sweet pink-shirt

ah.. almost finished with the lavender cardigan, and for the next project would be this..

taken from Let's Knit Series Spring Summer 2004, this project already statyed in my project to do list for about a year!!! i was looked for the match yarn that i really want to use for this.

i was thinking about blue, white, dark blue, yellow, sage, light brown, cream.. even purple!! but my mind always come back to this pink and pink.. ;p

i like this, coz i can wear it under my work jacket suit... working in a company with conservative background is a big no no to wear something too sexy.. and i found this is easy to make....

so, i found this perfect yarn... using MIAMI yarn imported from Germany, made in bulgaria. it's mercerized cotton and i am using 4mm for the ribbing and then used 3.75 mm for the stockinette... but found out that would be too big...so i ripped of the body part and switched to 3.5 mm. it's knitted perfectly.. but since it is cotton, still got some fuzziness...but i love the color!!

hopefully i can finish this soon.. want to wear it to work.. umm.. thinking abut showing off.. that would be not too sinful eh? ;)

almost finished lavender cardi

back to my lavender cardi project... i am afraid it may not fit with my mom size.. a little bit tight on her.. and knowing her, she may not too like fit clothes... but if she doesnt want to, i can always wear it.. :)

so here it is, after the finishing phases: sewing all parts, crocheted picot all around (found this is quite time consuming... same like put the tassels!!) ... here are some details i can share with you all....

the whole cardi after sewing all parts:

lav card01

close up motif:

lav card detail

the sleeve close up:


lav card detil sleeve

and the front and back parts... sorry for the hanging loose yarns...


lav cardi front


lav card back

as for the buttons... i am thinking to put the pearl beads ... make the cardi look little "classy" type..... or perhaps just the transparant bead..


beads


lav card detil btn

total would be take about 10 buttons... i bought this beads on area called Pasar Baru. A central shopping area for fabrics (mostly the stores are owned by India people) and material for weddings stuffs so thats includes tailored-handmade shoes/sandals, tiaras, beads but hardly yarn, central of beauty salon supplies too.. i can forgive havent find the yarns store here, since there are lots of yummy food...(cakes/pastries/snacks) chinese, india, indonesia, dutch yumm.....yummm......very womanly area.. he.. he.. ;)

back to the project, i will to sew some of the pearl to this cardi.. and see if that will fit with the button hole.

*ps: i will put some info on this project , suc as yarns info and project length...*

hei... you are 1 month old now!!!

few weeks ago, was 1 month of baby HJ.. so.. we all the extended family were received this very nice and yummy 1 month baby box.

here in indonesia, the 1 month baby box can be either the cake (like b day cake with little tiny baby miniature statue on the top) or more traditional like this.

the lunch box contained: 1/2 bbq chicken with the sweet soy sauce, 2 redden boiled eggs, 1 portion yellowed rice with shreded coconut on the top, each 2 chinese pastries (the pink one from the cake name represented the stronger or blooming, and the red one represented long life -> symbol of turtle)..

want to try? ;)


baby 1 month box

baby afghan and the receiver :-)

finally!!! after non stop working every day (on weekend) and every night (weekday) for 3 weeks.. i can finished the this baby afghan!!!
i made combined with 3 type of patterns, the fan looked alike, the bubbles and the crossed/diagonal.
it turned out about 150 cms in square.. i hope it really fit with the baby.. i know he is a premmie but still this is my first afghan!!!!

this project supposed to be working in 2 months.. but since the little baby HJ wanted to see the world so quickly, I got only 3 weeks to finished and during that 3 weeks, i havent seen him...hope he like this.

i got the feeling this soft baby green colored very suitable with him.. after i finished it , the afghan is very soft texture, very smooth.. i am definitely want to work with this sirdar breeze cotton dk next time.. and i will for sure, since i still have the stash from same brand for other colors... light yellow and the blue.... and also the pink... got lots of balls of each colors!! ummm... thinking what kind of project i would do on that yarn next..


greenbabyafghancroc

so here are the closer detail from baby afghan look like...


