As of today, France is in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In order to minimize all risks, and not put a strain on postal services in the current situation, I am suspending all shipping of physical products. This is a difficult and unprecedented situation, causing much anxiety. These past few days, I […]
Crocheting Balayage
Swatching the yarn Balayage, col 610 Machu Picchu. I think I will go for a 4 mm (US G-6) hook. The yarn Balayage is available in the shop.
2 new patterns, and an old one! – Podcast #16, 12 March 2020
Stripes by EclatDuSoleil: Colour Beams
As we’ve already seen, EclatDuSoleil/Hélène Marcy loves stripes and plays with them in her designs. Today I’d like to spotlight the shawl Colour Beams, a design where she took on a technical challenge: how can you produce vertical stripes when crocheting horizontally? Hélène’s solution to the problem became the pattern for Colour Beams. Using only […]
Stripes by EclatDuSoleil: A Striped Life
It’s not only in her latest pattern Blue Song that EclatDuSoleil/Hélène Marcy plays with crochet stripes! In the pattern A Striped Life, Hélène plays with narrow stripes on three versions of a shawl with different borders. To create one-row stripes without cutting the yarn each time, Hélène explains her method in the pattern. I provide […]
Kits for Brioche Seeds
A short presentation of the Brioche Seeds kits – don’t forget that the pattern is free when you buy the kit, only until Thursday 12 March 2020 at midnight (CET – Paris time)! To take advantage of the offer, simply put the pattern for Brioche Seeds and one of the Brioche Seeds kits in your […]
Brioche Seeds
I’m so happy to introduce my new knitting pattern: a one-colour brioche cowl, Brioche Seeds! As in my Solfège design, I played with the idea of a buttoned cowl that can be worn in multiple ways. Brioche Seeds is a great pattern for the brioche stitch beginner, who wants to work on basic brioche skills […]
Organic merino and hemp – new colours
Two new colours in this superb yarn made from organic merino and hemp! 2374 Malachite, a delicate teal. 2373 Soft Pink, somewhere between pink and violet. As all colours in this yarn, they are subtly nuanced. Check out the entire range of organic merino + hemp in the shop.
Selvedges without add-ons – Newsletter February 2020
In the shop I have the great pleasure to introduce a new shawl pattern by EclatDuSoleil: Blue Song! This pattern is both beautiful and clever, including two versions of the same design. The body of the shawl is worked in the same stitch pattern in both versions, but the edging and the colour placement change […]
Pascale’s Shawl
Five years ago, in my newsletter for May 2015, I discussed three ways to construct a triangular crochet shawl. Pascale from the blog Pascale Passions Partages was looking for a simple pattern for a self-striping yarn and found my article. She went for method 1, the top-down triangle, using the basic pattern as written, and […]