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.

Just a little reminder that (in case you missed it) tomorrow is the last day of voting for the Flamies. Here’s the blog post that leads you to the survey. I am nominated in the Best Designer Women’s Fashion Category for the Samira Sweater. I think I saw my name in another category, no? But I don’t remember where now and I can’t go back to the survey because I voted already.

Oh my, it’s been a while. It’s really time for a new blog post. Especially because I have a new FO to share. Say hello to the Penmarch Beach Sweater. Apart from the neckline it’s based on the Omaha Beach Sweater. I gave up writing the pattern half way through because I got really bored with it and in the end I just wanted to finish the damn sweater. The biggest motivation in the end was, that I absolutely wanted to be able to photograph it while on holiday at the sea.

So whitout further ado, here are the pics:

There’s a point at which I feel I have too much going on, WIP wise. And at that point, I feel like I really must finish a couple of things because they are weighing me down. Now is such a moment.

What do I have going on?
- First of all, the first sweater of the year is still not finished, should have been finished at the end of January if I had kept my goal of finishing a sweater by the end of each month. This is part of International Sweater-a-Month Dodecathon .
- 2 secret projects for next Xmas. If you’re on Ravelry, the projects are up on my page, but no pictures will be added before they are gifted.
- A little dress I am making for another fun group I found on Ravelry:Project Yarnway.
- 2 sewn dresses, one awaiting buttons (which I forgot to order) and one awaiting a zipper (which I ordered, but now I have to learn how to put it in).
- A little sewn tunic that’s cut out which I need to sew and put an appliqué on.
- 2 design UFOs which I really should get done at some point.
- Oh, and yes, another cardigan I started, worked a couple of rows on, and put aside for no other reason as that there are too many other things I want to work on.
- And then there are the Ravelympics, starting tomorrow. I had planned to participate. But now, I kind of didn’t have the time to check in what way that participation works (tags, events, …. don’t really understand all that.). I will watch and knit and crochet anyway, though.
- Ah! And the pattern I should already have sent to an editor… It isn’t even all that complicated, I just have to do it.
Now, the only question is: what gets finished first?

Still not feeling the blog love at the moment, still too tired to come up with any ideas. But, today, I have something to share. I finally finished editing this little hat pattern and it’s now up for free on Ravely.

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Somehow I am not in Blog-mood at the moment. But here are a couple of links and pictures I wanted to share.

Link to all the patterns donating to charities for Haiti on Ravelry. I put mine up there, too, and bought a bunch for myself (startitis is in the air).

Ysolda’s Blog Post about the whole thing.

YIP, the knitterly and crafty types, a Flickr group in which I am participating this year.

And some stuff I’ve been working on:

All designs published in 2009 can be found in this Flickr set. My favorites in this category:

Samira from Inside Crochet issue 5

I am planning on making one for myself, possibly a cardigan version in 2010 and release the pattern myself as well.

The one that’s getting the most wear is definitely the Omaha Beach Sweater.

I am making another one right now, working out the pattern which will hopefully be published early next year.

2010 will probably bring a little less in terms of new designs, although you never know when inspiration strikes. But I do want to fill up my wardrobe and that of my family a little bit, and working from existing patterns does get the job done a lot faster. Plus there are so many lovely patterns out there, especially in knitting I might say, I’ll probably still end up designing some crochet ones. But I am not setting any specific goals for next year. I’ll just see what comes along. I am not submitting as much as before because I really don’t want to be too stressed out about working towards deadlines, parcels to be send oversees, pattern errors etc etc, not unless I’ve really adjusted to the 3kids thing (how come 3 are so much more work than 2, by the way?).

Oh, one thing I’d like to do though is finally learn to write my patterns in German and French, too. Or at least find someone to help me.

The Interweave Crochet Preview is up and has some amazing sweaters in it. Myself, I only have a pair of mittens in it. But I might have to add one or two of those sweaters to my queue.

Le Interweave Crochet Preview est là. Moi, je n’ai qu’une petite paire de mittaines dedans, mais il y a des pulls magnifiques je trouve. Il y en a que j’ai bien envie de faire pour moi-même.

Die Interweave Crochet Vorschau ist da. Ich habe nur ein paar kleine Handschuhe drin, aber mir gefallen diesmal ganz besonders die Pullis. Davon kommen bestimme ein oder zwei auf meine Wunschliste.

I’ve just put up errata for my Apple Cider Mittens. There’s an increase missing in round 8 which is the most important problem. The rest wouldn’t keep you from getting it right, they are fairly obvious mistakes.

Cuff
Rnd 10: ….. 5 groups of 5dc, 1 sc. (Not 5 sc).
Hand
Rnd 1: … ch 1, sc around bottom edge of foundation round (NOT: sc blo around, there are no back loops there)
Rnd 8 is missing an increase: …. Ending with 1 sc blo in next sc and 2 sc in last st. – 47 sts.
Consequently there’s the same problem in rnd 12 which repeats rnd 8.

I haven’t had much to say about new designs recently, have I? So, I am especially happy that Inside Crochet has just put up preview pictures of their next issue on Flickr. I designed a cabled sweater, which by the way I am really proud of. I should make one for myself.