Sylvie Damey

Lots of fiber dying experiments last week. Not all were conclusive though… My conclusions for next time: – nope, dying a white batt of Cormo is not a good idea. Unless you want to learn wet felting.. It does make a beautiful scarf though, and I may still try to spin it. And colors look […]

Yay, finally the Granny square blankie I made for my friend is finished !! I weaved in the last end yesterday night and now it’s ready to be gifted to her next time we meet.. I can’t wait to see how she likes it ! :-P From working on it I know it’s nice and […]

The winners of my Summer Raffle are : (I had to draw an aditional number as I thought it’d be more fair not to have one person win several prizes) – winning a set of ALL my knitting and crochet patterns: tickets # 26 (5elementknitr), 45 (Tasha H.), 39 (Katie O.) – winning a skein […]

Hi, I’m back ! Hope you all had a great week ! We did, sharing our time between the beach, the swimming pool and the garden. Nice warm weather. But boy did we come back tired ! :-P (so hot it was hard to get the girls to sleep) Unfortunately it seems my download system […]

Many thanks to all the generous people who have already contributed : So far we have raised $84 for my friend with the Raffle ! :-) There’s still 10 days to go to enter my Raffle & I really hope we can better : just think if everybody gave $2, could make a huge difference […]

So my friend has had a rough time this year, ever since she split from her ex in january. She’s living with her 4-year old and battles to work enough to pay the rent and put food on their table everyday. A couple of days ago she told me she might not be able to […]

My grandmother used to knit a lot. I’m not sure if she’s the one who taught me or if my mum did. But I remember seing her often with needles and yarn, knitting stuff for her numerous grandchildren. Then she got parkinson’s desease and gradually could not do a lot of the things she used […]

Yesterday I had a sudden revelation, triggered by the great feedback of one my testers for the Violaine top. I’ve found a better way around the little design challenge involved by changing from crocheting in rows then in rounds (for the top bodice section) and yet keeping the same look… I’ve tried it on the […]

So I just took a couple pictures. Here’s the Violaine top in progress so far : It’s a bit wrinkled from being crunched in my little bag. I’m overall very happy with the general looks which leads me to think I’ll probably get a really nice end result. However there are still many things I […]

Hi again ! We got back on sunday night and I’m finally catching up a bit on all the stuff I had to do ! We had a GREAT time in the chalet, perfect weather conditions with both lots of sun AND tons of fresh snow.. Lots of friends joined us too, which was really […]