For a long while, I think i already told you, I was hesitant in front of Stephen West’s patterns : some nice constructive idea, but the colors choices on the sample and the staging were too excentric for me. I couldn’t see myself wearing any of them… Then, doodler arrive, and all these butterfly wings showing on Instagram and Ravelry, in many different color combo (not all excentric), made me dream and want to knit one… I realised my Doodler for myself ! And I fall in love with it ! Et I still love wearing it, as well as Pilou and Capucine, which sometimes creates some strange situation : “Where is my shawl ?” “Which shawl ?” “My Doodler !” 3 Shall i remind you I knitted it for myself…” “Yes, but…” etc. From that moment, I decided to pass behind the flashy colors and to look for other realisations, in order to rediscover them in other colors and to try to see myself in them… I was decided to knit another one of Stephen’s pattern : I just had to decide which one… I hesitated to participate to the november MKAL (Mystery Knit along), but I didn’t have enough yarn in my statsh, so I didn’t make it. But, shortly after, I saw the Vertices Unite of my friend Mimi and I knew it was the one I was meant to knit !
Read MoreSweet Arrows baby blanket
2new knitting patterns in 10 days… and 2 blog posts in less than a week… 2017 begins well ! If we just forget the nearly 3 months of silence : it was for a good cause ! 🙂 But I warn you : don’t expect the same rythm all year long, you might be dissapointed… 😉 Truth be told, the knitting pattern I’m introducing today was ready for a long time. It is, in fact, the baby blanket I knitted while pregnant last September. Everything was ready : the chart, the written explanations .I just had to work the page layout and organize the test-knit, but at this stage of my pregnancy, I was too tired, just couldn’t do it. So, the pattern waited its time until my brain was a (little) bit more available… After Madeleine ‘s birth and a few weeks to find a new pace in our family life, Sweet Arrows is finally published and available !
Read MoreNarsissi
A few days ago, I published my first knitting pattern of 2017 : Narsissi… Narsissi is a lovely pair of delicate and feminine fingerless mittens that I imagined for a magazine. Sadly, they didn’t choose it. As it kept lingering in my mind, I decided to publish it on my own !
Read MoreAll striped up…
2016 was a very productive year, particularly because baby knits are fast to make… But I blogged about none of them and, with lots of finished projects, I didn’t know where to start… Today’s prompt of Yarn Love Challenge showed me the way : Stripes… So, I will show you not one, but two striped projects…
Read MoreCookie Surprise
I have lots and lots of finished projects to show you (some from quite a while ago), but let’s talk first about the latest knitting pattern I published last week : Cookie Surprise. When I went to Paris last January, I went, as usual, at L’OisiveThé and La Bien Aimée to say Hi and pet some beautiful yarns, such as CoopKnit Sock Yeah ! 🙂 Aimée offered me to create a shawl pattern with this exact yarn, with one goal : it had to be easy for knitters who want to begin lace knitting. I said Yes immediately (who can resist beautiful yarn ?), but told her it would be published before Fall, beacause I had other projects to finished first… And I went home with 4 lovely skeins in my bag (quite reasonnable, no ?)… I barely got home that I already had an idea : triangular shawl, garter stitch, lace arrows… I swatched and did all the math, but I had to put aside for awhile to finish other things.
Read MoreAutumn adventures
Aventures d’automne (Autumn adventures) is the 3rd pattern I created around the 4 seasons, after Doux Printemps and Rêves d’été. For this season, I knew what I wanted to make : a cowl, easy to slip on when you go outside to enjoy the lasts bits of sun, when it is begginning to get a bit cold… I imagined a big braid, some zigzags and twisted stockinette to have a bit of structure. From the first sketch to the final sample, for once, I had no change of mind, no issue…
Read MoreOne week-end with Cap Laine
This past week-end, I was in south of France for a long week-end organized by Cap Laine. Cap Laine is aFrench association which purpose is to connect producers and users of natural fiber and to share with everyone all the local ressources and knowledges. They organized 2 week-ends this past year. If I couldn’t attend the first one, I was so happy to be able to go to this one. I hope there will be many more…
Read MoreSummer Dreams
Rêves d’été (aka Summer Dreams) is the last pattern I published on June 20th, for summer, in partnership with Cécile La Fée Fil. It is the second knitting pattern I’ve imagined in my 4-seasons collection, right after Doux Pintemps (Sweet Spring). I must say it gave me a hard time…
Read MoreBaa Ble hat and mitts
I hesitated a lot before publishing this post. Because, by end of April, hat and mittens are not really seasonal items anymore… But the weather from the last few days showed me we still needed them, so…
Read MoreA quick small gift : (Petit) Artichaut
Today, we visited friends to eat some cakes and meet there youngest daughter. Long before the birth (4 months ago), I knew I wanted to gift her a small knitted gift which would be really appreciated, I knew it, by the parents. But, until four days ago, when we finally found a day to see each other, I had done nothing !
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