Sylvie Damey

It’s been really hot for a few days now.. and it’s June already !! Today I got the inflatable pool out for the girls for the first time, and we ate outside and had a barbecue.. I love it when even the school/work days feel like holidays ! :-) The puffy-flowers little blankie is nearly […]

I dyed some fiber yesterday in between other things.. life seems hectic these days, SO many things piling up on my to-do list! ..and then we’re going away again this week-end, which means fewer chances to get them done ! :-P I hand-carded several mini battlets, which will eventually become art yarn kits for the […]

… And the winner of last month’s fiber giveaway is… Comment number 29 : Congrats Carla ! I am emailing you, please send me your adress details and I’ll send you the fiber ! I have been crocheting some lately, on yet more squares. Yarn is some recycled thrifted yummy mohair, perfect for a large […]

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, […]

So.. the March Fiber Giveaway is now CLOSED ! Thanks to all who left a comment.. The winner is: Little Miss S, Congrats !! I’ll email you right away to get your adress. Natural dying has been occupying my mind lately, reading blogs and trying to collect info, even starting to gather some materials. Thing […]

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 […]

Just a quick post to send a shoutout to Emy, who still hasn’t sent me her postal adress so that I can send her the blue Mini-batts. I’ve checked my spam folder and didn’t see anything, can’t comment on your blog, and apparently my messages are rejected as “containing spam or virus content”. :-/ In […]

So I counted all the people who chose each batch of fibers, and asked laurent (my favorite Random Number generator ;-) to choose one number between 1 and 17 for the blue lot, and another number between 1 and 9 for the green one… So here are the winners of February’s Fiber giveaway: Emy wins […]

There’s been some talk lately about Malabrigo Merino pilling like crazy. I’m not even going to try and argue about that, but was just wondering whether knitting it versus crocheting it made any difference. My friend Jette made her beautiful Violaine top with Malabrigo and she says it doesn’t pill. So I’m trying a little […]

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 […]