Using Altavista's Babel Fish translation tool, I could only get this:

Explications des signes des modeles 41+42
Explanations of the signs of models 41 and 42

1 m. en l'air
1 meter in the air (??)

1 m. chainette
1 meter chain

Here is a link that might be useful: Babel Fish

Thanks Wendy. I thought about using a translater but then figured it was going to come up with the sort of thing you got. I think crochet has it's own specialised language and doesn't translate that easily.

I figure the dots are chains but are the little scallopy marks single crochet or slip. I have found out that the "m." stands for "maille". This could be a lifelong project.

There are some wonderful patterns on the site, especially some of the boxes and baskets. Quite happy to try working from the diagrams - if only I knew how to read them.

Do you have a wrapper from yarn, especially Red Heart, which has a crochet pattern on it? Those are often printed in Fr. and Eng., so you may be able to decode your pattern with that help.

ml means maille en l'air which means "chain"
chainette means "small chain" in my Fr/Eng dictionary
ms means Maille SerrEe which means single crochet
dans means in
2e means second
suiv means following or next
rep would be repeat
saute means jump (or probably skip)

Don't know if this will help or not...e-mail me if you think I might help further. I looked at the pattern; it's very pretty but I didn't have time to study it, and it's so small!

Good luck

Go over to the KT and make the same post requesting help with a French Translation. Nookie, who posts there, lives in Paris. She'll be able to help you.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen Table

Here is a page with French Knitting terms

Here is a link that might be useful: French Knitting terms

And here are some crochet translations.

Here is a link that might be useful: French Crochet Terms

Pat, I will definitely use the German translations on those pages for the two German knitting / crocheting books I have.
Thanks.

Wombat, have you figured it out yet? I'd love to be able to help (and I'm actually dying to see the patterns lol) but I can't get the link to work and I would like to see the instructions in it's entirety before I translate.

Karen

http://crochet.lifetips.com/tip/155410/crochet-in-different-languages/crochet-in-different-languages/french-crochet-terms.html Here is a link for French Abbreviations, hope it helps! I have a scarf I needed to translate, culdn't figure out the difference between m and ml? still don't know.....