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In progress...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>542</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5607017990106707904</id><published>2012-01-29T11:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T11:35:51.466-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home decor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shoe rack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='support à soulier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stewart Living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décoration'/><title type='text'>Shoe Rack/Support à Soulier</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OCM20a4Jpeg/TyRu10YG3JI/AAAAAAAACiE/6gopGAy-vbE/s1600/IMG_4450%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OCM20a4Jpeg/TyRu10YG3JI/AAAAAAAACiE/6gopGAy-vbE/s320/IMG_4450%5B1%5D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instructions: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/274262/shelving-projects/@center/277001/diy-decorating"&gt;Picture Rail Shoe Rack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by/par Martha Stewart Living&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Material/Matériel&lt;/b&gt;: L shaped molding/Moulure en L&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/b&gt; About an hour/Environ une heure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Modifications: &lt;/b&gt;I used an L shaped moulding/J'ai utilisé une moulure en L&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have been on a home clean up tear lately, courtesy of me accidentally finding an &lt;a href="http://www.flylady.net/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;online homekeeping guru&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;who's methods seem to finally work for me. It could also be that, like an alcoholic who comes across an AA meeting when she's finally ready to quit, I have finally decided once and for all that a clean, well organized home is worth the time and effort required and found a resource to help me get there at the right moment.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;All that cleaning seems to have triggered my other passion that was dormant for a minute: Home decor.&amp;nbsp; I've been spending time at that time suck that is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/"&gt;Apartment Therapy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; where I came across this shoe rail project by Martha Stewart Living. And just in time too because I had just finished cleaning up my bedroom and had my shoes lined outside of my closet and I hated the way they looked but I had no room in the closet to store them. So, I ran to the reno store, got an 8 foot long moulding (couldn't find the picture rail moulding specified in the instructions), cut it to size, nailed it up and voilà! Once again I am so happy to have a well stocked tool box so I only spent 8$ on for this. I have room for one more pair of shoes&amp;nbsp; that I could hang on the wall and after that, I'll have to be willing to part with a pair I currently own if I want to get a new one. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zh5uFvYV1iA/TyRu2n7EhxI/AAAAAAAACiM/2_EFHjOfA3U/s1600/IMG_4451%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zh5uFvYV1iA/TyRu2n7EhxI/AAAAAAAACiM/2_EFHjOfA3U/s320/IMG_4451%5B1%5D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis devenue une maniaque des tâches domestiques depuis qui je suis tombée par hasard sur une&lt;a href="http://www.flylady.net/"&gt; &lt;b&gt;gourou&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; du ménage dont les méthodes semblent fonctionner pour moi. Soi ça ou telle une alcolo qui serait tombée sur une rencontre des AA au moment qu'elle se serait décidé de d'arrêter de boire, j'ai peut-être enfin compris qu'une maison bien maintenue vaut bien l'effort requis et j'ai trouvé la bonne ressource au bon moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci étant dit, tout ce frottage au torchon semble avoir réveillé une passion qui s'était assoupie: la déco. Ce qui veut dire que j'ai perdu pas mal de temps chez &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/"&gt;Apartment Therapy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; où j'ai trouvé ce projet par Martha Stewart Living. Et c'était vraiment une trouvaille opportune car je venais de mettre de l'ordre dans ma chambre et voulait remettre mes souliers dans ma garder-robe. J'ai donc été faire un tour au centre de rénovation et y ai acheté une moulure en L longue de 8 pieds (je n'ai pu trouver la moulure spécifiée dans les instructions). Je les ai coupé en morceaux de 2 pieds, ai cloué les morceaux au mur et voilà! Une fois de plus je suis contente d'avoir un coffre à outil bien rempli, ce projet ne m'a couté que 8$. J'ai de la place pour accrocher une autre paire de soulier et après ça, je devrai me départir d'une paire que je possède si j'en ramène une autre à la maison.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5607017990106707904?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5607017990106707904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5607017990106707904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5607017990106707904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5607017990106707904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/shoe-racksupport-soulier.html' title='Shoe Rack/Support à Soulier'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OCM20a4Jpeg/TyRu10YG3JI/AAAAAAAACiE/6gopGAy-vbE/s72-c/IMG_4450%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5421773317237022616</id><published>2012-01-22T15:15:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T15:15:51.972-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vogue V8778</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-spW7Lg1gsUM/Txxt_W4pbkI/AAAAAAAACho/lQIxZHVi00M/s1600/IMG_4434%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-spW7Lg1gsUM/Txxt_W4pbkI/AAAAAAAACho/lQIxZHVi00M/s320/IMG_4434%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HUjMvs7jFkc/TxxuAtT5XqI/AAAAAAAAChw/ndQECDFxskM/s1600/IMG_4435%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HUjMvs7jFkc/TxxuAtT5XqI/AAAAAAAAChw/ndQECDFxskM/s320/IMG_4435%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kG5uolAgpXA/TxxuBsYK4OI/AAAAAAAACh4/q5WC11qyXYA/s1600/IMG_4438%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kG5uolAgpXA/TxxuBsYK4OI/AAAAAAAACh4/q5WC11qyXYA/s320/IMG_4438%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8778-products-15158.php?page_id=262"&gt;Vogue V877&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fabric/Tissue: Main/Principal: Leopard print fleece/Molleton imprimé léopard; Contrast/Contraste: ribbed knit/Tricot côtelé&lt;br /&gt;Time required/Temps requis: About 6-7 hours/Environ 6-7 heures&lt;br /&gt;Modifications: See below/Voir texte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A quickie project, I knew that no FBA would be required but I figured I was surprised to say that I didn't have to modify the pattern for my hips and bum since there was more then enough ease. I did make a couple modifications: I added a snap button at the collar because I liked the overlap seen in pattern's Model A. But the most elaborate change was at the sleeve. If you look at the pattern's envelope you see that the contrasting part of the sleeve is simply sewn onto the the fleece. I thought that looked sloppy, not to mention that it defeats the idea that you're supposed to think that your wearing a short sleeve fleece jacket over a long sleeve top. So I added 3/8" to the seams, folded the sleeve along the seam line to form a hem, then topstitched the hem onto the contrast portion together. I bit (that's borrow for you non urban speakers LOL) that fleece idea from&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ericabunker.com/2012/01/first-post-of-twenty-twelve.html"&gt; Erica B's coat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;PS: that's not dandruff on my hair, only flurries.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit projet rapide. Je savais qu'aucun ajustement pour poitrine forte n'aurait été nécessaire mais j'ai été surprise de me rendre qu'il y avait assez d'aisance dans l'ourlet pour qu'aucun ajustement n'y serait non plus nécessaire. J'y ai tout de même fait deux modifications. D'abord, j'ai rajouté un bouton pression à l'encolure pour simuler le look du col que l'on voit dans le modèle A du patron. Ensuite, je n'aimais pas la façon que la portion contrastante du manche était cousu sur le molleton, ça ne donnait pas assez l'illusion que l'on portait un veston à manches courtes sur des manches contrastantes et donc j'ai rajouté 1cm à la couture et replié la couture du manche comme un ourlet et l'ai surpiqué sur la manche contrastante. Quand au choix du motif, j'ai été influencé par le manteau d'&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ericabunker.com/2012/01/first-post-of-twenty-twelve.html"&gt;Erica B&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/b&gt;Et non ce ne sont pas des pellicules sur mes cheveux mais des mini flocons de neige.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5421773317237022616?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5421773317237022616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5421773317237022616' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5421773317237022616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5421773317237022616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/vogue-v8778.html' title='Vogue V8778'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-spW7Lg1gsUM/Txxt_W4pbkI/AAAAAAAACho/lQIxZHVi00M/s72-c/IMG_4434%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6417796604697712421</id><published>2012-01-06T20:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T18:19:13.163-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BrooklynTweed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ashby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shawl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chale'/><title type='text'>Châle Ashby Shawl</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFtEXmRm4oY/TweRA1G6BBI/AAAAAAAAChU/W14DGWdSz1E/s1600/IMG_4414%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FZC8K0JV1K4/TweRBU8nu5I/AAAAAAAAChc/PEw270DcRCw/s1600/IMG_4415%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FZC8K0JV1K4/TweRBU8nu5I/AAAAAAAAChc/PEw270DcRCw/s320/IMG_4415%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFtEXmRm4oY/TweRA1G6BBI/AAAAAAAAChU/W14DGWdSz1E/s1600/IMG_4414%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFtEXmRm4oY/TweRA1G6BBI/AAAAAAAAChU/W14DGWdSz1E/s320/IMG_4414%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;a href="http://brooklyntweed.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;amp;cPath=2_4&amp;amp;products_id=62"&gt;Ashby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by/par Leila Raabe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/b&gt; Diamond Yarn Galway Heathers (4 skeins/écheveau)/Cascade 220 Heathers (1 skein/écheveau)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/b&gt; Two months/ Deux mois&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Modification:&lt;/b&gt; See text/Voir le texte &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last September, I took my Mara shawl with me to Europe and and my mom threatened to just take it from me. I had already planned on knitting something for her for Christmas so I figured I'd just make one for her. But then Brooklyn Tweed came out with his pattern booklet and I figured that rather then repeat Mara, I'd make this one instead. The stripes are because I realized I was going to run out of the deeper Galway so I used a paler skein of Cascade 220, I couldn't find a better matter match, I alternated each colour at every repeat of the stitch patter.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;En Septembre dernier, j'ai été en Europe avec mon ch&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;âle Mara et ma mère a menacé de m'en soulager. J'avais déjà lui en faire un. Mais lorsque Brooklyn Tween a publié un livret de projets tricot, j'ai préféré faire celui-ci. Ayant réalisé que j'allais manquer de fil, j'ai utilisé un vert plus pâle car je n'ai pu trouvé une couleur identique. J'ai alterné les couleurs à chaque répétition du motif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFtEXmRm4oY/TweRA1G6BBI/AAAAAAAAChU/W14DGWdSz1E/s1600/IMG_4414%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6417796604697712421?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6417796604697712421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6417796604697712421' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6417796604697712421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6417796604697712421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/chale-ashby-shawl.html' title='Châle Ashby Shawl'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FZC8K0JV1K4/TweRBU8nu5I/AAAAAAAAChc/PEw270DcRCw/s72-c/IMG_4415%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3395276285957381053</id><published>2011-12-29T23:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T23:13:10.832-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couverte de bébé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='afghan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jettée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby blanket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hudson Bay'/><title type='text'>Couverture d''Inspiration Hudson Bay Inspired Blanket</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KWkpk6puMEk/Tv0jAcWxCxI/AAAAAAAAChE/95mTvqghZ2w/s1600/IMG_4402%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KWkpk6puMEk/Tv0jAcWxCxI/AAAAAAAAChE/95mTvqghZ2w/s320/IMG_4402%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7stMHJ-kSEY/Tv0jA4l9JII/AAAAAAAAChM/-RjoupxsVvc/s1600/IMG_4403%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purlbee.com/hudson-bay-crib-blank/"&gt;Hudson Bay Inspired Crib Blanket&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/b&gt; Berroco Vintage 50% Acrylic/Acrylique, 40% Wool/Laine,10% Nylon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; A couple of months/Presque deux mois&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Modifications&lt;/b&gt;: I made the blanket longer in order to be proportional to the unintentional added width/J'ai fait la couverture afin d'en garder les mensurations proportionnelles par rapport à la largeur &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I had chosen another pattern, my second choice at that point, to make a baby blanket for my sister who had her baby yesterday. But as soon as I saw this on Purl Soho's blog I knew I'd make this one. And once I started making the stripes I immediately regretted having to give it away LOL. I loved making this, garter stitch all the way making this an ideal pattern for TV watching. My choice of colours wasn't as bright as the original but that's because the LYS didn't have a bright red so even though I stayed with the traditional colours of a Hudson Bay blanket, I chose earthy versions of them. As usual the blue doesn't show up accuretly but even looking at the blanket itself you'd probably mistake it for a black. I chose an off white for the background.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I accidentely made this with a US 8 sized needle and that may have led to the blanket being 5" wider then the finished size indicated. So to keep it in the same proportions as the original's measurements, I made the middle white section 4" longer. Other then that, no change has been made to the instructions given. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;But with it being larger it's more an Afghan now so my guess is she'll be using this herself. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because this is a crib blanket I made it with an acrylic/wool mix yarn to&amp;nbsp; make it's washing easier for my sister who now has two kids. In any case, I have enough of the coloured yarn to make another one for myself, in fact I have an extra skein of white since I only needed five for this blanket. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7stMHJ-kSEY/Tv0jA4l9JII/AAAAAAAAChM/-RjoupxsVvc/s1600/IMG_4403%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7stMHJ-kSEY/Tv0jA4l9JII/AAAAAAAAChM/-RjoupxsVvc/s320/IMG_4403%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;J'avais choisi un autre modèle, mon second choix à ce moment-là, pour faire une couverte de bébé pour ma soeur qui a accouché hier. Mais aussitôt que j'ai vu ce modèle-ci sur le blog de Purl Soho j'ai su que j'allais le faire. Et une fois que j'ai commencé à en faire les rayures, j'ai regretté ne pas pouvoir le garder. J'ai adoré faire cette couverte, le fait qu'il soit entièrement travaillé au point mousse en faisait le projet idéal à faire en regardant la télé. Étant donné que mon magasin de tricot n'avait pas un rouge vif, j'en ai donc choisi une version atténuée et ai choisé le ton des autres couleurs en conséquence. Même en réel, le bleu paraît noir. J'ai aussi choisi un blanc cassé pour l'a couleur d'arrière-plan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Sans faire exprès, j'ai utilisé une aiguille de 5mm, ce qui a peut-être donné comme résultat que la couverte est plus large de 12.5 cm par rapport à l'original. Pour en garder les proportions, j'ai fait la bande blanche du milieu plus longue de 10 cm. Mais on ne plus vraiment l'appeller une couverte de bébé, c'est plutôt une jettée maintenant. J'ai choisi de travailler avec un fil fait de mélange acrylique et laine afin d'en faciliter l'entretien par ma soeur qui a maintenant duex enfants. Il m'en reste assez de fil de couleur pour me faire une autre couverte, il me reste aussi un écheveau dans le blanc vu que je n'en ai eu besoin que de cinq.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="value"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3395276285957381053?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3395276285957381053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3395276285957381053' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3395276285957381053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3395276285957381053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/12/couverture-dinspiration-hudson-bay.html' title='Couverture d&apos;&apos;Inspiration Hudson Bay Inspired Blanket'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KWkpk6puMEk/Tv0jAcWxCxI/AAAAAAAAChE/95mTvqghZ2w/s72-c/IMG_4402%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6599850165885526677</id><published>2011-12-19T22:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T22:58:33.404-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='une pelotte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='one skein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='instructions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pattern'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paillette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='last minute gift'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cadeau de dernière minute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sequin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bandeau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='headband'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tricot'/><title type='text'>Sequined Headband/Bandeau À Paillette</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5yMqh1kJTY/Tu_WB7sRUSI/AAAAAAAACgw/CFLg038yhO8/s1600/IMG_4323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5yMqh1kJTY/Tu_WB7sRUSI/AAAAAAAACgw/CFLg038yhO8/s320/IMG_4323.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So you waited at the very last minute to make your Christmas knitting. Well, I've have a quickie project for you. I made this headband after seeing a&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mexx.ca/women/accessories/wa09_10/"&gt;similar idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at the Mexx store, only they used a 1/4" sequined ribbon and it was knitted single stranded. I am currently working on another Christmas present so yes, this was a bit of active procrastination. I wear it over my locs to add an extra layer of warmth over my ears. I wore in our first cold snap this morning and believe me it works. Very 80s if I may say so. Since I have enough ribbon left I'll probably make another one, this time that would fit when I wear my hair up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yarn&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;1x 100-yard skeins of worsted weightyarn, split in two smaller balls plus scrap yarn in contrastingcolour for a provisional cast  on&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notions&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;1 pair of 5mm-US 8 needles plus a spare forthe three needle bind off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;1 yard of sequined ribbon, ½"wide &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;1 cable hook (if you use them)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Yarn or tapestry needle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Sewing needle and thread to match thesequined ribbon &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Optional&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Crochet or latch hook &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gauge&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;3.5 sts per inch (with theyarn worked double threaded)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abbreviations&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;K: Knit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;P: Purl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Sts&amp;nbsp;: Stitches&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;C6B&amp;nbsp;: Place the first three sts from the left needle ona cable hook and place at back, K the following three sts, place thereserved sts on the left needle and knit them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;R: Row &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;You can work in thesequined ribbon as you go along by trapping the ribbon in the cablesas you make them or you can wait until the end and use a crochet orlatch hook or a tapestry needle to pull it though the gaps created bythe cable twist.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Also, the headband is started with aprovisional cast on and finished with a three needle bind off. If youdon't care for that method, you can do a regular cast on and bind off andthen mattress stitch the top and bottom together.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instructions&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;With the yarn worked double threadedand the scrap yarn, do a&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXp8rUNxJtY"&gt; provisional cast on &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;for 12 sts&lt;b&gt; .&lt;/b&gt; Work R1 and R2 twice&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;R1&amp;nbsp;: K12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;R2 (wrong side) : K3, P6, K3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Then work one cable row&amp;nbsp;: K3, C6B,K3. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Continue working rows 1 and 2 but make a cable row every twelve rows on the right side until the headbandfits you snuggly around the head, ending with Row 2. Leave the sts on the needle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a second needle pick up thestitches from the provisional cast on, removing the scrap yarn. Makesure, that both needles point the same direction. Do a three needlebind off using the third needle. Weave in the tails. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;If you chose to insert the ribbon after you finished knitting the headband, do so now, then cut the excess ribbon whille leaving a tail 1/2" passed the seam at each end (or, more simply, leaving an inch of ease). With the sewing needle and thread, sewthe ends of the sequined ribbon together. With the sewing needle and thread, sew the ends of the ribbon together. You can also afix it to the headband like I did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3XjGS3nF8XY/Tu_lRv8w7rI/AAAAAAAACg4/Yz1UFmkJhrI/s1600/IMG_4334.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3XjGS3nF8XY/Tu_lRv8w7rI/AAAAAAAACg4/Yz1UFmkJhrI/s320/IMG_4334.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Vous avez besoin d'un cadeau de dernière mais pas beaucoup de temps pour le faire? Voici donc un petit projet rapde. J'ai fait ce bandeau après en avoir vu &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mexx.ca/women/accessories/wa09_10/"&gt;un chez Mexx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; ce weekend, la différence étant que le leur avait un ruban de 5 mm et était tricoté un fil à la fois donc pas très chaud. Bon en fait ceci est ma perte de temps sur un autre projet que j'ai a terminer pour Noël mais bon. Je le porte par dessus mes cheveux afain d'ajouter un couche de chaleur de plus sur mes oreilles. Très année 80 comme look. Vu qu'il me reste assez de ruban, je crois que je vais m'en faire un second qui me fera lorsque j'aurai les cheveux attachés.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 balle de fil de laine de grosseur moyenne&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;divisée en deux balles plus un bout de fil de couleur contrastante afin de faire un montage provisoire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mercerie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 m de ruban à paillette de 1.25mm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1&amp;nbsp; paire d'aiguille à tricoter de 5mm&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;plus une troisième aiguille pour faire un rabat à trois aiguilles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 aiguille à laine ou à tapisserie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 crochet ou aiguille à torsade (si vous en utilisez pour raire des torsades)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 aiguille à coudre et un fil de couleur allant avec le ruban&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Optionel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 aiguille à crochet ou crochet à tapisserie&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Échantillon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;3.5 mailles par 2.5cm (les mailles étant faites à fil double)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abbréviations&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;R: Rangées&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Le bandeau est monté avec la technique de motage provisoire et fini avec un rabat à trois aiguilles. Cependant vous pouvez faire un montage et rabat ordinaire et assembler le bandeau en cousant le haut et bas ensemble. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Vous avez aussi le choix d'assembler le ruban avec le bandeau au fur et mesure en faisant les torsades ou en le faisant passer dans les trous créés par les tosades.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instructions&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Montez 12 mailles à double fil avec la&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXp8rUNxJtY"&gt;technique de montage provisoire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Ensuite, tout en travaillant à double fil,&amp;nbsp; faire les rangées 1 et 2 deux fois:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;R1: Tranvaillez en mailles endroits&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;R2 (qui sera la rangée envers): 3 mailles endroit, 6 mailles envers, 3 mailles endroit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Maintenant, faites une rangée en torsade comme suit: 3 mailles endoit, faire une torsade à 6 mailles en croisant vers l'arrière, 3 mailles endroit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Continuez à travailler les rangées 1 et 2 tout en faisant une torsade aux douze rangées sur le côté endroit. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Continuez ainsi jusqu'à ce que le bandeau vous fasse de façon ajustée et en terminant avec une rangée envers. Laissez les mailles sur l'aiguille.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Avec une seconde aiguille, reprennez les mailles de la première rangée et enlevez le fil contrastant tout en s'assurant que l'aiguille pointe dans la même direction que celle du haut du bandeau. Avec une troisième aiguille, faire un rabat à trois aiguilles. Insérez les bouts de fils qui au travers des mailles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Si vous avez fait le choix d'insérer le ruban après avoir tricoté le bandeau, faites le maintenant. Coupez l'excédent de ruban tout en laissant environ 1.25 cm de plus à chaque extrémité pour une aisance totale de 2.5 cm. Avec l'aiguille à coudre et le fil, cousez les deux extrémités du ruban ensemble. Si vous voulez, vous pouvez ensuite attacher les extrémités du ruban au bandeau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6599850165885526677?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6599850165885526677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6599850165885526677' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6599850165885526677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6599850165885526677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/12/sequined-headbandbandeau-paillette.html' title='Sequined Headband/Bandeau À Paillette'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5yMqh1kJTY/Tu_WB7sRUSI/AAAAAAAACgw/CFLg038yhO8/s72-c/IMG_4323.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6335102191134890399</id><published>2011-11-11T01:07:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T01:34:22.363-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jour du souvenir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remembrance day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poppy flower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coquelicot'/><title type='text'>Poppies/Coquelicots</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iKP7w400H9c/Try8UdfF3eI/AAAAAAAACgY/2m7rg9_UL3Y/s1600/IMG_4276.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iKP7w400H9c/Try8UdfF3eI/AAAAAAAACgY/2m7rg9_UL3Y/s320/IMG_4276.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A friend of mine saw me wearing the poppy I made last year and asked me make one for her. Then I made the one on the right for myself and felt that the one I made for her was lacking so I made another for her the one on the left.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Une amie m'a vue porter le coquelicot que j'avais fait l'an dernier et m'a demander de lui en faire un. Je me suis fait par la suite&amp;nbsp; la fleur à droite et ai trouvé que celui destiné à mon amie faisait piètre figure. Je lui ai donc fait la fleur à gauche. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958042142"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958042143"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6335102191134890399?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6335102191134890399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6335102191134890399' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6335102191134890399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6335102191134890399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/poppiescoquelicots.html' title='Poppies/Coquelicots'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iKP7w400H9c/Try8UdfF3eI/AAAAAAAACgY/2m7rg9_UL3Y/s72-c/IMG_4276.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-9008907079946984649</id><published>2011-11-06T10:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T10:00:05.924-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knock off'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foulard'/><title type='text'>Foulard Mexx Scarf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tA9ZOGjJ7lk/TrHiTd7jTZI/AAAAAAAACgQ/GvmONdx2Vxw/s1600/IMG_4250.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tA9ZOGjJ7lk/TrHiTd7jTZI/AAAAAAAACgQ/GvmONdx2Vxw/s320/IMG_4250.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is a knock off of a scarf I've seen in a store in Montreal. Fell in love with it this summer but it cost 65$ so I waited for a good sale to come along and sadly for my wallet is that it hasn't happened. So I DIYed for much less. Years ago I purchased the black woven fabric years ago and split in half lengthwise and made scarves out of each piece.&amp;nbsp; Using one of the scarves as the backing, I got the steel grey jersey fabric, cut it to be 4" from each long side and 6" from the top and bottom. I finished the edges using the rolled edge stitch from my overlock machine then I top stitched it to the backing. All of that done within a couple of hours for much less the store version. And let me tell you, it does keep my neck very warm.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci est copie d'un foulard vu dans un magasin à Montréal. J'en suis tombée amoureuse cet été et ai attendu une vente intéressante mais elle n'est jamais arrivée. J'ai donc choisi de le faire moi-même. Il y a des années de ça j'ai acheté un tissu noir que j'ai coupé en deux dans le sens de la longueur et en avait fait deux foulards. J'en ai utilisé un pour faire l'endos et j'ai acheté ce tricot gris acier, l'ai coupé pour qu'il soit moins large de 10 cm des longs côté et 15 cm du haut et bas que le tissu de l'endos. Je l'ai fini en avec le point ourlé de ma surjeteuse et l'ai surpiqué sur l'endos. Tout ça en moins de deux heures et pour pas mal moins que la version en magasin. Et une chose est sûre, ça tient mon cou au chaud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-9008907079946984649?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/9008907079946984649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=9008907079946984649' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9008907079946984649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9008907079946984649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/foulard-mexx-scarf.html' title='Foulard Mexx Scarf'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tA9ZOGjJ7lk/TrHiTd7jTZI/AAAAAAAACgQ/GvmONdx2Vxw/s72-c/IMG_4250.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1068066702510222316</id><published>2011-11-04T18:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T18:42:14.197-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chaussette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toe up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='torsade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cable'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lamb&apos;s Pride'/><title type='text'>Bulky Cable Sock/Chaussette à Torsade en Grosse Laine</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lpcqwmLAwYc/TrHgQAmInOI/AAAAAAAACf4/gwfOWUZ2dyg/s1600/IMG_4241.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lpcqwmLAwYc/TrHgQAmInOI/AAAAAAAACf4/gwfOWUZ2dyg/s320/IMG_4241.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YqmE_brr1vw/TrHgQ7-LwBI/AAAAAAAACgA/Fs4PGh3CvlI/s1600/IMG_4242.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YqmE_brr1vw/TrHgQ7-LwBI/AAAAAAAACgA/Fs4PGh3CvlI/s320/IMG_4242.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MkeiE3rWaUk/TrHgR6DwPyI/AAAAAAAACgI/d2Nkfmbd8xI/s1600/IMG_4244.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MkeiE3rWaUk/TrHgR6DwPyI/AAAAAAAACgI/d2Nkfmbd8xI/s320/IMG_4244.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pattern/Instructions&lt;/b&gt;: Created by me/Crées par moi-même&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/b&gt; Lamb's Pride Superwash Bulky&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time Required/Tems Requis&lt;/b&gt;: It lingered in my UFO pile for way too long/Il a trainé dans ma pile de truc à terminer pendant trop longtemps&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;According to my Ravelry page I started this last January, probably with the intent to keep my feet warm in the coldest months of the year. I ignored it for months when I finally grabbed it last September to finish it, I ran out of yarn just as I was about to do the last O cable on the second sock. Since my LYS was closed I had to find another source and luckily, I have a new LYS and it carried it. I figured that before I picked up my needles again I'd better finish these.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;They were worked from the toe up and finished with a twisted rib and sown bind off. The heals were short rowed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selon my page Ravelry, j'ai commencé ces chaussettes en janvier dernier, probablement pour garder mes pieds au chaud durant les mois les plus froides de l'année. Je l'ai ignoré pendant des mois et ensuite les ai reprises en Septembre dernier pour les terminer mais j'ai manqué de fil au moment de terminer la dernière torsade en O sur la seconde chaussette. Vu que mon magasin de tricot fermé ses portes j'ai du en trouver une autre source de fil de laine et heureusement j'en ai trouvé un autre qui vendait ce dont j'avais besoin. Je me suis dit qu'avant de prendre mes aiguilles pour commencer mon prochain projet je me devais de terminer celui-ci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je les ai travaillées en commançant des orteils et en les terminant avec une côte torse et un rabat cousu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1068066702510222316?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1068066702510222316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1068066702510222316' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1068066702510222316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1068066702510222316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/bulky-cable-sockchaussette-torsade-en.html' title='Bulky Cable Sock/Chaussette à Torsade en Grosse Laine'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lpcqwmLAwYc/TrHgQAmInOI/AAAAAAAACf4/gwfOWUZ2dyg/s72-c/IMG_4241.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7292246024029294709</id><published>2011-10-30T20:57:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T20:57:47.533-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='veste'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fleur tricotée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grandather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted flower'/><title type='text'>Another flower and a vest/Une autre fleur et une veste</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cl4RiqV7AAw/TqsXQ_X1oDI/AAAAAAAACfk/jugN2Q7j_m8/s1600/IMG_4165.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668650136632664114" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cl4RiqV7AAw/TqsXQ_X1oDI/AAAAAAAACfk/jugN2Q7j_m8/s320/IMG_4165.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dC29pv0ay9I/TqsXRBKcSVI/AAAAAAAACfw/NBJa5J1jnzE/s1600/IMG_4185.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668650137113348434" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dC29pv0ay9I/TqsXRBKcSVI/AAAAAAAACfw/NBJa5J1jnzE/s320/IMG_4185.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instruction:&lt;/span&gt; Knitted Flower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wire/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;Artistic Wire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time Required/Temps Requis: &lt;/span&gt;Way too long/Beaucoup trop longtemps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications: &lt;/span&gt;None/Aucun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-style: italic;"&gt;I made this flower to be part of a purple themed gift package I gave my sis for her birthday.  To say this was given belatedly is a an understatement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette fleur fait partie d'un ensemble cadeau, dont la couleur mauve en a été le thème, que j'ai donné à ma sœur pour son anniversaire. Disons qu'elle l'a eu longtemps après qu'elle aurait du le recevoir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-W0a5o1Aw0/TqsW9X77v3I/AAAAAAAACfY/1lHs2CCmgJc/s1600/IMG_4236.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668649799629127538" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-W0a5o1Aw0/TqsW9X77v3I/AAAAAAAACfY/1lHs2CCmgJc/s320/IMG_4236.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Pr6PYEKlI4/TqsW8kMFr-I/AAAAAAAACfA/XM2ubf4-Kac/s1600/IMG_4240.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668649785738244066" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Pr6PYEKlI4/TqsW8kMFr-I/AAAAAAAACfA/XM2ubf4-Kac/s320/IMG_4240.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bq_B0V0O24k/TqsW87kIbaI/AAAAAAAACfQ/Oo9g0XNbTEM/s1600/IMG_4234.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668649792013102498" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bq_B0V0O24k/TqsW87kIbaI/AAAAAAAACfQ/Oo9g0XNbTEM/s320/IMG_4234.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instructions&lt;/span&gt;: Grandfather Vest from/de Knittig 24/7 by/par Véronik Avery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;Louet KidLin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt; about a week/Environ une semaine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; Made the back hem at the size large, then added darts to reduce the back waist down to a small/J'ai fait les côtes arrières dans la taille large et ensuite fait des pinces pour ramener la taille à la grandeur petite&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-style: italic;"&gt;My current fixation this season: vests. Easy to wear under a jacket to add warmth in the in between season. I went back and forth on the choice of yarns,  and a miscalculation led me to believe that I didn't have enough of my other choice (the same blue yarn I used for the Missoni scarf) so I went with this Louët KidLin. Not unhappy about that mistake because I've been toying withe the idea of making a clothing item out of laceweight yarn for years now. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-style: italic;"&gt;Had trouble with the gauge, I was nearly at the armhole decreases when I finally tried it on and realize it was way too big: not just size wise (I was planning on making this a medium) but even though my swatch was at the right gauge, somehow I knitted more loosely as I went along so I started over (considering that this is knit in the round, that was quite the redo) and knitted a smaller size along with smaller needles. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-style: italic;"&gt;I also hesitated between two different button styles: this one and another that was a deeper shade of green.