'Verbes indicatif présent' free download

I'm trying to encourage my 9 yr old boy to learn his french verbs.  He's not inspired, Only MINECRAFT !  can get his full attention :)

Soooooo I created these letter-sized 'posters' to hang in his room over his desk.  My thinking is that if the Minecraftia font doesn't get his attention, nothing will.

And I was right, he's reading them.  They're in view and he's interested.  Now to see if his marks go up a little :)

Thank you Minecraftia, by Andrew Tyler !

You can look up the different classifications of french verbs (1st group, 2nd group, 3rd group, radical, stable, etc) in english, here.

You can download my 'posters' here by clicking on whichever verb.  For 2$ you can order custom fonts or colors, please leave a message in the comment section below.

Conjugaison de verbes en français

Futur Simple
Avoir (est un verbe auxiliaire qui fait parti du 3e groupe)
Être (est un verbe auxiliaire qui fait parti du 3e groupe)


Infinitif pésent 
Avoir (est un verbe auxiliaire qui fait parti du 3e groupe)

Être (est un verbe auxiliaire qui fait parti du 3e groupe)

1er groupe

Verbe en -er, radical stable

aimer

Verbe en -er, radical variable

aller

2e groupe

Verbe en -ir, radical stable (participe présent - issant)

finir

Verbe en -ir, radical variable (participe présent - ant)

venir

3e groupe

Verbe en -re, radical variable

faire 

Verbe en -re, radical stable

dire

Verbes en -oir, radical variable

voir

savoir

vouloir

pouvoir

Verbe en -tre, radical stable

connaitre

Verbe en -tre, radical variable

mettre

Samuel first time sewing

Numbers - 1 to 100 in french

While helping my youngest with his (gr 1) homework this evening I realized he needed some serious help with his numbers from 1 to 100 in french.  He has difficulty with 7, 9, the teens, the seventies and the nineties. So I thought I'd whip him up a little reminder page.  Well little did I know that I didn't really know how to spell some myself and was ignorant of new spelling rules in effect (old spelling and new spelling are both accepted as of the date of this article). So I looked them all up and here they are:

0 zéro

1 un

2 deux

3 trois

4 quatre

5 cinq

6 six

7 sept

8 huit

9 neuf

10 dix

11 onze

12 douze

13 treize

14 quatorze

15 quinze

16 seize

17 dix-sept

18 dix-huit

19 dix-neuf

Nouvelle orthographe: Les numéraux composés sont systématiquement reliés par des traits d’union, y compris ceux formés avec million, milliard, trillion, etc. (exemples : trente-et-un-mille-huit-cent-vingt-deux, deux-millions-sept-cent-mille, cent-deuxième, deux-cents quarts).  Office québécois de la langue française

New accepted spelling: Numbers formed by more than one number are systematically linked by a hyphen, including those formed with million, billion, trillion, etc. (examples: trente-et-un-mille-huit-cent-vingt-deux, deux-millions-sept-cent-mille, cent-deuxième, deux-cents quarts). Office québécois de la langue française

20 vingt

21 vingt-et-un  

22 vingt-deux

23 vingt-trois

24 vingt-quatre

25 vingt-cinq

26 vingt-six

27 vingt-sept

28 vingt-huit

29 vingt-neuf

30 trente

31 trente-et-un

32 trente-deux

33 trente-trois

34 trente-quatre

35 trente-cinq

36 trente-six

37 trente-sept

38 trente-huit

39 trente-neuf

40 quarante

41 quarante-et-un

42 quarante-deux

43 quarante-trois

44 quarante-quatre

45 quarante-cinq

46 quarante-six

47 quarante-sept

48 quarante-huit

49 quarante-neuf

50 cinquante

51 cinquante-et-un

52 cinquante-deux

53 cinquante-trois

54 cinquante-quatre

55 cinquante-cinq

56 cinquante-six

57 cinquante-sept

58 cinquante-huit

59 cinquante-neuf

60 soixante

61 soixante-et-un

62 soixante-deux

63 soixante-trois

64 soixante-quatre

65 soixante-cinq

66 soixante-six

67 soixante-sept

68 soixante-huit

69 soixante-neuf

70 soixante-dix

71 soixante-et-onze

72 soixante-douze

73 soixante-treize

74 soixante-quatorze

75 soixante-quinze

76 soixante-seize

77 soixante-dix-sept

78 soixante-dix-huit

79 soixante-dix-neuf

80 quatre-vingts 
*Vingt et cent prennent un 's' 'quand ils sont multipliés et qu'ils ne sont pas immédiatement suivis d'un autre déterminant numéral. Voir exemples des exceptions ici: Office québécois de la langue française

