Chez Plum

I crocheted 2 new hats for myself lately. The first one HAD to be once I figured out a pretty daisy motif (slighlty modified from a vintage “monTricot” stitch dictionary) for a cardigan for my niece. It just came out so pretty that I had to turn it into a hat. The yarn is some [...]

Of course I have tons of “urgent” things on my list, but I couldn’t resist making a mosaic reminding me all the cool things 2011 brought…

Posts are becoming scarce on this blog. Yet I’ve been crafting quite a lot lately… but some things I couldn’t show before all the gifting was done !

I made [...]

I discovered Craftsy earlier this year, and was amazed to see how fast they worked on this website to make it better.
The online video classes there are amazing, really (forget about Youtube, this is SO much better). I took the one on Curvy crochet (to hopefully learn more about sizing for plus sizes) and love [...]

Today the girls are back to school, and my older daughter’s best friend is back home, after spending four days with us. Her mum also happens to be one of my best friend, which means we had a great time.
The girls played on tons, we chatted like crazy, and sewed and crocheted together. Bliss.
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This morning’s mail brought back 2 of the 3 samples I submitted for the book “101 crochet one skein projects”. No big surprise, they rejected the two patterns which are already published (Disco beret and carré potholder). I made them with different color schemes and yarns, and added a pretty flower to the beret [...]

Life is busy here, and at the end of the day, there’s not much time for crafting… and even less for blogging about it. Yet, I have been crocheting some to double-check the new sizes I am adding to the initial Roselette top pattern. It will now include sizes up to 10 yo.. so I [...]

Thanks to the very helpful feedback and edits of Krysten TenDyke, great feedback on my questions on Ravelry… and after another quick triple-check of the sizing on another cardigan (that’s how it always works, start a new project to validate the former one, right ? ;-)

I’m now VERY happy to introduce the long-awaited [...]

This may look like an entire new design… yet it’s meant to double-check my final edits on the Jehanne cardigan.
If all works well, I’ll also have a pretty colored cardigan at the end .. :-)
The yarn is icelandic Lett Lopi, highly recommended by Helene Magnusson so I had to try it !

Some designers are super methodic, very fond of math and will tell you all about their grading systems, with 5 to 10 sizes for a single pattern… This has always scared me so much, looking like a different language I could never understand let alone speak.
For all the garments I designed so far, I [...]

We just got back from 2 weeks away: went to the beach, jumped in the swimming-pool, ate tons of ice-cream to keep us cool…

I managed to finish in time a third design to submit for that “One skein” crochet book. This one is for a cute little baby bolero, which I will probably also [...]