http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/ en-us 2009-12-23T10:56:25+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/002028.html Last days before Christmas and only a few hours before I leave workplace & worktown to go back to Brittany for a few days. Lots of activity down here in Orléans, it is funny to now live in the middle... Stephanie 2009-12-23T10:56:25+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/002025.html Hello, It has been such a long long time...I guess it is highly time that I prepare a come back on this blog. There's been just too much for a period of time, no knitting, and then, I guess there... Stephanie 2009-12-16T10:46:25+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001966.html On my back from a very interesting whole-day nature conservation gathering, in the "center" Brittany, I passed by a mohair breeders' farm. Unlike the way to, I stopped, as I didn't have a schedule anymore, and tried my chance if... Stephanie 2009-05-07T20:10:02+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001961.html Spinning. Spinning has fascinated me almost as soon as I've been knitting. Knitting opens a load of possibilities : choosing your wool and colour, the pattern, you get so much more choice and even freedom when you start knitting your... Stephanie 2009-04-30T11:00:25+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001960.html Well, I didn't go down to Marseille as I was only for a few days in the South, but I made a nice, if only very short, stop in Carcassone. The weather wasn't on my side to take advantageous pictures... Stephanie 2009-04-23T15:07:01+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001955.html The 2008 mystery blanket is (finally) almost done ...there are *only* the borders missing. I won't be able to take this project with me as I leave tomorrow for the South of France, I don't know for how long, as... Stephanie 2009-04-04T16:59:56+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001946.html It's official, the spring time started, and I'm out of hibernation! In the garden, it's been spring for some time now, with everything budding and blooming already. I've been tiring myself there, pruning fruit trees, and digging here and there.... Stephanie 2009-03-21T19:38:29+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001900.html Here in Brittany, we have the first below zero temperatures. Last week-end, the few flowers remaining in the garden were covered for the first time with iced dew : One of the last touch of color in the garden, a... Stephanie 2008-12-11T10:40:29+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001898.html Well, it may not be a mysterious fiber to you, but for me, it was for quite a long time a question mark, something I wanted to know a bit more about. It all started a lot of years ago,... Stephanie 2008-12-06T18:26:13+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001896.html As my fairisle progresses only slowly, I won't inflict you with more of it, at least this time, when I have been doing some spinning : last week, I finally managed to ply the single I had spun from the... Stephanie 2008-12-04T13:56:47+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001893.html The story of broken needles continue...around row 3 into the second pattern, a point of the second bamboo circulars broke. I wasn't pulling, I promise! But it broke. At the joint level, where it must be weakest : AAAaaaarrrgh! Quite... Stephanie 2008-11-29T11:14:29+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001887.html The stitches are back onto a circular needle, two even, as I recieved a second one, twin of the brocken one, on saturday. My advances are totally humbling : I'm now into the patterning, and yay! I got to the... Stephanie 2008-11-17T22:30:58+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001885.html Back to Brittany after a little tour in France and Belgium, I had the pleasure to spend the weekend at the *Fête de la Pomme* where there was a lot of tasting involved...apples, but also apple cakes, it was lovely,... Stephanie 2008-11-12T19:53:29+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001872.html Guess where I was? Yes! For the first time, I was in Ally Pally in London, and it was great! Not only because it was so interesting, that there were so many different yarns to see and touch I knew... Stephanie 2008-10-18T11:29:02+01:00 http://latricoteusebretonne.alltangledup.com/archives/001788.html To someone having to recognize plants, and put a name of a lot of them, spring is like an oasis in the desert. Finally, with the help of their flowers, it is possible to go through the keys of floras,... Stephanie 2008-06-09T21:38:38+01:00