Sylvie Damey

Arghh, I meant to show you a little experiment I made with Malabrigo (basically to see if the yarn pills as much when knitted vs crocheted) but it seems I forgot the little mitts I made in the chalet !! :-/ I guess I’m always forgetting something when coming home from vacations !! :-P forget […]

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, […]

Today Prune’s teacher was on strike, the whole school was closed and both girls stayed at home. Since I’d like to learn and make felt adornments for my art-yarns, I took this occasion and offered them to make felt beads for a necklace for Prune’s teacher. (not sure she’s the kind to wear necklaces, but […]

This week I received my brand new Ashford hand carders. Of course I had to try them right away !! The first tries were not great : from looking on Youtube I see I wasn’t doing it properly, will watch some videos next time I try!! I first tried to card some random white wool […]

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 appliquà©s if you want some fun too…! :-) Plus Mother’s day is still a week or so ahead here […]

The other day we played paper dolls with Prune. Which reminded me of the ones I made back in november: I finally reworked them and you’ll find them There. I made them so you can move the legs, arm and heads by attaching them to the body either with a bit of scrap yarn (hell, […]

I’ve started several things, and yet not much to show. Made a mitten with my pink Malabrigo Merino, but it ended being too short so I rewrote all the numbers and started a second one. Have to finish the thumb on that one and sew it (yep, I knit them flat, just so much quicker […]

Next week-end is Christmas with the in law family and it’s now December. So I got Prune a little Advent calendar, she gets her little chocolate each day… Yesterday we made a Xmas tree with a Nappies cardboard box, coloured crepe paper, and a stapler.. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, plus it […]

So I started the beret (pattern in Marie-Claire Idà©es) for my MIL the other day with much confidence. Yes, one skein would do since I had only one. It would. And now I have about 5 grams of yarn left, and still about 10 rows to go.. Arghh ! I have to buy more… :-P […]

Finally received my new circulars the other day and thus got back to knitting on my Guinevere-SKB (aka Glampyre-stitchDiva..). I’ve just finished on the lace section, and just need one more purl ridge before starting on the hip shaping. Can’t wait to try it on again..!! :-P I changed the lace pattern for my usual […]