Hanami (cont'd)

I am still working on my hanami shawl and in a good progress.

I read the chart and thought that I am 60 rows away from the end of the cheery blossom pattern, and worked more than happily towards the milestone. I am always happy and got my turbo on at the final ten or twenty rows and worked like running the final 100 metres in a
marathon. (well of course it's just imaginary, I have never done one) I got my turbo on, and worked so continously and neglected the need of going to bed beforethe national day holiday. Yes, I am going to complete the repeat!

Wait, why are there charts on the following page? Were I blind? So there are forty rows to go! Arghhhh!!!!

Ok, I went back to my bed. I will finish it this weekend. :)

Signature Needles and Hanami, Plus, Happy Birthday to Me.

My 29th birthday was just passed on the 1st September, and it was a nice one. I have to thank everyone whom I know and make me be me. Anyway, the main point I am mentioning my birthday is project related. How? I have to start that with the birthday present I received from my best friend, Amy. A pair of signature needles! As Louis Vuitton (I hope I did not spell it wrongly) in Leather, that's the brand for knitting needles!

I petted the needles (Well, I am sure it looks quite weird.) touching them, feeling the sharpness of the soullite tips, hugging them, and finally I have to think, what project I should work on. First I have to think of a rectangular lace shawl so as the take the best use of the pointy tips. After rounds of selection, I sorted that Hanami (Ravelry Link) should be the best option for them.

Yarn? My current favourite is Yarn Chef Buttercream. In the recent update, I got a skein of California Poppy which is of bright orange. After the selection of yarn and needles, I have to find the perfect beads for the beading edge at Sham Shui Po. It's a terrific place with a large selection of different beads from cheapy plastic ones to swaroski crystal ones. All the beading accessories can be also bought in a tremedous cheap price. I got some nice #8 orange glass beads here, which matches perfectly with the yarn. It's a bit small, but so far it's ok, as it will not make the shawl too heavy.

I cast it on at 17 September with the Basketweave section. A total of 7 repeats, each with 32 rows are required. The pattern goes fast when you can get hold of it. I'm now working on the 6th repeat of the pattern and I can see it's lovely. I hope I can finish the basketweave pattern by the end of this week, and then finish the whole shawl before October. Well, deadlines are seldom accomplished. :)

See the beads?

Oh-so-pretty Needles.

鉤針披肩 crochet shawl

現在努力中的鉤織披肩。
This is the crochet shawl I am working with.

用的是Mondial的le perle prestigio。我的毛線有點扎人，但我嫂嫂正在用，同款但不同色系的卻非常柔軟呢。
The yarn I am using is Mondial Le Perle Prestigio. Mine is a little bit itchy, but the yarn currently used by my SIL, the same yarn but in different colour, is so much softer.

織圖是取自今年新買的書書～いろいろショール＆ストール
The pattern has been taken from a Japanese pattern book.

這本書的作品都好漂亮呢！
The patterns are so beautiful!

ISE5 Triggered off! 開始了！

2007/10/02 00:19

29/9　買了毛線！買了書本！還是決定用比較和風重一點的款式，希望我的密友會喜歡吧。她是一個有兩個孩子的媽媽呢，也喜歡比較女孩子的顏色，所以我選了無垢棉的草土染，用深粉紅色。

29/9 Yarn bought, and with a book. Finally I decided to use a pattern which is more "Japanese". I hope that my pal will love it. She is a mom with 2 childs, and loves girly colours, so I chose Paume Organic Cotton naturally dyed yarn in dirty pink.

我也收到了我上游密友的電郵了，她看起來是一個很好的人呢，也喜歡她的密友在地球的另一端吧！她說會用紅色的毛線編給我，因為農曆年的關係，還會為我設計一個花樣呢。好高興呀！

I have also received an email from my spoiler who seems to be a very nice girl. Also, it seems that she very much welcomed a pal from the other side of the earth. She said that she will knit a scarf using red, due to the lunar new year, and will specially design a pattern for me! Woo, I am soooo happy!





30/9 進度比我想像的快，一天就編好一大半了，也好，十月跟十一月都有很多東西要做呢～

30/9 The progress goes better than I thought, I have finished almost half of that. That's good, because of the busy months October and November coming....







1/10 我差不多完成了！這是緣編的樣子，蠻好笑的呢！

1/10 I have nearly finished! This is a close up of the edge, quite funny actually.

小朋友毯子 baby blanket

為了快將出生的姪子編了一塊小毯子，好把小身體裹在軟綿綿的毛線間。
To wrap the small body of my soon to be born nephew, I knitted a little baby blanket for him.

現在完成了主體，花邊還有待努力呢～
Now I have completed the body of the blanket, and still have to go for the edging.

花樣取自樂天網頁：
The pattern comes from a Japanese site, rakuten: http://www.rakuten.co.jp/gosyo/461397/713923/714199/715130/

花花拼接

這個是我的第一次做拼接呢。

說老實話，我對藏線頭是最最最沒辦法的了，就當我是有「藏線頭恐懼症」吧。我連對著比較多線頭的衣服都想哭，最好就全都是一件頭編成，不用縫也盡量減少藏線就是我的最大目標。

這次如果不是看見成品漂亮得要命，也不會想去碰這東東。

你想想這成品會是什麼呢？