Something really cute!

Tante Dierdre has these 2 pictures on her website.

We really love Tante Dierdre an awful lot.

She is very nice.

She is transcribing the French patterns into English.

This means that Maman won't get a headache trying out new patterns.

The above picture shows little girls before they get their new French magazine.

This is after La Semaine de Suzette comes to the door!

Maman has a few copies of this magazine.

They are very old and delicate.

If you would like to visit Tante Deirdre's website, please click here:

DRESSING BLEUETTE

Smocking lesson Part 2

Last Wednesday Maman sewed ALL DAY LONG.

I think she was desperate to finish the smocking dress.

She even woke up that night trying to remember everything she had learned.

Sarah Jean taught her how to do the baby wave stitch.

That was on the next row of dots. It was complicated but Maman managed it.

It poured all day long.

Under the first row of baby wave stitches, Maman made a second row of upside down baby waves.

Do you see that they look like a diamond pattern?

Underneath that she did a row of cable stitches.

After lunch she used the sewing machine downstairs and sewed the dress together.

Sarah Jean taught her a really nice finishing stitch for the sleeves.

Here is a close up of the smocking. Isn't it lovely?

Love from Yvette Marie. xoxoxo

A smocking lesson!

Maman and I went for a wonderful retreat with Sr. Sarah Jean last week.

Sarah Jean lives in Saanich on Vancouver Island.

I got to go on the big ferry. It was a lot of fun except I was encased in bubble wrap!

But I could feel the motion of the ferry.

As soon as possible Maman took me out and we began to cut out a new dress for me!

This was after supper last Tuesday.

Sarah Jean put smocking dots on the back of the fabric.

Here is what the smocking dots look like. Sarah Jean made extra rows by re-doing the pattern.

Then she showed Maman how to put a running stitch through the dots all the way to the end.

You make a knot at the beginning and leave a long thread at the end and knot the ends together.

Sarah Jean spreads the gathers evenly using a big blue comb.

Isn't that funny?

Maman learned all this in one night!

She also learned the basic stitch which is the cable stitch.

She did a row of cable stitch along the first row of dots.

I think the green thread matches perfectly.

We had lots of fun on the Island.

I will post more later.

Love from Yvette Marie xoxoxo

Happy Easter to all our friends!

Here are two of us posing by the new Easter tree which Maman brought home for us yesterday.

It's very pretty, don't you think?

Helena is borrowing Daisy's pink dress.

Our cousin is on the left. She still hasn't told us her name.

Happy Easter!

Love from all of us at the Bleu Manoir!

Tante Martha's Easter card

These darling girls belong to Tante Martha.

She took the beautiful picture.

She lives far away in the USA.

Her girls are very, very old.

Sometimes they are called antiques but I won't call them that because it might hurt their feelings!

Maman made some Easter cards and we helped.

Tante Martha runs the BSC group and that's where we meet all these fun friends.

We share our dress ideas and our dress patterns too.

Tante Martha is a whiz at making really good patterns. They fit so well!

Happy Easter, dear friends!

Love from Yvette Marie and all.

xoxoxo

Our Easter egg decorating

We are hard at work dying Easter eggs.

Zoe put them in the basket.

This is Maman's basket from a long time ago.

It's breakable so Zoe is being very careful.

Helena was helping at the table.

Daisy came over for a visit and helped to boil the eggs.

Suddenly there were baby chicks everywhere!

Daisy looks astonished.

I sat down on the floor to play with them.

Aren't they cute?

Helena sat down too and so did Daisy.

We all love soft and cute baby chickens!

Did some of the eggs hatch?

We can't figure out where they came from.

After we cleaned up the room Daisy and Zoe put on a puppet show for us.

It was cute too, and well done!

The baby chicks were put in a pen outside.

Maman bought the puppet theatre for us at the Dollar Store.

That place has fun things for us. The puppets are so cute.

We are excited because Easter is coming closer.

This year it's very late at the end of April.

That's because it has something to do with the full moon and Passover.

I can't understand these things. Neither can Maman.

But Easter is Maman's favourite time of the year.

She loves eggs and chicks too but most of all she is happy because Easter is the best time of all.

Do you know why?

Love from Yvette Marie and all the rest of the gang. xoxoxo



Pink clothes!

This is one of our friends.

Her name is Madeline.

She is a Bellette, which is a cousin to Bleuette.

She is a little taller than we are.

Madeline's Maman made her a cute pink playsuit.

Doesn't Madeline look pretty?

I wish my playsuit would be finished soon!

Love from Yvette Marie

xoxoxo