tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:07:55 +0000knittingscarfbooksvietnamall and nothingshawlcardigandesignembroiderygold work embroideryhatliteraturep.e.i.textile lifewrapA blog hosted by a French-Canadian who poorly writes in English (apologies for present and future mistakes...), but who loves to knit in the language of Shakespeare.http://litandlace.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)Blogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-7457913849195172996Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:12:00 +00002007-11-16T12:25:32.706-05:00My new project: the Twisted Stitch Gauntlets from Deborah Newton (IK, Holiday Gifts 2007). I had problems with the pattern of the Cabled Gloves (mostly with the twists at the beginning of the rows. I haven't figure out yet how to resolve the problem) and decided to switch to Deborah's gauntlets. The pattern is very simple and clear. I just found a little glitch on the 21th and 22th rows of the http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/11/switching-gloves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-4847778104288466929Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:30:00 +00002007-11-03T21:00:05.255-04:00Since I became a raveler (on september 27th), I have to admit that I lost a few hours at night, browsing through the hundreds of pages of patterns, yarns, people, forums, etc. In the last two weeks, since I'd come back from Vietnam, I started to take photos of my old and new projects and downloaded them on my Ravelry page.In a thread of one of the numerous forums that you can find on the site, http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/11/automn-greyness-on-red-rising-sun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-4294598920566188265Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:06:00 +00002007-10-28T21:29:32.251-04:00The souvenirs I love to bring back from my different travels are essentially textiles. Often a scarf and, if possible, some embroideries or weaved fabric. Here's my Vietnamese Micro-econo-Textile Museum: Johanne, a.k.a. LitandLacehttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-micromuseum-of-textiles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-6800939784563047803Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:17:00 +00002007-10-27T17:47:23.065-04:00vietnam Threads of communication... Iterative Tiles - Temple of Literature Signs - Temple of Literature A wish to come back... - Temple of LiteratureA door on the other side of the world - Temple of LiteratureJohanne, a.k.a. LitandLaceoctober 2007http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/10/vietnam-memories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-5564001602350953632Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:43:00 +00002007-10-26T14:47:52.095-04:00embroideryvietnamHi everyone! Back from Hanoi. I didn't have time, yet, to post some photos of my trip. I will this weekend.For the Textile's Lovers, one word to describe Hanoi: Silk, silk and silk. I bought a few meters as gifts. For me, I found four pieces of Hmong (the name of the tribe means "Human being" or "Free people") embroideries and appliqués to add to my personal "world textile's encyclopedia". One ofhttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-from-hanoi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-7778279995566560630Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:22:00 +00002007-09-30T17:33:46.205-04:00 I know... I've been a bad blogger these last days. No posts. Not a lot of knitting except for the "flighting scarf" and an alpaca cardigan I'm desperately trying to finish.My paper for the conference is still on my working table and my grant too. So... no knitting and no posts for a few days... A "very bad blogger", indeed...(Photo credit: Hanoi Travels) Johanne, a.k.a LitandLacehttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-know.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-8735316775749232846Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:32:00 +00002007-09-21T14:41:09.561-04:00booksWhen it comes to patterns, I do a lot of researches on the web. My favorite sites are The Knitting Pattern Central and Garnstudio. There's no doubt that the availability of free downloadable patterns facilitate the life of the CK (contemporary knitter), but, sometimes, I find some books that suit my hunger for very classic patterns or, on the contrary, very original patterns. On the shelves, http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/treasury-of-books-iii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-9152068887462701910Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:43:00 +00002007-09-16T20:13:18.962-04:00vietnamwrap A wrap for my trip to Hanoi in October.Six flights and the aerian Flighting Wrap to put on my shoulders. Light and luminous as a cloud... warm as an Indian Summer night.Yarn: Fleece Artist, Kiss Curls, 90% Kid Mohair, 10% Nylon (1000m/250 gr); bamboo needles: 7 mm. Pattern: garter stitch. http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/flighting-wrap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-1230936442538053172Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:12:00 +00002007-10-06T21:27:32.427-04:00scarf It's finished and my son is really happy with it... ... as he said: "it fits with my boots"!Yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca (Charcoal mix). Needles: Brittany 4mmPattern: Mistake-Stitch Ribbing (Walker, B.G., A Treasury of Knitting Patterns, p. 40) http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/bss-burberry-style-scarf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-2034459680287274437Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:05:00 +00002007-09-16T20:13:50.699-04:00booksI love books about knitting tips and finishing techniques. My favorite one, here, is The Knitting Answer Book. A little book, without glossy illustrations, but packed with informations. It never failed me. I've always found there answers to my questions. Bonne lecture!Johanne, a.k.a LitandLace http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/treasury-of-books-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-2270911043738505481Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:43:00 +00002007-09-16T20:14:10.979-04:00booksWhen I write, I need dictionaries. When I knit, well, it's the same. For me, each stitch is a letter, and each group of stitches, a word. When I want to speak "knitting", I search