Just in case anyone here shares my impulse to: a) catapult myself into projects that are way over my head, and/or b) find beautiful free knitting patterns online to make my project list interminably long…
I came across this the other day (via CRAFTmagazine): http://chezplum.com/knitting-from-the-french/
She gives a french-english dictionary for knitting terms, and links to free french knitting patterns online. Personally, I’m excited to finally not be limited to only the Phildarpatterns that they choose to translate to English. 
Katrina