stitches by machine and hand

This sunny week started

with a "bunting-day"

because our youngest grandson

came to us from school on his birthday !

(special vegan brownies by granddad)

The new backpack as a present needed

a bit of a personal touch !

A bit of sketching,

a trick to transfer it to the felt

and then I took my machine out to stitch.

Here the result ready to insert into the plastic sleeve

in the flap of the bag !

AFBLIJVEN

(Hands off)

One happy boy

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Because the free challenges of TextileArtist.org are now finished

(and it goes on as a subscription per month)

it doesn't mean that there is no more stitching !

There was one piece in the challenges I liked very much :

blue, and there were lots of leaves in it

and a lot of stitching!

I asked the South-African lady if it was okay

if I used the leaves too.

So on my normal glue-stitched background

I added some leaves

and started stitching as usual.

Done !

(I like the result, though it's not totally mine)

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The challenge of Christine Chester
was sent to a dear hard working health-care friend,
with 5 older stitched pieces to thank more people.
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Sunny days

so the garden needs water !

But then

you get something !

Iris germanica

I heard once that you don't have to be too nice to those bearded irises :

we weren't very nice with all the digging for the new fence,

was surprised they even survived ...

BUT

love the result !