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma fixation du moment: les vestes. Faciles à mettre sous un veston pour  rajouter un peu de chaleur entre deux saisons.  J'ai hésité lors du  choix de fil mais un mauvais calcul m'a fait croire que je n'avais pas  assez de mon choix initial, le même fil bleu que pour le foulard Missoni.  J'ai donc choisi le KidLin de Louët. Une heureuse erreur en fait car  cela fasait un bout de temps que je voulait faire un vêtement dans une  laine de poids plume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Étonnement, j'ai eu de la difficulté à maîtriser l'échantillon. J'en étais rendu à  faire les diminutions pour l'emmanchure lorsque j'ai finalement essayé  la veste pour me rendre compte que c'était trop grand: pas juste au niveau de  la grandeur (j'ai initialement fait la taille moyenne) mais en  plus le nombre de mailles par pouce était en deçà de ce qu'il devait  être. J'ai donc recommencé du début (considérant que la vest se tricote  en rond c'est tout une affaire) en plus d'utiliser des aiguilles plus  petites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai aussi hésiter entre ces boutons-ci et une autre paire dans un vert plus foncé mais ai finalement choisi ceux-ci.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7292246024029294709?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7292246024029294709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7292246024029294709' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7292246024029294709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7292246024029294709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-flower-and-vestune-autre-fleur.html' title='Another flower and a vest/Une autre fleur et une veste'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cl4RiqV7AAw/TqsXQ_X1oDI/AAAAAAAACfk/jugN2Q7j_m8/s72-c/IMG_4165.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-23919140379290320</id><published>2011-10-29T14:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T15:45:41.649-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Missoni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tricot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foulard'/><title type='text'>Foulard Missoni Scarf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtOjrZvUCY4/To9KdCHv-oI/AAAAAAAACek/vCmlYPIUc7M/s1600/IMG_4151.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtOjrZvUCY4/To9KdCHv-oI/AAAAAAAACek/vCmlYPIUc7M/s320/IMG_4151.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660825119274039938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w92Y4vwU7IE/To9KdN7Ik7I/AAAAAAAACes/3VBiziWm50E/s1600/IMG_4152.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w92Y4vwU7IE/To9KdN7Ik7I/AAAAAAAACes/3VBiziWm50E/s320/IMG_4152.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660825122442351538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instructions&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2011/09/missoni-inspired-chevron-knitting.html"&gt;Missoni Inspired&lt;/a&gt; scarf by Jessica Okui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil&lt;/span&gt;: Cascade 220 Blue, Red/Cascade 220 Bleu, Rouge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time Required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: A couple of weeks off and on/Environ deux semaines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modification&lt;/span&gt;: See below/Voir ci dessous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I think that I've established already that I love scarves and as soon as I saw this pattern on Zakka Life I immediately rummaged through my stash to make it. I worked on it during my recent trip to Europe and it's a very an easy pattern to remember. The colours are inspired by those of the Haitian flag, though this royal blue is on the bright side, it does look like something Spiderman would love.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I did make minor changes to the original pattern: I added 4 sts at each end and worked them as a garter stitch (though I regret not thinking of doing a seed st). And I modified the fourth row as follows, mainly for aesthetic reason but also to have it look more like the inspiration sweater:&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R4: K4, K2tog, k8, Yo, k1, yo, k8 k2tog, ssk, k8, yo, k1, yo, ssk, k4 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;R5: K4, p until the last four sts, k4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je crois avoir mentionné plus d'une fois que j'adore les foulards et sitôt que j'ai vu les instructions pour ce foulard d'inspiration Missoni, j'ai tout de suite été fouiller dans ma réserve de fil pour le faire. J'ai travaillé dessus durant mon récent voyage en Europe et les instructions sont assez faciles à retenir. Les couleurs ont été inspirées du drapeau haïtien bien que je crois que Spiderman approuverait de cette combinaison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malgré tout, j'ai tout de même changé un peu les instructions: j'ai ajouté quatre mailles au début et à la fin de la rangée et les ai travaillées au point de mousse.  J'ai aussi modifié un peu la quatrième rangée, pour des raisons esthétique et http://www.nappturality.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&amp;amp;daysprune=&amp;amp;f=40aussi pour qu'il ressemble un peu plus à le chandail qui l'a inspiré.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici donc les instructions en français. Les parties en rouge sont là où je diffère de la version originale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monter &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;50 &lt;/span&gt;mailles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rangées 1 à 3: Mailles endroit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R4: &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;4 mailles endroit&lt;/span&gt; (m.end. Tricoter deux mailles ensemble (T2Mens), 8 m. end., 1 jetée, 1 m. end., 1 jetée, 8 m. end,&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; 1 point de surjet&lt;/span&gt;, T2Mens, 8 m. end, 1 jetée, 1 m. end., 1 jetée, 8 m. end., &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;1 point de surje&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;t, 4 m.end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R5: &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;4 m.end.&lt;/span&gt;, travailler en mailles envers jusqu'au 4 dernières mailles, &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;4 m.end&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Répéter les rangées 4 et 5 jusqu'à ce que le foulard soit de la longueur voulue. Ensuite travailler les trois dernières rangées à l'endroit. Rabattre les mailles.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-23919140379290320?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/23919140379290320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=23919140379290320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/23919140379290320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/23919140379290320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/foulard-missoni-scarf.html' title='Foulard Missoni Scarf'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtOjrZvUCY4/To9KdCHv-oI/AAAAAAAACek/vCmlYPIUc7M/s72-c/IMG_4151.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6160325259239604154</id><published>2011-10-03T21:32:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-03T22:40:36.083-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gloves'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mitts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fetching'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sans doigt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fingerless'/><title type='text'>Fetching</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JeZzHBNefuU/TopiVeppRXI/AAAAAAAACec/2m13IbnBLJQ/s1600/IMG_4140.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JeZzHBNefuU/TopiVeppRXI/AAAAAAAACec/2m13IbnBLJQ/s320/IMG_4140.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659444002888959346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instructions:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html"&gt;Fetching By/de Cherin Niemath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Lamb's Pride Worsted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required:&lt;/span&gt; Temps requis: Day and a half/Un jour et demi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/kelly-ann/fetching"&gt;The cuffs/Les poignets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/kat659/fetching"&gt;The thumb/Le pouce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;A quickie project for the sudden cold temperatures that have descended on the city this weekend. Now that I've installed a pair of muffs on my scooter's handles, I can now wear these without my fingers going numb by the time I get to work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un projet rapide pour la soudaine chute de température ce weekend. Et maintenant que j'ai ajouté une paire de protège-main sur les poignets de mon scooter, je peux maintenant porter ce genre de gants sans que mes doigts perdent toute sensation à mon arrivée au bureau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6160325259239604154?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6160325259239604154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6160325259239604154' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6160325259239604154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6160325259239604154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/fetching.html' title='Fetching'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JeZzHBNefuU/TopiVeppRXI/AAAAAAAACec/2m13IbnBLJQ/s72-c/IMG_4140.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-424727037194842568</id><published>2011-09-10T10:10:00.020-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T14:00:40.646-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pencil skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='high waisted'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='denim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jupe ajustée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vogue V8603'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taille haute'/><title type='text'>Vogue V8603</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9528WKwimuU/TmtwF3k7SoI/AAAAAAAACdc/LRK02hLcepA/s1600/IMG_3883.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9528WKwimuU/TmtwF3k7SoI/AAAAAAAACdc/LRK02hLcepA/s320/IMG_3883.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650733403586906754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8603-products-10479.php?page_id=263&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;Vogue V8603&lt;/a&gt; View F/Vue F&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabric/Tissu:&lt;/span&gt; Denim outer, polyester liner/Extérieur en denim, Doublure en polyester&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt; One Sunday and a couple of evenings/Un dimanche et quelques soirées&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: BBA (Big Bottom alteration)/Altération pour un fort derrière&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I have been in love with pencil skirts ever since the days of Law and Order where Angie Harmon marched in the title sequence wearing one. But I've always shied away from wearing them because, to keep it short, of the rule that says that it doesn't suit women with strong hips. I finally decided to make one, with all the modifications required for it to fit correctly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This is my first alteration of a commercial pattern for a skirt. It is really  on the small side, normally a 12 or 14 should have fit me at the hips but it was too small so I basically resized it and did the BBA which added darts at the back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;On a different note, it seems that to make this stylish I have to wear it with super high heels: Sabrinas make it look like I'm on my way to church, 2" and I look like a old maid secretary so I got these 3 1/2" pumps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'adore les jupes ajustées depuis que j'ai vu Angie Harmon en porter une  dans le générique d'ouverture de La Loi et L'Ordre. Par contre j'ai  toujours hésité à en porter dû à la règle qui veut que les femmes à  fortes hanches devraient les éviter. Enfin, c'est plus compliqué que ça  mais bon. Tout de même je me suis finalement décider à m'en faire une,  adaptée à ma silhouette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci est ma première altération d'un patron de jupe. En fait c'est plus  que ça: vu que ce patron est fait petit (un 12-14 devrait me faire aux  hanches mais pas celle-ci), il a carrément fallu adapté la taille. Et évidemment il a fallu faire l'altération pour le derrière généreux, ce  qui a ajouté des pince à la taille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans une autre ordre d'idée, Il semble que pour éviter d'avoir l'air de  me rendre à la messe un dimanche, il faut que j'évite de porter cette  jupe avec des petit talons. Avec des talons de 5 cm j'ai l'air d'une  secrétaire un peu vieillotte. Je me suis donc procurée ces escarpins  avec des talons de 9 cm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/saturna76/Robe%20noire/IMG_3886-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/saturna76/Robe%20noire/IMG_3886-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;In my last post I wrote that I had to get some sewing books. Well, I ordered them and got the in record time and that's in spite of not paying extra for a speedy delivery. Just flipping through &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Dressmakers-Handbook-Couture-Sewing-Techniques-Lynda-Maynard/9781596682474-item.html?ikwid=couture&amp;amp;ikwsec=Home"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; I picked a couple ideas that I immediately used. First, re-enforcing the skirt's waist. I cut a one inch strip of  fusible interfacing along the grain line and ironed along the waist  edge. That will prevent it from stretching wide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans mon dernier billet, je disais vouloir me procurer des livres de couture. Je les ai commandé mardi dernier et les ai reçu en un temps record et ce, malgré le fait que je n'ai pas payé un sous pour avoir une livraison rapide. En feuilletant &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Dressmakers-Handbook-Couture-Sewing-Techniques-Lynda-Maynard/9781596682474-item.html?ikwid=couture&amp;amp;ikwsec=Home"&gt;celle-ci&lt;/a&gt;, j'ai trouvé deux trucs que j'ai tout de suite mis en applications. D'abord, renforcer la taille de la jupe pour l'empêcher de de relâcher. Pour ce faire j'ai coupé une bande d'entoilage thermocollant large de 2.5 cm et l'ai collé le long de la taille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yl1Kj7Bbw-U/TmtwF_XXsfI/AAAAAAAACdk/DQwzvKVFYEk/s1600/IMG_3884.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yl1Kj7Bbw-U/TmtwF_XXsfI/AAAAAAAACdk/DQwzvKVFYEk/s320/IMG_3884.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650733405677531634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/saturna76/Robe%20noire/IMG_3886-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Another idea I picked up  was using a metal bar to take the stress of the seam at the back slit to  keep it from ripping open by accident. I just used the little bar half  of a hook and eye closure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'autre idée fut de coudre une petite bar de métal juste en haut de la fente l'arrière pour empêcher qu'elle s'ouvre dû au stress sur la couture. J'ai utilisé la barre de métal d'une agrafe de bande de taille pour accomplir ceci.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-424727037194842568?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/424727037194842568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=424727037194842568' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/424727037194842568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/424727037194842568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/vogue-v8603.html' title='Vogue V8603'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9528WKwimuU/TmtwF3k7SoI/AAAAAAAACdc/LRK02hLcepA/s72-c/IMG_3883.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7439155886981247942</id><published>2011-09-05T19:21:00.016-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T13:21:17.711-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nannette Lepore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jacket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='short sleeve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='McCall&apos;s 5815'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manches courtes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='veston'/><title type='text'>McCall's M5815</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sipZde2ePaA/TmVZmFdxgiI/AAAAAAAACc8/yegXQ4MAsGs/s1600/IMG_3863.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sipZde2ePaA/TmVZmFdxgiI/AAAAAAAACc8/yegXQ4MAsGs/s320/IMG_3863.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649019818443112994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;McCall's 5815 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fabric/Tissu: Outer: &lt;/span&gt;100% wool/Extérieur 100% laine &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;Two weekends/Deux weekends &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modifications: &lt;/span&gt;An FBA and I lengthened the jacket by three inches/Un ajustement pour poitrine forte et j'ai allongé le veston de 7,5 cm &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nNNujbMIHNc/TmVaaULVDvI/AAAAAAAACdM/LpQpMu8lono/s1600/IMG_3872.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nNNujbMIHNc/TmVaaULVDvI/AAAAAAAACdM/LpQpMu8lono/s320/IMG_3872.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649020715745480434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I recently made a list of projects I'd like to do this winter and it included getting my sewing machine started again. This jacket, which a knock off of a Nanette Lepore jacket from a few seasons back, was at the top of the sewing projects I wanted to do.  I've had this pattern for a couple of years now and I figured that now was a good time to make it. As usual I had to make all kinds of alterations for it to fit my bust and following &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.ericabunker.com/2009/07/mccalls-5815-nanette-lepore-knockoff.html"&gt;Erica B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;'s example I also lengthened it by 3 inches (I don't know why McCall's makes their jackets so short). Other then that it was relatively easy to put together, the only issue I had was figuring out the instructions on to make the pleat on the collar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai récemment fait une liste de projets que je voudrais compléter cet hiver et elle inclut l'idée de remettre ma machine à coudre en fonction. Bien que j'ai acheté ce patron il y a quelques années, je me suis dit que le temps était venu de le faire. En fait c'est une copie d'un veston de la collection de Nanette Lepore d'il y a quelques saisons. Comme d'habitude j'ai du faire des ajustements pour poitrine forte. Et suivant l'exemple de &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.ericabunker.com/2009/07/mccalls-5815-nanette-lepore-knockoff.html"&gt;Erica B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; j'ai aussi allongé le patron de 7,5 cm. Mis à part ça, la seule difficulté que j'ai rencontré a été de comprendre les instructions pour faire les plis dans le col.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kY-5jaxWqcI/TmVa4wrXRTI/AAAAAAAACdU/TW3B8m-4lOM/s1600/IMG_3865.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kY-5jaxWqcI/TmVa4wrXRTI/AAAAAAAACdU/TW3B8m-4lOM/s320/IMG_3865.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649021238792111410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Since I had some leftover liner fabric from the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/search?q=5280"&gt;dress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; I made last year I used it again in for a khaki and pink contrast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vu qu'il me restait de la doublure de la &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/search?q=5280"&gt;robe&lt;/a&gt; que j'ai fait l'en dernier, je l'ai repris pour refaire le contraste khaki et rose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6I4r8IL_3s/TmVaaQE_ezI/AAAAAAAACdE/SRlf6j0NSdg/s1600/IMG_3871.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6I4r8IL_3s/TmVaaQE_ezI/AAAAAAAACdE/SRlf6j0NSdg/s320/IMG_3871.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649020714645158706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;And yep, another handmade buttonhole and in spite of the fact that I hadn't done these since my coat last year, these actually came out great. I didn't buy buttonhole cord this time, I simply double threaded my needle to make the stitches sturdier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though this was an easy project, the time has finally come for me to get a sewing book. It's been over ten years since I've graduated fashion school and I'm realizing that I'm forgetting some basic notions. A jacket is a beast of it's own to put together, but I hesitated over small stuff although I still knew how to put a jacket together from the inside out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et oui, une autre boutonnière faite à la main. Bien que j'en ai pas fait depuis mon manteau l'an dernier, je trouve celles-ci mieux réussi. Cette fois je n'ai pas utilisé de fil à boutonnière, j'ai tout simplement fait un enfilage double de l'aiguille afin de rendre le point plus solide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci fut un projet relativement facile à faire mais le temps est finalement venu de me procurer un livre de couture. Cela fait dix ans que j'ai terminé mes études en mode et je réalise que j'oublie des notions de base. Cela peut-être du au fait qu'un veston est tout un projet en soi mais j'ai hésité sur des petits détails alors que je me rappelais comment assembler un veston de l'intérieur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nNNujbMIHNc/TmVaaULVDvI/AAAAAAAACdM/LpQpMu8lono/s1600/IMG_3872.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sipZde2ePaA/TmVZmFdxgiI/AAAAAAAACc8/yegXQ4MAsGs/s1600/IMG_3863.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7439155886981247942?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7439155886981247942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7439155886981247942' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7439155886981247942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7439155886981247942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/mccalls-m5815.html' title='McCall&apos;s M5815'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sipZde2ePaA/TmVZmFdxgiI/AAAAAAAACc8/yegXQ4MAsGs/s72-c/IMG_3863.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5040321839816544467</id><published>2011-06-25T16:46:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-26T12:29:34.123-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='châle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shawl'/><title type='text'>Châle Mara Shawl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CePFnpA__qY/TgZJfFwDaCI/AAAAAAAACcg/azsF8RB2gSg/s1600/IMG_3727.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CePFnpA__qY/TgZJfFwDaCI/AAAAAAAACcg/azsF8RB2gSg/s320/IMG_3727.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622261983287142434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gBEHBBGqqo4/TgZJfAluoQI/AAAAAAAACcY/7kfLVpgv7Ro/s1600/IMG_3726.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gBEHBBGqqo4/TgZJfAluoQI/AAAAAAAACcY/7kfLVpgv7Ro/s320/IMG_3726.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622261981901660418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8HcgS4Ku_E/TgZJe8HpY2I/AAAAAAAACcQ/T6ezUvokayY/s1600/IMG_3721.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHE3SUz8uL4/TgZJfU3n5qI/AAAAAAAACco/XZtxd6a_tX0/s1600/IMG_3736.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHE3SUz8uL4/TgZJfU3n5qI/AAAAAAAACco/XZtxd6a_tX0/s320/IMG_3736.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622261987345426082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instruction&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.madelinetosh.com/patterns-mara-shawl.html"&gt;Mara Shawl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil&lt;/span&gt;: Knit Picks Telemark in Rosemary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: About a week/Environ une semaine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: More like a mistake, I forgot to do the yarn over edging /Plutôt une erreur: J'ai oublié de faire la finition du bord avec une jetée&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I had no intention of doing another shawl anytime soon but I got some news a few weeks ago that I'd be off to a warriorette training in a couple of weeks and I do expect losing weight from stress and running around. I figured I'd skip any fitted item and just do this very simply shawl, as you can see it's simply a garter stitch with a ribbed edging. I wanted a stretchy bind off and I figured the sewn version would be tedious so I used the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/FEATjssbo.php"&gt;Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off&lt;/a&gt; technique. Not faster then the sewn version but more convenient. I don't know if  it's because I forgot to do the YO edging but it ended up a square shaped and shaping it with a wet bloc only yielded a somewhat diamond shape. But once again grand-mère's adage, you don't make mistakes, you simply created a new design, applies here. It forms a shawl collar when I wrap it around me and with a pin or broach, it kinda turns into a poncho. I think this will be my most versatile item yet, with it's size it will also be a nice lap blanket. Another winner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'avais aucune intention de me faire une autre châle de sitôt mais on m'a annoncé que j'allais bientôt partir pour un entrainement de guerrière et je m'attend à ce que mon poids fasse le yoyo dû au stress et l'intense travail physique. J'ai donc opté pour ce simple projet que ne requiert pas mes mesures, fait au point mousse avec un bord côtelé. Pour le rabat des mailles, je ne voulais pas utiliser la technique cousue mais j'en voulais un qui soit quand même assez élastique et donc j'ai utilisé &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/FEATjssbo.php"&gt;celle-ci&lt;/a&gt;. Pas plus rapide que la version cousue mais plus pratique. Je ne sais pas si c'est à cause du fait que j'ai oublié de faire les jetées au début et à la fin des rangées mais il avait une forme carré plutôt que triangulaire lorsque j'ai terminé et un blocage mouillé n'a fait que lui donné un forme vaguement losange. Mais encore une fois l'adage de ma grand-mère qui dit que l'on ne fait pas d'erreur mais qu'on créé un nouveau modèle, s'applique. La pointe supérieure forme une sorte de col en châle lorsque je le port et avec une broche ou épingle, il se transforme en poncho. Je crois que ce sera mon item le plus versatile: il est assez grand pour être une petite couverture pour les jambes. Un autre projet gagnant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5040321839816544467?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5040321839816544467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5040321839816544467' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5040321839816544467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5040321839816544467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/06/chale-mara-shawl.html' title='Châle Mara Shawl'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CePFnpA__qY/TgZJfFwDaCI/AAAAAAAACcg/azsF8RB2gSg/s72-c/IMG_3727.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7020119504849852853</id><published>2011-06-11T15:55:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T16:39:39.720-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting with wire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beaded knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fleur tricotée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricot avec fil de métal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricot perlé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted flower'/><title type='text'>Even more/Et encore d'autres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-la45gg4QvAc/TfPIol64KNI/AAAAAAAACb0/1II0vXWFqtY/s1600/IMG_3699.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f69HJOZYl4k/TfPInoQEYpI/AAAAAAAACbk/JJaGnMyx9hU/s1600/IMG_3667.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f69HJOZYl4k/TfPInoQEYpI/AAAAAAAACbk/JJaGnMyx9hU/s320/IMG_3667.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617053743406408338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aChZ6jcObG4/TfPIoUhEIVI/AAAAAAAACbs/v9JFCbFNAK0/s1600/IMG_3689.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aChZ6jcObG4/TfPIoUhEIVI/AAAAAAAACbs/v9JFCbFNAK0/s320/IMG_3689.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617053755288854866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-la45gg4QvAc/TfPIol64KNI/AAAAAAAACb0/1II0vXWFqtY/s1600/IMG_3699.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-la45gg4QvAc/TfPIol64KNI/AAAAAAAACb0/1II0vXWFqtY/s320/IMG_3699.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617053759960525010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_qxXXFLWa9g/TfPIo-kbsWI/AAAAAAAACb8/xs9QZZI0mck/s1600/IMG_3705.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_qxXXFLWa9g/TfPIo-kbsWI/AAAAAAAACb8/xs9QZZI0mck/s320/IMG_3705.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617053766577271138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;And a few more. The third one was a job for a colleague who suggested all the colours. I liked the results so much that I made one for myself using a black tinted wire and using dark beads for the centre, giving the whole thing a darker tone. Now that I have all of these done, I'm told I'll be away from home for 6  weeks pretty soon to somewhere I won't have a chance to show these off. Sigh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et encore quelques autres. Le troisième est en fait une commande de la part d'une collègue qui a fait les choix de couleurs.  J'ai assez aimé les résultats que je m'en suis inspiré, sauf que j'ai utilisé un fil noir et des billes de couleurs foncées pour le centre. Mais maintenant que j'ai terminé ces fleurs que je me fait dire que je serai loin de chez moi pendant six semaines et n'aurai aucune occasion de les porter. Soupir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_qxXXFLWa9g/TfPIo-kbsWI/AAAAAAAACb8/xs9QZZI0mck/s1600/IMG_3705.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7020119504849852853?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7020119504849852853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7020119504849852853' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7020119504849852853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7020119504849852853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/06/even-moreet-encore-dautres.html' title='Even more/Et encore d&apos;autres'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f69HJOZYl4k/TfPInoQEYpI/AAAAAAAACbk/JJaGnMyx9hU/s72-c/IMG_3667.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-4642541211103694394</id><published>2011-05-17T18:56:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T22:52:11.234-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting with wire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beaded knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fleur tricotée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricot avec fil de métal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricot perlé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted flower'/><title type='text'>Hair Star/Étoile de cheveux</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uMBfjVwVy3g/TdL9UiTsXyI/AAAAAAAACZk/DX2_7FWUJKg/s1600/IMG_3655.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uMBfjVwVy3g/TdL9UiTsXyI/AAAAAAAACZk/DX2_7FWUJKg/s320/IMG_3655.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607823015278305058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vdkdu3KSqz0/TdL9UiXPjvI/AAAAAAAACZc/jmQsw3qAJH8/s1600/IMG_3652.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vdkdu3KSqz0/TdL9UiXPjvI/AAAAAAAACZc/jmQsw3qAJH8/s320/IMG_3652.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607823015293193970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uMBfjVwVy3g/TdL9UiTsXyI/AAAAAAAACZk/DX2_7FWUJKg/s1600/IMG_3655.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;Knitted Flower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thread/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Copper wire 26 gauge for the smaller start, 28 gauge for the larger/Fil de cuivre calibre 26 pour la petite étoile et calibre 28 pour la plus grosse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt; An evening for each/Une soirée pour les deux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modification:&lt;/span&gt; I cast on 8 stitches instead of twelve/J'ai monté 8 mailles pour les deux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/topstitchgirl/knitted-flower-3"&gt;Ravelry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Seems I can't stop myself from making those knitted flowers so this time I figured I'd make a version as a hair accessory. I thought the one at the top was ridiculously oversized so I made the one at the bottom. I'll leave the technical babble for my Ravelry page. The top star is done using copper that was tinted gold, the bottom was done with copper tinted silver. The beads were gold coloured with metal insert. I like these and I think that I will be making more, smaller sized though and I'll play around with different coloured wires and beads. I used regular bobby pins to keep these on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/saturna76/Robe%20noire/IMG_3661-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/saturna76/Robe%20noire/IMG_3661-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il semble que je ne puisse m'empêcher de faire des fleurs tricotées, cette fois-ci je m'en suis fait comme accessoire à cheveux. J'ai trouvé que la version au haut de ce billet t était énorme donc j'en ai fait une autre un peu plus petite. Je laisserai les commentaires plutôt technique pour ma page Ravelry.  La plus grosse est faite de fil de cuivre tintée or, la petite en fil de cuivre tintée  argent, les deux ont les même perles qui contiennent une insertion métallique qui reflètent la couleur du fil. Les étoiles sont tenues en place avec avec une simple épingle à cheveux. J'ai assez bien aimé faire celles-ci pour m'en faire d'autres.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-4642541211103694394?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/4642541211103694394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=4642541211103694394' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/4642541211103694394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/4642541211103694394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/05/hair-staretoile-de-cheveux.html' title='Hair Star/Étoile de cheveux'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uMBfjVwVy3g/TdL9UiTsXyI/AAAAAAAACZk/DX2_7FWUJKg/s72-c/IMG_3655.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3127730066517303189</id><published>2011-05-11T17:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T16:45:04.317-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted flowerfleur tricotée'/><title type='text'>Encore</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fphu2NY3bzI/TcsEsrsNorI/AAAAAAAACZM/5QrYnIhD8vM/s1600/IMG_3639.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fphu2NY3bzI/TcsEsrsNorI/AAAAAAAACZM/5QrYnIhD8vM/s320/IMG_3639.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605579326881637042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CjDOJLhgGcg/TcsEsya4m8I/AAAAAAAACZU/qbuHseYMl5I/s1600/IMG_3642.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CjDOJLhgGcg/TcsEsya4m8I/AAAAAAAACZU/qbuHseYMl5I/s320/IMG_3642.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605579328688004034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/span&gt; Knitted Flower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;Cascade 220 Heathers/O-Wool Bulky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;a few hours / Quelques heures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications: &lt;/span&gt;I only used the pattern to make the petals and leaves, they were assembled differently/Je n'ai utilisé le patron que pour faire les pétales et feuilles, elles ont été assemblées différemment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/topstitchgirl/knitted-flower-2"&gt;Ravelry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;It was supposed to be a hair accessory, I made this instead using the same pattern as before. The details on how I made it are on my Ravelry page. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'était supposé être un accessoire pour les cheveux, j'ai fait une autre broche. Les détails sur comment je l'ai fait sont sur ma page Ravelry (en anglais).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3127730066517303189?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3127730066517303189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3127730066517303189' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3127730066517303189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3127730066517303189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/05/encore.html' title='Encore'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fphu2NY3bzI/TcsEsrsNorI/AAAAAAAACZM/5QrYnIhD8vM/s72-c/IMG_3639.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5426207303289822204</id><published>2011-05-09T18:07:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T19:26:56.822-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fleur tricotée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted flower'/><title type='text'>Knitted Flower/Fleur tricotée</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poOtNlsnI5s/Tchl-nM0IWI/AAAAAAAACY8/1j3h-cYMwg8/s1600/IMG_3633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poOtNlsnI5s/Tchl-nM0IWI/AAAAAAAACY8/1j3h-cYMwg8/s320/IMG_3633.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604841862611607906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Lien"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Lien" class="gl_link" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QwF-n_vfKAs/Tchl-wThScI/AAAAAAAACZE/AU_Dakg4QEA/s1600/IMG_3638.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="display: block; font-weight: bold;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Lien"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Lien" class="gl_link" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/norwayneedles/121174825/"&gt;Knitted Flower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Marra Collection Inca Gold Collection &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time Required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: a few hours/Quelques heures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; None/Aucunes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/topstitchgirl/knitted-flower"&gt;Ravelry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QwF-n_vfKAs/Tchl-wThScI/AAAAAAAACZE/AU_Dakg4QEA/s1600/IMG_3638.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QwF-n_vfKAs/Tchl-wThScI/AAAAAAAACZE/AU_Dakg4QEA/s320/IMG_3638.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604841865055652290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I don't know why but I am attracked to patterns involving flowers. Yesterday, on my way home, I stopped by the big bookstore and saw &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Knit-Crochet-Motifs-Anything-but-Heather-Lodinsky/9781596684348-item.html?ikwid=150+knit&amp;amp;ikwsec=Books"&gt;this book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; with whick I fell in love even if I didn't take it home. I was so inspired that I googled for knitted flower patterns and found &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/norwayneedles/121174825/"&gt;this free one&lt;/a&gt; and I got immediately to work making it. I used a worsted weight yarn that called for a 4.5mm sized needle, I used a 4mm to make it smaller. I kind of wish I had gone smaller with the needles but it's not really a big deal. I initially worked 20 rows before making the decreases but I realized that it was going to be humongous and considering the size of this version, done with 12 rows before the decreases, it was a wise decision to make smaller. I will redo the beeding though. I feel that it's a little to loosely done and they are not independent of  other so if one runs away a few others will surely follow. I think I will make another one tonight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais je suis attirée par les projets impliquant la fabrication de fleur. Hier en rentrant à la maison, je suis allé faire un tour à la grande librairie où j'ai vu &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Knit-Crochet-Motifs-Anything-but-Heather-Lodinsky/9781596684348-item.html?ikwid=150+knit&amp;amp;ikwsec=Books"&gt;ce livre&lt;/a&gt; que j'ai vraiment aimé même si je ne l'ai pas ramené. Il m'a inspiré à chercher un patron pour me faire une fleur tricotée  et ai trouvé&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/norwayneedles/121174825/"&gt; celle-ci&lt;/a&gt;. Je me suis tout de suite mise à la tâche  pour la faire. J'ai utilisé un fil de grosseur moyenne qui requiert des aiguilles de 4.5mm mais j'ai préféré faire les pétales avec un 4mm afin qu'elles soient plus petites. Je regrette un peu de ne pas avoir utilisé une aiguille encore plus petite. Initialement j'ai travaillé 20 rangées avant de faire les diminutions mais me rendant compte que cela donnerait une broche énorme, j'ai réduit ça à 12 rangées avant de faire les diminutions. Une chose par contre, les perles ne sont pas assez solidement attachées et ne sont pas indépendantes l'une de l'autre, je vais donc les réattachées. Je crois par contre que je vais m'en faire une autre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5426207303289822204?