Every Inchie Monday - Infinity and Briefcase

Where is all this time going?  Another week missed but not for trying - I rather scuppered myself in the execution of last week's challenge!  Infinity was the challenge word and apart from the mathematical sign I could only think of one character who said "To Infinity and Beyond!!"  Of course Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story - one of my grandchildren's favourites.  However - how to get him on an inch in embroidery!  Then I saw the Antiques Roadshow where they showed a beautiful embroidery done in silk of a lion snarling and a tiger, doing the same, by a Chinese embroiderer and it was magnificent and I thought it's like painting with thread - I could do that!  - What was I thinking!!!.... der!!  I started it on Monday - then got called away - tried again Wednesday then had to do a fill in job for someone who was ill on Thursday, we were in Birmingham Friday and had little Milly to look after at the weekend!  Hence I only finished him last night and wished I'd never started him but it was too late to start again so here he is mistakes and all!!  It is very difficult to see where the stitches go in real time - it's not till I take a photo of it and put it on the computer I realise how the stitches aren't quite true!!  Of course it's too late to try and correct it then so this is what I'm going with.

 

 

And then on to this week's EveryInchieMonday challenge - Briefcase.  I chose to do my dad's old briefcase that I remember him going off to London with every morning on the train - it was a Roman Italian leather briefcase with a snap fastner at the front - actually a more rounded shape than my inchie has portrayed but you never know how it's going to pan out and this bit of material came from a painting apron in the mending box - one of the ties had come loose so before mending it I cut a tiny bit off the end and there was my briefcase!!

 

Have a good week - ours has started with pouring rain but I have a multitude of things to do in the house so it doesn't bother me.  Thanks for calling by and for your comments and don't forget to click the link and see all the other amazing things people make.

 

Every Inchie Monday - Sky

I have had such a whirl wind of a time as it was my daughter's 40th Birthday last Thursday and we planned a family surprise weekend away in a beautiful old 16th Century Farmhouse complete with old beams and creaky floorboards to celebrate it!!  It was the surprise bit that kept me working all last week and the week before cooking for the freezer, making her cake last week, (well helping my other daughter make it - like cleaning up after her!!) and packing the car with everything we would need for three days!  I didn't know what was supplied at the Farmhouse so I took everything in case it wasn't there!  People thought we were going away for a month!!  Anyway it all went really well, lovely surprise and a great family weekend so I just thought I'd put a snap shot in to show the lovely beams in the kitchen and Charlie having just blown out her candles with the rest of the family looking on - well some of them!

 

So now I should actually have time to do some of my crafting that has been on hold for a few weeks.  This week on Everyinchiemonday our challenge word is sky. I had plenty of ideas for this one but when I went to my room and was looking for a suitable blue material I found a blue Moda which looked like it had clouds in it then I found a piece of wavy mottled brown which looked like a hill so hey presto that's what I went with.  I had an idea to felt a bit of fluff on for a fluffy white cloud but then I thought it needed something else so I put a balloon in too! 

 

 Nice to be back and hopefully I'll actually have time to leave you some comments - many thanks for your comments and for visiting.

Every Inchie Monday - "Mice" plus Catch up Inchies - Whale, Fjord, Dolphin and Petunia

Well it's good to be back! Summer holidays - more like summer work!!  No time to spend on inchies at all - they just kept sliding to the bottom of my list!!  However I finally caught up this Sunday when I actually had time to myself ... so in order - my first picture is of a Narwhal whale - my husband couldn't make out what it was even though it was his idea!!  Apparently I haven't shown enough of the whale coming out of the water but then I would have had to cut his tusk off as it wouldn't have fitted, it's supposed to be an icy sea with ice floating and icy land!

 Next is the Fjord - my version of the Sognefjord in Norway complete with waterfall!

 Dolphin was the next week I missed so here's the classic leap out of the water.

 Last week's challenge word was Petunia and I just love this dual coloured version.

 

And finally this week's challenge on Every Inchie Monday is "mice" so I did the two little white mice who are the whole intelligence of the Universe according to HHGTTG!!

So sorry I've not been able to leave comments - I will get round to it when I get a chance and if you leave comments for me then I really appreciate them - thanks for calling by and don't forget to visit all the other inchie makers wonderful work.