*Vingt and cent take an 's' when they are multiplied, and not immediately followed by another number. See examples of exceptions here: Office québécois de la langue française

81 quatre-vingt-un

82 quatre-vingt-deux

83 quatre-vingt-trois

84 quatre-vingt-quatre

85 quatre-vingt-cinq

86 quatre-vingt-six

87 quatre-vingt-sept

88 quatre-vingt-huit

89 quatre-vingt-neuf

90 quatre-vingt-dix

91 quatre-vingt-onze

92 quatre-vingt-douze

93 quatre-vingt-treize

94 quatre-vingt-quatorze

95 quatre-vingt-quinze

96 quatre-vingt-seize

97 quatre-vingt-dix-sept

98 quatre-vingt-dix-huit

99 quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

100 cent

'Spiked' child's neck warmer

A friend of my oldest son wanted a neck warmer after he saw the very simple quickie one I made for my son.  THAT was TWO years ago when they were in kindergarten. I FINALLY made it today....

Started out by making a cone template for the 'spikes'.

Traced it onto a white terry cloth type fabric and cut out six at a time (I know I'm a rebel), but ended up using only 3.

 

You have to play around with this bit, I ended up lobbing off quite a bit of fabric to make them nearer the final size. Here I placed the pin to imitate a seam in order to gauge the end result (by turning it over, not shown)

 Figured out the size I wanted then folded it in two in order to see what excess fabric I needed to lob off.

Ready to sew (along line set by pin) RS together.

 Gratuitous shot of my sexy Necchi :)

I sewed the 'spikes' one after the other without clipping each afterwards. I find this goes faster and saves thread.

Unfortunately I don't have pics of next step, 'cause when you're winging it, well, you're winging it.  I cut out circles of the same fabric from the initial 'spike' template in order to make 'bottoms' for the 'spikes'.  I figured it woud be much easier at this point to add a bottom in order to sew the 'spikes' to the main fabric.

Sewing the bottoms RS together, leaving a small gap in order to turn it RS out.

Just like sewing a sleeve to a bodice. Around and around you go...

Stuffed the 'spike' with a little stuffing and hand sewed the gap.  The 'spikes' are pretty round but not entirely. It's okay though I'll fix that up when I sew the 'spikes' to the main fabric.

Set the 'spikes' on the main fabric spaced out evenly (or pretty close) at this point my boys are almost done school and I have to speed up :S 

Main fabric is 22 inches by 8 inches.  It's a size that works well for my boys, 8 yrs old and 6 yrs old.  It is a stretch fabric so will go over head easily even if it's a little smaller.  My boys heads are 22 inches in circumference approximately.

So you just hand sew these little 'spikes' to main fabric being careful not to allow for any puckering of the main fabric.

To assemble the pieces, I thought it much easier to diagram it out. This is one method that I call the lazy-girl method. The better method would probably be to sew smaller ends of main fabric together, smaller ends of secondary fabric together, insert main fabric tube into secondary fabric tube RS facing and sew along long sides leaving a small gap near the small side hem (or back if you prefer) to turn neck warmer RS out. Hand sew gap or overstitch both long sides 1/4 inch from sides.

P.S. Before the last step, I overstitched 1/4 inch from sides on both long sides.  

P.P.S. After you turn in the hem at last step, clip off excess fabric.  I forgot to mention it in the diagram and I almost forgot to do it in real life... Actually I did, but ripped up stitch and redid, there was just too much...

And TADA ! A 'studded' neck warmer for a little boy :)

This project took about 2 hours total, start to finish.

Needed a knee patch, made a knee patch

My oldest is going through his track pants like there's no tomorrow. I'm tempted to go out and buy him some new ones but I've been wanting to make cool patches for awhile. Well the opportunity arose this morning so away I went.

First I asked my eldest what his favorite 'Trash Pack' of the day was...

I then drew it out with simple shapes and colored it.

I chose a variety of fabrics to match the drawing the best I could along with some interfacing to stabilize the softer fabrics.