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5426207303289822204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5426207303289822204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5426207303289822204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5426207303289822204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/05/knitted-flowerfleur-tricotee.html' title='Knitted Flower/Fleur tricotée'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poOtNlsnI5s/Tchl-nM0IWI/AAAAAAAACY8/1j3h-cYMwg8/s72-c/IMG_3633.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6602681475584108637</id><published>2011-04-13T19:30:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:35:42.017-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jupe tricotée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Véronik Avery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Olive Heather Skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted skirt'/><title type='text'>Jupe Olive Heather Skirt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uPaKYWktzY/TaeArhmOPQI/AAAAAAAACY0/lKyUaWcjQBE/s1600/IMG_3601.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uPaKYWktzY/TaeArhmOPQI/AAAAAAAACY0/lKyUaWcjQBE/s320/IMG_3601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595582547272547586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;Olive Heather Skirt de/par Véronik Avery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;Diamond Galway Heather&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time Required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;One week/Une semaine &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; See below/Voir &lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyLeft" title="Aligné à gauche" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 10);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;img src="img/blank.gif" alt="Aligné à gauche" class="gl_align_left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ci-bas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;          &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;So far, with all the natural occurrences that confirms that the 2012 Armageddon is around the corner, one has gone unnoticed: hell has frozen over. Why? Because I had pretty much sworn to myself that's when I'd ever knit myself a skirt. How did I end up making this one? Well, add this to the latest spur of the moment  knitting projects that I've done so far this year. First, I fell in love with the dresses in Kristina McGowan's Modern Top Down Knitting and when I ordered it, I also got Véronik Avery's Knitting 24/7. Somehow I figure that a skirt wasn't far off a dress. Her Olive Heather skirt caught my eye, it drove me to dig in my yarn stash where I found this  Diamond Galway Heathers yarn, bought about 5 years ago. In fact I had started making a poncho with in (worked on it when I was in London… in 2006).  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Because my top and bottom half are two different sizes, I cast on the number of stitches for the size Large and when I started the decreases for the waist I made extra decreases to have the waist at a size Small, forming two darts at the front and four at the back (when you have a booty, four darts makes for better shaping). I was contemplating adding elastic to the yarn when making the ribbed waistband but following a note in Ravelry I crocheted a thin elastic band at the bottom of the rib using a technique from McGowan's book and that greatly helped to keep it in place.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;My choosing to do a wet block made the skirt a couple inches longer then the finished measurements in the patter, though my row gauge was off so I knew that would probably happen. The crochet stitches tightened the waist opening a bit, making it of a high waist skirt on me since it sits around my belly button. I think I'll crochet some narrow belt loops just under the ribbed edge, that should give me another option on how to wear it. One reason why I chose to do a wet block: I used the yarn from my poncho without ripping it and stretching out the kinks first, resulting a textured stitch that bothered me (combined with this shade of green it looked like a grass skirt, lesson learned). Washing it took care of that even if I can still see that the stitches are not uniform but I'll probably stop noticing this over time.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Overall, I absolutely love this skirt. I will try to wear it as much a few ties before it gets too warm.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;PS: this is actually the second item I made from Véronik's book. I am listed in the credits as one of the needles for hire.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JdA8F_AStT8/TaYmasHQE1I/AAAAAAAACYs/JV3A8Y0Nj7s/s1600/IMG_3597.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JdA8F_AStT8/TaYmasHQE1I/AAAAAAAACYs/JV3A8Y0Nj7s/s320/IMG_3597.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595201827014447954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;Avec tous les phénomènes naturels qui semblent confirmer la fin du monde en 2012, il y en a un qui est passé inaperçu: les poules ont maintenant des dents. Pourquoi? Parce que j'ai toujours pensé que ce serait à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;e moment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;là que je me tricoterais une jupe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;Ceci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; est donc un autre projet que j'ai fait sur un coup de tête cette année. Ça a commencé lorsque je suis tombée par hasard sur le livre Mordern Top Down Knitting de Kristin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; McGowan et ai adoré pre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;que tous les modèles du livre. En le commandant en lig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;e j'en ai profité pour &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;enfin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; me procurer Knitting 24/7 de Véronik Avery et cette jupe est ce qui m'a frappé en premier. Fouillant dans ma réserve de fil je suis tombé sur le fil Galway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; Heathers de Diamond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; que je me suis procuré il y a près de cinq ans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;. E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;n fait j'avais &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;même &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;commencé à me faire un poncho avec, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;sur lequel j'aivais&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; travaillé &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;lorsque j'ai été &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;à Londres … 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;yant deux tailles différentes au haut et bas du corps, j'ai monté le nombre de maille nécessaire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; pour la taille Large et lorsque j'ai commencé à faire les diminutions nécessaires pour la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;bande de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;taille j'en ai fait des supplémentaires afin de afin que la taille soit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;de grandeur petite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;, formant deux pinces à l'avant et quatre à l'arrière (lorsqu'on a un généreux popotin comme moi quatre pinces est l'idéal pour donner une meilleure forme au vêtement). J'ai pensé incorporer un élastique avec le fil au moment de former le point de côte à la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt; bande de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr-CA"&gt;taille mais suivant un exemple vu sur Ravelry j'ai employé une technique du livre de McGowan et ai posé un élastique à la base de la bande de taille au crochet. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;" lang="fr-CA"&gt;Le fait que je forme la jupe en la lavant  a résulté que la jupe s'est retrouvé à être plus long de deux pouces que les mesures finales dans le patron mais je crois que mon échantillon un peu plus long au niveau des rangées en est surement la cause. Les points de crochet à la taille ont en quelque peu restreint l'ouverture, du coup faisant de la jupe un modèle à taille haute vu qu'elle s'appuie au niveau de mon nombril. Je crois que je rajouterai des passants pour une ceinture mince, me donnant ainsi une autre façon de la porter. Une raison pour laquelle j'ai choisi de former la jupe en la lavant est que j'ai utilisé le fil du poncho sans le défaire ni le laver pour enlever la texture crépue. Résultat: on aurait dit que la jupe était faite avec un tapis de faux gazon. En tout cas je retiens cette leçon. C'est beaucoup moins apparent même si je le vois encore.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;" lang="fr-CA"&gt;Dans l'ensemble j'adore cette jupe, je la porterai quelque fois avant qu'il ne fasse trop chaud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;" lang="fr-CA"&gt;PS: C'est est en fait le second projet du livre de Véronik que je fais. Mon nom se trouve dans la liste de mercenaires de l'aiguille dans les dernières pages…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;" lang="fr-CA"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6602681475584108637?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6602681475584108637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6602681475584108637' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6602681475584108637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6602681475584108637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/jupe-olive-heather-skirt.html' title='Jupe Olive Heather Skirt'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uPaKYWktzY/TaeArhmOPQI/AAAAAAAACY0/lKyUaWcjQBE/s72-c/IMG_3601.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1472560052471261855</id><published>2011-04-13T18:39:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T20:25:33.118-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jared Flood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='écharpe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BrooklynTweed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guernsey wrap'/><title type='text'>Écharpe Guernsey wrap</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rlLTJ0XZg0/TaYmZV0q1nI/AAAAAAAACYM/qejC6eKIFT8/s1600/IMG_3582.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rlLTJ0XZg0/TaYmZV0q1nI/AAAAAAAACYM/qejC6eKIFT8/s320/IMG_3582.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595201803851060850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-knDNhyEqJCs/TaYmZSaIibI/AAAAAAAACYU/isLYEB4HO3c/s1600/IMG_3585.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-knDNhyEqJCs/TaYmZSaIibI/AAAAAAAACYU/isLYEB4HO3c/s320/IMG_3585.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595201802934454706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://brooklyntweed.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;amp;cPath=2_4&amp;amp;products_id=30"&gt;Guernsey wrap&lt;/a&gt; by/de Jared Flood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Cascade 220 Wool Heathers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time Required/Temps Requis:&lt;/span&gt; About a couple months/Environ deux mois&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modification: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;None/Aucune&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This project was another spontaneous thing for me to do even if I had been eyeing that pattern for a while. I actually got the yarn thinking I was going to do something else but then it turned out to be perfect for this project for the yarn so I quickly cast it on. Not much to say besides the fact that the charts were easy to follow, as long I was paying attention, I even followed his recommendation of doing a sewn bind off. Blocking this was a challenge, I have cats so putting this on the floor was out of the question but I don't have an elevated surface long enough to lay this down. I managed to put my foam pieces on my dinner table with the end pieces on the back of a chair. Since I did a wet block it had stretched out to about 90 inches but I kept it close to the 74 inches as instructed then stretched the width to 17 inches. I don't have blocking wire so I used about a million needles to pin the wrap on the foam blocks. I like how light it feels, this will be a great thing to have on those slightly cool days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce projet est un autre projet spontané. Je m'étais procuré le fil pensant faire un autre projet mais j'ai assez vite décidé de faire cet écharpe, bien que cela faisait un certain temps que je disais que je voulais le faire. Pas grand chose à dire sur le travail, les tableaux étaient faciles à suivre, lorsque je portais attention à ce que je faisais, et j'ai même fait le rabat cousu tel que recommandé. Faire le blocage fut un défi: ayant des chats, l'idée de poser le projet par terre était hors de question. Par contre, ne n'ai pas de surface élevée assez long pour le poser. Je l'ai donc mis sur ma table à diner avec les extrémités sur le dos de chaises. Vu que j'ai fait un blocage mouillé, l'écharpe s'est étiré à 90 pouces mais je l'ai formé à environ 74 pouces afin de avec la largeur à 17 pouces. N'ayant pas des broches à former j'ai utilisé environ un million d'épingle afin de le maintenir en place. J'aime bien le fait qu'il semble si léger tout en étant chaud. Ceci sera très pratique lors de journées frisquets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1472560052471261855?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1472560052471261855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1472560052471261855' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1472560052471261855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1472560052471261855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/echarpe-guernsey-wrap.html' title='Écharpe Guernsey wrap'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3rlLTJ0XZg0/TaYmZV0q1nI/AAAAAAAACYM/qejC6eKIFT8/s72-c/IMG_3582.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8789783067384525349</id><published>2011-04-02T16:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T17:13:17.284-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pouf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Puff Daddy&apos;s Baby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ottoman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='puff'/><title type='text'>Puff Daddy's Grown Up Baby</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TS44V_tcI-I/AAAAAAAACWI/A14iijGiQkg/s1600/IMG_3442.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TS44V_tcI-I/AAAAAAAACWI/A14iijGiQkg/s320/IMG_3442.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561444540379571170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;A combo of/Une combinaison de &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pickles.no/puff-daddys-baby-eng/"&gt;Puff Daddy's baby&lt;/a&gt; and/et &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pickles.no/puff-mama-en/"&gt;Puff Mama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Red Heart Chunky Comfort 400g skeins / Balles de 400g Red Heart Chunky Comfort&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;About a week/À peu près une semaine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications: &lt;/span&gt;Knitted in the round and I added a liner before stuffing it / Tricoté en rond et j'y ai inséré une doublure avant de le remplir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;It's about time that I got around to posting this project. It was a spur of the moment thing that I made earlier this year, technically this is my first FO of 2011. Knitted in the round, I started out with 16 sts and worked my way up to about 96. Then work evenly until I figured I had just enough yarn left to do the decreases and I stuffed it along the way. I made a simple liner using a grey jersey, I folded it lengthwise, then sewed along the oped side and bottom, turned the sac created inside out and then I put it inside the pouf. I stuffed with regular filler but I think that I may take it out and replace it with shredded foam filler instead, it may hold it's shape better. So there you go, my crazy spur of the moment project. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, il est à peu près temps que je vous présente  le premier projet que j'ai terminé cette année. Je me suis levée un bon matin et me suis dit bon, je le fais. Travaillant en rond, j'ai commencé avec 16 mailles, ai fait des augmentations jusqu'à ce que j'en aies 96. J'ai continué à travailler jusqu'à ce qu'il ne reste que juste assez de fil pour faire les diminutions et terminer le projet. J'ai fait un genre de doublure avec un tissu jersey gris que j'ai simplement plié sur la longueur et fait un couture le long du côté et au bas, et j'ai ensuite inséré le sac dans le pouf et l'ai rempli avec de rembourrage ordinaire. Je crois par contre que je vais changer le rembourrage par de la mousse déchiquetée, je pense que le pouf en gardera mieux sa forme. Et donc voilà, mon projet coup de tête.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8789783067384525349?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8789783067384525349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8789783067384525349' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8789783067384525349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8789783067384525349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/puff-daddys-grown-up-baby.html' title='Puff Daddy&apos;s Grown Up Baby'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TS44V_tcI-I/AAAAAAAACWI/A14iijGiQkg/s72-c/IMG_3442.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3211987151208785292</id><published>2011-03-13T13:14:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T13:28:15.963-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitted toy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jouet tricoté'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Koala'/><title type='text'>Joey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NW-PSzj2iQ/TXz7iD1wxuI/AAAAAAAACYE/RxojhsW0YTY/s1600/IMG_3565.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NW-PSzj2iQ/TXz7iD1wxuI/AAAAAAAACYE/RxojhsW0YTY/s320/IMG_3565.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583614200597497570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/patron:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://knittedtoybox.blogspot.com/2008/11/koala-baby.html"&gt; Koala Baby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil: &lt;/span&gt;Peruvian Highland wool, scrap of Cascade 220 for inside the ear/Peruvian Highland wool, un peu de Cascade 220 pour l'intérieur de l'oreil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;about 5 hours/Environ 5 heures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modications:&lt;/span&gt; I didn't completely close up the legs and sewed the open edge on the body for a larger leg/Je n'ai pas complètement fermer les jambes avant d'en coudre le côté ouver sur le corps afin d'avoir des jambes plus large&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;How's this for getting side tracked: I went to my LYS to get yarn to  finish the Guernsey wrap I'm working on, walked out with a desire a knitted  toy designer, found this pattern, dove into my stash and decided that I would make this toy  that very evening. Didn't think it was that small, the plan was to give  this to my niece but she'll lose it within the hour. So I'll make  another twice or three times bigger, I haven't decided yet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici comment on peut dévier d'un plan établi: j'ai été au magasin de tricot m'acheter du fil pour terminer un châle sur lequel je travaille. J'en sort avec un désir de faire un jouet tricoté, ai trouvé ces instructions, ai fouillé dans mes réserves de fil et ai décidé que je ferai ce toutou la soirée-même. Je ne pensais pas qu'il serait si petit, je pensais le donner à ma nièce mais il est certain qu'elle le perdrais dans l'heure qui suit. Je crois que je vais le refaire, je n'ai pas encore décidé si ce sera deux out trois fois la grosseur de celui-ci.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3211987151208785292?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3211987151208785292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3211987151208785292' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3211987151208785292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3211987151208785292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/joey.html' title='Joey'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NW-PSzj2iQ/TXz7iD1wxuI/AAAAAAAACYE/RxojhsW0YTY/s72-c/IMG_3565.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-68867726256074310</id><published>2011-03-12T14:32:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T19:38:11.891-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yoga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arc inversé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dhanurasana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yoga today'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reversed bow pose'/><title type='text'>New practice/Nouvelle pratique</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5VZPAcIbZXk/TXvKfv8Ec8I/AAAAAAAACX8/uxXgqcj34nk/s1600/IMG_3553.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5VZPAcIbZXk/TXvKfv8Ec8I/AAAAAAAACX8/uxXgqcj34nk/s320/IMG_3553.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583278809849033666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've been telling myself for years that I should get into yoga. I finally took that step last October after I sprained my back laying floor tiles, I even had to do a fitness evaluation a week later and that didn't help at all. I survived the test but it took a month for the inflammation to go away. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Seeing a future of joint and back problems, I figured it was time for a serious prevention program. I had known about the website &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.yogatoday.com"&gt;Yoga Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; before I subscribed, thus allowing me to practice at home and giving me access to their entire library anytime I want to, not being limited to the one weekly free class. I started off practicing sporadically, at best every other day but I recently changed my number of practices to 6 times a week, the sixth day being more relaxed (I just do a novice level lesson). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I have a long way to go with regards to many &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;asanas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; (Sanskrit for poses) but I surprised myself a couple of weeks ago by being able to do a reversed bow pose (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;dharunasana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;), or at least something close. It's not perfect (though it's possible that I was coming out of it when this shot was taken) but one good thing about having as little flexibility as I do (I can't touch the floor with my fingers when I bend down unless I bend my knees), regular practice of any pose yields noticeable (if sometimes incremental)  progress, thus keeping me motivated to continue. Simply said: I just plain like it. Namaste!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cela faisait des années que je me disais que je devrais me mettre au yoga lorsque je me suis fait mal au bas du dos en octobre dernier en posant des tuiles sur mon plancher (une évaluation de condition physique une semaine plus tard n'a pas arrangée les choses).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y voyant un signe annonciateur de problèmes à venir au niveau de mes jointures et du dos, je me suis finalement abonnée au site  &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.yogatoday.com/"&gt;Yoga Today&lt;/a&gt;, me permettant de pratiquer à la maison et me donnant aussi accès à toute leur bibliothèque de leçons en tout temps au lieu d'être limitée au cours hebdomadaire gratuit. J'ai commencé en pratiquement sporadiquement mais il y a quelques semaines j'ai fait le choix d'augmenter ma pratique à 6 jours pars semaine, le sixième étant plus relax car j'y fait un cours de niveau novice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sachant que j'ai beaucoup de progrès à faire par rapport à plusieurs &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;asana&lt;/span&gt;, mot sanskrit qui veut dire "pose", je me  suis donc étonnée de pouvoir faire l'arc inversé (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dharnurasana&lt;/span&gt;), ou du moins quelque chose qui s'en rapproche. La pose n'est pas parfaite (quoiqu'il soit possible que j'en sortais au moment de la prise de photo) mais s'il est un côté positif être aussi peu flexible que moi (je ne peux toucher mes orteils lorsque je me penche en avant que si je plie les genous), c'est le fait que toute pratique régulière de tout asana mène à des progrès tangibles et donc me garde motivée à poursuivre. En réalité, je continue à faire du yoga tout simplement parce que j'aime ça. Namasté!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-68867726256074310?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/68867726256074310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=68867726256074310' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/68867726256074310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/68867726256074310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-practicenouvelle-pratique.html' title='New practice/Nouvelle pratique'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5VZPAcIbZXk/TXvKfv8Ec8I/AAAAAAAACX8/uxXgqcj34nk/s72-c/IMG_3553.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5942641920571805111</id><published>2011-03-06T18:41:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T19:04:14.898-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sac de tricot'/><title type='text'>Knitting bag/Sac de tricot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bEKXUX8w5A/TXQcFI2G-OI/AAAAAAAACXE/ErtFF-PEB2k/s1600/IMG_3524.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bEKXUX8w5A/TXQcFI2G-OI/AAAAAAAACXE/ErtFF-PEB2k/s320/IMG_3524.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581116712818243810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZGEVqMj_rAA/TXQcF7Hw3eI/AAAAAAAACXc/0hW7WHGpSgM/s1600/IMG_3531.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZGEVqMj_rAA/TXQcF7Hw3eI/AAAAAAAACXc/0hW7WHGpSgM/s320/IMG_3531.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581116726314065378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XfiPmfCdfqM/TXQcFp4XD_I/AAAAAAAACXU/YKWqkYW-t4o/s1600/IMG_3528.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XfiPmfCdfqM/TXQcFp4XD_I/AAAAAAAACXU/YKWqkYW-t4o/s320/IMG_3528.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581116721686056946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhfevjfbk64/TXQcFaIDPOI/AAAAAAAACXM/gujUpEDzZCQ/s1600/IMG_3527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhfevjfbk64/TXQcFaIDPOI/AAAAAAAACXM/gujUpEDzZCQ/s320/IMG_3527.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581116717456899298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ThDzeETUSjo/TXQedI68KcI/AAAAAAAACXs/hgbXYKL3z_Q/s1600/IMG_3533.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ThDzeETUSjo/TXQedI68KcI/AAAAAAAACXs/hgbXYKL3z_Q/s320/IMG_3533.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581119324178622914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;On the hair board that I'm part of we have a pretty active craft section were some of us show off our creations. One member made a series of crocheted letter shaped pillows, I requested one for my niece and she promptly obliged. As a thank you, I dug into my stash and made her this knitting bag (with a wrapped cardboard bottom)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; and yarn pouch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. This project reminded me how much I actually like making bags, they can be tricky to make and do require serious sewing skills if you're making one without a pattern. I'm particularly proud of this one, so much so I was a little sad to let it go. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je fais partie d'un forum où l'on cause cheveux mais on y trouve aussi une section dédiée à l'artisanat. Un membre y avait montré une série de coussins en forme de lettres faits au crochets que j'ai adoré, je lui en ai demandé un pour ma nièce ce qu'elle a sitôt fait. Pour la remercier je lui ai fait ce sac pour ses travaux d'aiguilles (qui inclut une base en carton enveloppée de tissu) ainsi que cette petite poche à fil de laine. Ce projet m'a rappelé à quel point que j'aime faire des sacs, ils peuvent être un peu compliqués à faire et requièrent de sérieuses connaissances en coutures si l'on en fait un sans patron. Je suis vraiment fière de celui-ci et suis triste de m'en séparer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5942641920571805111?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5942641920571805111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5942641920571805111' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5942641920571805111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5942641920571805111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/craft-bagsac-dartisanat.html' title='Knitting bag/Sac de tricot'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bEKXUX8w5A/TXQcFI2G-OI/AAAAAAAACXE/ErtFF-PEB2k/s72-c/IMG_3524.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3229186798255179822</id><published>2011-02-06T18:58:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T21:37:19.556-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='B5454'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe portefeuille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Butterick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wrap dress'/><title type='text'>Butterick B5454</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TU813S6ogtI/AAAAAAAACW8/JTHaNU6_eD0/s1600/IMG_3517.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TU813S6ogtI/AAAAAAAACW8/JTHaNU6_eD0/s320/IMG_3517.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570730488167432914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TU813eM395I/AAAAAAAACW0/6mgaEaKPTCo/s1600/IMG_3514.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TU813eM395I/AAAAAAAACW0/6mgaEaKPTCo/s320/IMG_3514.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570730491196733330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://butterick.mccall.com/b5454-products-10837.php?page_id=155"&gt;Butterick B5454&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabric/Tissu:&lt;/span&gt; Tricot 100% polyester knit fabric&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; I made an FBA and added a side dart on the top/J'ai fait un ajustement pour poitrine forte et rajouté une pince au haut de la robe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've been wanting to do a wrap dress for a long time so when I saw this knit fabric at a 3m for 1 sale, I snapped it up for this purpose, I got the pattern at a previous and it was serendipity. I initially cut it in a size 10 from top to bottom because the hip measurement was well in excess of  my own but as I suspected it was too small because they measured with the pleats unfolded. So I redid it this time making the hips at the size 14.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Anyhow, it was a quick project even if I had to do it twice. Before I recut the fabric I  made a slight FBA that added a side dart. I assembled the pieces almost entirely with my overlock machine save for some topstitching that required my sewing machine. This dress has one downside: it shows every bump and roll so undergarment choice will be crucial. &lt;/span&gt;I&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;t's a bit shorter then I expected though, I would have preferred it being a couple inches longer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cela fait longtemps que je voulais faire une robe portefeuille et lorsque j'ai vu ce tissu&lt;br /&gt;à la mercerie dans une vente de trois pour un, je l'ai aussitôt acheté  pour ce projet, le patron avait été acheté précédemment. J'ai  initialement coupé le tissu à la taille 10 étant donné que le les  mensurations de la hanche excédait les miennes mais ça s'est avéré trop  petit. J'ai donc recouper la robe en coupant la jupe à la taille 14 aux hanches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce fut un autre projet rapide même si j'ai du le refaire une seconde fois. J'ai profité du fait que je devait recouper le tissu pour fairet un ajustement pour poitrine forte ce qui a rajouté une pince à la poitrine. J'ai complètement assemblé la robe avec ma machine à surjet sauf pour quelques surpiqures faites avec ma machine à coudre. Cette robe, ou plutôt ce tissu, a un défaut: il montre toutes les rondeurs et plis ci qui rendra crucial le choix de sous-vêtements. Je suis aussi étonnée par la longueur, j'aurais préféré que ce soit un pouce ou deux plus long.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3229186798255179822?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3229186798255179822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3229186798255179822' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3229186798255179822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3229186798255179822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/02/butterick-b5454.html' title='Butterick B5454'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TU813S6ogtI/AAAAAAAACW8/JTHaNU6_eD0/s72-c/IMG_3517.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6174708102251620544</id><published>2011-01-25T20:32:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T21:28:30.992-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fuseau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nostepinne'/><title type='text'>Nostepinne/Fuseau</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96JpvkQjI/AAAAAAAACWY/5ds3j0pPNNM/s1600/IMG_3485.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96JpvkQjI/AAAAAAAACWY/5ds3j0pPNNM/s320/IMG_3485.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566301970695995954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96KCoqy4I/AAAAAAAACWo/dxi8wFGnL_k/s1600/IMG_3489.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96KCoqy4I/AAAAAAAACWo/dxi8wFGnL_k/s320/IMG_3489.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566301977377950594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96J3F1iLI/AAAAAAAACWg/KGp_Max4fmU/s1600/IMG_3496.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96J3F1iLI/AAAAAAAACWg/KGp_Max4fmU/s320/IMG_3496.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566301974279063730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Three weeks ago you would have said the word nostepinne to me and I'd have no idea what you're talking about. After reading about it and looking it up, I became obsessed it got this one on Etsy. I already have a mechanical ball winder but I liked the idea of the portability of this on top of being pretty. I just got it in the mail today, wound some leftover yarn I had lying around and I have to say I like it a lot. I think there's about 100 m of yarn in there and it took me less then 45 mins  to wind but I think that my speed, and the resulting skein, will improve with practice. One thing is certain, the arm holding and turning this thing gets a workout. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y trois semaines, je ne savais qu'un tel truc existait. Après avoir fait des recherches sur ce que c'était j'en suis devenue obsédée et en ai acheté un sur Etsy.com. J'ai déjà une bobineuse mécanique mais j'aimais le fait que ceci était portable en plus d'être joli. Je l'ai reçu aujourd'hui et j'avais hâte de l'essayer donc j'ai embobiner du fil qu'il me restait d'un autre projet. Il doit bien y avoir une centaine de mètre environ et ça m'a pris moins de 45 mins à faire. Je crois bien que ma vitesse, et la balle qui en résultera, s'amélioreront avec de la pratique. Une chose est certaine, le bras qui tient le fuseau travaille très fort.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6174708102251620544?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6174708102251620544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6174708102251620544' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6174708102251620544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6174708102251620544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/nostepinnefuseau.html' title='Nostepinne/Fuseau'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TT96JpvkQjI/AAAAAAAACWY/5ds3j0pPNNM/s72-c/IMG_3485.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6779487680141774340</id><published>2011-01-15T14:32:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T16:38:14.681-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tuque'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chapeau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interweave Lace and Eyelets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clover lace stitch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dentelle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beret'/><title type='text'>Clover beany</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TTH3EVqaL1I/AAAAAAAACWQ/BTFNjK5_tMs/s1600/IMG_3446.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TTH3EVqaL1I/AAAAAAAACWQ/BTFNjK5_tMs/s320/IMG_3446.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562498668685832018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Instructions&lt;/span&gt;: Improvised by / Improvisé par moi même&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Lamb's Pride Worsted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt; A few weeks off and on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Hello All! This is actually my second project completed so far this year, the first one will be posted soon enough. In the mean time, here's a beanie I improvised. It was supposed to be a tam, maybe on someone with a normal sized head but now when you have dreadlocs like I do. Still, I like it. It's actually the second version, I ripped the first one with have a different stitch because I didn't like the way it puckered at the centre. Welp, nothing more to be said about it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allo à Tous! Ceci est en fait mon deuxième projet terminé en ce début d'année, je devrais publier le premier projet sous peu. Ce chapeau était supposé être un large béret, peut être pour quelqu'un à tête normale mais pas avec les dreadl0cs comme j'en ai. Mais j'aime tout de même. Ceci en est la deuxième version, j'ai défait la version précédente parce que je n'aimais pas la façon qu'il fronçait au haut du chapeau. Et bien, voilà le travail.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6779487680141774340?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6779487680141774340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6779487680141774340' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6779487680141774340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6779487680141774340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/clover-beany.html' title='Clover 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width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TPWWUwXWMWI/AAAAAAAACV0/NN-rcakM_GE/s320/IMG_3363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545503799501009250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/span&gt; Created by moi / Créé par moi-même&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Can't remember / Je ne m'en rappelle pas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required / Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: A few evenings / Quelques soirées&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Long story short: I wanted a neckwarmer, did an initial version that I didn't like, ripped it and now this. Yes it's a double-garter super chunky yarn scarf with buttons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Version abrégée de cette histoire: Je voulais un cache-cou, en ai fait un que je n'aimais pas. Je l'ai donc défait et voici ce qui en a résulté. Oui il s'agit essentiellement d'un foulard en point mousse fait avec un super gros fil et des boutons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5225837155221561252?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5225837155221561252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5225837155221561252' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5225837155221561252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5225837155221561252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-neckwarmerun-autre-cache-cou.html' title='Another neckwarmer/un autre cache cou'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TPLi-UVMrhI/AAAAAAAACVM/DjoqlG792Bo/s72-c/IMG_3362.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1142618724269637485</id><published>2010-11-21T17:58:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-24T20:38:26.507-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soins de cheveux négroïdes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='afro textured hair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheveux qui poussent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dreadlocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hair progress'/><title type='text'>Hair update</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmkSQrKqQI/AAAAAAAACVE/MROlhrWRb3Y/s1600/IMG_3355.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmkSQrKqQI/AAAAAAAACVE/MROlhrWRb3Y/s320/IMG_3355.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542141450076727554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;OK, so I was asked for a hair update and here you go. Right now I'm on month nine (man time flies) and so far, the locs are coming along great. I visited a loctician a couple of times to sort them out, will probably do it again next month to for a retight. I had planned on doing that myself but out of laziness I decided to just pay for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've settled on a simple routine that works great for me: I wash my hair twice a wee, once the weekend I do a pre-shampoo where I mix some coconut milk and coconut oil together and put it on my hair for about 30 mins or longer. Then I wash with Kiehl's Amino Acid shampoo (yes it's expensive but what can I say, my hair loves it). I don't use conditioner because not all of my hair is afro textured so the ones who are not don't loc easily. