Sylvie Damey

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. […]

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 carrà© potholder). I made them with different color schemes and yarns, and added a pretty flower to the beret but […]

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 pattern […]

I have plans to start local workshops teaching people how to spin yarn on a spindle. On top of finding a place to do that, I also wondered how to allow people to leave with a spindle (not so easy to find in local shops… ) Yesterday night I experimented and made a spindle with […]

This t-shirt, in size 3 yo, used to be one of the top favorites in our household. Matryoshkas, and a pretty lime color with a glimpse of red, what’s not to love ?!!! It’s becoming really short for my second daughter though, and I tried to take it out of her drawers. Several times she […]

It’s freezing cold these days (yet still no snow at all!) and a little walk with my SIL was a good occasion to snap some pics of my new hat this week-end: My Girouette slouchy hat looked very pretty on her. The pattern is in the final testing phase, then I’ll add it to the […]

Slouchy hats have blossomed everywhere lately, and I always thought Bah, not for me. Then my sil asked if I could make her one. Of course, I love hints on what they’d like for Xmas. :-) During our little shopping outing earlier this week, I saw a Phildar store in Grand’Place, and of course “had […]

We had a week-end with all the cousins and my grandmother this week-end, and suddenly my grandma realised the loto at her residence is on tuesday. She’s meant to give a few things there, and weeks ago I said I’d make her a Camelia purse. Oops. I started working on this yesterday at around 3 […]

I finally sewed the handles on my new Camelia purse this morning. Woohoo, that’s how long it took me… :-P But it’s summer and there are so many other things to do outside. We had talks with laurent about calling it the boobs/hawaian-bikini bag, ..but I thought Camelia may sound better ;-) The pattern is […]

I finished my skirt today ! I basically cut the original waist band, and replaced it by a more “funky” one. After finishing it, I was afraid it made too many dots altogether (I kind of grabbed this purple fabric at random, just looking at the colors). But from looking at the pictures tonight, it […]