So my younger daughter – she just turned 5 this summer – really wanted a mermaid Barbie doll. Why buy it when we can make it ? I found this beautiful shiny silver fabric in an op shop lately, perfect for a mermaid !!
She also wanted to work on a crafting project, and do some [...]
To celebrate the release of Ermeline and my new Ebook, “Around the granny square”, I am giving away one copy of each. :-)
Just leave a comment for your chance to win. I’ll pick 2 winners by sometime next week or so. Good luck !
Late on schedule, let me present you my newest pattern, the Baby Altay hat ! Based on the same principles as the adult version, the Altay hat (soon to be published in Annie Modessit’s new book “1000 knit and crocheted hats”).
I made tons of those little hats, and they are so quick to make [...]
Un post un petit peu spécial aujourd’hui, avec une fois n’est pas coutume, une version en français ci-dessous:
IN ENGLISH:
A slightly different kind of post today. :-)
Those who have followed my blog for a while may remember that we started an online business with my husband a couple years ago: we started a website called MonEscapade [...]
Winter will be there very soon. We already had a very very cold week earlier this month, and I can tell you we got all the hats and gloves out of their summer hideout !
I love to see what you knit/crochet from my patterns, and I’d love to see more of [...]
ETA: Thanks for all the comments, I chose the top right pic which seems to be the most favorite.. and I agree with all your comments :-D I sent a copy of the pattern to kristen.
I booked a slot for a featured Crochet pattern on Ravelry next month, and am trying to come [...]
Just in time before we switch to the month of May, here’s this month’s Fiber Giveaway !
No time to prepare some pretty fiber for you as I had in mind this month, so I’ll snatch something from the store instead:
Here’s 2 oz of Fine South African wool in Very girly colors with pink, purple [...]
April is around the corner now, high time for March’s Fiber Giveaway !! (Now CLOSED – come again next month for April’s Fiber Giveaway !)
No I didn’t forget about it, but truth is I discovered this month that the postal rates for international small packages have doubled (insert rant against terribly illogical rates of French [...]
Yesterday I started spinning my Fiber Swap Art batts. As you can see, I love color ;-)
Needle-felted some flowers, beads and oddments, and spun using the autowrapping and foreign objects techniques from “Sit and spin“. I love that the batts contain all sorts of fibers and textures (including chunks of locks) which renders beautifully [...]
So I finally saw a feature on Wordpress allowing me a choose a smaller size for my pics (or maybe the feature was added lately, because I really feel like I had looked and couldn’t find anything), so I finally took the time to update my Gallery !! :-D
Which brings me to this: I always [...]
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