Tips and advice on knitting in French

WITH a bit of a cool chill in the mornings, your thoughts may be turning to one or two advanced preparations before autumn tumbles in.

If you enjoy knocking your knitting needles together then thanks to regular reader of This French Life, Gina, here is a website that will help you with some of the French phrases involved.

The Chez Plum site offers 'knits with a French twist' and features tips and advice on knitting, as well as free and paid for patterns.

But one page on the site, Knitting from the French, may prove useful if you are out in a French market and need to decipher patterns, there is also a dictionary on the site to help work out different terms.