Chez Plum

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 [...]

Whoops, didn’t mean to take so long to post .. Week-end was busy with friends and it’s already tuesday ! :-P

Here’s the promised pic of that fiber I blended on my Hackle. As usual, I carded the remaining fiber with my handcards. Pretty, no ?
I tried to practise with my hand-cards the other day, [...]

I designed this pattern ages ago, as a present for my friend Christine’s daughter. Now my standards have evolved in terms of crochet patterns so I thought it was time to turn this early work into a free pattern. I hope the (very few) people who bought a copy won’t feel bad about this, (or [...]

Here’s a little photo frame I made with the girls for my mum’s birthday this week-end … It was easy, quick and fun.
I wrote a little tutorial to make a similar photo frame with felt appliqués if you want some fun too…! :-) Plus Mother’s day is still a week or so ahead [...]

I know I said I’d be knitting again, but you guessed it, I’m still crocheting.. ;-P
Yesterday I skeined this huuuuuuuge hank of Fleece Artist Merino (there’s 800 m in there!) given by the generous Stephanie when I wrote the “knitting from the french” article. And started a Dancing Poppies Stole. I really need a [...]

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 want [...]

Helloooo ! I’m back… We got back then left again for New Year’s Eve and I just didn’t blog in between. The holidays were great, nice time with the family, blue skies, fresh snow and crisp air.. Perfect ! I hope you had a great time too and wish you all sorts of great things [...]

I was not in the mood this year and have hardly prepared any Xmas presents at all. But that’s ok, I have stuff for the kids and nephews etc… and we mostly enjoy to be all together at this time of the year. I really love not having this pressure to prepare presents for everyone [...]

If you’re like me you’re always looking for the free stuff on a website, right ? Thus the new page called … “Freebies” grouping all the free stuff together, free patterns, tutorials ect…
Also I’ve created a Flickr group for Free Knit and Crochet Patterns. Join us and add your links ! (sister group [...]