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Once I've  squeezed as much water as possible I simply rub some castor oil (the  kind you get in the laxative section at the pharmacy) on my locs to keep  them soft and looking healthy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I'm letting them grow but I don't think I'll let them get as long as they used to be. I like the ease of care and the fact that I don't have to put it up in a bun for work. I do want to try styling them but for now, all I've been doing is simply keep them off my face with hair clips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;And, well, that's it, nothing more to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On m'a demandé des nouvelles de mes cheveux alors voilà. J'en suis au neuvième mois depuis que j'ai commencé le processus pour avoir des dreadlocks et tout va bien jusqu'à présent. J'ai été voir une styliste de fois pour l'entretien, et le ferai peut-être une autre fois. Je pourrais bien resserrer les racines moi-même mas par pur paresse, je préfère payer pour ce service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai trouvé une routine assez simple qui fonctionne: je lave mes cheveux deux fois par semaine, lorsque je le fait le week-end je commence par faire un traitement avec du lait de coco mélangé avec de l'huile de coco je laisse dans mes cheveux pendant au moins 30 minutes. Ensuite je les lave avec le shampoing aux acides aminés de Kiehl's. Oui ça coute cher mais que voulez-vous, mes cheveux apprécie ce shampoing. Je n'utilise plus de revitalisant, non pas que je crois qu'il nuisible aux dreadlocks mais il empèche mes mèches moins crépus de feutrer. Une fois complètement essorés je met de un peu d'huile de ricin (que l'on  trouve en pharmacie dans les rayons des laxatifs) dans toutes les  nattes afin qu'elles soient douces et aient une belle apparence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne crois pas que je les laisserai devenir aussi long que mes anciens dreads. J'aime bien la facilité d'entretien et surtout le fait que je n'aie pas à me faire un chignon pour le boulot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et... c'est tout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1142618724269637485?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1142618724269637485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1142618724269637485' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1142618724269637485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1142618724269637485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/11/hair-update.html' title='Hair update'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmkSQrKqQI/AAAAAAAACVE/MROlhrWRb3Y/s72-c/IMG_3355.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1292616601636888113</id><published>2010-11-21T16:41:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-22T21:31:22.194-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vogue V8300'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='handmade buttonhole'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter coat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manteau d&apos;hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bouttonnière faite à la main'/><title type='text'>Vogue V8300</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTg5F0SLI/AAAAAAAACU8/uqmFXr94OZY/s1600/IMG_3361.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTg5F0SLI/AAAAAAAACU8/uqmFXr94OZY/s200/IMG_3361.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542123009746421938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSf1BG5lI/AAAAAAAACUE/wFwfKeaRvb0/s1600/IMG_3344.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSf1BG5lI/AAAAAAAACUE/wFwfKeaRvb0/s200/IMG_3344.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542121891961431634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8300-products-6720.php?page_id=262&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;Vogue V8300&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabric/Tissu: &lt;/span&gt;Cotton fleece for the outer, Kasha lining/Coton ouaté pour l'extérieur, kasha pour la doublure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;/span&gt;One week/Une semaine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;See below/Voir ci-dessous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I have been busy for the last few months but I have been crafting away. When one major project was recently done I decided that it was time for me to do a sewing project. I remembered the coat that I started last spring with the intention of finishing this fall but I also remembered that I had messed up when I did the the modifications so I abandoned that project and start anew. Flipping through the Vogue catalogue I came across&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8300-products-6720.php?page_id=262&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt; this pattern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, loved the collar and went for it. It was going to be a light winter jacket and that required a bit of work. I liked this project because I got to flex my tailoring muscle. See below for all the fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai été très occupée ces derniers temps mais j'ai quand même continué à travailler sur des projets de couture et tricots. Lorsque gros projet fut terminé dernièrement j'ai décidé de faire un peu de couture. Me rappelant d'un des manteaux que j'avais commencé au printemps dernier mais me rappelant aussi que j'avais fait une erreur dans les modifications, j'ai abandonné ce projet pour recommencer à zéro. Fouillant dans le catalogue de patrons Vogue, j'ai trouvé &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8300-products-6720.php?page_id=262&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;celui-ci&lt;/a&gt;, en ai adoré l'encolure et donc ai décidé de le faire. Mais pour le transformer en manteau léger d'hiver a requis un peu de travail. J'ai aimé ce projet car il m'a permis d'employer mes techniques de couture de tailleur. Voyez plus bas pour les résultats et modifications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSl0yGwBI/AAAAAAAACUk/jClTRhBc0Ww/s1600/IMG_3352.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSl0yGwBI/AAAAAAAACUk/jClTRhBc0Ww/s200/IMG_3352.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542121994977722386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTgqK843I/AAAAAAAACU0/6mCLzUHkZlM/s1600/IMG_3354.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTgqK843I/AAAAAAAACU0/6mCLzUHkZlM/s200/IMG_3354.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542123005741425522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;First major modification: adding a lining. While I was at it I added a little pocket for my cell phone for the days that I just step out without a bag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Première modification majeure: j'ai ajouté une doublure. J'ai aussi rajouté une parmenture à l'encolure dos. Et tant qu'à faire j'ai décidé de mettre une petite poche pour mon cellulaire pour les journées que je sors sans sac à main.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSif_XzGI/AAAAAAAACUU/UVphoYMJzjs/s1600/IMG_3350.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSif_XzGI/AAAAAAAACUU/UVphoYMJzjs/s200/IMG_3350.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542121937856613474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I also added a welted pocket,  first time making one in years and I'm quite proud that I pulled it off without messing up on the firs try. I used another jacket as a template to decide where I'd place the pockets and that was all she wrote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai aussi rajouté une poche passepoilée. Cela fait des années que je n'en avait pas fait et je suis assez fier de l'avoir réussi du premier coup. J'ai utilisé un autre veston comme gabarit pour en décider le placement et ce ne fut pas plus compliquer que ça.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSlO7X2QI/AAAAAAAACUc/a7u4NX3mln4/s1600/IMG_3351.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSlO7X2QI/AAAAAAAACUc/a7u4NX3mln4/s200/IMG_3351.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542121984816044290" border="0" /&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSiAAFaCI/AAAAAAAACUM/AEcvm0kefLo/s1600/IMG_3346.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSiAAFaCI/AAAAAAAACUM/AEcvm0kefLo/s200/IMG_3346.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542121929269667874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Since my sewing machine only goes forwards and backwards &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I figured it was time to learn how to make buttonholes by hand. The method  I used is a combination of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.vintagesewing.info/1930s/33-pt/pt-03.html"&gt;this vintage method &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;along with this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.craftstylish.com/item/42556/how-to-hand-sew-a-buttonhole/page/all"&gt;simple version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. Reading the modern version is what allowed me to understand the vintage method, something about 1930'instructions made no sense to me.  After I practiced making them I realized the buttons were supposed to be decorative but I figured I learned how to make them, may as well add then to this coat. They're easy to do and it's quite a zen experience to make I find. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vu que ma machine à coudre ne fait qu'avancer et reculer, j'ai décidé d'apprendre à faire des b boutonnières à la main. La méthode que j'ai utilisé est une combinaison de&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vintagesewing.info/1930s/33-pt/pt-03.html"&gt; celle-ci &lt;/a&gt;qui date des années 30 ainsi que &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vintagesewing.info/1930s/33-pt/pt-03.html"&gt;cette version simplifiée&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://laptitecharlotte.canalblog.com/archives/2007/07/02/5489361.html"&gt;en voici une en français &lt;/a&gt;que j'utiliserai pour des chemisiers). En fait, la version moderne est ce qui m'a permi de comprendre la version &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;vintage&lt;/span&gt;. Mais en faisait le manteau j'ai réalisé que les boutons étaient en fait décoratifs. J'ai d'abord pensé faire des fausses boutonnières mais je me suis finalement dit que vu que j'ai pris la peine d'apprendre comment les faire, autant le faire pour de vrai. Elles sont assez faciles à réaliser et en plus c'est assez zen comme expérience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTgTXaOBI/AAAAAAAACUs/dE5p8gitQhU/s1600/IMG_3353.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTgTXaOBI/AAAAAAAACUs/dE5p8gitQhU/s200/IMG_3353.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542122999619663890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Not really a modification so much as me employing a tailoring technique on the collar. When you are using thick fabric like this you run the risk of the undercollar rolling up to compensate. So first thing to do is to cut the undercollar shorter, in this case by as much as 1cm at the centre back tapering off to the outer edges. It still rolled up but that was because it the fleece doesn't have any body so it kept collapsing. To prevent this I stitched the undercollar to the uppercollar along the fold. If you ever get close to a man's tailored jacket, flip up the collar (like in this pic), you'll notice the same stitching.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmSl0yGwBI/AAAAAAAACUk/jClTRhBc0Ww/s1600/IMG_3352.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pas vraiment une modification, plutôt un emploi de technique de tailleur. Lorsqu'on utilise du tissu aussi épais, le dessous de col a tendance à rouler vers le haut pour compenser. Pour éviter ceci j'ai coupé le dessous de col 1cm plus court au centre dos. Mais malgré tout le col roulait quand même et ceci était parce que le tissu n'a pas assez de tenus et donc s'effondrait. Pour prévenir ceci j'ai tout simplement cousu le dessous au dessus de col le long du pli. Si jamais vous vous trouvez à proximité d'un veston pour homme fait par un tailleur, soulevez-en le col. Vous remarquerez la même couture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Other, non visible modifications: I lowered the armscye by 3/4" and I split the sleeve head to add an extra inch of ease.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autres modifications non visibles: j'ai abaissé le point de chute de l'emmanchure de 2cm et j'ai ouvert la tête de l'emmanchure afin de rajouter 2.5cm d'aisance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1292616601636888113?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1292616601636888113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1292616601636888113' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1292616601636888113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1292616601636888113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/11/vogue-v8300.html' title='Vogue V8300'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TOmTg5F0SLI/AAAAAAAACU8/uqmFXr94OZY/s72-c/IMG_3361.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1818114180301243325</id><published>2010-09-26T16:03:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T20:39:46.199-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poupée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doll'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Raggedy Ann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oh Sew Dollin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miss Prissy'/><title type='text'>Misss Prissy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJ-pMfPvF7I/AAAAAAAACT8/rOm_MhiU-i0/s1600/IMG_3322.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJ-pMfPvF7I/AAAAAAAACT8/rOm_MhiU-i0/s320/IMG_3322.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521317700190541746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/55183535/miss-prissy-rag-doll-sewing-pattern-pdf"&gt;Miss Prissy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; by/par Oh Sew Dollin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabric/Tissu&lt;/span&gt;: Cotton muslin that I dyed brown for the body, printed cotton for the dress and bloomers (not seen but it's the same fabric I used for the ribbons in the hair) / Toile coton que j'ai teint brun pour le corps et, coton imprimé pour les robes et culottes (non montrées mais c'est le même tissu que le ruban dans les cheveux&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: Under ten hours/un peu moins d'une dizaine d'heure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: I decided to make her facial features more ethnic/J'ai rendu les trait du visage plus ethnique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;A while back I set out to find black dolls for my niece and was unable to find any in Montreal. Being a seamstress I figured that I'd simply make some for her. A quick google search and I came across Oh Sew Dollin's Etsy shop where I promptly purchased the Miss Prissy pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I dyed some cotton muslin from my stash brown because I couldn't find a shade that I liked in the fabric store. Overall it was an easy and fun project to do. Stuffing the body was a bit tricky because the arms and legs are essentially small tubes but otherwise, no biggie. The facial traits were already on the pattern but when I tried to transfer them they were barely visible so I figured that I'd them free hand. And while I was at it, I gave the dolls more ethnic features for the nose and lips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;How did my niece like them? She took them out of the bag, put them aside and promptly started playing with the bag and filler paper...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a quelques temps, j'ai essayé avec insuccès de trouver des poupées noires pour ma  nièce. Étant couturière je  me suis dit que j'allais tout simplement les lui en faire. Une recherche  rapide m'a amené au site de Oh Sew Dollin où j'ai acheté le patron Miss  Prissy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce fut un projet assez facile et amusant à faire.  Rembourrer le corps ne fut pas une mince affaire étant donné que les  jambes et bras sont essentiellement des petits tubes mais sinon, aucun  problème. Il y avait des traits du visage sur le patron mais ils  n'étaient pas très visibles lorsque  j'ai voulu les transférés sur le  tissu, je les ai donc faits à mains levées. Et tant qu'a faire, j'ai  rendu le nez et les lèvres plus ethniques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qu'à fait ma nièce lorsqu'elles les a reçues? Elle les a mis de côtés pour se concentrer plutôt sur le sac et papier d'emballage qui les contenaient.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1818114180301243325?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1818114180301243325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1818114180301243325' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1818114180301243325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1818114180301243325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/09/misss-prissy.html' title='Misss Prissy'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJ-pMfPvF7I/AAAAAAAACT8/rOm_MhiU-i0/s72-c/IMG_3322.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3754559330827801520</id><published>2010-09-19T18:06:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T22:59:44.511-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Mouret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='galaxy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vogue 8280'/><title type='text'>Vogue 5280</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJaJyXF2IbI/AAAAAAAACT0/bbQr9Y696IM/s1600/IMG_3315.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJaJyXF2IbI/AAAAAAAACT0/bbQr9Y696IM/s320/IMG_3315.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518749891674120626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron: &lt;a href="http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8280-products-6705.php?page_id=855"&gt;Vogue 8280&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fabric/Tissu: &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;100% raw silk for the outer/100% soie brute pour l'intérieur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modifications:&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I used a contrasting liner/J'ai utilisé  une doublure contrastante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time required/Temps requis: &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Four evenings and one night/Quatre soirées et une nuit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;This dress is a perfect illustration of that axiom that that says that 20% of a job takes 80% of the time. It only took one evening to do the modificiations required on the pattern i. I didn't even need to do an FBA, all I had to do was remove some of the gaping at the bust for it to be close fitting. The skirt's back required more work, not unlike an FBA, and I think it will be my method now to make skirts fit me properly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;No, what really took a long time to do what lining the skirt. The pattern didn't have one and that made no sense, especially for a very light fabric like this one so I decided to add one but it had been a long time since I've done a similar type of lining on a skirt with a knife slit so it took some figuring out (and a call to my labelwhore) in order to get it finished. Assembling the rest of the dress, including the sleeves and flanges, was a breeze compared to the bottom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Otherwise it was a pretty easy project to my great surprise. I was expecting a ton of work to get it to fit like a glove but really, it didn't take any more to do then any other dresses that I've done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;PS: I did think to tack the shoulder flanges to the bust but I didn't do it solidly enough. Consequently, I ripped the stitch dancing during the wedding I was attending, leading to my flashing my brastrap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette robe est une parfaite illustration de l'axiome qui dit que 20% du  travail prend 80% du temps à accomplir. Il ne m'a fallu qu'une soirée  pour faire les modifications nécessaires au patron. Je n'ai pas eu à faire d'ajustement à la poitrine  si ce n'est que d'en enlever le bâillement à l'encolure. Par contre, la  jupe a eu besoin de plus d'ajustements (en fait j'ai utilisé une  technique similaire à celle pour poitrine forte. Je crois que  dorénavant, c'est que je privilégierai pour mes jupes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fait, ce qui a vraiment pris un temps fou fut ma décision de doubler  la jupe de la robe. Dans le patron initial, il n'y a pas de doublure  pour la jupe, un non sens surtout pour un léger tissu comme celui-ci. Le  problème a été le fait que cela fait très longtemps que je n'ai pas eu a  faire de doublure pour un ourlet qui a une ouverture et donc cela a  pris beaucoup de réflexions (ainsi qu'un appel à la pute de luxe) pour  accomplir ce boulot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais à part ce bémol, l'assemblage du reste de la robe, incluant les manches  et, a été assez facile à ma grande surprise. J'ai cru qu'il aurait fallu de beaucoup de travail pour que la robe me fasses comme un gant et au bout de compte, ce ne fut pas plus difficile que d'ajuster les autres robes que j'ai fait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: J'avais fixé le plis d'épaule au bustier mais pas assez solidement de toutes évidences. Après uns soirée passée les bras dans les air à danser, les points ont sautés et c'est la raison pour laquelle j'affiche ma bretelle de soutien-gorge.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3754559330827801520?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3754559330827801520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3754559330827801520' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3754559330827801520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3754559330827801520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/09/vogue-5280.html' title='Vogue 5280'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TJaJyXF2IbI/AAAAAAAACT0/bbQr9Y696IM/s72-c/IMG_3315.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8654426972376295697</id><published>2010-08-16T19:09:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T19:29:16.646-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ironinghttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif board cover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housse à table à repasser'/><title type='text'>New cover/Nouvelle housse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TGnHEq889yI/AAAAAAAACTY/JhC5jVc2XoE/s1600/IMG_3164.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TGnHEq889yI/AAAAAAAACTY/JhC5jVc2XoE/s320/IMG_3164.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506150902500488994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TGnHEJ-luQI/AAAAAAAACTQ/rKWLIDKzmA8/s1600/IMG_3165.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TGnHEJ-luQI/AAAAAAAACTQ/rKWLIDKzmA8/s320/IMG_3165.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506150893648984322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've had that ironing board for 15 years now. It's old cover was disgusting and the padding gave up a long time ago. The pattern I had is way too big and I didn't feel like playing around with it so I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Fabulous-Ironing-Board-Cover/"&gt;found these instructions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. The only modification was that I overlocked the elastic on the cover. I think I will get those clip thingies to pull the cover tight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cela fait 15 ans que j'ai cette table à repasser. Sa vieille housse est dégoutante et le molleton a rendu l'âme il y a fort longtemps. Le patron que j'ai est beaucoup trop grand et ça ne m'intéressait pas trop de le modifier donc j'ai utilisé &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Fabulous-Ironing-Board-Cover/"&gt;ces instructions&lt;/a&gt; à la place. La seule modification a été de surjetter l'élastique à la housse. Je vais essayer de trouver ces trucs à pinces afin de tirer sur la housse pour qu'elle soit plus serrée.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8654426972376295697?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8654426972376295697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8654426972376295697' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8654426972376295697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8654426972376295697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-covernouvelle-housse.html' title='New cover/Nouvelle housse'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TGnHEq889yI/AAAAAAAACTY/JhC5jVc2XoE/s72-c/IMG_3164.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7952915597130238068</id><published>2010-08-07T17:14:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-07T18:03:11.834-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cable scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boléro pour bébé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leaf lace kerchief'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foulard torsadé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby shrug'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shawl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chale'/><title type='text'>FOs/Projets terminés</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;I finally have some knitting FOs to show off&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai finalement des projets tricots terminés à montrer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NNhGAF1I/AAAAAAAACSo/KhQditKg8Nk/s1600/IMG_3114a.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NNhGAF1I/AAAAAAAACSo/KhQditKg8Nk/s320/IMG_3114a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502779951822149458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NOFzAB0I/AAAAAAAACSw/wenLyXNzxbo/s1600/IMG_3121.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NOFzAB0I/AAAAAAAACSw/wenLyXNzxbo/s320/IMG_3121.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502779961674565442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pattern/Modèle:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.allaboutyou.com/craft/Knitting-pattern-baby-shrug/v1"&gt;Baby Shrug&lt;/a&gt; by Debbie Bliss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil&lt;/span&gt;: Lamb's Pride Superwash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: Don't remember/je ne m'en souviens pas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: None/Aucune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So this is my niece's modelling debut, I swear she can't take a bad pic so I had trouble deciding which one to post. Of course I'm biased. Clearly the shrug is too big for her but she'll have it at least until winter 2011/2012. Now the one I made was from Debbie Bliss' Junior Knits, it's slightly different then the one I linked to but not by much. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les débuts en mannequinat de ma nièce. J'avoue avoir eu de la difficulté à ne choisir que deux photos parmi toutes celles que j'ai prises vu qu'elle ne fait aucune mauvaise photo. Et oui je ne suis absolument pas impartiale. Évidemment le boléro est trop grand pour elle, ceci devrait lui faire jusqu'à l'hiver 2011/2012. La version que j'ai fait viens du livre Junior Knits de Debbie Bliss mais les différences entres les deux modèles sont minimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NQDPveRI/AAAAAAAACTA/5jH88uaWUyU/s1600/IMG_3132.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NQDPveRI/AAAAAAAACTA/5jH88uaWUyU/s320/IMG_3132.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502779995349547282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NOnACrUI/AAAAAAAACS4/TfjqMjSTMrs/s1600/IMG_3125.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NOnACrUI/AAAAAAAACS4/TfjqMjSTMrs/s320/IMG_3125.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502779970587635010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Modèle:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/leaf-lace-kerchief"&gt;Leaf Lace Kerchief&lt;/a&gt; by Kristine LeMoine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil:&lt;/span&gt; Lamb's Pride Superwash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: About a week to knit/À peu près une semaine pour tricoter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications: &lt;/span&gt;This is supposed to be a head kerchief. I also created a edge stitch to give the sides a nice finish/Ceci est supposé être un foulard pour la tête. J'ai aussi créé un point de finition pour le côté.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;My first  shawl. Nothing much to add besides the fact that it was a quick knit. I  was confused for a second because there was a mistake in the pattern but  google+Ravelry sorted that out. I  like the results. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon premier châle. Rien à rajouter mis à part le fait que ce fut un projet assez rapide. J'ai été un peu déroutée par une erreur dans les instructions mais une petite recherche avec google et sur Ravelry m'a remis sur le droit chemin. J'aime bien le résultat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NQWtU0aI/AAAAAAAACTI/xAvYGEQWsCU/s1600/IMG_3126.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NQWtU0aI/AAAAAAAACTI/xAvYGEQWsCU/s320/IMG_3126.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502780000573903266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Modèle&lt;/span&gt;: My own creation (Cable stitch from Cables Unltangled)/Ma création (point de torsade de Cables Untangled)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn/Fil&lt;/span&gt;: Lamb's Pride Worsted in Roasted Coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: Can't remember/Je ne m'en souviens pas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: N/A ; S/O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I finished this scarf last year but never wore it, never blocked it. It's never too late I suppose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai terminé ce foulard l'an dernier mais ne l'ai ni formé ni porté. Il n'est jamais trop tard pour ça.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7952915597130238068?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7952915597130238068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7952915597130238068' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7952915597130238068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7952915597130238068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/fosprojets-termines.html' title='FOs/Projets terminés'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF3NNhGAF1I/AAAAAAAACSo/KhQditKg8Nk/s72-c/IMG_3114a.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3972112414584069007</id><published>2010-08-07T12:34:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-07T13:58:58.427-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cable scar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jambon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kimono sweater'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foulard torsadé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chandail kimono'/><title type='text'>Odds and ends/Un peu de tout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2Mw1YYOPI/AAAAAAAACSg/kx46qshziqQ/s1600/IMG_3092.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2Mw1YYOPI/AAAAAAAACSg/kx46qshziqQ/s320/IMG_3092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502709090307553522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I love using my revamped cutting table to iron but it's not always practical. At first I considered McGyvering a small ironing table but smartly I figured that making some hams would be much easier. I had to dig way back in my pattern collection to find these, McCall doesn't even make it anymore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'aime utiliser ma table de couture pour le repassage mais ce n'est pas toujours très pratique. J'ai pensé m'en fabriqué une petite table à repasser mais j'ai eu une meilleure idée en décidant de me faire des jambons. J'ai du fouiller assez loin dans mes patrons pour le trouver, McCall n'en fait plus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MwArudWI/AAAAAAAACSY/eKAwfFBnddM/s1600/IMG_3097.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MwArudWI/AAAAAAAACSY/eKAwfFBnddM/s320/IMG_3097.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502709076161623394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Last night I finally got over my desire to spend every woken moment in my sewing room. Instead I put my swift together and wound a skein of Cascade Eco wool. The cake got so big I had to remove it form the ball winder to finish winding the rest of the yarn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier soir j'ai finalement décidé qu'il était temps d'arrêté de passé tout mon  temps dans la salle de couture. J'ai donc embobiné du EcoWool de Cascade pour commencé un projet de tricot. La balle est devenue si énorme que j'ai du en faire deux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MvLSk1-I/AAAAAAAACSI/qqc_ILAkQgQ/s1600/IMG_3108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MvLSk1-I/AAAAAAAACSI/qqc_ILAkQgQ/s320/IMG_3108.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502709061829056482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;With the EcoWool I'm making this kimono sweater. At the top of the pic you can see the shawl I finished weeks ago that I've finally decided to bloc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avec le EcoWool je suis en train de faire ce chandail kimono. Au haut de la photo vous pouvez voir le châle que j'ai terminé il y quelques semaines que j'ai finalement décidé de bloquer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MvVvqgxI/AAAAAAAACSQ/8rTcvH8zudg/s1600/IMG_3107.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2MvVvqgxI/AAAAAAAACSQ/8rTcvH8zudg/s320/IMG_3107.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502709064635417362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I finished this cable scarf last year and am now blocking it. I still want to make &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://brooklyntweed.net/dryad.html"&gt;Brooklyntweed's Dryad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai terminé ce foulard à torsades l'an dernier et suis finalement en train de le former. Malgré tout je voudrais faire le modèle&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://brooklyntweed.net/dryad.html"&gt; Dryad de Brooklytweed. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3972112414584069007?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3972112414584069007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3972112414584069007' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3972112414584069007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3972112414584069007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/odds-and-endsun-peu-de-tout.html' title='Odds and ends/Un peu de tout'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TF2Mw1YYOPI/AAAAAAAACSg/kx46qshziqQ/s72-c/IMG_3092.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3568738343417075653</id><published>2010-08-04T20:53:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T22:08:40.782-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tunic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='McCall&apos;s M6080'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tunique'/><title type='text'>McCall's M6080</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM3wqlQZI/AAAAAAAACRw/iwmnWdZmYXk/s1600/IMG_3083.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM3wqlQZI/AAAAAAAACRw/iwmnWdZmYXk/s320/IMG_3083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501724046882324882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM4OH_J9I/AAAAAAAACR4/jICM6BMGuFQ/s1600/IMG_3087.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM4OH_J9I/AAAAAAAACR4/jICM6BMGuFQ/s320/IMG_3087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501724054790285266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM4qX0ngI/AAAAAAAACSA/0hUzdPtgB4s/s1600/IMG_3089.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM4qX0ngI/AAAAAAAACSA/0hUzdPtgB4s/s320/IMG_3089.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501724062372896258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern/Patron:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCall's M6080&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabric/Tissu:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cotton silk mix for the blue, linen for the print; un mélange de coton/soie pour le bleu, du lin pour l'imprimé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required/Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About a couple of days each; à peu près 2-3 jours chacun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None for the blue, I removed the pockets for the print; aucune pour le blue, j'ai retiré les poches pour l'imprimé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This summer has been about loose clothing that allow air circulation and these two fit the bill. I needed to do the print version ASAP because we're allowed to wear civilian cloth at the office on Fridays as a charity fundraiser. I won't be able to get away with the shorter blue version with tights so I made the print version longer. Actually I could get away with wearing that one without tights but I'd still need to put some on if I don't want to be arrested on my way home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Now about the pattern itself, I didn't put pockets in the print version I find that type messes the clothes' shape, especially if you have something somewhat heavy in them. I made it in a size 8 without any modifications required at all: normally if I make a dress I make the top half at a 8 or 10 with an FBA, the bottom has to be a 14. Neither version is stretched over my body in any way so that should give you an idea of how loose it is. Otherwise, a fast and easy project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cet été j'ai privilégié les vêtements avec beaucoup d'aisance qui permettent une bonne circulation d'air et ces deux tuniques répondent à ce critère. Mais passons. Je voulais terminé la tunique imprimée au plus vite car nous avons le droit de s'habiller en civil ces temps-ci pour une levée de fonds caritative.  Je ne crois pas pouvoir porter la version courte au bureau avec seulement des collants et c'est pour ça que fait l'autre plus longue.  En fait je peux porter ce dernier sans collant mais devrai en mettre pour rouler car je ne tiens pas tant que ça à me faire arrêter en rentrant à la maison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quant au patron lui-même, je n'ai pas mis les poches dans la version imprimée car je trouve qu'elles ne font que déformer le vêtement, surtout s'il y a quelque chose avec un certain poids dedans. J'ai fait les tuniques en taille 8 sans aucuns ajustements: en temps normal je dois faire mes robes en taille 8 ou 10 en haut de la ceinture avec ajustements pour poitrines fortes et le bas en 14. Aucune des versions n'est serrée de quelque façon que ce soit, ça devrait donner une idée de leur ampleur. Sinon, un projet facile et rapide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3568738343417075653?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3568738343417075653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3568738343417075653' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3568738343417075653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3568738343417075653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/mccalls-m6080.html' title='McCall&apos;s M6080'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFoM3wqlQZI/AAAAAAAACRw/iwmnWdZmYXk/s72-c/IMG_3083.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-9011036485721311746</id><published>2010-07-31T13:31:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T13:45:38.666-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Circular needle organizer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rangement pour aiguille circulaire'/><title type='text'>Still sorting/Un peu d'ordre</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFRfLrLhLjI/AAAAAAAACRg/9cZlG2BajlU/s1600/IMG_3070.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFRfLrLhLjI/AAAAAAAACRg/9cZlG2BajlU/s200/IMG_3070.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500125699100454450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFRfLwY3wMI/AAAAAAAACRo/kwQsfpPALT8/s1600/IMG_3078.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFRfLwY3wMI/AAAAAAAACRo/kwQsfpPALT8/s200/IMG_3078.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500125700498636994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I was at the office supply store, looking at CD and 4x6 picture sleeves to store my circs and I was thinking, I have binders with document protectors at home, why don't I just use those. Of course, I went bought the sleeves, only to realize they didn't work. And then I google for circ organizers and the first project I come across was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2008/1/29/whits-knits-circular-needle-organizer.html"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, exactly the same idea I had. While I was at it I figure I'd use the same idea for my DPNs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'était au magasin d'articles de bureau en train de choisir entre des feuilles à pochettes pour ranger mes aiguilles circulaires et je me disais que j'avais des cartables à la maison qui contenaient des protège-documents, pourquoi pas simplement utiliser ceux-là. J'ai préféré acheter les pochettes pour photos 4x6 pour me rendre compte qu'elles ne faisait pas l'affaire. J'ai fait une petite recherche sur Google pour me trouver &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2008/1/29/whits-knits-circular-needle-organizer.html"&gt;la même idée&lt;/a&gt; à laquelle j'avais penser. Pendant que j'y étais, j'ai fait la même choses avec mes aiguilles à double p0intes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-9011036485721311746?