greenbabyafghancroc_clsup

and on Sunday of the 3rd week, me and mom paid visit to my cousin house... and here he is... he is very tiny baby... mind you, he only about 2.8 kilograms... and 7 month on his mom's belly... he.. he..
i wasnt dare to hold him or carry him on my arms... he looked very peaceful sleeping in his cute little box...
when he toook out for drinking time (breast feeding and baby milk), not long after that he was peed... he.. he.. from his crying, we can see this baby would be alright.. will grow up and healthy.
he is very strong too, when his grandma wrapped him with the batik to keep him arm, she put his tiny hands inside the wrap, few seconds later, he was struggling to free his hands...one by one...then do kinda like stretching, her grandma put his hand back to the wrap after few minutes let him feel the freedom.. he.. he...
so, while he is feeling warm and fulll, he took a chance to looking around and observing us with his tiny eyes and i was tooke chance to take a pict of him..;)


littlebabyHJ
welcome to the world HJ... grow up healthy and strong... *kiss on cheeks*

my first baby hat project

is the baby's season? he..he.. i wondered bcoz since i was working with the baby blanket, lots of baby's topic came up from every corners...:-)

a consultant who working in my office for a project was approached me last wed during a lunch break, and asked me whether i agree if she want to order a baby hat as a gift for her friend who just gave a baby girl few days ago. it's very good surprise :)
she asked the color should pink (what else.. he.. he.. he..) and coz our shedule so busy, she said she will be agree with whatever the model of baby hat.
since i quite confused with her and not sure whether she was serious with her offer, then the next day i brought my green baby blanket to show her, that if she like, i will use the same yarn brand which will be sirdar breeze cotton rich dk.
so, after she take a look from it, she said she agree and still no design or instruction gave from her. on sat, i was tested my creativity after looking around the baby patterns that i have like from lion brand and some others, so here it is... i made kind like rib then following by bubbles and all the way up using double crochet.
i crocheted circle around, however when up to the next round, instead of having the right side facing, i turned the project and crocheted to the opposite way.
after few rounds, i did come decreased and finally got the top.
to make it more cheerful i added a marron ribbon.
so here it is... :-) i put it on my teddy's since i dont have any object that i can try whether the size fit the baby hat. my mom said this hat would fit for new born until 1 year old.
so here it is.. i am still doing my baby blanket .... about 30 rows to go... and got to finished by sat!! so.. crochet.. crochet..crochet....


baby_pink hat with ribbon

crochet's interruption

i was finished with the 2nd front part of my lavender cardigan project, only leave the sleeve. however since i just exactmeaning from the let's knit series pattern, i think i better frog the back part..sigh..
with this frog things.. make me a bit lazy ... but my hands and my minds still want to do something with the hooks and needles.
i was emailed to siow chin few weeks ago about the stashbuster, even i haven't join with the group yet, i would like to reduce my stash.
looking at my stash i am still wondering what i am going with these self-dyed nylon (as an experiment, i made lots of these, about 30 skeins ..hik...hik...) there are blue, pink, peach, gold, olive green and marron. not mention the white (non-dyed).
so, i digged out my collection of granny square pattern (free from pricilia hewitt) and then i picked the peach and thinking about the sofa pillow cover... i may need to mixed with other color, like blue or pink...so here it is




peach_fisherman's ring




peach_fishermanrings01

and then i got itchy with the gold colored, so here it is


gold_pillowcvr

originally it was a coasterm, but with these size for just 1 piece, i only need about 8 for 1 sofa pillow cover...:p

then, few days ago, my cousin was gave birth, c-section. it was an emergency thing, since she got poisonnous from one of wedding banquet. got very bad diarhea like 4 days, and she was 7 months pregnant!!
so the doctor doesnt want to take any more risk, after few days in patient, finally the doctor ask her to do the c-section.
the baby is boy (now they have 3 boys!!!) and very tiny, only 2.9 kilograms. they put the baby now in NICU (ICU for baby..sigh).
with 2 months faster than expected, i got to hurry up with the baby afghan i want to give her as present. and i got this pattern as my inspiration , because i mixed with the pattern from marrymaxim (illusion crochet afghan)


inspiration pattern

so i dig out again my stash, and here i got the sirdar breeze 100g with baby green color.. very soft.

green_bubblebabyafghan02


this project become my highest priority now. hope the baby will be ok soon. i dont know how long he will be in NICU. we really pray for this baby, hoped you all who read this can pray for this little tiny baby and his mom.

my first catalog!!

