Yessss ! Received my copy of the Happy Hooker this week. 😀 I finally bought it, after months of hesitation, right after I realised there was a pattern for Camilla Engmann’s beautastic crochet characters that I’ve been drooling over forever !!!
Plus I had a good excuse : it’s my birthday very soon, we’ll say it’s a Bday present.. 😉
Anyways, i’m so excited about this book ! I’m trying not to read it too much to “keep” it for my holidays… But I think I’ll try and learn to crochet “the right way” with it, instructions seem very clear and nice.. And of course, tons of projects I want to make in it. And not of the “yeah,, want to make that.. someday” kind. Stuff I REALLY want to make !! Like the short and sweet bolero, this is SO going to be a Xmas present for one of my sil/mil ! and the ladylike lacy gloves too, and… don’t remember but lots !
A Huge thank you to all of you who left comments with names for the new pattern, tons of really great ones, wow !!!!! Still not 100% sure which one between my two TOP favorites though … So how about a little suspense and I’ll annouce the winner(s) when I get back… (around Sept 30th). I know… cruel… 😛
(also, haven’t heard from all pattern testers yet so I won’t publish the pattern till then anyway.)
Not much knitting/crocheting/crafting here these days… yesterday I had fun packaging a pair of wee booties going to a new home: I used some crepe-paper (hope that’s the right name, I got that in some online dictionary) that I sewed up into a little pouch. A little red and a little green, I love those colours together! And beside Maud you can see my “crafting bag” these days (yep, I did make a WIP crate, but it’s full of other wips !!), with the “cars and tractor and van” (patience, name to be revealed soon.. 😉 ).
I’m like 2/3 done with the new car, the one with matching colors and less filling…
Okay lovelies, talk to you in a couple weeks, we’re off to the Riviera !! 😀
… & I still need to make up my mind as to what to take with me (knit-crochetwise I mean, of course !)
NB: and of course I always forget something ! Do you remember that article “Knitting from the french” that I wrote for Knitting Fog a while back ? Well KnitingFog being no longer online, Stefanie kindly let me transfer it back here. The link for it is in the sidebar. (on every page but this blog page…)
Bon voyage