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/9011036485721311746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=9011036485721311746' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9011036485721311746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9011036485721311746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/still-sortingun-peu-dordre.html' title='Still sorting/Un peu d&apos;ordre'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFRfLrLhLjI/AAAAAAAACRg/9cZlG2BajlU/s72-c/IMG_3070.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1938463108190303881</id><published>2010-07-29T19:08:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T19:24:15.325-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>Finally/Finalement</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;OK, this will be a mostly wordless post. I could go on some more on the  paint, yes I have a twinge of regret not going for a deeper or cooler  red and no, it's not nearly as bright as it looks in the pics, about the  London blind done with Kaffe Fasset fabric, the fact that I have to sort  out the circs and DPNs that are sitting on the stack of chairs etc but  in the end,  I think the results of all that work speaks for itself. I really need to get a wide angle lense for my camera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci  sera un billet presque sans commentaire. Je pourrais continuer à parler  du rouge, oui j'ai un petit regret de pas avoir choisi une version plus  froid et non il n'est pas aussi phosphorescent que sur les photo, à  propos du store simple fait avec un tissu Kaffe Fasset, du fait que je  dois mettre de l'ordre dans les aiguilles circulaires et aiguilles à  double pointe qui sont sur les chaises empilées mais bon, au bout du  compte je crois que tout ce travail peut se passer du bla bla. Il faut vraiment que je mette la main sur une lentille à grand angle pour ma caméra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Click pics to enlarge&lt;/span&gt;/Cliquez sur les photos pour les aggrandir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt1CKh2XI/AAAAAAAACPw/muDI6BBKfoc/s320/Gray+sewing+room.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt1CKh2XI/AAAAAAAACPw/muDI6BBKfoc/s320/Gray+sewing+room.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Before&lt;/span&gt;/Avant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiiX7CuI/AAAAAAAACRQ/-hJ7NgZ7Utc/s1600/IMG_3065.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiiX7CuI/AAAAAAAACRQ/-hJ7NgZ7Utc/s200/IMG_3065.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499470782943398626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiUU9fYI/AAAAAAAACRI/OzCKz4enFnU/s1600/IMG_3064.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiUU9fYI/AAAAAAAACRI/OzCKz4enFnU/s200/IMG_3064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499470779172879746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiDbIrJI/AAAAAAAACRA/-S1XxQbvnIQ/s1600/IMG_3063.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiDbIrJI/AAAAAAAACRA/-S1XxQbvnIQ/s200/IMG_3063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499470774635375762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILhzJQfPI/AAAAAAAACQ4/sazAXyxbJMM/s1600/IMG_3061.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILhzJQfPI/AAAAAAAACQ4/sazAXyxbJMM/s200/IMG_3061.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499470770265423090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILhbJ_WwI/AAAAAAAACQw/MPJJj9hpRmM/s1600/IMG_3062.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILhbJ_WwI/AAAAAAAACQw/MPJJj9hpRmM/s200/IMG_3062.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499470763826043650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFIMgXkGRLI/AAAAAAAACRY/HE7enoorA-g/s1600/IMG_3059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFIMgXkGRLI/AAAAAAAACRY/HE7enoorA-g/s200/IMG_3059.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499471845193565362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1938463108190303881?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1938463108190303881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1938463108190303881' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1938463108190303881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1938463108190303881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/finallyfinalement.html' title='Finally/Finalement'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFILiiX7CuI/AAAAAAAACRQ/-hJ7NgZ7Utc/s72-c/IMG_3065.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-4274025021903313009</id><published>2010-07-28T19:58:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-28T20:14:41.349-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>In the red/Dans le rouge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFDEgbeU8JI/AAAAAAAACQo/YtqhH-p5O_0/s1600/IMG_3046.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFDEgbeU8JI/AAAAAAAACQo/YtqhH-p5O_0/s320/IMG_3046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499111206429192338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Bottom red on the left is what I wanted. For some reason I asked for the top left pink. Went back to the store, narrowed my choices of reds to the bottom two on the cards, and, using a sample they had painted on a board as a guide, I chose the one on the right. Now I'm thinking that I would have been very happy with the one on the left but I had sworn to myself that whatever I chose is what I will live with. By the by, the sewing room is done. I only have to remove the tape, do a quick sewing project, take the after pictures and that will be all she wrote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le rouge en bas à gauche est ce que je voulais initialement. Pour je ne sais quelle raison, j'ai demandé le rose en haut à gauche. Je suis donc retournée au magasin, ai fait le tour des rouges pour limiter mes choix aux deux en bas de ces cartes. En utilisant un échantillon peinturé sur un panneau comme guide,  j'ai choisi celui à droite. En ce moment je me dis que j'aurais été très contente avec le rouge à gauche mais je me suis promise de vivre avec tout choix que j'aurai fait donc pas de regret possible. En passant, la salle de couture est terminée. Il ne me reste qu'à retirer le papier masquant, un projet de couture rapide à faire, prendre des photos de tout ça et ce sera tout.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-4274025021903313009?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/4274025021903313009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=4274025021903313009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/4274025021903313009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/4274025021903313009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-reddans-le-rouge.html' title='In the red/Dans le rouge'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TFDEgbeU8JI/AAAAAAAACQo/YtqhH-p5O_0/s72-c/IMG_3046.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8181914024142630990</id><published>2010-07-26T20:37:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T23:19:18.339-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>First misstep?/Première erreur?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TE4sVcv9P0I/AAAAAAAACQg/8UiIoOA7pj0/s1600/IMG_3032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TE4sVcv9P0I/AAAAAAAACQg/8UiIoOA7pj0/s320/IMG_3032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498380942072168258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Right idea, wrong end of the colour card. I'm giving it until this weekend to cure and then I'll know for sure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonne idée, mauvais choix de couleur. Je lui donne jusqu'à ce weekend pour sécher et là j'aurai ma réponse.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8181914024142630990?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8181914024142630990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8181914024142630990' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8181914024142630990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8181914024142630990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-missteppremiere-erreur.html' title='First misstep?/Première erreur?'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TE4sVcv9P0I/AAAAAAAACQg/8UiIoOA7pj0/s72-c/IMG_3032.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8409272454043319078</id><published>2010-07-22T20:35:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T21:40:46.183-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nettoyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clean up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>Home stretch/Dernier droit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEjj8vguzUI/AAAAAAAACQY/ptDrGDiY3Hc/s1600/IMG_3029.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEjj8vguzUI/AAAAAAAACQY/ptDrGDiY3Hc/s320/IMG_3029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496893977891097922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Yes, I'm practically done. I have a few odds and ends to do, like sorting out my circs and DPNs and merging the "knitting annex" in my living room with the stuff on the shelves here but I have to stop at this point tonight and won't get back to it until Monday where the first priority will be to take all the trash that's out of the frame or blocked from the camera by the cutting table (which got recovered with two layers of batting and an undyed twill) for the city to get rid of for me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hourra! j'ai presque fini. Il me reste des petites choses à faire comme mettre de l'ordre dans mes aiguilles de tricots et ramener les trucs de tricots qui trainent dans mon salon avec ceux sur les étagères mais c'est ici que ça s'arrête ce soir. Je n'y reviendrai que lundi mais à ce moment la priorité sera de sortir toutes la cochonnerie hors de l'objectif ou cachée par la table de couture afin que les éboueurs me débarrassent de tout ça. En passant la table a été recouverte de deux couches de rembourrage et d'un tissu sergé (pensé denim ou gabardine) non teint.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8409272454043319078?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8409272454043319078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8409272454043319078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8409272454043319078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8409272454043319078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/home-stretchdernier-droit.html' title='Home stretch/Dernier droit'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEjj8vguzUI/AAAAAAAACQY/ptDrGDiY3Hc/s72-c/IMG_3029.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6293518259722130807</id><published>2010-07-21T21:06:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T21:17:04.162-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nettoyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clean up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>New policy/Nouvelle politque</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZr7s3eaI/AAAAAAAACQQ/nL9CSL4f9Fg/s1600/IMG_3028.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZq3EPZyI/AAAAAAAACQA/XpTWMz65AEs/s1600/IMG_3022.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZq3EPZyI/AAAAAAAACQA/XpTWMz65AEs/s320/IMG_3022.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496530831844271906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZqjHNzMI/AAAAAAAACP4/2LD0l0tPDgY/s1600/IMG_3020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZqjHNzMI/AAAAAAAACP4/2LD0l0tPDgY/s320/IMG_3020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496530826488040642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZrsvYC1I/AAAAAAAACQI/xdujGOaCAj0/s1600/IMG_3027.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZrsvYC1I/AAAAAAAACQI/xdujGOaCAj0/s320/IMG_3027.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496530846252272466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZr7s3eaI/AAAAAAAACQQ/nL9CSL4f9Fg/s1600/IMG_3028.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZr7s3eaI/AAAAAAAACQQ/nL9CSL4f9Fg/s320/IMG_3028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496530850268281250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;No fabric purchasing unless it's for immediate use and even then stash diving has to be a priority. Same goes for sewing notions. And plastic bins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aucun nouvel achat de tissu sans aller faire un tour dans mes piles à moins que ce soit pour usage immédiat. Même chose pour la mercerie. Et les boîtes en plastiques.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6293518259722130807?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6293518259722130807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6293518259722130807' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6293518259722130807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6293518259722130807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-policynouvelle-politque.html' title='New policy/Nouvelle politque'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEeZq3EPZyI/AAAAAAAACQA/XpTWMz65AEs/s72-c/IMG_3022.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1449091370121725397</id><published>2010-07-20T19:10:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-20T20:21:45.377-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewin room'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nettoyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clean up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salle de couture'/><title type='text'>At this point/En ce moment</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So after a long time of looking like a mess, I have finally decided tackle the sewing room. I was hoping to be further along at this time, even thought I'd posting the finished work but bad planning on the painting and making of some of the projects is what put me behind on the reorganization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après un très long moment en sens dessus dessous, je me suis finalement atteler à la tache de mettre ma salle de couture en ordre. Je croyais qu'en ce moment je montrerais le produit final mais bon, un mauvaise planification de la peinture et du retard dans d'autres projets connexes retarde la finition du projet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Click on the pics to see a larger version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliquez sur les photos pour en voir une version plus large&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt1CKh2XI/AAAAAAAACPw/muDI6BBKfoc/s1600/Gray+sewing+room.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt1CKh2XI/AAAAAAAACPw/muDI6BBKfoc/s320/Gray+sewing+room.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496130784389618034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Starting point two Sundays ago. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Point de départ il y deux dimanches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt07A9qoI/AAAAAAAACPo/7z-98UFyJZM/s1600/IMG_3006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt07A9qoI/AAAAAAAACPo/7z-98UFyJZM/s320/IMG_3006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496130782470449794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;When I finished painting, I immediately put my organized patterns back on the shelving to have some sense of progress. Putting the room back together is almost like that logic puzzle where you have a have to move back and forth while removing some stuff, put it somewhere else before you get back to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorsque j'ai terminé de peindre, j'ai tout de suite remis les patrons sur l'étagère afin d'avoir un sentiment d'avoir avancé. Remettre la chambre en ordre s'apparente à un problème de logique où l'on avance et recule avant de se rendre à la fin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt0VL3-8I/AAAAAAAACPg/6yaZ3FsebU8/s1600/IMG_3007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt0VL3-8I/AAAAAAAACPg/6yaZ3FsebU8/s320/IMG_3007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496130772315667394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I had this pegboard on a small book case that I used to have. When I took it apart I kept it for years telling myself that one day it would be useful and finally I get to use it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce panneau perforé faisait parti d'une petite bibliothèque que j'avais défait il y quelques années. Je l'ai gardé me disant qu'il servirait un jour et c'est finalement le cas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt0DCwjzI/AAAAAAAACPY/gscaQCVFDD8/s1600/IMG_3008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt0DCwjzI/AAAAAAAACPY/gscaQCVFDD8/s320/IMG_3008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496130767445593906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;But this is realy where I started putting things back together again last night. I was dreading getting started putting things back, thinking it would be tedious but really, it was very meditative and you kind of get obsessed after a while. And really, it's no different then when you're unpacking after a move. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The shelves at the top are what my grandmother would have called a happy accident. I initially planned on having two shelves but realizing that I would be wasting space, I went back to the reno centre and got another plank to make an extra row, only to realize that it was an inch wider then the others. At first I thought of taking it back but then I figured that the bottom shelf would just be larger. This allowed me to put the overlock threads two rows deep (even if you can't tell in this pic). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The sewing thread board is a 2x8x6 that I had cut in half and then simply attached together with simple clamps. Unlike the tutorial I posted yesterday, I used 1.5" masking tape to mark off the nails' positions, starting off 1" from all sides. After putting in the first 7 or 8 vertical rows on the right I realized that there was no way that would accommodate my larger spools. So I figured that I'd skip one vertical and horizontal row for the next ones save the last row on the left that I made like the ones on the right.  I was certain that I'd have dozens of empty nails. The natural resting position of my hand on the board while I was hammering is what determined their angle, I just eyeballed the alignment, using the vertical lines I had traced on the masking tape as a guide. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, c'est avec ceci que j'ai vraiment commencé à remettre tout ça en place. Je croyais que cela serait ennuyeux à mourir mais en fait c'est très méditatif et on en devient un peu obsédé après un certain temps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les étagères du dessus sont ce que ma grand-mère appèlerait une bonne erreur. J'ai d'abord pensé le faire avec deux rangées mais me rendant compte que j'allais gaspiller de l'espace j'ai été chercher une autre planche sans me rendre compte qu'elle était plus large. J'ai penser le ramener mais finalement j'ai décidé que la rangée du bas serait tout simplement plus large, me permettant d'y mettre deux rangées de fil de surjet quoique ça ne paraisse pas sur la photo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La planche à fil du bas est en fait un 2x8x6 que j'ai fait couper en deux pour la suite les attacher ensemble. Contrairement aux instructions postées hier, j'ai utilisé du papier à masquer d'un pouce et demi pour indiquer les positions des clous, avec une marge de 1 pouce sur tous les côtés. Après avoir cloué les 7 ou 8 rangées verticales à droite, je me suis rendue compte qu'il n'y avait pas assez de place pour les plus grosses bobines. J'ai donc décidé de sauter une rangée verticale et horizontale, excepter pour la dernière rangée à gauche que j'ai fait comme celles à droites. J'étais certaine qu'il y aurait des dizaines de clous vides. Leur angle a été déterminé par la position naturelle de ma main sur la planche lorsque je tenais les clous avant de le marteler. Je les ai alignés verticalement à vue d'œil sur les lignes que j'avais tracé sur le papier à masquer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1449091370121725397?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1449091370121725397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1449091370121725397' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1449091370121725397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1449091370121725397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/at-this-pointen-ce-moment.html' title='At this point/En ce moment'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TEYt1CKh2XI/AAAAAAAACPw/muDI6BBKfoc/s72-c/Gray+sewing+room.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1658115199394804827</id><published>2010-07-19T19:41:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T19:47:32.655-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Art?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TETjO8_9_-I/AAAAAAAACPQ/x0ygBHdk6BU/s1600/IMG_3005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TETjO8_9_-I/AAAAAAAACPQ/x0ygBHdk6BU/s320/IMG_3005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495767291330953186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;I could submit this to the National Gallery of Canada... &lt;a href="http://mantua-maker.blogspot.com/2007/02/tutorial-time.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tutorial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je pourrais soumettre ceci au Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada... &lt;a href="http://mantua-maker.blogspot.com/2007/02/tutorial-time.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Instructions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1658115199394804827?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1658115199394804827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1658115199394804827' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1658115199394804827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1658115199394804827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/art.html' title='Art?'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TETjO8_9_-I/AAAAAAAACPQ/x0ygBHdk6BU/s72-c/IMG_3005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8096279841452523601</id><published>2010-07-16T00:22:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T15:18:09.439-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home decor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décoration'/><title type='text'>Study in white/Étude de blanc</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TD_jB-CSxeI/AAAAAAAACPA/N3trRTrbra4/s1600/IMG_2986.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TD_jB-CSxeI/AAAAAAAACPA/N3trRTrbra4/s400/IMG_2986.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494359693387285986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TECl-BT4-jI/AAAAAAAACPI/jZWYeEWe6l0/s1600/IMG_2993.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TECl-BT4-jI/AAAAAAAACPI/jZWYeEWe6l0/s400/IMG_2993.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494574030314338866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;If you watch HGTV then you know why I would say that I had a Sarah Richardson moment when, chosen a new colour for my sewing room, I held six swatches of whites and off white in my hands. I chose Behr's Cotton knit, from their new Premium Plus Ultra collection, a godsend because I had to cover the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2008/06/chocicecream.jpg"&gt;ice cream chocolate colour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; that was on the walls before. The 8 ½x11 on the right top pic (and bottom on the bottom pic) is just there so you can see the colour on the repainted wall. It reminds me of natural linen though one of the swatches you see here is called Bleached Linen (second from left, bottom pic). This is also a study in making sure you see the colour in the correct light. I took the top pic last night and the bottom this afternoon after I changed the light fixture in the room. The new bulbs emit a more natural light so all the colours look less yellow, and the undertones come out more, which helped me remember why I initially didn't like Bleached Linen, it's a reddish white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous regardez le poste HGTV ou, en français au Québec Canal Vie, vous comprendrez pourquoi j'ai eu un moment à la Sarah Richardson lorsque, ayant à choisir une nouvelle couleur pour ma salle de couture, j'ai eu 6 échantillons de blancs et blancs cassés dans mes mains. Finalement j'ai choisi Cotton Knit, de la nouvelle collection de Premium Plus Ultra de Behr qui contient l'apprêt et la peinture dans le même gallon, ce qui m'a permis de couvrir mes murs qui avaient la &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2008/06/chocicecream.jpg"&gt;couleur de crême glacé au chocolat&lt;/a&gt; avec seulement deux couches sans apprêt. Le 8 ½x11 à droite n'est là que pour faire contraste avec le mur repeint.  Il me rappelle la couleur de lin naturel quoiqu'un des échantillon sur le mur s'appelle justement Bleached Linen (2e à gauche dans la photo du bas). Ces photos sont aussi une illustration de fait que l'on doit choisir la couleur de ses murs dans la bonne lumière. J'ai pris la photo du haut hier soir, celui du bas cet après-midi après avoir changé le luminaire dans la chambre, les nouvelles ampoules émettent une lumière naturelle un peu plus bleuté, les échantillons ont tous l'air moins jaunes et les nuances ressortent plus. Je me suis rappelé pourquoi je n'aimais pas Bleached Linen initiallement, c'est un blanc fait à partir du rouge.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8096279841452523601?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8096279841452523601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8096279841452523601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8096279841452523601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8096279841452523601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/study-in-whiteetude-de-blanc.html' title='Study in white/Étude de blanc'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TD_jB-CSxeI/AAAAAAAACPA/N3trRTrbra4/s72-c/IMG_2986.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-561885741395622266</id><published>2010-07-06T21:49:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T11:10:05.146-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boléro pour bébé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leaf lace kerchief'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='châle en dentelle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miscellaneous'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby shrug'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='n&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debbie Bliss'/><title type='text'>Odds and ends/Un peu de tout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPdc7Z_pFI/AAAAAAAACOE/PqCiuHKkrFQ/s1600/IMG_2974.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPdc7Z_pFI/AAAAAAAACOE/PqCiuHKkrFQ/s320/IMG_2974.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490975859747562578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;That iPod case has really kick started my desire to knit something. This is a Debbie Bliss baby shrug I'm making for my niece, at this point all I have to do is bind off the bottom, make the cuffs and sew it up. For some reason Blogger rotated the picture unnecessarily.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'étui pour l'iPod a vraiment déclenché mon besoin de tricoter. Ceci est un boléro de Debbie Bliss pour ma nièce. Il ne me reste qu'à rabattre les mailles du bas, faire les poignets et coudre le tout. Je ne comprend pas pourquoi Blogger a pivoté la photo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPdcbNO35I/AAAAAAAACN8/qcF57qsigbY/s1600/IMG_2973.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPdcbNO35I/AAAAAAAACN8/qcF57qsigbY/s320/IMG_2973.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490975851104100242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;When I got the yarn for the shrug I also picked up the latest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Magazines/KnitScene-Easy-2010.html"&gt;Knitscene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. I was planning on making the garter stitch neck kerchief that's on the cover during a bus trip to NYC last weekend but I thought that wasn't  challenging enough so I figured, why not finally do a lace st shawl?  Yes it's the same yarn as the shrug, I had one extra skein and am certain it won't be needed for the shrug since I still have another full skein. The only reason why I'm making this on two circs is because I don't have a metre long one in that size but I think I will get one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorsque j'ai acheté la laine pour le boléro j'ai aussi acheter le dernier &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Magazines/KnitScene-Easy-2010.html"&gt;Knitscene&lt;/a&gt;. Je pensais faire le foulard en point mousse sur la page couverture durant un voyage en autobus à New York le weekend dernier mais je trouvais qu'il manquait de piquant. Je me suis donc dit pourquoi pas un châle en point de dentelle. Oui il s'agit du même fil que pour le boléro, il m'en reste encore une autre pelotte pour le terminer. La raison pour laquelle j'utilise deux aiguilles circulaires est que je n'en ai pas à cette grosseur qui fasse un mètre mais je crois que j'irai m'en procurer un.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPddGLEUoI/AAAAAAAACOM/bUWd8lifous/s1600/IMG_2976.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPddGLEUoI/AAAAAAAACOM/bUWd8lifous/s320/IMG_2976.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490975862637744770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;A few years ago, Véronik Avery posted on her blog that her hubby had given her a calliper to use as a universal needle gauge and I thought that was such a good idea that I've been wanting one myself . Taking advantage of our current exchange rate I finally picked one in the States. First thing I noticed when I used it: needles aren't exactly the diameter advertised. For example the one in the picture is said to be 3.25mm but my calliper says it's 3.05mm or just about, I have a circ with 5.5 engraved on it but my calliper says 5.41. Could be the calibration (though I tested it on a ruler and seems pretty accurate), could be that needles are made in imperial inches and simple given the closest equivalent in metric. That leaves me at a bit of a conundrum about the needles, especially in the sock yarn category. Ok frankly I don't bother swatching for sock projects but it makes me wonder if there's a point in having so many different size needles. In any case this calliper will help sort out my circs and DPNs since I can't be bothered to keep them organized. I'm still getting the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/iknit-needle-sizer/id304299218?mt=8"&gt; iKnit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; app for my iPod though. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a quelques années le mari de Véronik Avery lui a offert un pied à coulisse comme jauge à aiguille universel et je m'étais dit que c'était une excellente idée. Profitant du taux de change avantageux actuel je m'en suis procuré un aux USA. La première chose que j'ai remarqué est ceci: les aiguilles ne sont respectent pas exactement la mesure indiquées. Par exemple celui dans la photos est un 3.25 mm mais la mesure me donne environ 3.05 mm, l'aiguille avec laquelle je fais le châle devrait être un 5.5 mm mais il mesure 5.41 mm. Il se peut que se soit la façon qu'il a été calibré (quoiqu'un test sur une règle me montre qu'il est exacte) ou encore que les aiguilles soit faites en mesures impériales pour ensuite se faire donner l'équivalent en systême métrique mais tout de même ça pose problème pour mes aiguilles, surtout pour celles pour chaussettes. Bon ok je ne fait jamais d'échantillons pour celles-ci mais ça me laisse songeuse quant à l'utilité d'avoir autant de grandeur d'aiguilles différentes. Mais au moins le pied de coulisse me servira à mettre de l'ordre dans mes aiguilles à double pointes et mes aiguilles circulaires vu que je ne les garde pas de façon ordonnée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPe4LwikWI/AAAAAAAACOw/XAktaE-pt4Q/s1600/IMG_2977.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPe4LwikWI/AAAAAAAACOw/XAktaE-pt4Q/s200/IMG_2977.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490977427505189218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPe4auqedI/AAAAAAAACO4/3AOZKp7rt3o/s1600/IMG_2978.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPe4auqedI/AAAAAAAACO4/3AOZKp7rt3o/s200/IMG_2978.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490977431523850706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;While in the States I saw my baby sister use this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;" href="http://www.brookstone.com/home-products_Home-Sale-Clearance_e-pad-laptop-lap-desk.html?bkiid=categoryLandingPage_Outlet%7CC4CategoryProdList1FDT%7C6905345"&gt;cushioned tray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt; for her laptop and I immediately wanted one. If you have a laptop, you know the darn battery gets hot after a while, so far I'd been using a cushion to help with the heat but it wasn't enough and the bigger cushion weren't suited for the job. So when I happened to walk by the store I jumped on the chance to get one, especially since it was on sale at 25$ . And surprise, it's also has built in storage for the laptop inside and extra pockets within for other doodads, not to mention a pass through for cables.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendant que j'étais aux USA j'ai vu ma petite sœur utiliser ce &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.brookstone.com/home-products_Home-Sale-Clearance_e-pad-laptop-lap-desk.html?bkiid=categoryLandingPage_Outlet%7CC4CategoryProdList1FDT%7C6905345"&gt;cabaret coussiné&lt;/a&gt; pour son ordi portable et j'en ai aussitôt voulu un. Si vous possédez un ordi portable vous savez que la maudite batterie se met à chauffer sérieusement après quelques temps . J'utilisais un coussin pour en dimineré la chaleur sur mes cuisses mais il ne suffisait pas à la tâche. Par hasard je suis passé à côté du magasin et donc m'en suis procuré un vu qu'il est en spécial à 25$. Et surprise, il y a un compartiment pour y ranger l'ordi, ainsi que des documents et autres trucs, et aussi un trou pour y faire passer les câbles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-561885741395622266?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/561885741395622266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=561885741395622266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/561885741395622266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/561885741395622266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/07/odds-and-endsun-peu-de-tout.html' title='Odds and ends/Un peu de tout'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TDPdc7Z_pFI/AAAAAAAACOE/PqCiuHKkrFQ/s72-c/IMG_2974.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-885101106611955042</id><published>2010-06-21T18:11:00.014-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T22:18:23.451-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iPod Touch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feutre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='étui d&apos;ordinateur portable'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mtl Mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sleeve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cozy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tricot'/><title type='text'>Another quickie/Une autre petite vite</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TB_jwkp_hCI/AAAAAAAACNs/t_VSHODh0b0/s1600/IMG_2956.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TB_jwkp_hCI/AAAAAAAACNs/t_VSHODh0b0/s320/IMG_2956.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485353294773584930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This bite size project may not look like much but it satisfied a couple of needs at once: the obvious one being that I needed a sleeve for my pre-loved iPod Touch, I wanted to knit again but not a long haul project and finally, when I dug up the yarn from my WIP pile, I figured that this would be a good opportunity to make my first felted project. So I proceeded first by doing something I hate to do ie swatch since I needed to know the gauge and what the shrinking percentage was, in this case it went down to 90% it's original size. The felting was done by hand, I have a front loading washing machine and it would have been a pain to use it to felt. I followed the suggestions and wore rubber gloves to maximize the friction and I put my cake cooling rack at the bottom of the sink for the same purpose. Another suggestion that also helped was that when I noticed it wasn't going to felt anymore, I shocked the knit it in cold water before going back to swishing in the hot soapy water. And since my stove was hot anyway to cook up some bacon and croutons for a Caesar salad, I put the sleeve in it to accelerate the drying process and it's a good thing too because I made the swatch three days ago and it still feels humid...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce petit projet rapide m'a permis de satisfaire plusieurs besoins à la fois: le premier, évidemment, étant de me faire un étui pour le iPod Touch usagé que j'ai reçu en cadeau, le second étant que je voulais tricoter un projet qui ne prendrait pas trop de temps et finalement, une fois que j'ai repêché la laine de mes projets en attente, j'ai saisi l'occasion de faire mon premier feutrage. J'ai donc commencé par faire ce que je déteste i.e. un échantillon mais je n'avais pas le choix car il me fallait déterminer le facteur de rétrécissement de la laine, dans ce cas-ci il rétrécissait à 90% de sa taille originale. J'ai du faire le feutrage à la main vu que j'ai une machine à laver à chargement frontale et s'aurait été trop compliqué l'utiliser. J'ai porté une paire de gant en caoutchouc et placé ma grille de refroidissement à gâteau au fond de l'évier afin de maximiser le frottement. Un truc que j'ai lu et qui a aussi aidé est que lorsque j'ai remarqué que le tricot ne feutrait plus,  tout simplement le faire un traitement choc en le trempant dans l'eau froide et ensuite le retourner dans l'eau chaude savonneuse pour poursuivre le feutrage. Vu que mon four était de toute façon allumé pour cuire du bacon et des croutons pour une salade césar, j'y ai placé l'étui afin qu'il sèche plus vite. Une chance que j'ai eu cet éclair car j'ai fait l'échantillon il y a trois jours et il est toujours humide au touché...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TB_jxLznLzI/AAAAAAAACN0/f9g9Q5SewVg/s1600/IMG_2959.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TB_jxLznLzI/AAAAAAAACN0/f9g9Q5SewVg/s320/IMG_2959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485353305282916146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;As for the toy itself, I have yet to use for the reason I requested it in the first place ie as an eBook reader, though I've already downloaded the last of the Millenium trilogy. I've picked a few apps, some free, some I payed for and this one here is the best 3.47$C I've ever invested. It's Mtl Mobile, a must if you're a Montreal public transit user like I am. Basically I have the schedules of pretty much all the transit systems in and around Montreal right in the iPod so I don't need to pray for free wi-fi in order for me to get the info and I've already favourited (I know that's not a word) all the stops that I most often use. And if you do have a wi-fi connection it can tell you, if you don't mind the Powers That Be knowing where you are, all the bus stops that are near your current position. Best thing since frozen pizza in my opinion...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quant au bidule lui-même, je n'ai pas encore commencé à l'utiliser pour le besoin pour lequel je l'avais demandé c'est à dire comme lecteur de livre électronique quoique j'ai déjà acheter le dernier livre de la trilogie Millenium. Je collectionne aussi les apps, certaines gratuites, d'autres que j'ai payé incluant celui-ci, à 3.47$C il a été mon meilleur investissement jusqu'à présent. Il s'agit de Mtl Mobile, un must pour quelqu'un comme moi qui voyage via les transporteurs publics montréal. Cet(te?) app vous met en vos mains les horaires de pratiquement tous les réseaux de transport en commun et ce, sans avoir à espérer être branché sur l'internet, j'ai déjà mis en dans mes favoris tous les arrêts que j'utilise régulièrement. Si jamais vous êtes branché su internet et que Big Brother ne vous inquiète pas outre mesure, il peut aussi vous indiquer les arrêts d'autobus les plus proches de votre position. Selon moi, ceci est la meilleure création depuis les pizzas congelés...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-885101106611955042?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/885101106611955042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=885101106611955042' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/885101106611955042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/885101106611955042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-quickieune-autre-petite-vite.html' title='Another quickie/Une autre petite vite'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TB_jwkp_hCI/AAAAAAAACNs/t_VSHODh0b0/s72-c/IMG_2956.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7662639650998988829</id><published>2010-06-15T09:45:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-15T09:49:44.774-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soccer tournament'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coupe du monde'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brésil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Football'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='south africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Afrique du Sud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world cup'/><title type='text'>Vai Brasil!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TBeEr3lkFUI/AAAAAAAACNk/R1lMEdTEq3Y/s1600/Brazil+world+cup.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482996960537613634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TBeEr3lkFUI/AAAAAAAACNk/R1lMEdTEq3Y/s400/Brazil+world+cup.