i know i should post this like on monday, but it's ok coz the happiness still linger in me .. :) that afternoon it's the most very good thing to cooling down my brain fer long tired meeting.. i just sat down like a minute, and ready to write down the minutes of meeting, and the office girl approached to my desk and gave me this very colorful kind like magazine.. a big grin on my face!! my first catalog!!! ;) i was expecting nothing when i just tried my luck to ask them their catalog.. but here it is... cool!! :) thanks patternworks .. the yarn are lovely. they also have koigu yarn, and their collection are great!! i love yarns! :) they have great selections for books and tools too.

i know this may sound very silly, that i am so happy just with catalog... perhaps if later i can get theyarn like this, ummm... perhaps i would got crazy from happy.. he.. he... so, till that time come, i will just enjoy the yarn pictures first ;)

i have finished the sleeve part today, this time i am following different order than i used do, which were back-right-left-sleeves. this time the orders are: back-left-sleeve.

i like this kind of order coz i can see how the project will look when it finished.

so, how about you all, do you follow the traditional order or do like me?

one of the knit teacher i met in a yarn store, told me that she sometimes do the sleeves first, coz she will feel that the project would be finished faster.. kind of good psychology you think? if you feel your project finished faster, you may not get bored and less of UFOs hidden down the yarn stash...



patternworks catalog summer 2005


lace cardigan from patternworks catalog



Koigu Merino Yarn @ patternworks Summer 2005 catalog

My Picture!!

finally!! i can posted my picture here..it's nice to see my blog now have a something to see other than just letter :)
here are the crocheted yellow bag, pattern from coat and clark - i made this from a nylon string. hurted my fingers quite bad.. but the result ... i like this!!
i love this coz, this was my first stuffs that colored yellow!!


coat and clark - crocheted yellow bag

frogging and new looks

weekend.. saturday afternoon, i was rushed to finished the motif of torso part from my lavender cardigan, and i already reached the shaping on the middle of torso part, which was on row 70- something, then, boom!! i seen something weird... and i stared to the pattern, and whatta!!! i skipped the shapping, which are supposed to do started on row 14!!!
with the so hot outside, this finding really turned down my enthusiasm.. *sigh* then i remembered i read marian's, her doing frogging with her fair-isle vests.. which was really turned down if that happened to me... imagine, frogging all the yarns!!! that's true that we are really should learn something from other people experience..
so, with new spirit, i was frogged once again to row 15, and worked with this project for couple hours and reached on row 40 something...*sigh*

back to office, i got nice email from cyn, showed her crocheted bolero or shrugs she made for her dd and dd's friends.. hard to choose which i like most, all of them are lovely!!

good news, i already got approval from asian knitters web, and could added the ring sign on my blog!! and then to added some colors, i decided to put the counter, i choose apple.. yumm..yum.... remind me to keep in shape and also my diet..;p

finished downloading hello program, but still got difficulty regarding the ftp or something to put my pictures on the site... got to learn about this more....

more of finished projects

bright and hot at here today.. i bet outside is about 32 celcius degrees!! i got sweat even when i took the pictures of projects.
back to my projects, here are some more that i would like to share with you all, the yellow crochet from Coats and Clarks free pattern, the microshine schachenmayr microshane cardigan, the 2buttons gedifra vest, the glove. there are some un-finished/undecided projects like the red bag (from daphne's free red hot sling bag) and will-be-soon pillow cover.

all these projects was finished about 1-2 years ago. I havent got chance to wear the cardigan,only the vest. and you know what, when i wear it during the meeting, one of my colleague can tell that the vest in hand -knitted vest, and i got some questions from work mates too.. like how long i made this, is it warm enaugh to wear at the rainy season here in jakarta,

other things i also put my brothers crochet work.. the white shawl and the other one, he hasnt decided what it would become...perhaps you can help and give some sugestions? i told him to make a bedspread coz i think the detail would be great for bedspread...

there were also some cell phone pouches that i was made, after my experiment with thread dyed.. using dylon colloring. it turn out good shine and shading to the nylon thread rather than cotton thread. seems the cotton cant reflect the shine after coloring. or perhaps it could be if i am using mercerized cotton like dmc instead of this kitchen thread cotton...;)

another finished projects - hairpin lace and 1 roses shawl

here are some other finished projects, using hairpin lace - crocheted shawl and the triangle 1 roses shawl.
the hairpin lace is very very light shawl, so it's more like a accessories rather than for warm up my neck.
the 1 roses shawl was from same pattern like the 5 roses shawl, but I added some fringes. Believe or not, I need 1 whole day to put on the fringes !!.

