I finished my flower brooch.
Here are some before and after felting photos.
This was a cute pattern Knitwhits that my friend Liro sent me (thanks again Liro!) and really easy, too.
You only need to know the following: knit, purl, ssk, slip 1, make 1, and k2tog.
I didn’t check my gauge and just […]
I’m knitting a peace flower for France.
Yesterday there was a police helicopter circling overhead all night and I saw dozens of police paddy wagons patrolling around with their lights flashing.
The government is saying it might impose a curfew tonight.
Perhaps not a big deal in a big city. A little surreal in […]
(Photo credit: Hannah Simpson)
I found these very cute (sorry, but they do not scare me!) knitted zombies on the site of The Electric Biscuit.
Go take a look at more of Hannah’s knitted homage to her favorite movie, Dawn of the Dead, for yourselves.
A few weeks ago, someone I work with invited me to come along to Creativa, Dijon’s first-ever (as far as I’m aware) craft show.
Seems that crafting is becoming as popular in France as in the States!
Some of the most popular crafts we saw were: cross stitch, jewelry making, patchwork (quilting), and scrapbooking.
Suprisingly, […]
I finally finished knitting something for the warm season!
Though right now, warm is an understatement.
We have been having a major heat wave in France the past few weeks.
Hot weather, summer vacation still over one month away, and yet last week I already received a batch of new Fall mail-order shopping catalogs.
Then today […]
Well, I fell off the knitting and blogging bandwagon for a few weeks and as a result got myself kicked off of the Knitting Bloggers web ring.
I guess it could have been worse.
I hear I could have been impaled with knitting needles for such an offense.
I count myself as one of the lucky […]
I love sending and receiving postcards.
Unfortunately, I never seem to get them now that I’m in a place that itself is considered a prime vacation destination.
Either:
A) I’m not worth the extra stamp.
B) My friends have all forgotten me.
C) My friends are all too busy with their jobs and new babies to take a […]