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Every four years, usually during the summer for about a month, I became a Brazilian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;À tous les quatre ans, d'habitude durant l'été pendant un mois, je deviens brésilienne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7662639650998988829?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7662639650998988829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7662639650998988829' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7662639650998988829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7662639650998988829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/vai-brasil.html' title='Vai Brasil!'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TBeEr3lkFUI/AAAAAAAACNk/R1lMEdTEq3Y/s72-c/Brazil+world+cup.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-2580783381198259693</id><published>2010-06-06T14:04:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-06T14:07:03.633-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shirred dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe nid d&apos;abeille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maxi dressi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe maxi'/><title type='text'>One more/Une autre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAvjkJaxGJI/AAAAAAAACNU/Vfg32a5rO_w/s1600/IMG_2938.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAvjkJaxGJI/AAAAAAAACNU/Vfg32a5rO_w/s320/IMG_2938.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479723581769324690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAvjkTMQn2I/AAAAAAAACNc/Ctf63pyMqeA/s1600/IMG_2935.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAvjkTMQn2I/AAAAAAAACNc/Ctf63pyMqeA/s320/IMG_2935.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479723584392830818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-2580783381198259693?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/2580783381198259693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=2580783381198259693' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2580783381198259693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2580783381198259693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/06/one-moreune-autre.html' title='One more/Une autre'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAvjkJaxGJI/AAAAAAAACNU/Vfg32a5rO_w/s72-c/IMG_2938.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3570623856161119877</id><published>2010-05-31T18:53:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-31T21:47:34.973-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='summer dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FOs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shirred dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe nid d&apos;abeille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe d&apos;été'/><title type='text'>Maxi dress/Robe maxi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAQ-jYt_hYI/AAAAAAAACM4/ToQT5FbQPPg/s1600/IMG_2930.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAQ-jYt_hYI/AAAAAAAACM4/ToQT5FbQPPg/s320/IMG_2930.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477571824441066882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I have a few WIPs in my sewing and knitting piles. I have a project that needs to be started but last week, after a scorcher of a day I finally understood the wisdom of muumuus or their western cousin, the maxi dress. I've actually been wanting to make one for years. So, I headed straight to the fabric store and figured out the amount of fabric I'd need to make this though I had to go back because I realized that I'd need 4 lengths for the bottom, not two. The top was supposed to be plain black but I didn't give myself enough ease but I found the one I used in my quilt fabric stash. It is  also shirred, I was so happy to realize it could be done with my industrial sewing machine. I am very happy with the results, I'm actually looking forward to the next scorcher to wear it. I've decided that my objective for this summer is to make another maxi and two shorter dresses. Let's see if I that actually happens...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai quelques trucs en progression soit en couture ou en tricot mais une journée de canicule intense la semaine dernière m'a finalement convaincu de la sagesse de poter un mou mou ou si vous préférez leur cousines occidentales, les robes maxis. En fait, cela fait des années que je veux m'en faire un. Je suis donc allez faire un tour au magasin de tissu et ai estimé la quantité de tissu nécessaire sur place. Bon j'y suis retournée le lendemain car j'ai cru que j'aurais besoin de deux longueurs pour faire le bas mais j'ai eu besoin de quatre. Le haut étais supposé être noir uni mais je n'avais pas laissé assez d'aisance, j'en ai donc repêché un autre tissu dans ma réserve de tissu à couette. Le haut est aussi en nid d'abeille,  j'étais contente que je pouvais le faire avec ma machine à coudre industrielle. En tout cas je suis contente du résultat, j'ai hâte à la prochaine canicule pour la mettre. Je me donne comme objectif de m'en faire un autre et deux autres robes plus courtes pour cet été. Voyons si j'attends cet objectif.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3570623856161119877?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3570623856161119877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3570623856161119877' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3570623856161119877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3570623856161119877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/05/maxi-dressrobe-maxi.html' title='Maxi dress/Robe maxi'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/TAQ-jYt_hYI/AAAAAAAACM4/ToQT5FbQPPg/s72-c/IMG_2930.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5466633384873777851</id><published>2010-05-13T17:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T17:35:01.437-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonne fête'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy Birthday'/><title type='text'>34</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ztoSUhbNntQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ztoSUhbNntQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Sigh, another year etc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soupir, une autre année etc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5466633384873777851?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5466633384873777851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5466633384873777851' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5466633384873777851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5466633384873777851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/05/34.html' title='34'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-2533701375576090987</id><published>2010-04-27T17:15:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T17:55:36.898-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yamaha Majesty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige tardive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='late snow'/><title type='text'>Late snow/Neige tardive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUn7uMNiI/AAAAAAAACMw/JUOLUF0dlWY/s1600/IMG_2895.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUn7uMNiI/AAAAAAAACMw/JUOLUF0dlWY/s320/IMG_2895.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464929717860447778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;After riding my &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/RvaVVRRrNvI/AAAAAAAAAko/sdlQifK2gzU/s1600-h/HPIM0880a.jpg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#990000;"&gt;BWs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;(in the States it's called a Zuma) for the last couple of years, I decided that it was time to move on to something a little more serious. This is a Yamaha Majesty. Still a scooter but at 400cc, I had to get a motorbike license, not to mention the plates cost nearly twice as much for the  49cc scooter, though the SAAQ, our DMV, lady didn't know what to charge me because in their books, scooters don't come that big. Legally I have to pass my license next month to ride it solo. Legally...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Après avoir roulé sur ma petite BWs durant les deux dernières années, j'ai décidé d'aller me chercher quelque chose d'un peu plus sérieux. Ceci est un Yamaha Majesty. Toujours un scooter mais à 400cc, j'ai du suivre un cours de moto, sans compter le fait que les plaques coûtent près du double (quoique la dame de la Société d'Assurance ne savait pas quel prix me faire payer, dans leur livre les scooters ne sont pas si gros). Légalement, je dois réussir mon test de route le mois prochain pour avoir le droit de rouler sans accompagnateur. Légalement...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUnAvFa3I/AAAAAAAACMo/AS-EcgAbAzo/s1600/IMG_2897.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUnAvFa3I/AAAAAAAACMo/AS-EcgAbAzo/s320/IMG_2897.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464929702026505074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;In my last post, I was working on a light winter jacket. Since Spring sprung early this year, I put is aside to work on a light spring jacket instead. Today, I regretted that decision. That said, in the last decade, I observed that when we have an early spring, and I'd even say summer since we hit around 28°C last Easter weekend, Winter always comes around for one last hurrah before bowing out completely so, in a sense, I'm not at all surprised by this even if I believed for a while that this year would be different. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans mon dernier billet, je travaillais sur un manteau d'hiver léger. Vu que nous vivons un printemps hatif à Montréal, je l'ai mis de côté pour travailler sur un manteau léger de printemps et disons que cet après-midi, je regrette ma décision. Ceci étant dit, j'ai observé durant la dernière décennie que lorsque nous vivons un printemps hâtif, et cette année il y même eu une pointe estivale vu qu'il a fait environ 28°C le weekend de Pâques, l'hiver revient toujours faire un dernier tour de piste avant de nous quitter pour de bon. Donc, disons que je ne suis pas du tout surprise de la mauvaise tournure de la météo aujourd'hui quoique j'ai quand même cru pendant un temps que nous y avions échappé cette année.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUm1HMU7I/AAAAAAAACMg/yClIYGsczvQ/s1600/IMG_2896.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUm1HMU7I/AAAAAAAACMg/yClIYGsczvQ/s320/IMG_2896.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464929698906395570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-2533701375576090987?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/2533701375576090987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=2533701375576090987' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2533701375576090987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2533701375576090987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/04/late-snowneige-tardive.html' title='Late snow/Neige tardive'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S9dUn7uMNiI/AAAAAAAACMw/JUOLUF0dlWY/s72-c/IMG_2895.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7863573231787990733</id><published>2010-03-30T18:48:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-30T20:20:18.840-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='light winter jacket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manteau léger d&apos;hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='McCall&apos;s M5759'/><title type='text'>In progress/En progression</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S7KOO0ZHI0I/AAAAAAAACMY/zQLhybIWr70/s1600/IMG_2870.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S7KOO0ZHI0I/AAAAAAAACMY/zQLhybIWr70/s320/IMG_2870.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454578483932373826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7863573231787990733?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7863573231787990733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7863573231787990733' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7863573231787990733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7863573231787990733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-progressen-progression.html' title='In progress/En progression'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S7KOO0ZHI0I/AAAAAAAACMY/zQLhybIWr70/s72-c/IMG_2870.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5074480386605745846</id><published>2010-03-24T21:42:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T22:32:06.252-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obi belt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceinture obi'/><title type='text'>Ceinture Obi Belt</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_uNN916I/AAAAAAAACMI/zrbnx-7st2k/s1600/IMG_2858.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_uNN916I/AAAAAAAACMI/zrbnx-7st2k/s320/IMG_2858.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452381099428534178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;I don't know why but I recently got a desire to make an obi belt. After months of my sewing room looking like a dump site I have started cleaning it out and though it's nowhere near done (the room that is), it was good enough to use my sewing machine to make this belt. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.craftycrafty.tv/2008/06/how_to_sew_your_own_obi_belt.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;I used this online tute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais j'ai eu une soudaine envie cette semaine de me faire une ceinture obi. Cela fait des mois que ma salle de couture à l'air d'un dépotoir et j'ai finalement commencé à y mettre de l'ordre. Elle n'est pas encore au point (la salle de couture il s'entend) mais l'est assez pour coudre cette ceinture. J'ai suivi &lt;a href="http://www.craftycrafty.tv/2008/06/how_to_sew_your_own_obi_belt.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ces instructions en ligne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pour la faire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_uXt6AaI/AAAAAAAACMQ/ZaY9wLE3QZ0/s1600/IMG_2861.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_uXt6AaI/AAAAAAAACMQ/ZaY9wLE3QZ0/s320/IMG_2861.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452381102246855074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Side/back view&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Vue de côté arrière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_t0sfHdI/AAAAAAAACMA/BD8GB50-OPw/s1600/IMG_2851.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_t0sfHdI/AAAAAAAACMA/BD8GB50-OPw/s320/IMG_2851.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452381092845657554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;The tutorial's writer said that she has trouble cutting the fabric because it was so slippery so my way around it was to interface the fabric itself rather. Let me just say doing this made me miss the interfacing fusing machine we used in fashion school.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'auteure des instructions a mentionné le fait que couper le tissu avait été ardu à causu du fait qu'il soit si glissant. Ma solution: entoiler le tissu avant de le couper. Disons que ce faisant la machine à entoiler de l'école de mode m'a sérieusement manquée...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5074480386605745846?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5074480386605745846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5074480386605745846' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5074480386605745846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5074480386605745846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/ceinture-obi-belt.html' title='Ceinture Obi Belt'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S6q_uNN916I/AAAAAAAACMI/zrbnx-7st2k/s72-c/IMG_2858.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3210821560827032630</id><published>2010-03-07T12:47:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T12:49:44.301-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby girl pullover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chandail pour petite fille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><title type='text'>Progress/En Progression</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S5Pm1vKZ3PI/AAAAAAAACL4/vbdDShL1bk0/s1600-h/IMG_2816.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S5Pm1vKZ3PI/AAAAAAAACL4/vbdDShL1bk0/s400/IMG_2816.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445950185288621298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3210821560827032630?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3210821560827032630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3210821560827032630' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3210821560827032630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3210821560827032630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/progressen-progression.html' title='Progress/En Progression'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S5Pm1vKZ3PI/AAAAAAAACL4/vbdDShL1bk0/s72-c/IMG_2816.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5180284517734371250</id><published>2010-02-21T19:38:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T22:44:17.931-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='étui d&apos;ordinateur portable'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laptop sleeve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><title type='text'>Laptop sleeve/Étui d'ordinateur portable</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So a friend of mine is leaving our fair city to seek his fortunes elsewhere and has decided to get rid of some of his worldly possessions before he goes. Lucky for me, one of those things was his Dell Mini. I've been wanting to get my hands on a laptop for a while now, not just for the convenience from my couch instead of my bedroom, but because I've been seeing a few tutes online for laptop sleeves and I'd see a few that I liked, icnluding &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-nice-felt-eeePC-netbook-pouch-for-/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;this one made out of felt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But the one tutorial I've been wanting to make was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sfD2jb4JXrI/SjpJaqlTY7I/AAAAAAAAEQw/cvhc_NEzwZQ/s400/Laptop%2BSleeve%2BClosed.JPG&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://junie-moon.blogspot.com/2009/06/laptop-sleeve.html&amp;amp;usg=__idAj-QRFRBpCLyiUVSadKmk3X8U=&amp;amp;h=261&amp;amp;w=400&amp;amp;sz=16&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;start=49&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=b9J61exVslxKDM:&amp;amp;tbnh=81&amp;amp;tbnw=124&amp;amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlaptop%2Bsleeve%2Btutorial%26start%3D36%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dfr%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1C1GGLS_frCA360CA360%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;this one posted on Sew Mama Sew's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J'ai un ami qui a décidé de quitter notre ville pour aller faire fortune ailleurs et a décidé de se débarrasser de quelques uns de ces trucs avant de partir. J'étais assez contente lorsqu'il m'a proposé de me vendre son Dell Mini, cela faisait un certain temps que je voulais un PC portable, pas seulement pour pouvoir surfer le web comfortablement de mon sofa mais surtout parce que cela faisait un certain temps que je vois des instructions sur le web pour des étuis et je voulais m'en faire un, comme ce &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-nice-felt-eeePC-netbook-pouch-for-/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ce modèle en feutre assez intéressant&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Celui que je me suis toujours dit que j'allais faire si jamais je mettais la main sur un portable est &lt;a href="http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=816"&gt;&lt;b&gt;celui-ci publié chez Sew Mama, Sew.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HTg-R4mZI/AAAAAAAACLE/cDo6R9T-jTQ/s1600-h/IMG_2804.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HTg-R4mZI/AAAAAAAACLE/cDo6R9T-jTQ/s200/IMG_2804.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440862388267555218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So even before I got the laptop in my hands I rushed to get this fabric from Amy Butler's Home Decor collection. once I got the laptop though it became clear that the print was too big for a netbook, you'd barely be able to make out a paisley. It would have been more suited to a full sized laptop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Avant même de me procurer le portable j'ai été acheté ce tissu de la collection Home Decor d'Amy Butler. Mais je me suis rendue compte que le motif était beacoup trop gros pour le petit portable, on pourrait à peine distinguer un paisley. Il aurait été plus approprié pour la portable de pleine grandeur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HTgicJ1OI/AAAAAAAACK8/z4Ei30mw1aE/s1600-h/IMG_2803.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HTgicJ1OI/AAAAAAAACK8/z4Ei30mw1aE/s200/IMG_2803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440862380794434786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This a sloper I made to make sure that the measurements were perfect. It's slightly loose but I figured that the batting in the real piece would make it snug.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ceci est une toile d'essayage afin de m'assurer que les mesures étaient parfaites. Il est un peu lâche mais je me disais que le rembourrage allait surement le rendre plus juste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HUmfVFZEI/AAAAAAAACLU/4Z4bMpmXvYM/s1600-h/IMG_2801.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HUmfVFZEI/AAAAAAAACLU/4Z4bMpmXvYM/s200/IMG_2801.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440863582550320194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HUmNpyO7I/AAAAAAAACLM/fg-tgBhPzC8/s1600-h/IMG_2800.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HUmNpyO7I/AAAAAAAACLM/fg-tgBhPzC8/s200/IMG_2800.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440863577805306802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The final products. I don't really like the fact that the velcro is black but it's what I have and I didn't feel like getting some just for this project. I used a ladybug print cotton fabric from Japan for the outer shell and liner. And yes, the measurements for the the panels were perfect. I used some of the leftover fabric to make a simple bag for the accessories, I'm happy I'm able to recycle my PC's old optical mouse for this, the little scroll wheel doesn't work so it's like an old school mouse. I'll be stopping by the fabric store to get one of those stopper thingies for the cord to keep the bag closed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Le produit final. Je n'aime pas vraiment le fait que le velcro soit noir mais c'est que j'avais déjà et ça ne me tentait pas de m'en acheter juste pour ce projet. J'ai utilisé finalement un imprimé japonais de coccinelles pour l'extérieur et la doublure. Et oui les mesures étaient parfaites. J'ai utilisé une partie du tissu restant pour faire un sac pour les accessoires, j'ai récupéré la vielle souris optique de mon ordi de table, le bouton du milieu de fonctionne pas  donc elle est comme les vielles souris d'antan. Je devrai faire un tour quand même à la mercerie pour y acheter une arrête pour le cordon du sac.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5180284517734371250?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5180284517734371250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5180284517734371250' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5180284517734371250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5180284517734371250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/laptop-sleeveetui-dordinateur-portable.html' title='Laptop sleeve/Étui d&apos;ordinateur portable'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S4HTg-R4mZI/AAAAAAAACLE/cDo6R9T-jTQ/s72-c/IMG_2804.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1278333051626467728</id><published>2010-02-15T11:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T11:17:20.855-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estelle yarns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><title type='text'>Olympic knitting/Tricot olympique</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3lyMK0hNoI/AAAAAAAACK0/VHiyAXeHskc/s1600-h/IMG_2793.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3lyMK0hNoI/AAAAAAAACK0/VHiyAXeHskc/s400/IMG_2793.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438503578415216258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1278333051626467728?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1278333051626467728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1278333051626467728' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1278333051626467728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1278333051626467728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/olympic-knittingtricot-olympique.html' title='Olympic knitting/Tricot olympique'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3lyMK0hNoI/AAAAAAAACK0/VHiyAXeHskc/s72-c/IMG_2793.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8987606528108898624</id><published>2010-02-10T19:06:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T19:17:42.022-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soupe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bouffe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Lentil and beef soup/Soupe aux lentilles et boeuf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3NKS4mfCNI/AAAAAAAACKs/KdYLdlnaKXA/s1600-h/IMG_2775.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3NKS4mfCNI/AAAAAAAACKs/KdYLdlnaKXA/s400/IMG_2775.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436770863458224338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Once a year I make a soup from scratch. This year, it's lentils and beef. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Une fois l'an, je fais une soupe. Cette année, eelle estaux lentilles et boeuf.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8987606528108898624?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8987606528108898624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8987606528108898624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8987606528108898624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8987606528108898624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/lentil-and-beef-soupsoupe-aux-lentilles.html' title='Lentil and beef soup/Soupe aux lentilles et boeuf'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S3NKS4mfCNI/AAAAAAAACKs/KdYLdlnaKXA/s72-c/IMG_2775.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1696835082902412561</id><published>2010-02-06T15:29:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T18:10:30.562-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noro yarn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laine noro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='belle époque socks'/><title type='text'>Noro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S23WhPrZ9yI/AAAAAAAACKE/K4Ru9VsTz7Y/s1600-h/IMG_2768.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S23WhPrZ9yI/AAAAAAAACKE/K4Ru9VsTz7Y/s320/IMG_2768.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435236191938672418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S23WhaLwyMI/AAAAAAAACKM/S4yVobcnm1k/s1600-h/IMG_2769.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S23WhaLwyMI/AAAAAAAACKM/S4yVobcnm1k/s320/IMG_2769.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435236194758740162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my last post I said that I needed to make a new pair of socks. I think the pic is self explanatory. I finished that pair a year ago and somehow I ended up creating these massive holes in them. Two possible explanations:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;1. I need to break out the Ped Egg more often. Possible but then I have a pair I made 5 years ago that's still going strong. And the Sugar Maples I finished last year don't show any sign of falling apart anytime soon. I'm used to my store bought socks getting holes at the heels over time but not my knitted ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;2. Maybe I should have done these a size larger. Meaning the stretching around my feet was put too much stress on the yarn and they tore apart. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Sigh I really liked those socks, especially the colour. Anyway while I was at Effiloché to get my hands on a fat quarter I got this sock yarn. I've been wanting to work with Noro yarns since forever and now I'm happy to have found this one. I only picked it for one reason, the blue and red are the colours of the Haitian flag. I will make a pair a toe ups, I just need to flip though my stitch book to find a nice rib pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans mon dernier billet je disais avoir besoin de me faire une nouvelle paire de chaussettes. Je crois que la photo n'a pas vraiment beseoin d'explication. J'ai fini cette paire il y a un an et je ne sais trop comment, je me retrouve mainteanant avec des trous béants aux talons. Deux explication possibles: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Peut être que je devrais exfolier mes talons plus souvent. Ceci n'explique pas cependant le fait qu'une paire que j'ai complétée il y cinq ans soit encore intact, même les Sugar Maples que j'ai fini l'an dernier ne montre pas de signes de vouloir se désintégrer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. J'aurais peut être du les faire une taille ou deux plus grandes. Peut être que le stress sur les fibres causé par le fait de les porter et la friction avec le soulier a causé ceci.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;C'est triste car j'aimais bien ces chaussettes, surtout la couleur. J'ai profité du fait que j'étais chez Effiloché hier pour me procurer un morceau de tissu à coutepointe pour me procurer ce fil à chaussette. Ce la faisait longtemps que je voulais travailler avec du fil Noro et l'occasioon est donc venu. Je me suis arrêté sur ce choix car ces couleurs sont celles du drapeau haïtien. Je vais les faire à patir des orteils, ne me reste qu'à trouver une motif de côte. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1696835082902412561?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1696835082902412561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1696835082902412561' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1696835082902412561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1696835082902412561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/noro.html' title='Noro'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S23WhPrZ9yI/AAAAAAAACKE/K4Ru9VsTz7Y/s72-c/IMG_2768.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3693158680593073730</id><published>2010-02-03T17:53:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T19:32:37.104-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stieg larsson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trilogie millenium trilogy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='refined aran cardigan'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2oHh-V6tZI/AAAAAAAACJ8/295NvX66xEM/s1600-h/IMG_2757.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2oHh-V6tZI/AAAAAAAACJ8/295NvX66xEM/s320/IMG_2757.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434164180627928466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Current project: the Pam Allen's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/refined-aran-jacket"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#990000;"&gt;Refined Aran Cardigan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;. The back is done and I'm currently working on the front left panel. I got stuck for a minute because somehow I skipped the part at the very beginning of the instructions about making the pocket liners first and then slipping on a stitch holder. Oh well, it's all good now. I will probably start a new pair of socks soon, for reasons I'll explain in due time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;I'm also working my way through the first of the Millenium trilogy. Maybe it's me but I don't recall it taking the English speaking by storm the way it has for the French speaking world, or at the very least Quebec. Anyway I needed a break from Tempe Brennan and didn't feel like cracking into the next of the Women's Murder Club series. I considered other mystery novels when finally I decided to give the trilogy a try. First I looked for it in French at the big book store, found them but not in paperback, didn't feel like shelling 35$ for one. Then I found the first one in paperback in English. At 13.50$ I was sold (though I could have had it for nearly half online but anyhoo...). I really like it. It has a slow pace, I really like the narrator's voice, I'm really liking the fact that it's not written in the first person. Yes it looks big but I've been flying through it actually. T&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;he next one is only coming out March 16 in paperback and I have a feeling I'm going to suffer some serious withdrawal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Projet actuel: le &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/refined-aran-jacket"&gt;Refined Aran Cardigan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;  de Pam Allen. J'en ai terminé le dos et suis en train de travailler sur le côté avant gauche. J'ai eu quelques interrogations le temps de me rendre compte que j'étais passée à côté des instructions au tout début disant qu'il faillait faire la doublure de la poche et le mettre de côté mais à part ça tout va bien. Je devrai certainement commencer un paire de chaussettes prochainement, pour des raisons que j'expliquerai en temps et lieu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;J'ai aussi commencé le premier livre de la trilogie Millenium, la trilogie suédoise qui balaie le monde, du moins le Québec en tout cas. Je n'avais pas vraiment envie de lire les prochaines aventures de Tempe Brennan ou des filles du Murder Mystery Club lorsque je me suis dit que peut être je devrais enfin vérifier pour moi-même si cette trilogie aussi captivante qu'on le dit et c'est bel et bien vrai. Je l'ai d'abord cherché en français mais il n'était disponible qu'en grand format dans la grande librairie où j'ai été, ça ne me tentait pas trop de payer une trentaine de dollar pour un livre publié il y 5 ans. J'ai donc eu l'idée de le chercher en anglais et l'ai trouvé pour 13.50$ en format poche (quoique je pouvais le trouver pour moins cher en ligne mais bon). J'aime bien la lenteur de l'histoire et aussi la "voix" du narrateur (j'étais un peu lasse des histoires contées à la première personne). Oui il est gros mais il se lit assez rapidement. Le deuxième de la série ne sortira qu'à la mi mars en format poche et je sens que j'aurai des symptômes de sevrage d'ici là. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3693158680593073730?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3693158680593073730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3693158680593073730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3693158680593073730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3693158680593073730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/current-project-pam-allens-refined-aran.html' title=''/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2oHh-V6tZI/AAAAAAAACJ8/295NvX66xEM/s72-c/IMG_2757.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3508000083210320432</id><published>2010-01-31T18:02:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-31T18:44:20.897-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='afro textured hair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coiffures pour cheveux crépus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dreadlocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nappy hair styles'/><title type='text'>Starting over. Again/Recommencer. Encore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thank you to all who dropped a kind word in my last post. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Merci à toutes qui ont laissé une pensée sur mon dernier billet. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Three years ago I let my old dreadlocks go. It was the right decision at the time since they were leaving on their own anyway. So, during all this time I learned a lot about how to take care of my afro textured hair and was slowly growing it out, even if I had a couple of setbacks that lead me start the growth process over. And as much fun as it was seeing my afro get bigger, I came to the conclusion that for my lifestyle, locks are the way to go. Low maintenance and practical, especially with motorbike season creeping around the corner, eventually. So, today after 5 1/2 hours of work, I've laid the foundation for the new dreads to begin. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;I chose to make them very small this time, not quite &lt;a href="http://www.sisterlocks.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC0000;"&gt;Sisterlocs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, that's a trademarked name for super thin locks that require you to get them installed by a specially trained loctician. I did micro twists instead.  All I have to do is wait out the matting process...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il y trois ans, j'ai pris la décision de couper ce qui me restaient de dreadlocs sur la tête. C'était la bonne décision à l'époque vu que de toute façon, ils tombaient d'eux même. Durant tout ce temps j'ai appris comment prendre soin de mes cheveux crépus et avait commencé le processus de la laisser pousser, malgré quelques difficultés qui  m'ont obligé à recommencer deux fois. Aussi intéressant que c'était de voir grossir mon afro, j'en suis arrivée à la conclusion que, pour mon style de vie, les dreads sont la meilleure solution pour mes cheveux. Facile d'entretien et pratique, surtout avec la saison de moto qui arrive...ra éventuellement. Tout ça donc pour dire qu'après un travail de 5 heures et demi, la base est mise pour que les nouveaux dreads puissent commenter. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cette fois-ci je les ai faits assez petits, quoique pas aussi petit que des&lt;a href="http://www.sisterlocks.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Sisterlocks&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, ceux-là sont une marque de commerce pour un style de dreads ultra fins qui requiert qu'on paye une styliste spécialement formé pour les faire. J'ai préféré plutôt me faire des micro vanilles (j'ai appris dernièrement que c'est ainsi qu'on nomme ce style de coiffure en France). Il ne me reste qu'à patienter le temps le feutrage se fasse...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2YMQ3YtGJI/AAAAAAAACJs/pfuwnHQY78g/s1600-h/Last+%27fro.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2YMQ3YtGJI/AAAAAAAACJs/pfuwnHQY78g/s320/Last+%27fro.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433043484354091154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;My last 'fro, this morning after a hair wash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Mon dernier afro, ce matin après le lavage des cheveux&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2YMRGjpGnI/AAAAAAAACJ0/_TXmq8VuFDU/s1600-h/IMG_2754.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2YMRGjpGnI/AAAAAAAACJ0/_TXmq8VuFDU/s320/IMG_2754.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433043488426498674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;The new beginning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;/Le renouveau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3508000083210320432?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3508000083210320432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3508000083210320432' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3508000083210320432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3508000083210320432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/starting-over-againrecommencer-encore.html' title='Starting over. Again/Recommencer. Encore'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S2YMQ3YtGJI/AAAAAAAACJs/pfuwnHQY78g/s72-c/Last+%27fro.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1310280193255586403</id><published>2010-01-16T07:12:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-16T07:18:48.045-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><title type='text'>In Memoriam</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S1GtZ4SeIxI/AAAAAAAACJM/1ZwO7LO9hLE/s1600-h/Raoul+%26+grand-manman-c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S1GtZ4SeIxI/AAAAAAAACJM/1ZwO7LO9hLE/s400/Raoul+%26+grand-manman-c.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427309686076351250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My Mononcle Raoul was crushed from the waist down when the school of which he was the principal collapsed. They found him alive but he passed away on the way to the hospital. He was 75 years old.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mon oncle Raoul a été écrasé de la taille vers le bas lorsque l'école, dont il était le directeur, s'est effondré. Il a été retrouvé vivant mais est mort en se redant à l'hôpital. Il avait 75 ans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1310280193255586403?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1310280193255586403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1310280193255586403' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1310280193255586403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1310280193255586403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-memoriam.html' title='In Memoriam'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S1GtZ4SeIxI/AAAAAAAACJM/1ZwO7LO9hLE/s72-c/Raoul+%26+grand-manman-c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8721866733516285487</id><published>2010-01-12T21:34:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T21:40:51.296-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haïti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earthquake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tremblement de terre'/><title type='text'>Madichon sou Ayiti!