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.

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:

I wish I had time to blog, but….. I don’t. So, without any explication, look at what I’ve finished recently:

C’est peut-être ce qu’il me fallait, un petit passage au Café Crochet de Paris hier. En tout cas, aujourd’hui je me suis enfin replongé dans mon gilet en cours auquel manquait que l’empiècement au crochet. J’y suis presque…

Almost done with my black cardigan, it sat there waiting for me to work the crocheted yoke for a while. After attending the Café Crochet in Paris yesterday, I finally managed to summon up enough motivation to do it. Almost there…

Time is flying at the moment, I am out and about more, the weather is warming up…. I am happy, but I somehow have less time on the Internet. So I am a bit behind on blogs, Twitter, mails, blogging etc etc.

It’s been already over a week since I discovered a new yarn/fabric/notions store in Paris. It’s a fabulous and cute little shop and if you’re in Paris you should definitely stop by. There aren’t many (or any) out there like this.
Plus, it’s located in a beautiful “passage” and right there in the middle of the city.

A couple of weeks ago my absolute favorite crochet designer, Robyn Chachula, wrote this nice blog post about me. Needles to say that I went bright red reading this. I, too, wish I had a time machine and be able to design more. However, this is not possible, and I just have to manage the time I have, like everyone else. Obviously it’s not at all helping that I am all about sewing at the moment. But that might change next week or next month. I just can’t do it all, which is totally ok.
I just came home from my very first sewing lesson and I just might, one of these days, make something for myself, we’ll see…
For the time being I am quite proud that I managed to sew something with sleeves!

Ah, yes, and just in case you were wondering, the Ravelympics? Didn’t make it. At all.

Pattern: Albertine from Citronille, size 4 years on my 3 year old. It’s a bit big, but I like it.

Les francophones trouveront plus d’informations sur ce billet du blog des fans de Citronille.