This was something I did in 2006 for the crochet olympics, but then, when I heard there was an upcoming book by Camonade, founder of the Crochet Liberation Front, I thought it would be the perfect candidate...

It's ribbon yarn, my all time favourite yarn to crochet.
Writing the pattern was no piece of cake! But the tester did a great job!


I love this sweater because I get to wear it in many different ways, and I can continue buying strapless dresses that I never dared to wear before 

For the 25 weeks to go, Lion Brand, in its newsletter, is going to showcase crochet stitches from the book Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Volume 4, by the editors of Vogue Knitting magazine.

Here's the first one :


I thought I would share so that you have time to subscribe

http://www.lionbrand.com/content-catalogRequest.html

Hello folks,
I eventually laid hand on the graph pattern I had written for this chocker and I'm happy to share it 

Here's the lady : her name is Josephine ...


You'll find the pattern here

I'm still working on the market bag, sit tight!

my version of Kathy Merrick's boteh scarf.

It is a really beautiful design and a very quick project, considering the fact that, not having bought the pattern, I wrote it down from the pictures I collected from crochet blogs and still, it took me 3 days only. My daughter likes it very much, so she gets to wear it and I get to take nice pictures



read more and see more pictures here

Thank you for looking

C'est un tout petit monde = it's a small world

It goes from this :


to this :


Why?
Because the eco-friendly shopper in me has long been wanting a shopping bag that would be easy to stuff in my ever-so-trendy-but-too-small handbags and would not endanger the life of sea turtles (you know plastic bags kill them, don't you?).

read more here and here

Thank you for looking!