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S00yJY80jMI/AAAAAAAACJE/APNFKFR_BnM/s1600-h/Pink+hous.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S00yJY80jMI/AAAAAAAACJE/APNFKFR_BnM/s320/Pink+hous.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426048262949080258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S00yJC3LdkI/AAAAAAAACI8/bEf6ojDTp3s/s1600-h/motorcycle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S00yJC3LdkI/AAAAAAAACI8/bEf6ojDTp3s/s320/motorcycle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426048257019835970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Dear God, that country is cursed! Thinking of my family still there...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ce pays est vraiment damné! Mes pensées sont avec ceux qui y sont encore...&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8721866733516285487?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8721866733516285487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8721866733516285487' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8721866733516285487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8721866733516285487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/madichon-sou-ayiti.html' title='Madichon sou Ayiti!'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S00yJY80jMI/AAAAAAAACJE/APNFKFR_BnM/s72-c/Pink+hous.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5876349272669608935</id><published>2010-01-08T18:35:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T21:51:12.135-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home decor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décoration'/><title type='text'>A new partition/Une nouvelle séparation</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;Long story short, I miss having a proper foyer so I finally got my act together and picked a drapery rod and ceiling surpport, then went to the fabric store and picked some double width drapery fabric, hemmed the sides top and bottom using hemming tape. Not a single stich on this project. I love how it gives my place a bit of a loft feel. I would need to get a superwide lense in order to properly show what it looks like. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La version brève de cette histoire est que j'ai toujours détesté le fait que je n'avais pas de vestibule et donc suis allé m'acheter un tringle et des support, en plus du tissus à draperie double largeur. J'en ai ourlé les côtés, haut et bas entièrement sans une seule couture, entièrement avec du ruban à ourlet. J'aime bien le fait que ce panneau de tissus donne à mon entrée un look comme un loft. Il me faudrait un lentille à grand angle afin de bien pouvoir illuster la chose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fEx1LIwvI/AAAAAAAACI0/cP3ScbtYIC4/s1600-h/IMG_2714.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fEx1LIwvI/AAAAAAAACI0/cP3ScbtYIC4/s320/IMG_2714.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424520636557476594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;I could show this angle from further back then then you'd see the mess at my front entrance. Oh and check out my new dining set. For some reason this was one grown up purchase I kept putting off. You can kinda see that the lampshade is off centre compared to the table, that's because I recentred the table using the new drape as a wall that defines the room. I already have the cord and hook to move it over the table.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Je voudrais bien montrer ceci d'un peu plus loin mais vous verriez le bordel dans mon entrée. Et en passant, admirez mon nouvel ensemble de salle à manger. Pour une raison ou une autre, c'était le dernier achat de grande personne que je me refusait à faire. Vous voyez un peu que l'abat-jour n'est pas centré sur la table, c'est parce que recentrer ce dernier par rapport au nouveau panneau de tissu. J'ai déjà la corde et crochet pour recentrer L'aba-jour au-dessus de la table. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fExqvq4iI/AAAAAAAACIs/-9ECATu158U/s1600-h/IMG_2715.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fExqvq4iI/AAAAAAAACIs/-9ECATu158U/s320/IMG_2715.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424520633757917730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000099;"&gt;A close up of the side and bottom hem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Une vue rapproché de l'ourlet sur l'ourlet du côté et bas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fExdYB_FI/AAAAAAAACIk/0N_wdDialKc/s1600-h/IMG_2706.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fExdYB_FI/AAAAAAAACIk/0N_wdDialKc/s320/IMG_2706.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424520630169107538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5876349272669608935?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5876349272669608935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5876349272669608935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5876349272669608935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5876349272669608935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-partitionune-nouvelle-separation.html' title='A new partition/Une nouvelle séparation'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/S0fEx1LIwvI/AAAAAAAACI0/cP3ScbtYIC4/s72-c/IMG_2714.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6364668208264221604</id><published>2010-01-01T06:18:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T06:19:21.557-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bonne année'/><title type='text'>Bonne année/Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sz3aLwpfYzI/AAAAAAAACIE/LS7YRaToKdw/s1600-h/champagne-explosion.1250178567.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 333px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sz3aLwpfYzI/AAAAAAAACIE/LS7YRaToKdw/s400/champagne-explosion.1250178567.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421729421996286770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6364668208264221604?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6364668208264221604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6364668208264221604' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6364668208264221604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6364668208264221604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/bonne-anneehappy-new-year.html' title='Bonne année/Happy New Year'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sz3aLwpfYzI/AAAAAAAACIE/LS7YRaToKdw/s72-c/champagne-explosion.1250178567.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5644284030979936172</id><published>2009-12-28T18:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-28T19:24:03.693-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toe up socks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chaussettes commencées aux orteils'/><title type='text'>New socks/Nouvelles chaussettes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzlGoN2jKAI/AAAAAAAACH8/zHNyy_GGZ6A/s1600-h/IMG_2659.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzlGoN2jKAI/AAAAAAAACH8/zHNyy_GGZ6A/s400/IMG_2659.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420441283244271618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pattern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: Toe up sock tutorial from a past Interweave magazine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Yarn:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://ariadneknits.com/yarn/opal_wass/index.html"&gt; Opal HundertWasser in Silver Spiral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Time required:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Cast on in May 2007, finished last weekend...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Modification:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Well, I'm pretty sure I deviated from the pattern once I started working the legs but I can't remember how I differ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Not all projects remain in WIPs purgatory forever...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Patron:&lt;/span&gt; Instructions pour faire des chaussettes à partir des orteils, publiées dans un Interweave Knit passé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Laine:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ariadneknits.com/yarn/opal_wass/index.html"&gt;Silver Spiral de Opal HundertWasser &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Temps requis:&lt;/span&gt; Mailles montées en mai 2007,  terminé dimanche dernier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modification: &lt;/span&gt;Je suis certaine d'avoir dévié du patron original une fois que j'ai commencé à faire les jambes mais j'oublie quelles ont été les mofifs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce ne sont pas tout les projets qui demeurent "en progression" à tout jamais...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5644284030979936172?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5644284030979936172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5644284030979936172' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5644284030979936172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5644284030979936172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-socksnouvelles-chaussettes.html' title='New socks/Nouvelles chaussettes'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzlGoN2jKAI/AAAAAAAACH8/zHNyy_GGZ6A/s72-c/IMG_2659.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3537607387129879654</id><published>2009-12-27T15:02:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T15:09:36.879-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lionel Benjamin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chansons de noël haïtenne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haitian Christmas songs'/><title type='text'>Ab de nwoel!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dseTRKxOqNQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dseTRKxOqNQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIBgz1VJbfs&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIBgz1VJbfs&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GxZ0VDaFFKQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GxZ0VDaFFKQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Even though I was born in Montreal, I spent my childhood in Haiti and Lionel Benjamin was a big star back then. These are three of his songs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien que je sois née à Montréal, j'ai grandie en Haiti et Lionel Benjamin était une grand star à l'époque. Voici trois de ses chansons de Noël.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3537607387129879654?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3537607387129879654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3537607387129879654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3537607387129879654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3537607387129879654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/ab-de-nwoel.html' title='Ab de nwoel!'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7429648647514254261</id><published>2009-12-26T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T13:59:29.443-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trois ténors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Three Tenors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='War is Over'/><title type='text'>War is Over</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mqGpMxtWWBQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mqGpMxtWWBQ&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7429648647514254261?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7429648647514254261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7429648647514254261' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7429648647514254261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7429648647514254261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/war-is-over.html' title='War is Over'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1293853940252249233</id><published>2009-12-25T12:58:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T13:00:30.011-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joyeux Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Merry Christmas'/><title type='text'>Merry Xmas! Joyeux Noël!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="340" width="560"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wKj92352UAE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wKj92352UAE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1293853940252249233?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1293853940252249233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1293853940252249233' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1293853940252249233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1293853940252249233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-xmas-joyeux-noel.html' title='Merry Xmas! Joyeux Noël!'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-1745214447526449095</id><published>2009-12-23T13:40:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T14:31:31.151-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban decay primer potion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Harry Potter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UDPP'/><title type='text'>This and that/Un peu de tout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVJsW1iI/AAAAAAAACG8/v5-qw6KBWfw/s1600-h/IMG_2574.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418503616222123554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVJsW1iI/AAAAAAAACG8/v5-qw6KBWfw/s200/IMG_2574.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153); FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;I finished a project for a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago and was at a loss as to what project to do next. I've started and ripped a scarf, I still have a cardi that I started a couple of months ago that I haven't touched since. But suddenly I felt like working on a pair of sock. I flipped thought my 2 at a time Sock book but I was drawn to this pair that I cast on back in late May 2007 and that has been floundering in my WIP pile after I did the heel for the second sock. What was stopping me from working on these again was that I didnt do proper increases the leg of the first sock, I had simply used larger needles as I progressed up and I couldn't remember how I did that. When I finally dug these out last week I figured that I'd simply slip a needle thought the sts at the top to figure out the larger size that I used. Turns out, I only went up a couple of needle sizes. Since this pic has been taken I've progressed quite quickly, I'm about one inch from doing the 1x1 rib for the top of the leg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai terminé un truc pour une amie il y deux semaines et je ne savais pas trop quel projet faire. J'ai commencé et défait un foulard sur lequel je travaillais, j'ai aussi un cardigan que dont j'ai monté les mailles il y a deux mois mais que je n'ai pas touché depuis des lustres. Mais j'ai eu envie de me faire une paire de chaussettes. J'ai fouillé dans mon livre de chaussette mais je me suis dit que je devrais plutôt terminé la paire que j'ai commencé en mai 2007 et qui langui depuis deux ans dans le fond du panier depuis que le talon de la deuxième chaussette avait été fait. Le problème était que je ne me rappelais pas des aiguilles que j'avais utilisé pour faire les mailles qui entourent le mollet (j'ai préféré relâcher la tension plutôt que d'augmenter leur nombre). Finalement, j'ai tout simplement glissé des aiguilles dans les mailles de la chaussette fini afin de trouver la bonne grosseur. Depuis que cette photo a été prise j'ai fait une assez bonne progression, je suis à 2.5 cm de commencer les côtes 1x1 du haut de la 2e chaussette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVkvjz_I/AAAAAAAACHM/Hq7OtfoTKFA/s1600-h/IMG_2578.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418503623483314162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVkvjz_I/AAAAAAAACHM/Hq7OtfoTKFA/s200/IMG_2578.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJmooJQNDI/AAAAAAAACHU/Y2I2EnWp7X4/s1600-h/IMG_2582.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418506149837157426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 153px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 204px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJmooJQNDI/AAAAAAAACHU/Y2I2EnWp7X4/s200/IMG_2582.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153); FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;As wonderful as my Urban Decay eyeshadow primer is, a quick tour around YouTube's makeup vids taught me that after a while, I will no longer be able to access the products lodged around the bulbous portion of the container, as well as the very bottom of the tube. When I cut it open to get the product out I realized there was a lot of product left. Anyway scooping it out and filling the empty lipgloss tubes was a messy project. I had to use all three tubes to do it though they're not filled completely but that's a lesson in physics for another day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'adore mon aprêt pour fard à paupière de Urban Decay mais en voyant divers vidéos sur YouTube je me suis rendue compte que je n'aurais pas accès à une bonne partie des produits du à la forme du contenant. Lorsque j'ai ouvert le tube , je me suis rendu compte que ne pouvait accéder à la majorité du produit dans le "bulbe" sous le goulot ainsi qu'au fond de la bouteille. Bon, extraire l'apprêt pour ensuite l'inserer dans les tube de glosse vide a été un projet salissant. J'ai du utiliser les trois tubes mais ils ne sont pas complètement rempli pour une raison qu'un physicien serait mieux placé que moi pour expliquer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVZviaDI/AAAAAAAACHE/7B-vy-tMVdg/s1600-h/IMG_2579.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418503620530432050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVZviaDI/AAAAAAAACHE/7B-vy-tMVdg/s200/IMG_2579.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;I'm in such a need for an HP fix that I picked these up at the book store when I spotted them. The Quidditch book is hilarious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai tant besoin d'un remontant de Harry Potter que j'ai acheté ces deux livres à la librairie sitôt que je les ai vus. Celui sur le Quidditch est vraiment hilarant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-1745214447526449095?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/1745214447526449095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=1745214447526449095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1745214447526449095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/1745214447526449095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-and-thatun-peu-de-tout.html' title='This and that/Un peu de tout'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzJkVJsW1iI/AAAAAAAACG8/v5-qw6KBWfw/s72-c/IMG_2574.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5833611345113022353</id><published>2009-11-14T15:56:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T15:47:35.045-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='instructions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='makeup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maquillage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='youtube'/><title type='text'>Day time date look/Look pour rencontre de jour</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SwBgGPTOJLI/AAAAAAAACG0/YPsqTO5gAgU/s1600-h/IMG_2509.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SwBgGPTOJLI/AAAAAAAACG0/YPsqTO5gAgU/s200/IMG_2509.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404425213147227314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SwBgFz6ZHcI/AAAAAAAACGs/QAlbqaCJCS4/s1600-h/IMG_2503.JPG"&gt; &lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SwBgFz6ZHcI/AAAAAAAACGs/QAlbqaCJCS4/s200/IMG_2503.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404425205795331522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvhkpK94lyw&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvhkpK94lyw&amp;amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok so I had a midday coffee date on Wednesday so I figured I do a face where the my lips would be the focus. You can't really tell in the right pic but it was pretty strong red. I spontaneously picked up a cherry red lipgloss at a L'Oreal sale the other day, was shocked to see it looked good on me but I'm still getting used to whipping it out in public. I haven't worn a true red since the early '90s. Anyway, another easy neutral look that can be kicked up a notch with a strong lip. When I'll sort out my camera colour setting, I will try a much stronger eye next time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, j'avais un rendez-vous galant mercredi et j'avais décidé d'essayer de mettre mes lèvres de l'avant. Ça ne parait pas trop sur la photo à droite mais le rouge que je portais était assez puissant. Je l'avais spontanément acheté lors d'une mégavente de L'Oréal l'autre jour, j'ai été surprise de constaté que je pouvais porté une telle couleur, je ne l'ai pas  portée depuis le début des années 90. Donc, une autre leçon pour une look neutre qui peut être porté avec l'accent mis, ou non, sur les lèvres. Une fois que j'aurai réglé mes problème de couleur avec ma caméra, je crois que je vais essayer des yeux plus colorés la prochaine fois.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5833611345113022353?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5833611345113022353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5833611345113022353' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5833611345113022353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5833611345113022353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-time-date-looklook-pour-rencontre.html' title='Day time date look/Look pour rencontre de jour'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SwBgGPTOJLI/AAAAAAAACG0/YPsqTO5gAgU/s72-c/IMG_2509.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8579455443490087416</id><published>2009-11-05T22:22:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T23:19:16.207-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jour du souvenir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remembrance day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poppy flower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coquelicot'/><title type='text'>Remembrance/Souvenir</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvOYVEuE_0I/AAAAAAAACGU/1Ugo6kft49E/s1600-h/IMG_2465.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvOYVEuE_0I/AAAAAAAACGU/1Ugo6kft49E/s320/IMG_2465.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400827865959038786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This year I decided to make my own poppy for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day"&gt;Rememberance Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. Used &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.reesedixon.com/2009/03/organza-flowers.html"&gt;this tute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, same as the previous flower I made except that I used a velvet covered button for the centre. I've dropped some coins in the war veteran's collection box so I don't feel guilty for not wearing the standard issue poppy. Well on my civilian clothes anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai décidé cette année de me faire un coquelicot pour le &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jour_du_souvenir"&gt;Jour du Souvenir&lt;/a&gt;. J'ai utilisé&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reesedixon.com/2009/03/organza-flowers.html"&gt; ces instructions&lt;/a&gt;, les mêmes pour la fleur précédente que j'ai faite sauf que j'ai utilisé un bouton couvert de velours pour le centre. J'ai déjà déposer des sous dans la boîte de dons des vétérans donc je ne me sens pas coupable de ne pas porter le coquelicot standard sur mes vêtements. Civils, il faut préciser.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8579455443490087416?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8579455443490087416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8579455443490087416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8579455443490087416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8579455443490087416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/remembrancesouvenir.html' title='Remembrance/Souvenir'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvOYVEuE_0I/AAAAAAAACGU/1Ugo6kft49E/s72-c/IMG_2465.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-2983979726478213572</id><published>2009-11-03T22:44:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T23:41:41.737-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chris rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Good Hair documentary'/><title type='text'>Good Hair</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvD40s9AriI/AAAAAAAACGM/-RAz7xcW7yQ/s1600-h/good_hair_chris_rock.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvD40s9AriI/AAAAAAAACGM/-RAz7xcW7yQ/s320/good_hair_chris_rock.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400089537521167906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Ok I guess I'm not that tired of talking about Good Hair because I just want to throw my belated 0.02$C on the subject. I will say a couple of things about this documentary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I liked it, it was funny, entertaining and informative, if you want to know about perms and weaves though personally I didn't learn anything new. Opening the movie on his daughter asking why she doesn't have "good hair" to me totally misrepresents what this movie really is about: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.bronnerbros.com/shows/show200908/index.php"&gt;Bronner Bros hair show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;the extents black women are willing to go to have straight hair. He could have completely cut the bits about his daughter out since it made no sense in this movie plus, it misrepresents what black people mean by "good hair".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, don't go see it expecting an in depth sociological analysis of black hair issues. Otherwise, it was good. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-2983979726478213572?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/2983979726478213572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=2983979726478213572' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2983979726478213572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2983979726478213572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/good-hair.html' title='Good Hair'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvD40s9AriI/AAAAAAAACGM/-RAz7xcW7yQ/s72-c/good_hair_chris_rock.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3001777706404444251</id><published>2009-11-03T18:48:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T19:15:21.279-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='afro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheveux qui poussent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hair progress'/><title type='text'>A year in hair/Une année échevelée...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvDHAQeUiVI/AAAAAAAACGE/gv3ff-GDY48/s1600-h/IMG_0632.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvDHAQeUiVI/AAAAAAAACGE/gv3ff-GDY48/s320/IMG_0632.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400034760453294418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nov 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvDHAL4a5kI/AAAAAAAACF8/vS7I6aDiDnc/s1600-h/IMG_2448.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvDHAL4a5kI/AAAAAAAACF8/vS7I6aDiDnc/s320/IMG_2448.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400034759220586050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Nov 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;As I'm about to step  out to finally check out Chris Rock's documentary Good Hair (honestly I'm a little fatigued by that discussion at this point), I remind myself of how different my 'fro was a year ago. The bane of a lot of sisters who grow their afro textured hair is that because of what we in hair forums call shrinkage, it's hard for others to truly appreciate the progress. Put it this way, if I pull on a strand around my ear, it will reach my collar bone. In any case, I think you can still tell the 'fro is bigger. And yep, I'm wearing my afro sweater in the second picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis sur le point d'aller voir le documentaire Good Hair, fait part l'humoriste américain Chris Rock. Honnêtement je suis un peu lasse de cette discussion mais bon. J'en profite donc pour me rappeler de ce dont avait l'air mon afro il y une an. Un des trucs qui affligent le plus celles qui font pousser leur cheveux crépus est que du à notre texture extrêmement frisée qui ratatine (c0mme on dirait au Québec) nos cheveux, ils un peu difficile pour les autres d'apprécier pleinement le progrès accompli. Par exemple, si je tire sur une des mèches au devant de mon oreille, il m'arrive jusqu'à la clavicule. Tout de même, on peut observer que mon afro est plus gros sur la seconde photo. Et oui je porte mon chandail "Afro" sur la seconde photo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3001777706404444251?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3001777706404444251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3001777706404444251' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3001777706404444251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3001777706404444251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/year-in-hairune-annee-echevelee.html' title='A year in hair/Une année échevelée...'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SvDHAQeUiVI/AAAAAAAACGE/gv3ff-GDY48/s72-c/IMG_0632.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-2194851289279434060</id><published>2009-10-22T12:42:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T16:09:52.045-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sienna cardigan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Objet terminé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cardigan Sienna'/><title type='text'>Cardigan Sienna Cardigan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SuCNz4iBJyI/AAAAAAAACFc/ObK7vM-hONM/s1600-h/IMG_2397.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SuCNz4iBJyI/AAAAAAAACFc/ObK7vM-hONM/s200/IMG_2397.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395468276077766434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SuCLtZEWQKI/AAAAAAAACFU/zbFJt5-ZHGw/s1600-h/IMG_2398.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SuCLtZEWQKI/AAAAAAAACFU/zbFJt5-ZHGw/s200/IMG_2398.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395465965529350306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pattern&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Patterns/Sienna-Cardigan.html"&gt;Sienna cardigan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yarn&lt;/span&gt;:  Inca gold Mara 70% Merino wool, 30% baby alpaca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time required&lt;/span&gt;: Can't remember when I cast on for this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modifications&lt;/span&gt;: I made the waist for fitted and I knit the bottom one size larger with darts at the waist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;My first cardigan!!! I can't believe I never managed to finish one before. Honestly I don't know what my malfunction was, I'd start them and then I'd lose interest. Anyway just as I started jonesing for a cardi, I get the free 7 cardigan patterns eBooklet from Knitting daily and in it, I found this one. It looked like a quick knit so I decided to give it a try. It's a coincidence that the yarn I used looks exactly like the on used in the pattern, I bought it at at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://ariadneknits.com/"&gt;Ariadne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; last Winter. I should be blocking it... Maybe I will, maybe I won't.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Positives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: If it wasn't for my procrastination, it would be done a long time ago. I was a fast project to do. Making the bottom larger was an excellent decision, as was not making short at the bust. It fits just fine. I swiped the leather buttons from one of my fashion school's graduation projects and it looks nice here. Also I'm glad I made the waist more fitted. Squarish/boxy sweaters just add pounds on my curvy frame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Negatives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: Other then ripping out the top when I changed my mind about the short rows, and ripping the collar band because it was late when I made it and messed up, non really. Wait, yeah I have a rather strong shoulder frame courtesy of the gym so maybe the shoulder seam could go out an by an inch on each shoulder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The horreur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: Can't think of any. That thread sticking from the waist is actually the thread attaching the buttons to the sweater, an easy snip. Oh and I reversed the SSKs and k2tog when I made the waist darts at the back and front. I have to take a pic to show you the difference. I won't. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Patron&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Patterns/Sienna-Cardigan.html"&gt;Cardigan Sienna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fil&lt;/span&gt;: Inca gold Mara 70% laine merinos, 30% bébé alpaca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Temps requis&lt;/span&gt;: Je me souviens pas de quand est-ce que j'ai monté les mailles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Modification&lt;/span&gt;: J'ai fait la bande de taille  une taille plus grande que le haut, en plus de faire la taille plus ajustée&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon premier cardigan! Honnêtement je ne sais pas pourquoi je n'ai jamais été capable d'en terminer un auparavant.  Je le commençait et par la suite, je perdait tout intérêt. Mais bon, au moment ou je recommençait a vouloir en faire un, je reçois le livret électronique gratuit de Knitting Daily qui contenait 7 modèles. J'y ai trouvé celui-ci, il avait l'air rapide et facile à faire. C'est tout à fait une coïncidence que la laine utilisée est presque identique à celle utilisée dans le patron, je l'ai acheté l'hiver dernier chez &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://ariadneknits.com/"&gt;Ariadne&lt;/a&gt;. Je devrais bloquer le chandail en ce moment, peut être que je le ferai, peut être que non...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Positif&lt;/span&gt;: N'eut été de ma procrastination, j'aurai probablement terminé ce chandail il y a belle lurette. C'était un bonne décision de faire le chandail une taille plus grande à la bande de taille tout comme celle de ne pas faire de rangs raccourcis à la poitrine. Il me fait comme un gant. J'ai recyclé les boutons en cuir qui se trouvaient sur un de mes projets de fin de sessions à l'école de mode, un excellent choix. Finalement je suis contente d'avoir ajusté la taille, les chandails trop "carrés" ne font que rajouter quelques livres sur mes courbes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Négatifs: Mise à part le fait que j'ai recommencé le col plus d'une fois à cause de mauvais calculs, et le fait de recommencer la poitrine au devant quand j'ai changé d'idée pour les rangs raccourcis. Ok il y aussi le fait que j'ai une bonne carrure à l'épaule (grâce à quelques séances de poids et altères) et donc, il aurait été préférable que la  ligne d'epaule soit plus large d'environ un pouce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;L'horreur&lt;/span&gt;: Bon, le fil qui dépasse à la taille est en fait un fil du bouton. Un coup de ciseaux règlera ce problème. J'ai aussi inverse les *deux mailles tricots ensemble* ainsi que le point de surjet pour faire les pinces de tailles au dos et au devant. Je pourrais bien prendre une photo pour montrer la différence... mais je ne le ferai pas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-2194851289279434060?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/2194851289279434060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=2194851289279434060' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2194851289279434060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/2194851289279434060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/cardiga-sienna-cardigan.html' title='Cardigan Sienna Cardigan'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SuCNz4iBJyI/AAAAAAAACFc/ObK7vM-hONM/s72-c/IMG_2397.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-9144160414938975579</id><published>2009-10-19T13:21:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T13:37:16.289-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='instructions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='makeup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maquillage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='youtube'/><title type='text'>Makeup tutorial/Leçon de maquillage</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6qKIJoBO2Cs&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6qKIJoBO2Cs&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;You know, I thought I'd have more knitting vids out by now. Oh well, here's a tutorial for an easy nude look for us girls of darker complexion. Sometimes you want to be done without looking like you escaped from the '80s and I like this because it's simple, is done pretty fast (under 7 minutes) and you look polished. And thank God for Haitian music, they last so long I had to shorten it to fit this vid. It's a very well known carnaval song by &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boukman_Eksperyans"&gt;Boukman Eksperyans&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je croyais que d'ici maintenant j'aurais plus de vidéo que ça. Bon, voici une leçon (en anglais mais que je crois qu'il soit quand même assez facile à suivre) pour un look naturel pour femme au teint foncé. Des fois on veut se donner un finition sans avoir l'air d'être une rescapée des années 80. J'aime ce look car il est facile et rapide à faire mais qui donne quand même un bon résultat. Et dieu merci pour la musique haïtienne qui dure une éternité. J'ai du raccourcir celle-ci pour ce vidéo. C'est une chanson de carnaval très connue du groupe &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.musiquehaitienne.fr/mouvement-rasin/boukman-eksperyans/"&gt;Boukman Ekspéryans&lt;/a&gt;. J'espère que vous aimerez.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-9144160414938975579?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/9144160414938975579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=9144160414938975579' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9144160414938975579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/9144160414938975579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/makeup-tutoriallecon-de-maquillage.html' title='Makeup tutorial/Leçon de maquillage'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3237123604745004243</id><published>2009-10-11T19:28:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T20:01:45.485-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sac pour pince à linge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home decor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Clothespin bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décoration'/><title type='text'>Quickie/P'tite vite</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/StJqRgmKVsI/AAAAAAAACFE/6JShUiPzNDM/s1600-h/IMG_2323.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/StJqRgmKVsI/AAAAAAAACFE/6JShUiPzNDM/s400/IMG_2323.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391488552956221122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So I'm doing some serious purging right now at my place, I'm amazed of the amount of stuff I've managed to get rid of so far and I have yet to get to the three biggest offenders: my bedroom, my sewing room (that's a serious beast to tackle) and my locker. Sadly I didn't take before pics of my galley kitchen to help you appreciate the amount of work done there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This small project is part of the process, it's a clothespin bag for my wall dryer in the bathroom. I came up with the specs myself after looking at a few patterns online, the whole thing is made with a single strip of fabric that is simply folded and sewn, with a bias ribbon at the opening, a dowel near the top to help it hold it's shape and a piece of cardboard to stiffen the bottom. That gap at the opening annoys me, I know I have some stick on velcro lying around and I will close it up. Otherwise, I like it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En ce moment je suis en train de faire une sérieuse épuration de mon condo. La quantité de choses dont je me suis débarrassée jusqu'à présent est assez surprenante mais le pire est que je n'ai pas encore attaqué la où il y le plus à faire ie ma chambre à coucher, ma salle de couture (tout un monstre à abattre) ainsi que mon débarras. Malheureusement je n'ai pas pris de photo de ma cuisinette avant d'y faire le travail afin d'apprécier ce qui y a été fait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci est une petite partie du processus, c'est un sac pour des pinces à lessive pour mon séchoir mural.  Je l'ai créé après avoir observé quelques instructions en ligne pour en faire. Il est fait d'une seule bande de tissu plié et cousu, un ruban biais à l'ouverture, un goujon au haut ainsi qu'une bande en carton au bas  qu'il garde sa forme. L'ouverture qui baille m'énerve, je sais que j'ai du velcro à coller quelque part et je l'utiliserai afin qu'il reste fermé. Mais à part ça, je suis satisfaite du boulot.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3237123604745004243?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3237123604745004243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3237123604745004243' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3237123604745004243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3237123604745004243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/quickieptite-vite.html' title='Quickie/P&apos;tite vite'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/StJqRgmKVsI/AAAAAAAACFE/6JShUiPzNDM/s72-c/IMG_2323.