfectly, but so that you see the different stages). It was a great fun to do it and it was exactly what I needed for this old drawer that I found at a flea market.

Now I have it on the wall in my coffee shop corner of the studio.

Catch a falling star

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This is one more try with the embellisher.

Because I always felt my backgrounds this machine is made for me! I did the appliqué with it too and it was wonderful to stitch on it!

I found the background needed to be more flat and white, so I machine stitched on it.

Because I got so many questions about the embellisher, you can find the answers at

http://www.janome.com/product_show.php?id=798