I knitted a quick cover for my brother’s Playstation 2 console in 2008. This project is a quick win, completed in 2 days only. And I also managed to used my stashed yarn. The pattern is 3-3 rib and I really love the colour and the texture of the 2 yarns I used. Unfortunately I don’t remember the brand of the yarns that I used.
This is my first every Christmas project back in 2007. I remember this is when I bought Jean Greenhowe’s Christmas Treasure book. I wanted to knit everything in the book but I thought I gave this one a try first.
This is actually quite easy as I completed this in 6 days.
Hello everyone… I’ve gotten so busy since late last year and totally abandoned my blog. There are so many changes recently in my life that I have to put blogging on hold. Apologies if some of you are waiting for any craft project news or new ideas for your own. I promised I will try my best to keep this blog updated from now on. J
We recently moved to a new place. I’m joining the home owner wagon now. I’ve been busy decorating and furniture hunting. Luckily the unit doesn’t need renovating (Thank God for that…) so we just moved straight in.
The new place has an east facing balcony, so I’m really happy with it. It’s very suitable for my plants. I have a yellow rose plant, Friesia, that almost died due to lack of sun light at the old place. I thought to ditch the plant when I moved, but after second thought, I decided to take it along with me. That turned out to be a good decision as the plant survived and produced 4 huge flowers in the last 2 months.
I also bought 4 new rose plants to add to my roses collection, Paul Cezanne (combination of white yellow and pink), A Country Woman (red), Pope John Paul II (white – Australian Rose of the year 2011 – the most fragrant white rose ever!), and Ebb Tide (deep purple). They arrived around a month ago and they’re growing quite well (considering it’s winter at the moment). Some of them already full of leaves and I’m hoping to see rose buds in the next month or two.
I also managed to plant a tomato plant on the balcony, which already gave me two little yellow pear tomatoes in the last month. Tomato plant isn’t supposed to bear fruit in the winter, but recent weather has been a bit weird, so, I think the plant confused the weather and thought it’s already spring.
The inside of the unit is also quite sunny so I bought a few succulents to decorate the place. They’re very slow growers. I can’t wait to see them get bigger.
I’ve also been busy with my craft projects, mainly because I have so many yarns in my stash and I’m trying to bring the number down by working on my outstanding projects. So, I’ll be posting more projects hopefully in the next week or two. J
I also noticed that I haven’t posted my earlier craft works, so I’ll try to do that first, before posting the more recent ones.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Oh wow... my last blog entry was in July...
What about that?
Apologise for the slack :-) I've been really busy these last few months.
And I haven't been my working on my craft either.
Anyways...
I just had my Lasik surgery last Friday and tonight was my first night being outside.
Wow, it sure is wonderful to see the world through 20/20 eyes. Hahaha....
I'm still getting used to this wonderful new world, I'm not sure if this is as expected but everything is so bright.
See, I've been wearing glasses for 20 years and I've never seen stuff this bright.
The light signs, cars' headlights, traffic lights, candles, they're so amazing!!!
Everything is soooo pretty and loving my ability to spot extra tiny sale signs everywhere. HA-HA!!
Seriously, this thing is worth the money.
Now, I just need to survive one more night without washing my hair...
Eugh, I feel so dirty...
Patons Soft Haze is the best yarn I've ever worked with. I can't understand why they discontinued it. Bugger!
The pattern calls for 14 balls of yarn to complete the sweater, but I only had 12.
So, I had to sacrifice both my sleeves in return to a proper wide collar. Which is sooo worth it and beautiful.
This yarn is so soft and warm, I really enjoyed knitting the sweater. I got to use parts of the sweater as scarf when I was working on it at home. Hahaha...
Okay, enough chit chat, here comes the photos.
This is what it supposed to look like:
Without sleeves:
The pattern is unexpectedly simple:
The look from the back:
The collar that I love so much, I've never knitted anything like it before.
I wore it today with black leggings and long sleeve top with a pair of boots.
This bolero is simply lovely. It is soft, flowy, and not itchy at all. The pattern is free from Garn Studio. It's using a combination of Vivaldi, which is a lace type yarn, and Alpaca, which is
It took me slightly longer to make than expected, around 11 days.
I was considering to make this in black colour, but, when I saw the hot pink colour, I just fell in love with it.
And the rest is history...
The sleeves are bat-wing type, you know, popular in the 80's era.
Long time no see my fellow bloggers. Please forgive my laziness.. (^_^)
As I've mentioned in my last post I have overtaken a couple more hobbies... This is so typical of me of course...
I've been busy practising my violin.
This cute little bolero was actually completed in April and it took only 9 days to complete surprisingly.
Unfortunately, I haven't got a chance to wear it, since the weather is too cold.
Again, the pattern is free from Garn Studio. Don't I love their website...
