A Belated Gift

Yarn: Meillenweit cotton yarn
Tool: Clover needle #6
Period: 1 week

This shawl has a beautiful name - sun ray shawl, it was a free pattern at Elann.com and was also a project of TKA. Sun ray shawl is a traditional triangle shawl, quite easy to knit actually. The only frustrating part is the picot ending...I am not against this technique at all, but since I've spent two more hours doing this picot thing, I am not sure if I am willing to do this all again next time!

After blocking, the pattern is much clear to see, at least I could imagine thos falling lines as Winter sun ray throwing from the window.

The shawl will be packed and sent to Switzerland, to a professor who I like very much. The professor used to teach Civilization when I was an university student there. I love the way she teaches, and I think the most part her teaching was so interesting to me is because what I've learnt from her was completely different from what I've got in Taiwan. History is always like this, two sides, and you could inteprete either of them depending where and who you are...

Professor told me she loves the porcelain of Ming dynasty, but it's rarely to be seen in the market. So I promised her to send her some info on this, and 10 years has passed, I've not yet done anything!

Having this shawl done, I am going to the National Palace Museum on the weekend and hoping that I could be able to find some books or CDs about the porcelain of Ming dynasty.

This belated gift will be sent out soon and hopfully professor could get it before Christmas.

Shiny White Cardi

I should have done this cardi before my scheduled trip in October, because I wanted to give it as a gift to my ML. But since the trip was canceled, there seems no reason to continue the work...well, the truth was that I was just too lazy actually!

Autumn is past, and having too many half done work is not very comfortable. So I picked up the hook again, and finally finished this on the weekend. :-)

Yarn: from China, called九色鹿. It 's composed of bamboo cotton and silk. A golden colored silk was wrapped together with the white bamboo cotton, it creats a shiny feature and a soft touch , they are actually a big plus to the yarn! Besides, the price is really attempting as well, for one bag(40g per ball, 8 balls packed in one bag)it costs less than NT$1000(US30), compare to those pricy bamboo cotton, 九色鹿is really worth buying.

The only thing that I find no good about this yarn is that its QC process is not very professional cos I found a long hair wrapped together with the yarn, and blue ink identifying the lot number has polutted a small part of the yarn. I can not say anything about it, because no one will expect to pay such low price and receive goodies having strict QC process as what other big brands do...

Tool:Clover crochet hook#4 (JP size)

Pattern: Hand knits for Grandma 2006 Sping & Summer



Three different pattern for the edging, waist and the body. It's an easy cardi to crochet and this is actually my first time to connect the sleeves with the body...and I have done a pretty good job! :-)

the collar shaping...i love the small angle it creats, so elegant!


Sleeve close up...

Twinkle Cardi for Baby Justin

It's been really long time that I did not update my blog...I have been doing all fine, but just lost my motivation to knitting stuff. Guess it's all beacuse of the Autumn weather...The air is just too cosy and that makes me too relaxed. :-)

For the entire September and October, besides my office job, I've been helping my sister taking care of her new born son-Justin.

The set of baby cardi and the booties are for Justin and the peach colored booties is for Sherie, an old friend of mine. Sherie will have her baby girl delivered before Christmas.

The yarn I used here is all organic yarn manufactured by Hamanaka. The price is a bit higher compares to those of non-organic, but I think it's worth speding the money, not only because I like the soft texture the yarn produces, but also because babies' skin is very sensative and we should always takes very good care when choosing stuff for them.

So why I named it Twinkle Cardi? It's because while knitting, the colorful dots on the yarn will produce a star like shape. I like the way how the dots going along on the cardi, they are like stars twinkling to me.

See Justin's smile? He's such an adorable baby that all my family members love him so much!!!

It's actually my first time crochetting baby cardi and I am pretty happy that my first experience goes to Justin.