Cowl neck done

The title says it all! Finally complete the cowl neck and moving on to the sleeves. Hmm...to have short sleeves not a bad idea after looking at the pic. What you think?



About my next project what should I call it? It doesn't come with a unique name - just known as 'Long Top with Lacy Pattern'. That's it, let's called it 'Project Summer'. Pardon me, I know I lack creativity in naming my project haha!

YES, I did it!

The longest skate ever...about 17 Km and I completed it with aching feet! It was fun and I enjoyed it. About 40 skaters turn up for the night skate and we moved through some smooth and some nasty terrain. Up slope, down slope, crossed bridges and crossed traffics and I am glad that I didn't fall. Some photos to share with everyone.

Saturday Night Skate

Skateline has organized a SNS on this Saturday, May 27 and we have signed up for it. The distance will be from Bishan Park to Esplanade Park. The route will take us along the kallang river park connectors, enroute - the smoothest track in Singapore from Braddell Road to Potong Pasir as well as some quaint Kallang River Bridges. This is a challenging 1.5 hour skate suitable for intermediate skaters. Wow...If I can conquer this, I will be amazed! And of course, proud of my accomplishment.

The yarn I showed you the other day is for this project. It looks simple to do but I just couldn't get the pattern right and I keep frogging it many times until I fed up! If only the pattern is written in English, I will have no problem at all but it is written in Japanese.

Eventually, I decided not to work on the pattern and use the yarn for this instead.

Some updates

My Aunt's sweater: Blocking the back. Knitting the front now and will be completing soon. Given the tight deadline (by my Aunt), no choice have to speed up a little bit.



Somewhat cowl: My cowl's ribbing is almost done. I have just joined the sexy knitters club and this is one of their nominated project. The next nominated project(s) will be announced in July. I have given my 2 cents worth by submitting a nomination, so let's see what's the next nomination is and hopefully it is something interesting!



What's next: This is for my next project.

That's all for the updates. My DH's car broke down just now. It was working fine when he came to fetch me from work but it just went flat when he tried to restart the engine after our dinner at my IL's place. We had no choice but to take a cab home and guess what, we saw a dog laying in the middle of the road when we flagged down a cab! It must be badly injured and it is not moving. I have a strong urge to save the dog but I don't have the courage to do it. What if it is dead? Anyway we left and felt aching pain in our heart. The lucky thing is, cars who saw the dog, steered away from the middle lane but I am sure some reckless drivers will run over the dog. Just a matter of time only.

Lacy Bolero

My lacy bolero is done! As I have said, I am a slow knitter, this project take me almost 2 months to complete. Anyway, its done and here are some photos to share with everyone...

I am very tempted to cast on a new project but I tell myself that I must at least complete 70% of my aunt's sweater and 90% of the somewhat cowl before I can do so. So let's be patient and wait.

He is home

And see what he bought for me :)




This cute sasha bear wearing a sweater. Complimentary from Changi Airport.

This is what you do when the man not in

Yes, I invited my girlfriends home for dinner. Chit chat and chill out. That is what we called "ladies' night"...yeah! Too bad San, Lynn, Kelly, Jas, Linda, Caryn and Ros counldn't join us. Maybe next time we can go Mar's place hehe...What you gals think?

See what I get from Kinokuniya

I bought a Japanese mag. Yes, I know, it has been out in a while but I like the designs. So I bought it.



And here are some of the designs I like...

Home alone now

My DH went to Myanmar today and he will be back on Friday. I sent him to the airport and when I saw him left, I felt a sense of emptiness...so sad. I thought I can have my little 'freedom' when he is not around but instead, I feel lonely and I miss him.



I have been rollerblading this weekends and this is what I get by the end of today's lesson. Ouch...so painful but I enjoy the lessons and I can't wait for next weekends to come...so that I can blade and see my DH soon hehe!



My aunt's sweater progress: A few more cms to go before I bind-off for armholes.

About the movie

It was a one-and-a-half hours of most intense feeling I've ever had! The movie was gruesome, sick and disgusting!!! I don't find it scary but I do feel 'stress-up' watching it hahaha...Oh you get to see lot's of boobs and bloods too. If you're above 21, you should go watch this movie because you'll never get to watch it on television! Quentin Tarantino is AWESOME, love his creation like Kill Bill and one of the episodes in CSI LV.

Long weekends...what u gonna do?

Friday - Rollerblading
Saturday - Rollerblading
Sunday - Rollerblading

Has anyone watch the movie Hostel? I am going to watch it tonight...*sigh*...hope my heart can take it.

What's on my needles

Beside working on my aunt's sweater, I have two other on-going projects that I have yet to complete! Slow knitter...yes I am but at least I don't have any UFO laying around hehe.

On-going projects:

1. Somewhat cowl. I should have chosen a darker color to knit this project but instead, I used a very light, earthy brown that is quite close to cream color. It looks too plain! It is almost 70% done so no point frogging it now. Who knows, I might like the end product...*keep my fingers crossed*

2. Lacy bolero from Rebecca Mag 31. Oh I love this project and I even used the same color yarn as shown in the picture here. It is almost 90% done, only left with seaming of sleeves and ribbing. I promise, once it is done, I will show you my lovely lacy bolero!

Sunday...

I missed my rollerblading lesson today because I was so sleepy that I couldn't wake up in time. It must be the wedding dinner yesterday that made me so lethargic. My friends are into their level 2 lesson but I am still stuck in level 1. Damn it! Must attend lesson next weekend if not I won't be able to catch up. Oh we celebrated my FIL birthday today :)



I didn't knit today...too tired and sleepy...

Polling Day

Today is polling day...hmm when was the last polling? 4 years ago? I can't remember maybe is because I didn't get to poll the last time since my district was walk over then. This is my first polling but I am not enthusiastic about it at all. Why? Because I hate to queue up!!! Ok enough talking about polling.

Oh btw, I am selling my house; transaction begin on 1st June. So currently, I am staying at my aunt's place. And this is what I get to see from my bedroom window. Recognise that brown building?

Progress for my aunt's sweater: I managed to finish the ribbing yesterday so will start knitting the cable pattern soon. The sweater called for 8" of ribbing but I guess my aunt body is not that long, so I did 6" of ribbing instead.

That's all for today. Busy day for me because I need to go to GD to buy more circular needles, new yarns for my future project (hehe), go polling and tonight I need to attend my friend's wedding. Ciao...

Sweater with Embroidered Yoke

I am going to knit this sweater from Rebecca Mag 30. It is for my aunt - a special request from her. Started on the ribbing yesterday when I received the yarns. Will show you the progress soon...

Let's get it started!

My yarns from Elann have arrived, just nice for the grant opening ceremony of my blog! What a nice start haha...

The beginning...

is always weird and I don't know how to start or what to write. My brain is pretty exhausted by now because it take my hours to think of a perfect name and a perfect xxx.blogspot.com to use for my blog!!! Anyway this blog is created to share my hobby and my thoughts...