Here I just finished sewing on the eyes.  Loved that my machine helped me through it. Yay :) Used a no-fray product on the edges to keep everything looking neat for as long as possible.

So here he is.  Did I mention that we're Saturday morning and that my time is limited before the underlings get needy ;) lol Skipped the arms and didn't have time to do the feet, but I did manage to find time in the day to embroider the yellow 'drool'.

And there it is, my first handmade patch :)  Fun. :)  I already know what my eldest will be wearing to school Monday morning :)

My first dress reconstruction

I found a dress at the thrift shop. It had a color I like, fabric I love (100% cotton) and it had a nice length. Apart from that I didn't like much else about it. I put it on my mannequin and stared at it for months....

For a housedress it's not so bad, but I'm not ready to do the housedress thing yet... I see 'dowdy' here.

I want to remove the collar and alter the neckline, make it more of a small scoop neckline. I see a japanese-style tunic in here.

Notice my seam ripper at the ready on the left ;)
Please note, my mannequin is a MALE store mannequin and does not have breasts lol

The back is okay, no alterations for now.

-Ripped out collar and eyeballed a new neckline (cut a little, tried it on, cut a little tried it on, etc.)

-Cut off sleeve cuffs and straps.

-Removed top pockets entirely.  I have little holes where the stitching was but I'm thinking about how to take the eye away from that :)

-Cut out front buttons and placket, sewed the two sides together. 

-Tried the dress on inside out (several times), pinched the excess fabric along princess seams from the breast apex* to the waist or to where the bottom pockets begin. Fortunately I won't have to remove the bottom pockets since the 'dart' tapers off to just above it. Ouf, that was close ;)  Pinched a little fabric in middle seam to avoid tummy pucker.

*I really fiddled with the princess seams and eventually had the seams go up past the apex nearly to where the sleeve meets the bodice. My next tunic with princess seams reconstruction, I'll probaly remove the sleeves at start to allow for room to manoeuver...

Pinched a little fabric in the back at the neck to create a dart that will eliminate the gap.

What happens when you don't have a proper dress mannequin... static hair !!

At this point, I'm working on the collar.  I tried bias tape...

...but I'm looking for a cleaner look.  Don't judge the princess seams 1) my tunic is on a male mannequin and 2) I had to really work on them as they were a challenge but I've come to appreciate the construction part of this type of 'architecture')...

So the bias tape didn't make the cut.

My son's cat keeping me company :)

I then thought to take the original collar fabric and make a type of bias interfacing type thing, but that didn't look good either.... However after a quick consult with my seamstress neighbor I settled on using the extra fabric as a real interfacing.and triple topstitching it into place. Very satisfied with my choice, glad I took my time and tried different variations.

The shortened sleeves with a nice triple topstitch. I like :)

Pur-ty :)

And here's the pretty-much-finished-but-still-undergoing-transformation tunic.

*sigh* I wish I'd cleaned the mirror before taking the pics...   

I'm wearing the tunic with the black and white horizontal striped leggings I made a few days ago that AREN'T FINISHED lol the hem on the ankle isn't done and I haven't even sewn in an elastic at the waist lol but I was too excited to wait :)  The tunic is made for warmer weather with a thinner shirt underneath or even nothing at all, but today it was -29C so turtleneck it is... 

Found a great pair of booties at the thrift shop (I tell you this thrift shop is magic, they always have what I need)...

After wearing the tunic all day I decided I need/want to cut a good 6 inches off the length, which I will proceed to do tomorrow.

I had a LOT of fun on this project, learned a lot of things.  I'm hoping I have time to delve into another project similar to this one soon :)  

If you have any questions, don't be shy ! They're probably the same questions I have lol we can figure it out together !

PC products I've come to enjoy

Here are a few President's Choice products that I've come to enjoy (for quality and especially price):


1) PC Blue Menu Celeb margarine is a decent replacement for Becel.  (Hey ! Celeb=Becel ! I just noticed...)


2) Tastes more like Tim Horton's coffee than Tim Horton's coffee : PC The Great Canadian Coffee


I'll keep updating this list as I discover new PC products.

First attempt at sewing autumn hats for the Boyzz

Here are pics of autumn hats I made for the Boyzz using the hoods from old hoodies that were too small.  Diagrams to follow.

My sewing logo :P

My relunctant model ;)

Scales are too low, get lost in jacket collar...

My very first hoody hat :)

....he's falling oveeeeerrr :)