le mani d'oro

As I mentionned yesterday, I cut and sew the muslin for the OOP pattern McCalls 4381. I cut size 10 as I was afraid that my regular size 8 (for the Big-4) would run small on me. Well I was half right with that choice. Comme je l'indiquais hier, j'ai taillé et cousu une toile pour le haut chinois (McCalls 4381, un patron...

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As I mentioned it in my last post, last weekend was a slow pace one for me. I had a bad cold with fever and my entire body was calling for slow pace day... One thing modern life in the city rarely inclines us to do so. I worked on an easy done project: two identical silk shawls. One for me and one...

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I have been wearing my raincoat for at least two or three weeks. On and off since our spring plays a strange yo-yo game. One day it is 29C and the day after it is only 12C with close to freezing temperature during the night. Global mixing I call it instead of global warming. The fabric was bought some six or seven years...

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