when I met Marian , I brought this shawl to show off.. :-)
for me, her visit to Jakarta was very suprising, too bad I cant take her to the yarn stores. Compared to Singapore or Hong Kong, I think our yarn stores here have more limited variance. Most of the stores are sell Japan and Europe yarn. one of franchise stores have more American brand stocks. (like Sirdar yarn).

oh ya, I forgot to tell, I was subscribed to some groups last month like luxury_crochet, crochet_bags, creativekorner, crazyladyhouseholdhints, aranknit (where Marian knew about me ;p) and yarnaholics_anynomous. Umm...hopefully I am not missed one group... there is also a group called rajutan (a term that can refer to knit and crochet), a local group, this group already mentioned in Indonesia Cosmopolitan Mag coz the editor -if I am not mistaken- are crazy to knit!! (free ad!!)

I can say, all the members from those groups are very welcoming and helpfull. I want to say thanks to you all, for your replies on my questions, sharing the jokes, sites/links with beautiful stuffs. Hi Debbie, Joann, Karen, Blondie, Marian and once again Cynthia ..thanks a lot ;-)

This weekend I plan to take some more pictures of my bag, the doily (pineapple peacock), vest and schachenmayr micro shine cardigan...(i love making cardigan) and for sure my stash..*blushing*

As always, dont forgot to drop by and put your comments.. :)

Pictures of Finished Projects

Since I am still learning how to post pictures in blog site and with the encouragement of my friend Cyn (nice lady from luxury crochet), so here are some of finished projects, some are knitted, others are crocheted.

My fave is the 5 roses shawl.
This shawl, taken about 5 skeins of Orion Glace Yarn (each skein is 100 gr), crochet using 1 mm steel hook.
When I took this picture, I just realized the size of this shawl, it's can be a bed cover of queen size bed!! :-)
For sure this is one of my most fave finished projects.
Just click on the title to see the pictures to see the album
Hope you all enjoy..:-)

lavender cardigan and green tshirt

currently i am working on cardigan and t-shirt. the cardigan is using yarn from schachenmayr Princess and the t-shirt is light green. usually i am doing monogamy project, but this time want to make these 2 in the same time.

i already finished the cardigan project, however when i am sewn it all together, it feels not right. so i am frogged (*rip it rip it) , find new model and start from all over again.

as for the green t-shirt, it using cotton yarn from japan, i bought it few years ago about 15 balls. already finished a cabled cardigan and still left me 5 balls.. so i want to make something to match the green cabled cardigan.

and guess what, i seen the shawl pattern from solutia that soon will closed their site (by september 15, 2005) which is very beautiful and unique... perhaps i will play triple this time.. :-)

learn to knit and crochet

what to say, umm.. what to write...just started my blog dedicated to my new addict which related with crochet and knit. before i can do knit and crochet, back to my childhoold moments, sometimes I saw a bunch of mom who waiting for their kids in school do the crochet and knit...seeing how 2 needles or 1 hook playing in their hand, i was too shy to approached them and ask about it.

in my country, back 20-30 years ago, it is not common to have a knit or crochet class. it is something that you learn from your friends, so it's like an exclusive group.

thanks to the internet and my bro, he found about learn knit and crochet on the websites. With our limited english, we collected lots of info about knit and crochet, we should thanks to www.learntocrochet.com , www.learntoknit.com and www.stitchguide.com also yahoo and google, and all virtual teachers and buddies who very kind to share their knowledges.

my first needles was made from cheap bamboo satay sticks, actually this was my bro's idea. we put some paper wrapped in the one point and ta da... i have about 3 pairs needles that i think it close to 2 - 2.5 mm needles. then we using kitchen cotton thread, then learnt to cast on, knit, purl, bind off...later i found out that the methode we learnt was english.

to make stories short, in these 3 years, i already made some shawls, bags, hats, cardigan, vests both crochet and knit, and now trying to finish my first doily.

as for my bro, he prefered crochet than knit, since it quicker :-)

will take some pictures to share with you and feel free to drop comments :)