Every Inchie Monday - Underground and Sheep

Hi guys, sorry I've not been around.  Missed last week's as I had five grandchildren staying the youngest being 19 months and the most unruly of them all!!  She is entering the terrible two's too early and does not like the word NO!!!!  Anyway I didn't get a chance to sit and sew and by the time they'd all gone by the Sunday I was so exhausted I couldn't do a thing except vegetate in front of the telly!!!  However, today I managed to get both inchies done plus two birthday cards so am feeling a bit more myself.  Firstly there is last week's everyinchiemonday challenge word Underground.  I wanted to do a train coming out of a tunnel in an underground station but didn't get as far as doing the train - it seemed superfluous actually so it's just a tunnel going underground!

 

 And for this week's challenge the word is Sheep so instead of doing loads of French knots which I have done before I wanted to do something different.  I saw a picture of a sheep with curly hair all round it's face and I had some curly wool tops so I thought I'd use them.  They were a bit too large for the one inch square so I had to tease them a bit and sew them down, plus draw the sheep's face on a piece of felt but the shading didn't show so I had to try and embroider it on - in the photo the thread for shading looks green!!  I'm sorry too that the wool curls have slightly extended over the square one inch base - hope it still counts!!  Anyway it's good to be back, thanks for dropping by and any comments you leave, it's great to hear from you.

Every Inchie Monday - Spiral

What wonderful weather to come home to!! It's just like being in France still!! In fact I've been so busy in the garden I forgot to post this week's Every Inchie Monday challenge which is spiral.  I think it's because I did this one before I went to France so I wouldn't be in a panic this week and I'm jolly glad I did because my attic is sweltering and I cannot craft in this weather up there!!!  I tried to make a snail with couched wool which should have got bigger nearer the edge - however it didn't look like a snail but it is a spiral so I'm not going to try and rectify it!

 

I sincerely hope you are all enjoying lovely weather too, thanks for dropping by and your comments, it's great to hear from you and my apologies for not leaving any comments on your blogs last week - I was a bit occupied and the wifi was intermittent so when I did try it didn't work - got rather frustrating so I gave up but I will try and visit this week.

Every Inchie Monday - Rain

Well a very apt Challenge word on Every Inchie Monday this week!  It has poured down all last week and was still raining when we left!  Believe it or not I am now in France and hooray although the forecast was rain - it is actually hot and sunny!  Even when we flew here yesterday it was from  a very rainy Birmingham but when we arrived in Bergerac it was like stepping into an oven - so lovely after all that rain!! And after an hour in the car - what a lovely journey through the hills of the Lot valley - we were able to sit out in the sun during the afternoon and swim it was gorgeous.  So my inspiration for this one was a painting by Annette Spinks called Melbourne Rain - Under the Umbrella - I loved it and thought to me it really depicts rain!! I used an off cut of pretty turquoise rayon that was my bridesmaids dress that I wore to my sisters wedding 51 years ago!!! (Of course in those days we made everything ourselves!! And of course I still have the material left over in my stash!)  This actually is quite pertinent to this week's blog as I am actually staying with my sister who now lives in France!! Well the rest is obvious - some black material for the umbrella and person and silver thread for rain - on such a small piece of work you can only do so much otherwise it gets too crowded but it's my interpretation of this painting. (Unfortunately the colour is muted in the photograph - in flesh it is more turquoise than the photo shows)

Hope your day gets better weather-wise and the rest of the week is sunny.  Thanks for visiting and all your comments, it's so nice to read them all.

Every Inchie Monday - Computer

Hi guys, Monday again and this weeks challenge word for Every Inchie Monday is Computer which apart from an image of a box or screen was not exactly scintillating!  So I tried to think of what computer meant to me and every time I start my computer it comes up with the windows sign - very pretty in red, green, yellow and blue.  I am sure many others have chosen this emblem but I thought I would try and replicate it in material - and the challenge for me was finding material that graded in colour so I could get the light and shade of the wavy squares.  This took me quite a while but I managed it in the end from flowered material where the flowers were dark at the edge getting paler towards the middle, the blue was the hardest - I don't seem to have much in blue!!   The actual sewing bit took me ten minutes!  Anyway here is my inchie and thanks for dropping by and all your wonderful comments. Don't forget to click the link and visit other inchie makers fine work.