Skóleppar Scissors Keeper

The other day, I had a wonderful surprise when receiving a package from the post: [...]

Trico´13

Oh ! La vilaine ! Elle triche ! Comme j´ai oublié de m´inscrire sur la [...]

Icelandic knitting -Tutorial: centre-pull ball on your thumb

Petite leçon: une pelote avec dévidage central “sur le pouce”   This method doesn´t require [...]

Blanket

Cleaning my computer, I found pictures of the baby blanket from my book, that I [...]

Exposition et atelier

Bon ben voilà tout est dit. Rieux-Minervois se trouve entre Narbonne et Carcassonne, à 1 [...]

Moth alert, again !

The “moth” from previous post did it again: this time it was Rosa (or Violet, [...]

Moth alert (alerte aux mites) !

A big fat moth ?Une grosse mite ? Or a little monster !!!!Ou un petit [...]

Elles sont là !

Qui elles ? Mais les traductions françaises de mon livre, le fameux Tricot jacquard islandais [...]

Trico´13

Tricot´13 pour conjurer le mauvais sort? J´en suis ce mois d´octobre avec pour thème le [...]

Margot

Sylvía insisted that I knitted a girly outfit for her friend’ s birthday. Here it [...]

A piece of cake ?

A piece of tart ? Fun blog with crochet for playing. Un bout de tarte [...]

Found it !

What a relief ! My camera was in my bag, exactely where I thought it [...]

Help !

Can´t find my camera ! Mon appareil photo a disparu !

La couronne au pied du mur ?

The Icelandic crowns are back at the National Museum. There are only four now. I [...]

Very British

I can´t help but sharing with you those fascinating pages on knitting at the Victoria [...]

Deer !

Oh deer, look at all that yarn at Orange you lucky ! Orange you lucky [...]

Narrow

Finally I found some time to fill up my shop with some scarves. I will [...]

Ravelry in Strasbourg

Avis à toutes les tricoteuses ! Ravelry meetup with Jess and Casey in Strasbourg, September [...]

..and the Daisy version

The Crocus was a size L. I knitted a smaller size that fits me. The [...]

Icelandic crocus

Finally, the latest issue of Knitonthenet is on and I have a pattern in it, [...]

From Iceland # 3

Back to Reykjavík, I got my hands on a great book. De retour à Reykjavík, [...]

From Iceland # 2

In North of Iceland, we stopped at the farm where I worked at the time [...]

Podcast

Listen to me on the Icelandic radio RÁS1. The talk show is called Okkar á [...]

From Iceland # 1

We had a wonderful vacation in Iceland. We spent a great deal of time in [...]

Craft market

The annual Craft market in Hrafnagil, north Iceland, will open next Friday, 7th of Agust [...]

Let´s knit Icelandic

Back home, latest Let´s knit magasine was waiting for me in the mailbox with a [...]

On the go

Sur le chemin The week-alone-at-home is coming to an end. I thought I was going [...]

Wild flowers

Fleurs des champs Wild flowers picked up by Sylvía and Théa. They´ve been gone on [...]

Dis bonjour à la dame !

While I was sick, I couldn´t not knit, but I couldn´t either think of working [...]

New yarn: 100% recycled

Nouveau fil, 100% recyclé My yarn sample (for testing) from La Droguerie arrived: a new [...]

WWKIP 2009

It´s the WWKIP ( World Wide Knit in Public 2009) this week (13-30th June). To [...]

Felted lights and a bad throat

Séries en feutre et mal de gorge I spent the week sick in bed with [...]

Free pattern: Mary Hawkins´s Scissor Keeper Sampler

Modèle gratuit: la pochette pour ciseaux de Mary Hawkins My prior aim when writing my [...]

Tutorial: Icelandic intarsia knitting

Icelandic intarsia is an old knitting tradition in Iceland, mostly used in knitted shoe-inserts. It [...]

Books

Livres In London, I bought two books. The knitted Odd-bod Bunch with fabulous Donna Wilson´s [...]

New improved website

Mon nouveau site My new website is running and … you are on it ! [...]

My knitting material

Mon petit matériel de tricot The bag is a giveaway from Katvig. The case is [...]

New choice of scarves

Nouvelles écharpes New choice of scarves for sale at the Akureyri Museum, North Iceland. After [...]

Week-end in London

Week-end à Londres We had a lovely week-end in London, visiting some friends. High peek [...]

Marie Claire Idées

My mum just called to tell me about it : I´m in the newest issue [...]