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-5765956270371662854</id><published>2009-09-26T20:01:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-26T20:09:21.375-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miscellaneous'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='n&apos;importe quoi'/><title type='text'>i-87</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sr6r0xJ4UTI/AAAAAAAACE8/RMdy75kOlI4/s1600-h/IMG_2273.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sr6r0xJ4UTI/AAAAAAAACE8/RMdy75kOlI4/s400/IMG_2273.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385931127418016050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;For years I've been driving down the I-87 and every time I'd see this sign, I wanted to take a picture. Last weekend I went down to NYC with my mom to catch a musical and play tourist and on our way back, I stopped the car to take this shot. Muggles probably don't understand why.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cela fait des années que je voyage le long de l'I-87 et à chaque fois que je voyait ce panneau, je me disais qu'il fallait bien qu'un jour je le prenne en photo. Le weekend dernier j'ai été à New York voir une comédie musical et faire la touriste et au retour, j'ai arrêté la voiture pour prendre une photo. Les moldus doivent se demander qu'elle est l'intéret...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-5765956270371662854?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/5765956270371662854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=5765956270371662854' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5765956270371662854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/5765956270371662854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-87.html' title='i-87'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sr6r0xJ4UTI/AAAAAAAACE8/RMdy75kOlI4/s72-c/IMG_2273.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6495982257741261442</id><published>2009-09-15T18:55:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T19:04:59.904-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SNL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patrick Swayze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chippendales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chirs Farley'/><title type='text'>Patrick vs Chris</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SrAdlNxW-DI/AAAAAAAACE0/4wBkIgMbuLM/s1600-h/Patrick+and+Chris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SrAdlNxW-DI/AAAAAAAACE0/4wBkIgMbuLM/s400/Patrick+and+Chris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381834079896795186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've been posting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://video.aol.com/video-detail/chris-farley-with-patrick-swayze/1640651206"&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; anywhere I can LOL!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je publie &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://video.aol.com/video-detail/chris-farley-with-patrick-swayze/1640651206"&gt;ce vidéo&lt;/a&gt; partout je peux, LOL!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6495982257741261442?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6495982257741261442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6495982257741261442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6495982257741261442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6495982257741261442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/patrick-vs-chris.html' title='Patrick vs Chris'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SrAdlNxW-DI/AAAAAAAACE0/4wBkIgMbuLM/s72-c/Patrick+and+Chris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-8611052156487092381</id><published>2009-09-14T20:30:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T20:38:01.698-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patrick Swayze'/><title type='text'>RIP</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/Patrick%20Swayze%20sexy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/Patrick%20Swayze%20sexy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1952-2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-8611052156487092381?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/8611052156487092381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=8611052156487092381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8611052156487092381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/8611052156487092381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/rip.html' title='RIP'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3719220832749303680</id><published>2009-09-14T18:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T20:41:48.972-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cardigan Sierra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sierra cardigan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interweave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en progession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><title type='text'>Spicy/Épicé</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sq69aTGVxyI/AAAAAAAACEs/ff79cmtezCk/s1600-h/IMG_2175.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sq69aTGVxyI/AAAAAAAACEs/ff79cmtezCk/s200/IMG_2175.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381446864255436578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sq69aA9-LJI/AAAAAAAACEk/PLD5HnefFKs/s1600-h/IMG_2174.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sq69aA9-LJI/AAAAAAAACEk/PLD5HnefFKs/s200/IMG_2174.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381446859388497042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The other day I finished the cabled scarf that I was working on (still need to block it, take a pic etc).  As soon as I bound off it's last stitch I quickly looked around for a new project, considered doing a pair of toe ups socks but in the end, I chose the conquer a cardi. If you've read my ramblings before, then you know that I never manage to finish cardigans for some reason. Just as I thought about it I got an email from Knitting Daily announcing their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.knittingdaily.com/7-Free-Cardigan-Knitting-Patterns/"&gt; free cardi eBook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. In it I found the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.interweave.com/knit/interweave_knits/galleries/bonus/fall_2006/sienna1.asp"&gt;Sienna Cardi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; and liked it. I also thought it would be a good practice for the Norah Gaughan cardigan I want to do. Made a a couple of modifications: I made the hips one size larger then the top but added decreases halfway between the  side edges as a waist dart, both at the back and front. I also decided to make it less boxy by making the waist more fitted. And now I'm figuring  the bust darts using short rows. I have to start over because by adding rows, I raised the low point of the neckline but I think I know how to compensate for that. The Mara yarn is from my stash and in reality it's colour is similar to the magazine's picture, not at all fluorescent like it shows here for some reason.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'autre jour j'ai terminé le foulard avec torsade sur lequel je travaillais cet été (je dois en faire le bloquage, prende des photos etc). Sitôt la dernière maille rabattue j'ai tout de suite commencé à chercher mon prochain projet. J'ai pensé me faire une paire de chaussette faite à partir de la pointe des pieds mais finalement j'ai décidé de m'attaquer à un cardigan. Si vous avez déjà lu mon blogue, vous savez que je n'en ai jamais terminé. Juste à point j'ai reçu l'info-lettre de Knitting Daily annonçant &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.knittingdaily.com/7-Free-Cardigan-Knitting-Patterns/"&gt;un livret de cardigans gratuit&lt;/a&gt; à télécharger et j'y a trouvé le &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.interweave.com/knit/interweave_knits/galleries/bonus/fall_2006/sienna1.asp"&gt;cardigan Sienna&lt;/a&gt;. Je me suis dit qu'il serait une bonne pratique pour le modèle par Norah Gaughan que je veux faire. Je le modifié ainsi: j'ai fait le bas une taille plus grande que le haut afin d'y ajouter une "pince" vers la taille. J'ai aussi fait la taille plus ajustée. En ce moment je suis en travailler sur la pince à la poitrine en utilisant des rangs raccourcis. Un problème: le rangées de plus font remonter la pointe de l'encolure mais j'ai une idée sur comment corriger ça. La laine est de ma réserve, la couleur est plus proche de la photo du magazine que cette version fluo sur la photo ci-haut....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3719220832749303680?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3719220832749303680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3719220832749303680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3719220832749303680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3719220832749303680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/spicyepice.html' title='Spicy/Épicé'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/Sq69aTGVxyI/AAAAAAAACEs/ff79cmtezCk/s72-c/IMG_2175.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-170220516398223335</id><published>2009-09-04T19:12:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T17:59:54.751-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Look 6670'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sheath dress'/><title type='text'>New Look 6670</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfsBjCmpI/AAAAAAAACEc/Bmo9lHK4MNs/s1600-h/IMG_2171.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfsBjCmpI/AAAAAAAACEc/Bmo9lHK4MNs/s320/IMG_2171.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377755008735550098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfr2lMTUI/AAAAAAAACEU/6lIqowhB00Y/s1600-h/IMG_2172.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfr2lMTUI/AAAAAAAACEU/6lIqowhB00Y/s320/IMG_2172.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377755005791784258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfJiQqGkI/AAAAAAAACEE/R8cHLQuM0PE/s1600-h/IMG_2167.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfJiQqGkI/AAAAAAAACEE/R8cHLQuM0PE/s320/IMG_2167.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377754416221395522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfKDZOPfI/AAAAAAAACEM/KjmkEplFWfA/s1600-h/IMG_2168.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfKDZOPfI/AAAAAAAACEM/KjmkEplFWfA/s320/IMG_2168.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377754425115688434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Français plus bas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pattern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2394-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;New Look 6670&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Fabrics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: 100% wool two tone tweed for top dress, printed stretch cotton for the bottom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Time required&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: Three days for the top dress, and about three weeks (procrastination and pattern alterations included) for the bottom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Modification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;: Besides an FBA, I raised the waist deep V neckline at the back since I can't go without a bra and because I didn't it that deep anyway. Also, the pattern called for a satin or crepe fabric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I was telling myself that it was time to finish the bottom dress when my dad called to give my some bad news. Still smarting from the last funeral I went to dressed like an off duty nun I decided I had to make a dress. I only had a couple of days to make it and for a second I thought working on a new pattern. Then I thought that this one would work just as well for a funeral, in a less festive fabric that is. At the store I looked for woollens and found the one for the top dress in the off white, black and chocolate brown. I tend to shy away from dark dresses ever since my sister's first communion years ago (in the pics I look like Darth Vader. I seriously considered the brown but in the end I chose the off white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The bottom dress is made out of a stretchy cotton. I was not so certain the pattern would look right but when I tried it on it exceeded my expectations. Very good choice. You can't tell since I'm standing differently in the dresses but the cotton version has less volume at the hips for some reason. I was planning on wearing it at the office this week but realizing most of my colleagues were gone to a charity golf game so instead it got it's premiere yesterday at a girl's dinner party.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;All in all, very happy with the results, it fits (mostly) very well, a few things here and there but nothing I can't live with. I like both dresses equally. The FBA was not at all difficult to do, modifying the pattern to fit my bottom half gave me more issues. I now know to give less ease at the waist, hence the belt, because fitted is always better. I've also learn that I need to lower bust's apex, I didn't know my boobs start low... I didn't bother following the instructions but I did read the part a about doing the straps and pulling the back half though them to bring the right side out, and that is the most BS I have ever read, not the first time though...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Patron: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2394-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;New Look 6670&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tissu: Un tweed blanc cassé pour la robe du haut et un coton "stretch" imprimé pour celle du bas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Temps requis: 2 jours pour la robe blanche et trois semaines pour l'imprimée (incluant les modifications sur le patron ainsi que mes tergiversations)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modifications: Le dos a été remonté car je ne peux me promener sans soutien-gorge et de toute façon, je ne voulais pas d'un dos plongeant. De plus, le tissu recommandé par le patron était du satin ou du crêpe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je commençais à me dire qu'il était temps que je termine la robe que j'avais commencé lorsque j'ai reçu une mauvaise nouvelle de la part de mon père. Ayant toujours en tête mon look de bonne sœur que j'avais aux dernières funérailles auxquelles j'ai assisté j'ai décidé de me faire une robe. J'ai jonglé avec l'idée d'utiliser un nouveau patron, mais finalement avec le peu de temps que j'avais je me suis dit que ce serait mieux d'utiliser celui que j'avais déjà modifier, de toute façon le style était tout à fait convenable pour des obsèques, dans un tissu mois festif évidemment. J'ai donc été à la mercerie et me suis retrouvée à choisir entre trois couleurs de tweed deux tons: blanc cassé, noir et chocolat. Le noir fut éliminé assez vite, je me souviens toujours de la fois que j'ai porté une robe bleue marin à une première communion, on aurait dit Darth Vador. J'ai longtemps hésité par rapport au chocolat  mais finalement, j'ai choisi le blanc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tissu de la robe du bas est une cotonnade élastique imprimée. Je ne croyais que cela donnerait un si joli résultat. Pour une raison que je ne comprend pas tout à fait, la jupe de cette version a moins de volume que la version blanche. Pourtant c'est le même patron. Je pensais le porter cette semaine au bureau mais vu que la plupart de mes collègues étaient partis cette journée-là participer à une journée de golf pour une levée de fond, je crois que je l'inaugurerai lors d'une soirée avec mes amies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En général, j'aime les deux versions, je suis très satisfaite du résultat. Elles me vont presque comme un gant, des petits défauts ici et là mais rien que je ne puisse accepter. Faire les ajustements pour poitrine forte n'a pas été si difficile, en fait j'ai eu plus de difficulté à donner le volume nécessaire pour mes hanches. J'ai aussi apprise que j'avais un poitrine basse, je devrai toujours abaissé la poitrine lors d'ajustements. La prochaine fois je mettrai moins d'aisance à la taille afin qu'elle soit plus ajusté. Je n'ai pas la peine de regarder les instructions pour l'assemblage, ce qui m'a permis d'éviter le non sens qui voulait qu'on fasse passer l'endos vers l'avant via les bretelles et ce n'est pas la première fois que je vois ça.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-170220516398223335?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/170220516398223335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=170220516398223335' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/170220516398223335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/170220516398223335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-look-6670.html' title='New Look 6670'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SqGfsBjCmpI/AAAAAAAACEc/Bmo9lHK4MNs/s72-c/IMG_2171.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-3461501310873265381</id><published>2009-08-18T18:43:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-18T20:46:15.909-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miscellaneous'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='n&apos;importe quoi'/><title type='text'>This and that/Un peu de tout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvqZmSq9I/AAAAAAAACD8/KahS_UxvNXY/s1600-h/Legwork.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvqZmSq9I/AAAAAAAACD8/KahS_UxvNXY/s320/Legwork.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371439386041953234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Bought a pair of platform wedges but sadly, I couldn't walk in heels that high. Googled and found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.legworkdvd.com/index.html"&gt;Legwork&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;. Downloaded it and I will try it. I have too many pairs of high heels gathering dust. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai acheté une paire de sandales à semelles plateformes compensées et j'ai été incapable de marcher tres longtemps correctement avec. Une petite recherche sur Google m'a fait déniché le programme &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.legworkdvd.com/index.html"&gt;Legwork&lt;/a&gt;. Je l'ai téléchargé et l'essayerai. J'ai trop de paire de talons hauts qui accumule la poussière...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvThSyv7I/AAAAAAAACDc/HUKtOJUM5Gc/s1600-h/IMG_2148.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvThSyv7I/AAAAAAAACDc/HUKtOJUM5Gc/s320/IMG_2148.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371438992970661810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I've finally caved and bought it. I'll admit, I judged it by it's cover, I should have known that it's the techniques that count, not the styles shown. Ordered it at the local chain bookstore  because I saved about 8$C for the delivery since I picked up there and on top of that, it came in 2 days later. I do know a few techniques from fashion school but I did study men's fashion so whatever was taught on the second and third year I missed out. I think I will get Pants Fit for All... By the by that's a preview of the dress I'm making. I am chuffed as the Brits would say...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me suis finalement procuré ce livre d'altération de patron de couture. Je l'avoue, je l'ai jugé par sa couverture, j'aurais du savoir que ce sont les techniques qui comptent, pas les modèles montrés. Je l'ai commandé pour qu'il soit livré à la librairie, ce qui m'a fait économisé près de 8$C en frais de livraison. Je connais bien quelques techniques mais ayant étudié en mode masculine, j'ai manqué tout ce qui a été montré en 2e et 3e année. Je crois que je vais commandé la version pour pantalons... En passant, cette photo est une avant gout de la robe sur laquelle je travaille en ce moment. Il y a encore beaucoup à faire mais je sais déjà que ce sera un succès.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUjZJnHI/AAAAAAAACD0/y7lcD8l8zT0/s1600-h/IMG_2142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUjZJnHI/AAAAAAAACD0/y7lcD8l8zT0/s320/IMG_2142.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371439010714066034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUcZxEjI/AAAAAAAACDs/yGLoQWvY4wY/s1600-h/IMG_2143.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUcZxEjI/AAAAAAAACDs/yGLoQWvY4wY/s320/IMG_2143.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371439008837603890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUL-xOMI/AAAAAAAACDk/40FMMC4R8j0/s1600-h/IMG_2145.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvUL-xOMI/AAAAAAAACDk/40FMMC4R8j0/s320/IMG_2145.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371439004429400258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;My dress code requires that I not wear my hair with excessive volume so obviously, an afro, with the amount of hair I now have, is out of the question. So this is how I tame my 'fro for work although another reason for this style is because I wear my helmet for my scooter.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Anyway, these are the smallest flattwists I've done so far. Now I won't correct you if you call them cornrows but those basically ridged french braids, the style I'm wearing is done with two strands not three. Having done them at several sizes I now that 6 flattwists are out of the question, I look at best like a Klingon or worse, like a goat (I look like  have horns on my head). 8 is the minimum to step out of the house but they do look mannish on me even if I try an creative part. 10 is the minimum, I find, to look feminine though it will be better when my hair gets longer, I'm constantly redoing the back. In the pic, I have 15.  I took me 90 mins to do, contrast that with the 4 hours it took me the first time I tried this, and I only did 8 flattwsists then... I will keep these until next weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le code vestimentaire auquel je dois adhérer exige que les cheveux des femmes ne doivent pas excéder un certain volume. Étant donné la longueur de mes cheveux actuellement, un afro est hors de question. Ceci est donc la façon que je dompte mes cheveux pour le bureau quoique je le fasse aussi à cause de mon casque de  moto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce sont les plus petites torsades à plat que j'ai fait jusqu'à présent. Un haïtien appellerais ça peut être des ti-couri mais ceux-là ressemblent à des tresses françaises, le style que je porte est fait avec 2 brins. Ceci dit, je sais qu'il est hors de questions de sortir de la maison avec 6 torsades, au mieux j'ai l'air d'une Klingon, au pire d'une chèvre (on dirait que j'ai des cornes sur la tête). 8 sont acceptables mais ça fait quand même un peu masculin. Par contre dix, ça fait, à mon humble avis, un peu plus féminin. Présentement j'ai 15 torsades sur la tête. Cela m'a pris 90 minutes à faire, tout un contraste avec le première fois que j'ai essayé de faire ce style, ça m'avais pris 4 heures et je crois que j'en avais fait que 8...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-3461501310873265381?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/3461501310873265381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=3461501310873265381' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3461501310873265381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/3461501310873265381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-and-thatun-peu-de-tout.html' title='This and that/Un peu de tout'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SosvqZmSq9I/AAAAAAAACD8/KahS_UxvNXY/s72-c/Legwork.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-7710075923461183235</id><published>2009-08-12T20:59:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T21:01:28.255-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home decor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miscellaneous'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décoration'/><title type='text'>Another find/Une autre trouvaille</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoNlg6tdURI/AAAAAAAACDU/kzOhUj5VQ-E/s1600-h/IMG_2139.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoNlg6tdURI/AAAAAAAACDU/kzOhUj5VQ-E/s400/IMG_2139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369246796945903890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I love finding this kind of trash...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'adore trouver ce genre de détritus...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-7710075923461183235?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/7710075923461183235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=7710075923461183235' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7710075923461183235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/7710075923461183235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-findune-autre-trouvaille.html' title='Another find/Une autre trouvaille'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoNlg6tdURI/AAAAAAAACDU/kzOhUj5VQ-E/s72-c/IMG_2139.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-6976637484293651471</id><published>2009-08-10T16:16:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T20:06:46.817-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='En progression'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Look 6670'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ajustement pour poitrine forte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WIPs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Full bust adjustments'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FBA'/><title type='text'>Mrs O/Mme O</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCbBuESv4I/AAAAAAAACDM/ovlA0JMKqIs/s1600-h/6670.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCbBuESv4I/AAAAAAAACDM/ovlA0JMKqIs/s320/6670.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368461209673842562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;While looking for a pattern similar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/08/fashion/08obama.large1.jpg"&gt;to the dress Michelle O. wore for the Iowa primaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; for someone else, I came across this pattern by New Look that I liked a lot and decided to try it. I've changing my mind every five minutes about what I wanted to do as my next sewing project so I decided to go with this one. Plus, it allowed me to try again to make an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.cedesign.com/familyphotos/sewing/info/princessFBA/index.html"&gt;FBA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, this time on a dress with a princess seam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cherchant, pour quelqu'un d'autre,  un patron similaire à &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/08/fashion/08obama.large1.jpg"&gt;cette robe que Michelle O. a porté aux primaires d'Iowa&lt;/a&gt;, je suis tombée sur ce modèle que j'aimais assez bien. Cela fait quelques temps que j'essaie de me décider sur un projet couture à faire, ayant changée d'avis plus d'une fois, je me suis dit que j'allais tenter celui-ci, surtout qu'il me permettait d'essayer de faire des &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cedesign.com/familyphotos/sewing/info/princessFBA/index.html"&gt;ajustements pour poitrine forte&lt;/a&gt;, cette fois sur des coutures princesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZd3MLdcI/AAAAAAAACC8/QdfYvz86Dvc/s1600-h/IMG_2136.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZd3MLdcI/AAAAAAAACC8/QdfYvz86Dvc/s320/IMG_2136.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368459494135920066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;At first I thought that an FBA would be unnecessary because the smallest bust size was a 36" but the first muslin I did revealed that to be too small for me. So I made the FBA (right side and top of the pattern) to add an extra 1" in total. Then, after researching how much ease a dress should have (2" for a fitted look though I do know for a fact that fashion can make it much smaller then that), I split the pattern along the grainline, as close to the side seam as possible by 1/2". I also made corrections along the side seam to accommodate my hips. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au début, j'ai cru que les ajustements ne seraient pas nécessaires car patron avait un poitrine de 36" mais cela s'est avéré trop petit pour ma silhouette. J'ai donc faits les ajustements (à droite et en haut du patron) pour y rajouter 2.5 cm. Après avoir fait des recherches sur l'aisance totale nécessaire pour une robe, j'ai apprise que pour une robe ajustée, elle est de 5 cm (quoique je sais qu'en mode, cela peut être beaucoup moins que ça). J'ai donc ouvert le patron de façon parallèle au droit fil, le long de la couture latérale de 1.2 cm. J'ai aussi corrigé la lige de couture latérale afin d'accomoder mes hanches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZdh62l3I/AAAAAAAACC0/3zd7xIowWlM/s1600-h/IMG_2137.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZdh62l3I/AAAAAAAACC0/3zd7xIowWlM/s320/IMG_2137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368459488426104690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Since correcting the front side pattern piece makes it longer, I had to slash the centre front piece and spread it open accordingly. This split is equal to the opening on at the bust line. There's another slash closer to the hem to lengthen the pattern piece to match the side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vu que les corrections sur la pièce de patron latérale la rendent plus longue, je dois aussi faire les rallonger la pièce du centre devant. Ici j'ai fait la correction à la ligne de poitrine, il y en a une autre correction près de l'ourlet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZeAA_miI/AAAAAAAACDE/sPIgx-RpmxE/s1600-h/IMG_2135.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCZeAA_miI/AAAAAAAACDE/sPIgx-RpmxE/s320/IMG_2135.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368459496504924706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The rear side. I also opened parallel to the grainline by 1/2". I had to make corrections at both seams as well to accommodate my hips and rear end. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le coté arrière. Ici aussi je l'ai ouvert parallèment au droit fil par 1.2cm. J'ai aussi fait des corrections des lignes de couture afin compenser pour mes hanches et mon derrière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAnat-nFI/AAAAAAAACCE/oiNai35ZUm8/s1600-h/IMG_2094.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAnat-nFI/AAAAAAAACCE/oiNai35ZUm8/s320/IMG_2094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432170501053522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This is my second muslin done. I put it on and pinned and tucked to make the dress a perfect fit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci est ma deuxième toile d'essai. Je l'ai épinglée pour y faire des ajustements et corrections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAnv_cSZI/AAAAAAAACCM/kR47DqcJXXY/s1600-h/IMG_2095.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAnv_cSZI/AAAAAAAACCM/kR47DqcJXXY/s320/IMG_2095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432176211446162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The pattern had a deep plunging back. I raised it by 8".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le patron avait un dos plongeant. Je l'ai relevé de 20cm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoSljbtI/AAAAAAAACCk/GZaDGfA9_9Y/s1600-h/IMG_2101.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoSljbtI/AAAAAAAACCk/GZaDGfA9_9Y/s320/IMG_2101.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432185498103506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Correction required at the right bustline to make it lie flat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Correction requise à l'encolure droite pour qu'elle reste couchée sur ma poitrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoJau6TI/AAAAAAAACCc/qhC-cFBcY6E/s1600-h/IMG_2099.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoJau6TI/AAAAAAAACCc/qhC-cFBcY6E/s320/IMG_2099.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432183036799282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I will deepen the dart at the princess seam at the front.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vais creuser la pince qui est comprise dans la ligne de couture princesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCA32Zp_iI/AAAAAAAACCs/E0YbEwy5kJI/s1600-h/IMG_2102.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCA32Zp_iI/AAAAAAAACCs/E0YbEwy5kJI/s320/IMG_2102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432452809915938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;"&gt;Because I messed on the first muslin, I lowered the armscye by 1". I will raise it back up by 5/8" at the side seam and it will taper to the needles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cause d'une erreur de coupe lorsque j'ai fait la première toile, j'ai descendu l'emmanchre par 2.5 cm. Je vais le remonter par 1.5cm à la ligne de couture pour terminer aux aiguilles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoK08BjI/AAAAAAAACCU/z6m87MFG3u0/s1600-h/IMG_2098.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCAoK08BjI/AAAAAAAACCU/z6m87MFG3u0/s320/IMG_2098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368432183415146034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I have soften the curve at the hips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je doit adoucir la ligne de couture latérale le long de mes hanches.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19574134-6976637484293651471?l=topstitchgirl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/feeds/6976637484293651471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19574134&amp;postID=6976637484293651471' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6976637484293651471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19574134/posts/default/6976637484293651471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://topstitchgirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/mrs-omme-o.html' title='Mrs O/Mme O'/><author><name>Karine</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14745536331887708239</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SzKRWwd7Q1I/AAAAAAAACHc/Fs36XBKxDrQ/S220/IMG_2615.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SoCbBuESv4I/AAAAAAAACDM/ovlA0JMKqIs/s72-c/6670.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19574134.post-2432007189447378391</id><published>2009-08-02T11:51:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T18:53:13.170-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bandeaux en ruban'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ribbon headbands'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='How to'/><title type='text'>Über easy headbands!/Des bandeaux super faciles!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Français plus bas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SnW40SkPa0I/AAAAAAAACBY/Ro5uIhz0_30/s1600-h/IMG_2081.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SnW40SkPa0I/AAAAAAAACBY/Ro5uIhz0_30/s320/IMG_2081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365397739558366018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;There's a mosaic of all the others I made below&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I am not cheap. I can't even be called frugal, I could stand to leave my wallet home once in a while.  But for some reason I couldn't bring myself to spend money to buy new headbands. I've seen some for 8$C that basically were a strip of jersey fabric and I refused to buy those and I don't know why I couldn't buy the ones sold in drugstore's hairstyling sections (though I had no problem getting the hair clips). I was thinking of digging into my leftover stash to make one and was going to dig for the tute on how to make some out of fat quarters when &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.afrobella.com/2009/07/30/accessorize-your-natural-hair/"&gt;AfroBella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; posted a link to an online store that sells headbands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;If 8$ gave me pause, paying between 20 and 40$ for some of the styles proposed, however nice they were, was a nono even as a splurge. Besides, one glance at the products I realized there were simply ribbons either glued on a headband or sewn to what I thought were elastic bands but turned out to be bra straps to make them adjustable. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So I stopped at the fabric store where I picked up 50 cm (20") or a meter (39")  of each ribbon that I liked (the longer ribbons were used double stranded) and some elastics. On average the ribbons where about 3.50$C a meter, the one on the bottom left being my "splurge" at 8.25$C a meter (divided by two since I only got 50cm). There were a couple others that I would have gotten but at 16.50$C a meter, I put them back. Fabricville is having a warehouse sale some time this week so I'll go back to see if they're marked down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;I was going to do a tute be really, these are super easy to do, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.marthastewart.com/article/ribbon-headbands"&gt;Martha Stewart has a simple tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; that uses hair elastics as opposed to the regular elastic that I used and they're sewn by hand (though I would do it by machine for a neater, stronger and faster finish). I've put &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/sets/72157621797653513/"&gt;the pics of my headbands on Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, including the making of with a few notes. One thing though the sequined ones (top left and last one on the second row) were very stretchy already so I used a twill tape instead of an elastic. For the double stranded one I had them meet at at 45° angle (eyeballed) before sewing them on the elastic or twill tape.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The headband at the top of the page is my favourite (note to self, always put down the toilet's seat whenever taking pics in the bathroom...) because of it's whimsical print but I love all of them. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3781686512/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;gold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3781590736/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;silver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; ones will be left for going out but who knows, I could find a reason to wear them in the day time. I like the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3781588872/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;third one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; on the first row and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3780780211/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;last one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; on the last row because the ribbon's colour disappears on my hair and that makes them look like a delicate metallic headband. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3781588568/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;white lace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; is the only white one because to me, the others would have made too much of a bridal look. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66841205@N00/3780776515/in/set-72157621797653513/"&gt;The cougar print&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; is just hilarious to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SnXF5VKRHxI/AAAAAAAACBg/ZoRZ2_uCXBY/s1600-h/Headband+mosaic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L0o9aHyR3eg/SnXF5VKRHxI/AAAAAAAACBg/ZoRZ2_uCXBY/s400/Headband+mosaic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365412119805239058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Click the pic for a larger view&lt;/span&gt;/Cliquez sur la mosaïque pour agrandire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne suis pas radine, on ne même pas dire que je suis frugale, je devrais même peut être penser laisser mon portefeuille à la maison de temps à autre. Mais je ne pouvais me décider à dépenser 8$ pour un bandeau pour mes cheveux. J'en avait vu un à ce prix en magasin et c'était essentiellement un morceau de tissu jersey cousu et je n'arrivais pas à me décider à en acheter en pharmacie non plus quoique je n'ai pas d'objection à acheter des pince et autres barrettes. Je commençais à penser à aller fouiller dans mes retailles pour y trouver un morceau de jersey, je commençais même à me décider à chercher les instructions que j'ai déjà vu pour des bandeaux fait avec des fat quarters lorsqu'&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.afrobella.com/2009/07/30/accessorize-your-natural-hair/"&gt;Afrobella a posté un lien&lt;/a&gt; vers une ligne de bandeaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si je trouvais 8$ dispendieux, disons que les 20 à 40$C exigés pour ces modèles, aussi jolis soient ils, étaient impensables. De toute façon, un rapide coup d'oeil aux produits offerts et je me suis rendu compte que c'étaient tout simplement des rubans cousus sur ce que je crois être un élastique mais qui c'est avéré en fait être des bretelles ajustables comme pour les soutiens-gorges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai donc été faire un tour à la mercerie où j'ai déniché plusieurs rubans que j'ai acheté par 50 cm (ou un mètre pour ceux au je voulais utilisée en double) ainsi que des rubans élastiques. En moyenne ils coûtaient 3.50$C le mêtre, le plus cher étant celui en bas à gauche à 8.25$C le mètre (mais dont je n'ai acheter que 50cm). Il y en avait des jolies à 16.50$ mais je préfère attendre la vente d'entrepôt de Fabricville pour voir s'ils seront substantiellement réduits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'allais écrire des instructions sur comment faire ces bandeaux mais &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.marthastewart.com/article/ribbon
