Chez Plum

Just a note to let you know that I am listing more vintage french spindles on Etsy, along with a couple weaving tools.. and even some vintage french postcards of ladies spinning or making lace !
Be quick, one just sold as I was listing them .. :-P (ETA: three of those have already sold, plus [...]

I made a treasury list on Etsy: I loooooove Matryoshkas ! :-)

Which leads to showing you a glimpse of the 2 skirts I made lately… More on those later. :-)

Fall and winter are usually my most productive times of the year, when it comes to new patterns. But these days I just can’t seem to focus on anything, craftwise. Crocheting little things is about all I can manage, so I made several Altay hats. So quick and rewarding, and I can pretty [...]

Pushed by a customer, I have finally listed more vintage french spindles on Etsy today.

Speaking of Etsy. I started a second shop to separate the DIY items (patterns, spindles, fiber…) from the items that are ready to purchase.
My new store is called ChezPlum Things. For the moment I have mostly relisted items which were [...]

Nothing like a few matryoshkas to brighten up an otherwise plain bag..
Plume needed a bag for her gym shoes. I also made one for Nell so she’d have a pretty one for her school things just like her big sister… :-) The second one (brown & pink) totally looked like a skirt [...]

I’ve just created a Facebook account ! Add me as a contact if you’d like :-)
I’ll try to announce the new patterns there, contests, new vintage spindles coming in.. and any other relevant event :-)
And speaking of vintage french spindles, I also finally took the time to go through all of them, pick the ones [...]

Yesterday I had a very nice afternoon. After a visit from my friend Emily, Laurent took the girls out for a bike ride and I had the flat all to myself and cooked. So enjoyable ! Because our place is so small, the girls are usually always running around me whenever I try to [...]

So, I’ve been resting a lot this week, taking naps, spinning some, reading some, and slowly going back to normal life. The operation went really well, and apart from tiredness the first days and more fragile vocal cords (they’re close to the thyroid and probably got a bit disturbed by this new configuration in my [...]

I’m usually always SO cold when working inside on the computer all day. I’d be wrapping shawls and vests and things around my neck and bury my head in hooded sweaters… but I needed something more practical, and have been hunting Raverly for the perfect cowl/capelet pattern…
As usual I found tons of cool ones, [...]

First, if you’re an Etsy seller and have always thoughts how cool it’d be to be notified whenever one of your items is featured somewhere on the site, check this out. (Then if you were on the front page Treasury but missed it, pics are here).

Also, I’m having a big Winter sale in my Etsy [...]