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.

Every Inchie Monday - Physics

Well this Monday's challenge word at Every Inchie Monday is Physics!  I actually did this one a couple of weeks ago as I knew I wouldn't have time as I had my little granddaughter all week and then was away for a long weekend in Guernsey - which was really good.  We got back yesterday.  It's a difficult concept anyway to put in picture form let alone embroidery, but having looked at some of your inchies briefly, when I got the everyinchiemonday link, I see this one has been done before!!  I couldn't embroider a formula and not knowing what else I opted for the Physics logo -into which I could incorporate some beads and we all love beads!  So here goes, sorry it's not imaginative - the challenge for me was getting the lines to be thick and thin - a bit fiddly until I ran out of green thread at the end of the green thin line so the join is a bit untidy.  Have a lovely rest of the week - it's absolutely chucking it down here - haven't seen rain like it for a while - stair rods - which is up and coming in two weeks!!  Thanks for visiting and all your lovely comments.

Every Inchie Monday - Party

Well as I knew I would have my 18 month old granddaughter staying all weekend, and she's still with us, I did this one last week and I didn't put too much off-the-wall thought into this, I just wanted to do the paraphernalia of a party as in the balloons, confetti and bunting - my challenge was making a balloon out of fabric and I did try to make it out of organza so it would shine like a balloon but when I tried to stick two bits together to get the depth of colour, the glue dulled it, so I ended up trying to manipulate a folded piece of organza into a balloon shape but I have to say it was very fiddly and took me ages so even though the end result isn't as I expected I am stuck with it as I had no more time.  The nice thing is that I showed my inchie separately to my husband and two daughters and each of them guessed this week's every inchie monday challenge word "Party" so I guess it does portray it. Thank you for visiting and your comments, hope you have a nice week.

Every Inchie Monday - Radio

Well I must admit that the challenge words are beginning to leave me less than inspired!!  In fact so much so I wasn't even going to do this one!!!  Then on Saturday I was clearing out one of the children's bedrooms that I use for ironing now and as it has my son's old bunk bed with a work station underneath it has become a storage area for all manner of things that have no "homes", so I decided it was time to have a clear out.  And guess what turned up?  An old radio that my father-in-law gave us one Christmas back in the 90's.  Here is a picture of it.

 I remember it well as we were so excited - we love old things and plugged it in to see if it worked only to have Winston Churchill's unforgettable voice intoning his "we will fight on the beaches" speech!!  We all stood stunned and our expressions must have mirrored one another with a "What the ...!" expression.  It was uncanny and quite creepy - here we were turning on an old radio from the war and over the air came the most famous wartime speech!!!  And then when it ended a familiar DJ came on and we understood it was a program about famous speeches!!  But what a bizarre coincidence.  So being as our challenge word for Every Inchie Monday this week is Radio I decided to use this radio as my subject.  Here is a picture of my efforts, obviously not exact but that's because it's so small sometimes one forgets little things until a picture is taken and it is blown up - then you see all the faults!!!  Nobody's perfect! 

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