my personal (outrageously to big...) library. Not that I have a lot of knitting books. It's the "Others" that are "phagocyting" my apartment. Literature, philosophy, semiotics, geography, history; books for children, http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/treasury-of-books-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-1157966229787902841Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:02:00 +00002007-10-06T21:28:37.867-04:00 Hi everybody. I'm in the "back-to-school" turmoil. A lot of things to do. Preparing the lessons and seminars but also writing a paper I will present next october in Vietnam and preparing a grant submission. Ouf!On the knitting front, It is as if I had suscribed to a "scarf club". I've finished my red Mistisoft and I've already done half of the "Teenager scarf"' for my son who wants a "http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-favorite-lys-revealed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-2501589073048585442Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:17:00 +00002007-09-16T20:14:29.523-04:00scarfhttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/08/mistisoft-scarf-for-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-8974683845819464979Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:43:00 +00002007-09-16T20:15:03.037-04:00cardiganhttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/08/unblocked-pei-girls-cardigan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-1822215624278206762Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:21:00 +00002007-09-16T20:16:25.908-04:00all and nothingI've been very busy in the last ten days. The semester is beginning tomorrow and I have a lot of stuff to do. Preparing the cursus for the autumn's seminars, marking late copies, etc. On the knitting front, I've finished the P.E.I. girl's cardigan and will try to go outside today to take a photo of the garment. (Lately I posted horrible photos taken at night. I didn't find yet a way to properly http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/08/busy-bee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-5243898860996764916Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:27:00 +00002007-09-16T20:17:02.800-04:00all and nothingscarf A quick post to say I'm back from P.E.I. The weather was fantastic. Eleven days of sun out of twelve. Not so bad!As I'm trying to be "frugal" these days, I haven't done a lot of yarn shopping. I'm very aware of the "Yarn Factor" in my budget.. But I couldn't resist a skein of Fleece Artist (who could?...) and 7 skeins of Briggs Little 100% wool "Heritage"and "Regal" (2 Ply17sts = 10cm(4") on 5mmhttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/08/back-from-pei.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-7674697974795778067Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:33:00 +00002007-07-30T19:42:38.558-04:00gold work embroidery Sometimes life is full of surprises. I've always had a strong desire to learn gold work embroidery. The two past sundays, my dream came through (true?). A Laotian prince, master embroiderer and artist was in Montreal to teach two afternoon classes. I was delighted to finally be able to play with some precious threads of gold. As Therese de Dillmont writes in Encyclopédie des ouvrages de dames, http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/07/hearts-of-gold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-3803673747835705835Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:23:00 +00002007-07-30T19:44:04.281-04:00knittingp.e.i.scarf Tuesday's coming and the vacations... A short post before I begin to pack my suitcase (full of books, yarn, and just a very tiny space for clothes).Right now, I can't stop thinking about brick-red soil , green and ochre fields, cerulean skies. I dream of a gray-white bridge which reminds me of the antique aqueduct of Salerno. A bridge like a surrealistic white thread linking the continent to thehttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/07/one-row-path.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-5425414753077212245Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:37:00 +00002007-07-30T19:44:49.718-04:00knittingshawlShawls are my "péché mignon". I can't stop to knit them. But how much shawls is too much shawls? Each time I'm thinking about a new project, a so-called shawl or wrap or stole come to my mind. I've knitted a few since my "come back" in the Knittaterra.My first shawl - knitted in the summer of 2006 - could be called "Simplicity": triangular, garter stitch only. It's the first project of my "http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/07/shawls-shall-i-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-1223876210215710893Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:30:00 +00002007-07-30T19:45:20.990-04:00designhatknitting My renewed interest in knitting (see last post) had a side effect... a renewed interest for design. After I had completed the very simple Fleece Artist triangular shawl, I decided that it was time to try something else. I bought a pair of circulars and started knitting a chullu, without a pattern. I didn't knew anything about working in the round. I had never done a hat before. But I figured it http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/07/first-design-of-my-new-textile-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-847082264462826206Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:16:00 +00002007-07-30T19:46:03.038-04:00knittingshawltextile life May and June are very busy months for professors. Writing articles, books, supervising the writing of our student's thesis, going to conferences, etc. If I've done a lot of knitting-by-night, I didn't have a single minute to dedicate to this blog...July is almost finished and soon I will leave for the magnificent Prince Edward Island for a 10 days vacation. (photo: www.gov.pe.ca)It reminds me ofhttp://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-textile-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000225258092382092.post-6309583077683507083Mon, 14 May 2007 17:56:00 +00002007-07-30T19:46:45.759-04:00knittingliterature Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre - my favorite novel of all times - opens on the following words: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day". The isolation and loneliness express by these words http://litandlace.blogspot.com/2007/05/cast-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Litandlace)0