I’ve been thinking long and hard about opening another blog for the sewing. But in the end, I have to be realistic and tell myself that right now I just don’t have the time for it. But I feel the sewing has no real place here either. So for the time being, I’ll stick to sort of a compromise which is occasional updates about what and how I am doing. How about a monthly post?
I am glad to report that the sewing challenge is the only challenge I am not behind on. I have made 31 “things” and this is week 28. I will certainly fall behind a little bit over the summer holidays, but I don’t think that’s a big problem. Some recent pics:

This was actually my travel project when I went to Seattle, but I am just getting round to posting about it. It sat there waiting for some kind of closure solution for weeks now.

It’s the Anna Cardigan by Robyn Chachula, available in her upcoming book “Baby Blueprint Crochet”, it is also available for free in a collection of 6 baby patterns on the Crochet Me website.
I did not swatch for this (I always do for adult garments though), but with a baby pattern I sometimes like to go the “if it doesn’t fit now, it will later”-route. I followed the instructions for the 12 month size and it turned out rather bigger (well, it’ll fit her later, right?). It will actually be quite some time later because, look, big 3 ½ year old sister will wear it in the meantime.
Please forgive the “styling” of the photo shoot. It would surely look much better with a blouse underneath, but it really was too hot for fiddling with layers, so I just put it on her for a minute and took a couple of pics.

I used 3 skeins of Rowan RYC Cashsoft 4 Ply. Ravelry project page is here.

Depuis le temps que j’ai voulu faire ça! Enfin, enfin, un de mes patrons est disponible en Français dans la boutique d’Annette Petavy. C’est elle qui s’est chargée de la traduction (car si ça aurait été moi, vous auriez encore attendu un bon moment).
Voici le lien pour acheter le patron en Français : Phoenix – mitaines.
Pour celles qui préfèrent la version Anglaise, rien ne change, c’est toujours ici sur mon site ou sur Ravelry.

Finally one of my patterns is available in French, thanks to Annette Petavy who’s offering the translation in her shop. As for the English version, nothing changes, it’s still available here on my site or through Ravelry.

Thursday morning I took the bus to Redmond to go to a stitch group which was super fun. And who did I meet there? My favorite tech editor, Julie Armstrong Holetz herself!

Wednesday I headed back to Seattle by bus. Upon arrival Chris from Pursuite of Fiber was already waiting for me at the bus stop. She was so nice to drive me around to two yarn stores and have some cupcakes with me. The first was the Fiber Gallery where, blinded by all that gorgeous yarn I usually only see online, I forgot to take a single picture. What I did not forget was to buy some:

It’s all Madelinetosh yarns, the orange and yellow ones are sock weight which I would like to use for a crochet design and… well socks for the yellow. And the sort of teal color is lace weight.

I don’t actually remember the name of the second store. And I only have a super blurry picture of Chris with the cupcakes. So, well, the Madelinetosh pics must be enough.

On Tuesday I hopped on the train to Vancouver (lovely train ride by the way, it goes all along the coast, way nicer than the bus I took on the way back). I wasn’t off the train for 30 minutes, when I found myself in Sweet Georgia Yarn’s dye studio. I had never seen a dye studio before, so that was kind of cool.
I got a skein of her Merino Silk Lace in raspberry.

The next stop was Urban Yarns where I did not leave empty handed either.

Indigo Moon 100% merino wool (superwash) hand-dyed, in Majestic Purple.

On my second day in Seattle, I went on a stroll through Pike Place Market and chanced upon Laura from Croshay Design (here she is on Ravelry). She sells wonderful crocheted hats (and as I know now, you might be happy to have a woolen hat at hand in Seattle, in June!). I’ve known her from Ravelry for a while, so it’s fun to meet a “real” person. DH was quite impressed that somebody in the market knew who I was.

Speaking of crochet, I actually saw a couple of people crocheting in public while I was in Seattle, I can only remember one single time I’ve seen someone doing it in France.

I am back from a fantastic week in Seattle. There are some yarn related stories, too, so hopefully in the next couple of days I’ll manage to blog about that.

De retour de Seattle. En espérant que dans les prochains jours, je trouverai le temps de vous raconter tout ça.

Bin wieder da. Nach einer super Woche in Seattle hätte ich schon so einiges, über das ich bloggen könnte. Bleibt nur noch zu hoffen, dass ich das in den nächsten Tagen hinkriege.

Say good bye to the most worn husband sweater that can possibly exist. This sweater was finished in March 2006. It now has just too many holes around the elbows, the cuffs and the hem. I don’t have any more of this (discontinued) yarn, George Picaud New Sport, but it’s still in excellent condition. So, I’ll unravel the sweater and re-use the yarn in a smaller project.

Je passe vite fait pour vous montrer ce que j’ai fait avec mes petites “fleurs” en crochet. L’ensemble (pour un cadeau de naissance) est composé d’une brassière des Intemporels pour bébés et un Confection Baby Shrug, patron gratuit sur Ravelry.