The festival of HEXAGONS

The 13th of August starts the festival of Hexagons. There will be hexagon tutorials in many different forms and there are PRIZES to win. read more about it here.

I think I 'll enter my grandmother's flowergarden....

My life in France

Where I live, every sunday you could visit a lot of brocantes (flee market), concerts.
Last sunday I went to an open air mass. It was the 27th of july and that's Sainte Anne's day in France. They say that she was Jezus' grandmother.
The open-air mass was in front of the Sainte Anne church near by the castle of george Sand.

The folklore group with their old  musical instruments and the hunting music group were also present  to grace the mass.

If you want to hear their music, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXtyAmPUA8&feature=relmfu

I made an African Flower bag

I already told you that I am crocheting. While surfing on the web I found the African Flower hexagon tutorial. Easy peasy.... I made a basket with yarn from my stash in my favorite colors and I started to crochet

I crocheted 28 flowers, sewed them together and made this bag... 

I wanted Rosa to be my model.

I made some pictures and suddenly she thought: I am not a model... I am a dog and I want to play.

She loved playing with my new bag!!!  After some minutes I succeeded to have my bag back without damage!

Do you know Theodora?

Some weeks ago Evelyne, a Dutch blogfriend who also lives in France, asked on her blog if somebody would knit for her Theodora.
Theodora is a doll created by Hélène Magnusson, an Island knitter.
And because  I Love knitting, I said : yes I do it.
Here is my Theodora, she does not have her face yet. I asked Evelyne to do that herself, a face expression is so personal....

If you want to see Theodora in her new home, go to Evelyne's blog.

And look what Evelyne made for me in exchange.......

She embroidered for me these three beautiful hearts .

I am very happy with this swap!

Quiltmystery Yoko Saito block 4

No words, only pictures...

SUMMER is back....and I am afraid I'll become a crochet addict!

ON Ravelry i saw this pattern. It's an 8 petal hexagon- to- square variation of the African Flower hexagon.  I loved it , so I bought some yarn (yes I know I still have quite a stash!!!) and started. The yarn is so soft and has such softy colors, it's  dyed by hand with plants,  by Renaissance Dyeing.
A made a pillow cover with 18 squares.

And SUMMER is back, today there was only blue in the sky!! I made a picture of my montbretzia's, they are so vibrant red.

Today it was raining cats and dogs.....

Even in the center of France this is a very strange summer. Today it was raining the whole day. Weather is really horrible, no sun and a lot of wind. Good weather to craft but I prefer crafting outside, in the shadow of the tree, hearing the birds singing....
These gardenpictures were made two weeks ago by a friend from Holland. (thank you Jan).

Here I am with the two donkeys.