Chez Plum

My in-laws live by a lake here near Grenoble, and every 5 or 10 years, the lake freezes deep enough to make it safe to walk and skate on it. Lucky for us, this time we didn’t miss it. It was amazing.

I never liked ice-skating before, you know, boring. This was sooooo different. We [...]

Last sunday we had a table with my friend (she’s a photographer, come see one of her expos if you’re around !) at the local Xmas market. It was my first market ever, and slightly intimidating: I still don’t know that many people around but felt like a coming-out “Hello, I am a [...]

On saturday we had our first sewing workshop, together with a few friends to “test the waters”: I was surprised to see it actually took us nearly 3 hours to have everyone finish their first pad. And with none of them being an expert sewist, more attention was needed from me at each [...]

Summer holidays have come and gone, we had a lovely time in the south of France, rested, swam, spent time with friends…

I crocheted lots of granny squares as samples for my “Around the granny square” ebook. And would have finished my second Camelia purse but for missing yarn.

Then this week was [...]

Have you seen me ? I’m on the Etsy blog !! :-D .. well, the french Etsy blog, but still that’s nice, especially when seing the other talented ladies also giving their tips on how to sell on Etsy.

I’ve been crocheting some, working on a new little purse with my flower granny square. [...]

It was Easter school holiday here in France, and after many changes of plans, we managed to go down to the south (towards the Riviera) for a few days. Not the warmest days we’ve had there, but still enough for the girls to finally wear their summer dresses, and even dare walking in the freezing [...]

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 [...]

A day at school for Plume… :-)
A new pattern coming this week, for the baby version of the Altay hat. :-)

I love living here. This is the view from our window the other night while I was reading. A pretty old church, a quiet village at night, snow falling, moutains around. What else would I ever need ? (apart from a house and a garden we can call our own, but that’s another story ;-)
It [...]

Booh, tryed to order some yarn from Phildar (quite exceptional for me, but my grandmother asked I crochet a blanket for her) online today, and it took forever. At 7am !! I tried yesterday but it wouldn’t even let me log in.
Can’t they get a decent server ? :-/ It seems there’s no Phildar [...]