Sylvie Damey

So we went to my parents last week-end. And my mum wanted something to hold the curtains (can’t find the word in my online dictionary, they’re called “embrases” in french) in our freshly-renovated bedroom. I offered her to whip up something with my hooks and ta-da, the next day it looked like this : Couldn’t […]

I recently became obsessed with textured batts and fiber. Spent hours drooling over some on Etsy, indulged in one lot, and started daydreaming about the day when I can afford to buy a drum carder… Then I found Laurel’s handmade hackles (she’s part of my Fiber swap group) and got mesmerized by this video showing […]

This is what I call summer: after a good swim in the lake this morning, generous fruit smoothie and an ice cream cone for the afternoon snack.. Life is good ! :-D Wow, it took me over a year and a half to sell my first 100 items on Etsy, and only 6 months for […]

I kept having troubles with the pattern download system so I’ve now moved it all so the downloads go through Ravelry. Don’t fret though, apparently there’s no need to be a Rav’ member to be able to buy a pattern (but is there anybody still not in Ravelry anyways ..? :-P ) If anybody has […]

Here’s the final pics of the Corriedale roving I dyed for katy, the winner of a custom skein of handpainted and handspun yarn. She said her favorite colors are bottlegreen and gunmetal, and wanted to knit some socks with that yarn. I had to juggle a bit to get the colors I wanted, and of […]

I wanted to make a review of my new Mother Marion kick-spindle for a bit, as I used to look up every source of info when wondering whether I’d buy it or not… Today I took the time for a quick video today while the girls were sleeping (or pretending to : Prune opened the […]

Hi eveybody, so I think I’ve fixed some things around here. For some reason there was some automatic rewriting of my main url (chezplum.com becoming chezplum.com/blog). Seems it blocked some feedreaders, and I’m hoping this was the reason for the bug in my pattern-download system. (if you still have any trouble uploading a pattern, please […]

Hi, I’m back ! Hope you all had a great week ! We did, sharing our time between the beach, the swimming pool and the garden. Nice warm weather. But boy did we come back tired ! :-P (so hot it was hard to get the girls to sleep) Unfortunately it seems my download system […]

Many thanks to all the generous people who have already contributed : So far we have raised $84 for my friend with the Raffle ! :-) There’s still 10 days to go to enter my Raffle & I really hope we can better : just think if everybody gave $2, could make a huge difference […]

Sorry it took soooo long but the larger sizes for the Violaine top are finally available ! Special thanks to the testers who checked that the sizing was ok .. (and found a leftover typo! :-P) I soo need to add more pics to my Gallery btw.. Time flies ! Check out one of the […]