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.

Well, well, I’ve been thinking about opening a different blog for my sewing adventures, because I felt (still kind of feel) that the trials and tribulations of a sewing beginner have nothing to do with the crochet designer people are probably looking for when searching for my blog.

Sewing blogs are so different, at least the ones I read at the moment (mostly French ones). They are way more playful and “hip” and they even seem to have a certain coded language (which annoys the heck out of me because I hate badly written French from people who know better, but do it because it’s kind of “cool”). And wow, do they get comments. It’s a bit like knitting blogs a few years back, you know, pre-Ravelry.

Anyway, in the end, I decided against a second blog. But I will try and keep the focus on crochet and knitting here. I will still show some sewing, but maybe not every little thing.
If you want to follow ALL my sewing, there’s always the Flickr Set.

I am still not really back to designing, but at least the crochet hooks are out again. What you see above was actually inspired by a fabric I’ve been sewing with and will serve to embellish some of it.

I’ll be back very soon; I know it’s been long. A sneak peak of what I am working on at the moment: